Iulia?

Swing and a miss. I decided to leave my home country because it’s broken, so after a decade of working and saving my own money, I did what I want to do. I went to a state school that gave me a full ride instead of a private school that I’d have to take loans out for, so I didn’t have any student loans holding me back and I could go back to school and get a masters in my new country. I actually just started teaching full time after training for the last couple of years.

I just have the empathy (and vicarious experience) to understand that not everyone is as fortunate as I am. It took a lot of hard work and diligence, but also a lot of luck. I wouldn’t assume that anyone who isn’t able to immigrate to a new country and begin teaching other new immigrants the language is lazy, likely to settle, or a failure. It’s difficult and like everything worthwhile in life, requires some luck to meet a lot of preparation at the right moment.

I’m glad for you. It sounds like you were smart or skilled enough to be presented with opportunities to leave and had the foresight to take them and the dedication to fully benefit from them. Not everyone is or has those qualities and that’s not a moral failing.

You overcame difficult circumstances, but that’s due to you being an exception, and whether that’s because of qualities inherent to you or luck is impossible to determine. The idea of it being luck is scary, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who doesn’t behave exactly as you did is to blame for their circumstances.

Surely you know people from your hometown who earnestly tried, but were just too dumb to really keep up in school or with complicated conversations among friends. Do you think they would be able to achieve what you have? What about the smart kids with severe ADHD who were flaky due to no fault of their own? If so, what use is your intelligence or ingenuity?

Many people live in towns with fewer than five companies, with poor internet access. Many people have to keep odd schedules because of family care obligations. Many people are functionally illiterate. Many people have criminal convictions. There are a lot of things that can limit your ability to leave a job you already have.

Many people do accept work conditions worse than they have to, but not every worker is flexible enough to choose their work.

That’s because there are more than a few commonalities between the two. They’re not the same, but horrible lighting, little privacy, contradictory instructions/suddenly changing expectations are frequently used in both

That is not a choice that everyone can make.

Torture isn’t effective for getting information out of people, but if your goal is to psychologically debilitate people, it’s totally effective

This kills the cancer. Not as quickly as it kills the host, but still pretty soon.

When I’m stressed out and need to calm myself, I run through the layouts of old buildings I used to work, live, or go to school in.

Based on the letters, yes.

You’re not wrong, but the only thing there that’s not arguably correct is calling hegseth little and I guess misspelling his name.

That’s clearly fighting. I’m not an alt.

I sat in a German emergency room for about eight hours total with a broken eye socket and radius for initial diagnosis and treatment a couple of years ago, and the only inquiry into my ability to manage the pain was one doctor asking if I had paracetamol at home right before I left. When I said I did, the doctor nodded and left the room.

In fairness to them, it was a Sunday and they wanted to do a full scan of my head (it wasn’t an MRI and I don’t think it was an X-ray, but I don’t remember what it was called- it looked like an MRI machine, just giant) and I needed to have a bunch of different types of doctor check me out. I was also able to manage the pain and didn’t actually need painkillers, but I was really surprised they didn’t at least check in about it.

Sorry for the nine month old answer, but “akimbo” describes limbs that are spread and/or tilt backwards (even if only slightly) at the joint, like a gecko’s do.

But not on the first day, that’s when the news still reports it!

I don’t think he’d send Ivanka

I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover

Wait, is there a specific term for a doctor who primarily operates in British English?

The country’s drug abuse expert does not believe this constitutes condoning drug use. Common sense also suggests this isn’t condoning drug use, given that it’s literally what they teach you in anti-drug programs: it seems fun, but has negative consequences that outweigh the benefits, and you don’t find out until later.

Even if this were condoning drug use, what do you think a finance minister could do to repeal that law within a six month term?

Does clickbait have to be misleading? I have always considered anything phrased so as to compel you to read further by omitting the crux of the article to be clickbait, so this would absolutely fall under that. An article with a headline like “never do this while tanning!” that’s about the dangers of citric acid on your skin in the sunlight is a useful, true article with a clickbait title, as another example.