I work at a bakery and wear shorts at work year round. Customers are always surprised that I’m wearing shorts, often exclaiming in the same breath how nice and warm the bakery is.

45% of shoplifters steal food, not shoppers. I would guess the others are taking clothes, jewelry, electronics, etc.

Honestly? That’s way better, even though it feels grosser.

I think so, but I really vibe with that description. I don’t think humanity’s bad, I just rub people the wrong way much of the time in ways I can’t really perceive, so it feels like I don’t really “get it.” I do try though, and it seems like it often takes up all of my energy to pay attention to all of my body language and facial expressions so I don’t come off as rude.

Your form is more of a human-shaped animate object than an actual human being.

Plot twist: I already feel like that

Shapeshifter: it’s broken as hell if you take it to the molecular level. Shapeshift into something that can fly, into a very thin transparent film on the ceiling of a room, into something which can withstand great temperatures or bullets, hell, you can even shapeshift into something that photosynthesizes.

Just like ice hole fishing time

I’ve eaten a variant on shepherds pie with cabbage instead of corn and pea based fake meat for the last two nights for dinner and wooooof.

This is very timely, thank you.

That’s no longer considered good science, just fyi

A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population, over 10 times larger than the original study, showed only half the effect of the original study. The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half.[6][7]The predictive power of the marshmallow test was challenged in a 2020 study.[8][9]Work done in 2018 and 2024 found that the Marshmallow Test “does not reliably predict adult functioning”.[10]

Oh man, what’s my dad going to tell me horror stories about now? He used to talk about how the execution date was kept secret from the prisoners until the morning of, emphasizing how stressful it would be to know that death is coming, but not knowing when and being powerless to stop it. It did deflate his “righteous anger” when I pointed out that that’s the human condition. I’m not supporting the death penalty at all, but that’s not in the top ten reasons it’s fucked up imo

Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria. I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older saying than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, but I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a cat

When Biya’s regime unleashed the military, peaceful protests gave way to an armed separatist insurgency. At least 6,000 people were killed in the subsequent violent confrontations, displacing over half a million, and leaving 1.3 million in need of aid.

Dismissing the reports as “phantasmagorical” and “a clumsy attempt at disinformation”, Tchiroma, as the government spokesperson, had accused human rights organizations documenting the atrocities of being in cahoots with the secessionists.

“I 100% agree that the military committed atrocities,” he said in his election campaign. “But as minister of communication, my duty was to defend our armed forces,” he reasoned. “Today, I speak as a free man.”

He has even offered to hold a referendum to return the country to federalism – a long-standing demand in the Anglophone region. “I say it clearly: centralization has failed,” he said. As the communications minister, however, Tchiroma had reportedly banned the national media from using the word.

They both seem pretty awful. Tchiroma has about faced in a matter of months and nobody seems to actually care about the western part of the country.

Yeah, no, I just made a bunch of assumptions and didn’t clarify them.

I was imagining OPs neighbors gave them a bunch of stuff as a housewarming/welcome to the neighborhood/we’ve got a bunch of cucumbers this year thing. Buying it from their farmstand is totally different and I could even imagine OP chatting to them about how to can pickles in a friendly way.

But if I’d given someone home canned pickles and they decided that paying for cucumbers and taking the time to can them was better than accepting mine for free, I would probably worry about how I’d fucked them up. Like, I would definitely not be mad (though I can see a personality type who would), I’d just feel rejected.

Of course, if they’re just super into canning, that’s one thing, but then I’d probably just invite them over to do it together.

I don’t know any Amish people, but holy shit would I assume that’s a grave insult if they ever found out. “Thanks for your free and neighborly homemade pickles, but I’m going to buy some and can them right tyvm”

To be clear, it’s a great idea to do, just don’t advertise it, lol.

Edit: they’re not a free gift, which also changes things in my mind

That’s horrifying, what the actual fuck.

I’ve heard of ass burgers before…

Yeah, that’s at least step three, after talking to him directly and talking to your boss one on one

Incredible name, I really want to say it out loud but my husband’s sleeping next to me.

Edit: Calimar White, not the company

If anything, probably extreme pedantry