Born Sep 14 and also saw Challenger when it launched and subsequently blew up. I remember when Columbia smeared itself across Texas. 9/11 was three days before my 21st birthday. Put a damper on that one.

Western Samoa exists, and is “part” of the US

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance

Use it for cheese sauces as well! They come out creamy and silky.

If you want a sauce that just won’t break, add a single slice of the singles cheese, or 1/8 tsp of sodium citrate if you can find it, to 8 cups of cheese sauce. It won’t change the flavor or color, but will create a silky smooth sauce that doesn’t break like nacho cheese sauce.

As an American, I kinda assumed that subconscious rich/poor thing comes into play with tourists. We “know” how much it costs to come visit this country and we really do want to make it as pleasant as possible, partially because most of us really do love the place even though it has problems, and partially because we want to be a “good value” for their money.

I always wondered how that isn’t encouraging drinking and driving. Indiana has them as well.

Walgreens and CVS stopped selling cigarettes as corporate decisions around 2010, there’s no law against it, they probably had a family member die of lung cancer.

Getting any entity that jumps through as many hoops as one has to jump through to get a liquor sales license to voluntarily give up that profit isn’t nearly as likely in the current US societal climate. Maybe once we have legal weed, but not while it is the current drug of choice.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a documentary. Ignore the cartoons. Oil companies bought up and paved over our trolleys in the 1920s and invented jaywalking to prioritize cars. It was a way to punish and imprison poor people, and likely, considering the rest of the history of this country, was predominantly enforced on people of color

Michigan isn’t as well known for cheese as Wisconsin, Vermont, or New York, but we make incredibly good cheeses that are white, yellow, and some even have red or blue flecks in them. Apparently somewhere in the US, (maybe Ohio or Pennsylvania?) actually makes a more “traditional” Parmesan than most of what Italy exports. Apparently it’s creamier, and not so hard. There are seriously entire cheese shops in larger cities where over 50% of the cheese in the store was made in the US.

I’m on a Galaxy S-10e. Firefox + ublock origin.

Ahhh, Voyager doesn’t show me the instance they are on.

I’m mildly surprised that username was available yesterday/today.

Is that because of the statement, or the abhorrent lack of intermediate punctuation?

/j

Legally speaking, no. She committed sedition. There were no foreign state actors in her crimes, treason cannot be the charge as it would end in mistrial.

One of the Pride Dudes has already been sentenced to 22 years

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/proud-boys-leader-sentenced-22-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other-charges-related

Well that sucks :(

Mexico still makes the classic beetle. Not sure about the minibus. I see a lot of them, but those may be actual antiques.

That looks more like the first SAAB to me than a VW.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Ursaab

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