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If we follow this logic, bears are both poisonous and venomous.

How is supporting Ukraine related to the egg shortage caused by avian flu?

According to Wikipedia, in 2022 Elsevier’s revenue was 2.909 billion pounds and their net income was 2.021 billion pounds.

Not going to bother looking up the rest.

The age of consent in America is not 18 everywhere. It is set by each state and ranges from 16-18. From Wikipedia:

While the unrestricted age of consent is between 16 and 18 in all U.S. states, the laws have widely varied across the country in the past. In 1880, the ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.[104] The ages of consent were raised across the U.S. during the late 19th century and the early 20th century.[105][106] By 1920, 26 states had an age of consent at 16, 21 states had an age of consent at 18, and one state (Georgia) had an age of consent at 14.[104] Small adjustments to these laws occurred after 1920. The last two states to raise their age of general consent from under 16 to 16 or higher were Georgia, which raised the age of consent from 14 to 16 in 1995,[107] and Hawaii, which changed it from 14 to 16 in 2001.[108]

Most career politicians are.

Trump himself said

And he’s got a proven track record of honesty so no reason to doubt that.

There has been several court cases about this.

Have you been living under a rock this year or just pretending to be unaware of how blatantly corrupt SCOTUS is?

Along the same lines, parents should have a say in what books their child is allowed to consume within reason.

Then they should consider spending some time parenting their children instead of shopping for red baseball caps, harassing school librarians, and consuming culture war propaganda.

New Zealand doesn’t just take anyone. You usually have to have a job offer or a sizeable account at a New Zealand bank to apply for citizenship. They also take applications for citizenship for certain types of skilled workers (types vary based on need) but that’s essentially a lottery if you can even qualify for it.

My wife is afraid of leaving, it’s expensive, and immigration laws can make it challenging to move somewhere desirable.

Sorry, let me rephrase for you: I’ll just go ahead and uproot my entire life to move to a country that sells Chinese cars.

Some real examples that are specific to the trip I take:

There is no rail service that goes there. It would be a combo of trains and busses that takes significantly longer and costs more than the gas.

Our dog comes with us, generally isn’t allowed on mass transit, and the much longer trip would stress her out if she was.

There is little to no mass transit in the town they live in to get around once we arrive so we’d end up borrowing or renting a car anyway.

With limited amounts of time off, making the trip overnight adds a full day of getting to see our family to the trip.

The only other realistic means of getting there is flying but, I enjoy driving and hate everything about air travel. It’s a pretty cheap flight for one person but becomes more expensive once you add in the rest of the family and the dog can’t come.

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Sure. But first you need to build one that takes me there.

who wants that?

I do. We have family that we visit a few times each year. If I leave at 2am and drive straight through, we get there in 7-8 hours. If I make the drive during the day, it takes 10-13 hours.

Cool. I’ll just go ahead and abandon my whole life to move to China.

I feel like we are destined to be friends.

I’ve been trying but I’m still not flexible enough to reach.

This is just yet another example of legacy media lying to us.

You’re right. They definitely should have taken the time to type out “The individual working at the coffee shop who filled my order” to avoid triggering people who have nothing better to do than get angry at the internet.

No, we’ve moved onto shallots.

Excuse me, I’m going to have to ask you not to curse here.

Idea for future D&D side plot: butterflies are stealing blood at night.