I do think we need a “tap” horn (thumb button) and an “I’m mad” horn (press/punch the middle of the steering wheel).

On some cars, the “courtesy honk” is all but impossible.

I have never once been accosted by or have accosted vegans on their dietary preference

Congratulations, I wasn’t talking about you specifically because I don’t know you specifically.

Your imagination is perpetuating the myth of the vast majority of people caring about an individual’s dietary preferences.

No, I’m reversing the myth OP was perpetuating that vegans talk about being vegans constantly. There is no myth that “the vast majority of people care about an individual’s dietary preferences.” I’m using hyperbole to demonstrate what would happen if in a hypothetical situation where a vegan didn’t mention that they were vegan to explain why they weren’t eating meat. The hyperbole comes from the non-vegans not understanding why someone would not eat meat, forcing the vegan to announce themselves. Suddenly, the vegan, despite all their efforts not to, has perpetuated the myth that vegans constantly talk about vegans. In the hyperbolic situation - being used to demonstrate the inanity of the vegans-always-talk-about-being-vegans myth - the non-vegans represent people who perpetrate that myth.

Thankfully, that’s not you. Sorry if you felt attacked.

Whenever anyone brings this up, I imagine a vegan sitting at a table with their new friends, refusing to eat any chicken wings, but also not saying why… And then everyone harassing them with a million questions like, “do you not like hot sauce? We can get barbecue”, “are you on a diet?”, “are you allergic?”, etc, etc. Finally, after half an hour of this, they lose it and just as there’s a lull in the music, they scream out, “look, I’m a vegan! I don’t fucking eat meat! Fuck off!”

The whole bar goes quiet, staring, then one of the people at the table reaches for a wing, looks at the vegan, and says, “dude, chill, we get it, you don’t eat meat, blah blah blah. You don’t have to talk about it every 5 minutes! Here’s some bread and butter.”

Sweet. May the force be with you!

I’ve even heard online multiple store workers say they prefer collecting carts over many of the other tasks they have to do.

Oh, a random person asserted a claim based on nothing? Well then, point well proven

EDIT: just for the record, i do always return my carts, but i also think in some situations it’s completely pointless

Still wrong. It’s been well demonstrated that there is always a point, be it courteousness or safety. Even if someone thinks it’s doing some kind of favour for the workers, it’s still creating an obstacle and/or hazard for other people using the parking lot.

TIL! Thank you.

At first I thought this was billionaires only and it would be somewhat significant. Then I saw Simon Pegg listed and did a triple take, then realized I missed the words “and millionaires” in the first sentence.

I’m guessing there aren’t that many billionaires that would put their names on this list. ~250 millionaires is nothing, there are millions of them.

What language was that jpeg compression written in?

You did a thing, didn’t consider all of the consequences

What thing did OP do? Maybe you mean OP made the cat sick? I don’t think that’s the case, they just found the cat and it was sick.

Yeah, don’t try to remake an active, money-making game like TF2 with plans for releasing it…

As a corollary to what you mentioned, if you want to get a job in the games industry, the number one thing you can do is make a game. A straight remake is great for engineers or artists, and a remake with specific improvements is great for designers. And you don’t have to do anything from scratch, unless you are looking for a core engine type job. Using a game engine like Unreal and publicly available assets and libraries is fine. You also don’t ever have to release or announce your project. The important thing is that you will very quickly learn about the challenges of making a game. If you can start answering questions in an interview and talk about where you encountered challenges, how you researched solving them, etc., you will be that much closer to landing a job.

She was smart going to the press. The official complaint red tape could potentially drag beyond her deportation.

It really sounds like this was an error by one citizenship officer and it will get reversed.

Superconductor. It’s baa-aaack!

Calling them “simps” detracts from your argument. If you can’t argue your point without resorting to name-calling, perhaps your position isn’t as strong as you think it is.

In case people don’t know, this is aka The Red Cross that was hit.

United Federation of Poindexters

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I’m guessing they piloted this first, but the difference in speed limits between transit and adjacent regular vehicles seems dangerous to me.

In general, I find that speed limits are more effective when they are accompanied with the actual infrastructure… If you have a big wide avenue with few obstacles and smooth asphalt, people will tend to drive faster. Squeeze the lanes down, add planters along the side, a rough surface (e.g. cobblestone or brick), etc., and people will naturally allow down.

Since the statue can be separated from the base, perhaps the base in question was made in the 17th century - before the statue was discovered - intended for something different.

Here’s an article that includes a picture of a little man with said base: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68934

Everyone was giving the right answer here, but not why. (Edit: oops, must have missed the response by intensely_human!)

The preposition “on” is used with “backorder” because it indicates a state or condition of something. For example, we can say “on fire”, “on hold”, “on sale”, “on hiatus” or “on display” to describe the situation of something.

The preposition “in” is used to show the location or position of something, such as “in the box”, “in the car”, or “in the city”.

The preposition “for” is used to show the purpose or reason of something, such as “for fun”, “for work”, or “for sale”.

Therefore, “on” is the most suitable preposition to use with “backorder”.

(but as someone else noted, you probably wouldn’t confuse anyone if you said “in” or “for”.)