With that untouched surface, you might be able to get a replacement if you still have the receipt. Depends on the store and if you’re polite about it. (You could probably do it by being rude, but I’d hate you.)

Sink. I’d be wasting all that shower water I’m not actively washing with, or I’d be shivering with the water turned to a trickle. When I brush at the sink, I only need to wet the brush, and turn off the tap until I’m ready to rinse.

Bleh bleh bleh bleh!

Human milk tastes different. Some say it tastes a little like canteloupe juice. I thought mine made my coffee taste…odd. Never tried it in baking though.

I would bet the trucks and store refrigerators at Walmart are kept as warm as legally possible, to save money on electricity.

Yep, I buy the big jug of sugar -free orange Metamucil powder and put a rounded tablespoon into a 12 ounce glass. Stir as I pour in the water, so it won’t clump up, and chug it down quickly because it’s more powder per water than recommended and will form a spoonable gel if it stands Which is okay if you’re into that, I’ve eaten it that way, but I’d rather get it down and follow it with a glass of something I like better. I have wondered about making something similar to boba pearls with it. The box of packets is more expensive but at least you could add one to a glass of water in a restaurant and drink it politely.

Metamucil works well.

Yup, just assume they are.

Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn’t catch “shear” anyway, that’s the cutting one.

The see-through one has ee.

Why “sheer” is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don’t know.

English.

When I say “day” or “today” I pronounce it fully, but when saying the names in conversation, it’s more like “I’ll see you Tuesdy at noon.”

Judging by reactions, it’s just, maybe SoCal? Or maybe just me.

Neil Diamond agrees

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrMkAc2LW5k

Wensdy.

Are the rest of you out there really pronouncing the a in the days? Even in sentences? The only time I hear myself do it is if I’m listing them and paying attention. Might just be me though.

Heehee concidered and shear. You literally made me go back and spellcheck your whole comment in case I’d missed more.

But have you ever been downtown in any big city with lots of skyscrapers? The subheader of the question asks about those as well, and since the consensus is that NYC can be very windy because the grid funnels the wind (I’ve experienced it myself) it would be interesting to know if an older circular-walled city origin would cause the modern skyscrapers (planted in old lots) to block the wind more effectively, for instance. Meanwhile, The street grid of old Spanish Los Angeles was deliberately laid out at a 45-degree angle to the cardinal directions to maximize sunlight and wind circulation. This was done in accordance with the Laws of the Indies, a set of planning regulations decreed by the Spanish crown in 1573 for all colonial settlements. This older, angled grid is still visible in the city’s downtown core, where it clashes with the standard north-south-east-west grid introduced after the American takeover.

These are beautiful. Redwoods are so hard to convey because they’re in scale to themselves. Like, my brain wants to stop at “you could maybe crawl through that hole” even though I’m sure they wouldn’t put the trail unless you could walk through it. Even when people are in the pictures it just makes the people look small. Everyone should get the chance to see the Redwoods or Sequoias in person, either kind, and just gasp.

Concentration camps yes, but Death Camps with gas chambers and crematoria, not intended to hold people for any longer than it took to “exterminate” them, were new. Even slave-labor camps of the sort where inmates were starved and worked to death were frowned upon, not considered normal. That’s why the Nazis lied, and created false camp films for propaganda.

Edit to add this from the article about the Rosenstrasse protest:

Goebbels swiftly realized that to use force against the women protesting on the Rosenstrasse would undermine the claim that all Germans were united in the volksgemeinschaft. Using force against the protestors would not only damage the volksgemeinschaft, which provided the domestic unity to support the war, but would also draw unwanted attention to the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. Stoltzfus wrote: “A public discussion about the fate of deported Jews threatened to disclose the Final Solution and thus endanger the entire war effort.”[18]

Pretty sure his students aren’t.

Groan

Cough<bullshit>cough

Sadly, you are correct.