My husband sharpened a friend of mine’s meat cleaver for her. I knew I’d be seeing her at the library later, so I folded it inside cardboard and put it in a reusable shopping bag for her. At no point did I worry about anyone stopping me, and if they had, I would have expected them to believe me about what happened.

Everything went according to plan and I wouldn’t have thought anything of it, if my husband hadn’t been so surprised that I gave her the knife in public.

That’s why it shouldn’t be a legal requirement. If people hear that your parents mistreated you and still think poorly of you, that’s a person you don’t want in your life.

We’re social animals, we depend on others if we’re young, old, sick, or disabled. I don’t think it should be a legal requirement, but if people see you let your parents suffer, they probably won’t have a great opinion of you.

If it’s just general media within media, that Ben folds five ass crack bandit song was fucking killer

Sometimes it’s a second (or fifth) language for Indian people, but it’s also a dialect which is just as valid as your dialect and it’s got the second most English speakers in the world. The accent may just be an accent, you definitely shouldn’t assume that it’s a sign someone will have incorrect English. It sounds like you’re not in practice, but that’s definitely how I read your comments

I’m from Connecticut and once had a serious problem with a person my company insured from North Carolina. He was talking to me about what caused his accident and I kept hearing “tar” instead of “tire.” We were equally qualified as native speakers.

If you’re concerned, you can listen to more Indian English, because familiarity should ease any understanding difficulties in the future.

War is a racket.

It’s totally possible that I’m less likely to take dark pictures than I would be if I had a better camera, so I might not really be comparing low light pictures

My husband has a phone with a bump and I really don’t notice a difference. I don’t know what to tell you 🤷

It could also be a perception thing. My eyesight is frankly pretty bad even with glasses, and I don’t really notice a difference (I currently use an iphone se without a camera bump). I don’t need a better camera, because my pictures are just for myself.

I wouldn’t argue with someone with better eyesight, but I honestly didn’t realize it made a big difference.

Selters and seltzer are also related, afaik

I never expected to get married (though I also didn’t really understand what marriage would be beforehand). I also thought I lost my chance at emigration, but luckily I made it. I didn’t think I’d be here, but I’m so, so glad.

I also never expected to be back in school, but that’s a necessary evil.

That’s not true; I’ve got them. My BMI is under 20, but I wear size 8-10 pants. My hip bones are literally bigger than average.

Ideally, we’d all stop…

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That’s absolutely true. I’m now in Germany, where that’s the case, but it’s still a hell of a lot cheaper than $8k.

I lived in the US until a few years ago. I take daily ADHD medication and took birth control for several years, but not always. Otherwise, I was pretty healthy and didn’t have much medical intervention, but I have bad teeth.

I got the most cost effective insurance plan for me based on that medical history available at roughly $240 per two-week pay period, with a $5,000 deductible. The medication I took cost about $300/month and I had to pay for monthly drs visits and urine tests, to make sure I wasn’t abusing it. I don’t remember how much those cost, but I generally spent about $11k a year.

As a healthy (if neurodivergent) person in my 20s.

If I hadn’t had insurance, it would have been much more expensive, which is nuts. I got a tooth pulled and an implant put in, which cost about $8k all told, of which $2k was covered.

When I was in my early twenties, I got a chemical burn on my eye which required lots of treatments in the emergency room which I tried to pay, but there were twenty different places billing me for it and I just lost track of it. I had no assets and a bad job and they went into collections, but never showed up on my credit report and I essentially faced no consequences for doing so, except for much increased stress. If I had tried to do that with the tooth, they wouldn’t have given me the implant without upfront payment. If my payment had bounced, I had a better job and more money than earlier, so they might have tried to garnish my wages or sue me for payment.

My husband would not describe himself as smart, but I think it’s probably because he never cared enough about school. He is pretty book smart and has a huge vocabulary in both his native and second language (his second is English, my native, and it’s fucking nuts to me that he’s got a wider English vocabulary than 70% of the kids I went to high school with), but he was just never into academia.

He is significantly smarter than he realizes though. He remembers every good tip or life hack he comes across, so he’s got a wide range of perfected methods for cutting onions, hanging pictures, keeping your place organized, etc.

He’s also very observant about me, to the degree that he literally knows me better than I know myself (I’m autistic and masked well my entire life until I immigrated to a new country and could really get weird without anyone stopping me). I tend to not care about things being right for me as long as they’re not wrong wrong. He’s noticed foods I don’t really like, routines I’m not aware of, and he is stupid good at turning me on (I tried lots of different phrasings here, I’m sorry it still sounds ick).

He DMs in dnd, and he’s so good at it. I tried dming once and realized that it was the equivalent of using your weekends to train for a marathon vs doing beer league soccer (dming vs being a PC). I just don’t want to work that hard while having fun. He has no issue keeping track of dozens of plot hooks or stat blocks and he incorporates new information from the PCs into his story as he goes. I don’t think it’s possible to be a really good DM without being smart (or at least about as smart as the players, and we’ve played with some pretty smart people and with kids, who are wayyy more creative/hard to predict than adults).

I want to go on, but at some point, he’d feel like this is TMI, so I’ll stop now.

I always looked for partners who were academically talented first (well, first for intelligence, I do think kindness is more important), and I’m so glad I was open to people who don’t make that their whole shtick, because I don’t deserve a husband this wonderful.

I got a perfect score on my SATs and I’m in my mid thirties and working in a bakery (not as a baker, I just sell bread and clean. It’s lovely).

Granted, it’s part time while I get a master’s degree, but I’ll be working 20 hours a week for mediocre pay when I finish, teaching adult language/integration courses for new immigrants.

Intelligence and ambition aren’t necessarily related, though obviously you get farther if you get good grades. Ambition is correlated with studying, diligence, and focus, so it tends to lead to higher SAT scores.

Imgur is just shitty; try reopening it. I get that message when I make the cookie selection, but once my preferences are saved, a reopen works.