Specifically the upper peninsula region, and probably more rural, they sound quite similar to that stereotypical Canadian accent. The first time I met someone from there (born and raised country boy), I legit thought he was from Canada due to that stereotype (I’m older and wiser now).
My partner and I went to a resort town while things were in the weird not-entirely-closed-but-weird post-lockdown phase. We figured it would be absolutely dead and we were right.
It was mid spring or so, and we walked from our hotel to a nearby private pier (owned by a condo or high-end hotel or something), with a growler of beer and some glasses, hopped the gate and sat there on their deck furniture, naked, drinking in the dark on this lake for several hours. Not a soul in sight. Just the night sky, us, and a good time.
Then a cold breeze rolled in and we hurriedly got dressed and walked back to the hotel down the center of the street.
It was super surreal, very enjoyable, and had that liminal space feeling to it.
Not who you replied to but: If you believe a soul is created at conception, and that fetuses that are never born alive and baptized automatically go to heaven, yourself being sent to hell would logically be a sacrifice for the greater good to spare suffering and guarantee a place in heaven for the embryos.
I don’t know this company but fiber came into my area (central WI) a few years ago and I couldn’t be happier.
Prior to that the infrastructure I was on for cable internet was old and would have frequent problems.
The brand new infrastructure is figuratively worth its weight in gold, imho, even if the company itself is just as crap and your price ends up the same.
Even better, the fiber cables run underground, so other than having them severed when digging, they won’t go out unless there is a major widespread outage. No random branch taking out your service in a wind storm or whatever nonsense.
I’m not really into vampire stuff but it came up when looking for comedy type stuff (because sci-fi has gotten overall quite depressing and I need something that isn’t), so I nabbed it and there it sits.
But I’ll give it a shot with the movie at least. :)
Nobody wants to pay for all the little individual piecemeal services and shit, because it’s wildly expensive and inconvenient, and because they keep adding ads to the paid stuff anyway because greed, so what benefit is there to paying?
That question has a lot of variables that need to be properly defined.
How many are in the next generation to inherit? Passing the money/property to the next generation doesn’t actually fix anything, after all.
If they are already counted as 1% on their own, they must be excluded from the inheritors, even if it puts them in the .01%.
If not already in the 1%, how many would have their share of inheritance bump them into 1% territory?
If it would not bump them to 1%, how many inherit full or partial control of anything particularly impactful, like a business, commercial buildings, or huge tract of valuable land? Because that’s likely to put them squarely into the 1% in short order, as well.
Given the above variables, how much will the 1% figure shift? For example, you have 5 1% people, and each of them has 3 kids, who in turn each have 3 kids. So you off the 5, and now the 1% has fundamentally changed because where -all 5- qualified, now -only 5- will qualify due to the sheer mass of overall population, but you now have 15 people who would have otherwise qualified as 1%. Take those out and you now spread that among 45.. and eventually they aren’t rich anymore sure (or more likely the inheritance line dies out), but that’s really complicated math.
At what dilution point should this stop? There will always be a top 1%, and they will always own disproportionately more than others, so what should we deem a fair stopping point?
My math skills are nowhere near good enough to solve that complex of an equation.
Unless we are talking about outright sizing their ill-gotten gains along with their head.. I’m down for that option, as it simplifies the math substantially.
I took a speech class in college and was assigned pro-gun and pro-hunting as my platform for the persuasive speech, something which I am not, actually, in favor of for the most part. I took it seriously, and did a good enough job to get an A. I still don’t support those positions but that’s not the point.
It’s actually really good to get students to research and write things they disagree with to some extent because it opens them up to new alternatives and information, and forces them to really think about good ways to counter-argue their own beliefs. Which imho is super useful long term because it makes people very aware of the… I guess non-absurdity? of their opposition. Like those people often came to their beliefs for similarly logical (or illogical) reasons you arrived at your own.
So maybe them not wanting to argue for the company doesn’t really matter, if you assign randomly and tell them they don’t have to agree with the position, but they do have to make a solid effort to support it. Even better if you give each of them an opportunity to swap sides for another, maybe similar, thing later.
If it makes you feel any better, my STEM degree hasn’t done me a lick of good, either.
Turns out, specializing in the thing academics do after they burn out of, or can’t properly get into, the academic system… not a great path to go down, yeah.
Have to disagree that it’s not a one-person hairdo. It’s a simple French braid. If she had the Barbie lay across her head with the legs pulled back so it was bent at the hips, she could very easily have done it herself and then positioned the Barbie, assuming she can French braid. You’d only need a couple rows of the braid in to hold it securely, at which point standing it back up would pull the legs closer together and tighten everything up so she could finish and have it held securely.
Or if it was left loose enough at the top the Barbie could have been added after, which the green says may be the case (or that could be colored hair gel, dunno)
(Source: had Barbies and can French braid my own hair)
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