It’s funny because I once had to hand edit the form on an experian website to sign up because their stupid UI wouldn’t let me enter in a date in the right format
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Is this generally a sign of youthful wishful thinking or just plain hubris?
Extroverts get energy from talking to people, so they are likely to do it more
Introverts are the opposite.
An introvert can talk more than an extrovert.
“Do you already?”
HN: “no… but I could one day”
Did you give any cues or indication that it’s what you wanted?
If not, this guy is going around picking up hitchhikers, and potentially giving them the option of being stranded in a third world country or giving him sexual services.
And your major regret is that you didn’t give him what he wanted? He could have killed you or given you a disease.
one thing that you often notice moving from abroad is that the pork in North America (raw) smells and tastes like piss. but if you're used to it you just don't question it
is he really in good health?
He himself, who often writes glowing articles about the current provincial government, seems to frequently be privy to otherwise unknown/unreleased details from our provincial government. He is coincidentally in a long term relationship with Ivana Yelich, who works in the current Premier’s office as “ executive director of media relations”
Korea has its own variant of Chinese chess, with some interesting rules like the Elephant being allowed to cross the water. Go (Baduk) is absolutely more popular than Chinese/Korean Chess in Korea and definitely more than western Chess
Go is not less popular than Chess in China or Korea
I can imagine that most people who take public transit daily (I hope) probably never experience the things that I have experienced.
Maybe because I am visibly Asian (therefore easier to be perceived as non-American), some folks are more daring in picking on me? Unfortunately I cannot a/b test it because I can't look any less Asian than I do now.
1. Some woman starts yelling at me saying I am a foreigner (I am, but I am more Canadian than anything else). She gets louder and louder and tells me that I am probably a visa student and that I’ll be deported when my studies are done. She went around the entire bus making derogatory comments about them (I.e. what are you doing with that white bitch to an interracial couple)
2. A woman accuses me of being a North Korean spy on the bus (she says I have the nose of a North Korean). I exit the bus because she is increasingly hostile. I get off the bus. She follows me 4 blocks to my apartment, trying to get the red blooded Americans to catch the North Korean spy.
Can you see how some folks would prefer to drive?
all you can eat is not actually all you can eat
"It could be a family with two income earners — one earning $40,000, and another earning $60,000, with six kids. This is not a family that we would consider to be doing well."
given that the average Canadian woman has 1.4 births, it is quite the exceptional family