No joke I’ve been watching the market for about two years. Our house is liveable but not ideal, so we’re saving up and keeping an eye open.

These people are insane. Bought the house 10 years ago, hoping to sell it for double. They’ll sit on the site for 6 months, then I’ll get an email saying they dropped it 5k.

We’re talking bumfuck nowhere, no house, and they want 10k per acre. One property was down the street from a freaking landfill.

Oof that’s horrible. Like sexual assault horrible.

They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.

In mice embryos.

I feel like that’s a pretty big detail left off the title.

How my (now) wife met my father.

Interesting. Do you have a time limit to find them before an embryo forms, or are these unfertilized like chicken eggs?

Also do the moms get territorial around this time like the wild ones do?

UHC backed off on some of their more egregious profit-increasing changes (including trying not to cover anesthesia over certain arbitrary time limits).

Anything to help fellow weirdos survive middle and high school. Shit gets rough sometimes, but you’ll be alright.

Honestly your smile probably looks fine. Just don’t go full smiling with your teeth showing while in conversations.

I’ll still forget to change my facial expressions from time to time. Mirroring others helps. Try to (low-key) monitor their facial expressions and slightly copy them. They’re smiling broadly, you smile a bit. They frown deeply, you put on a concerned look - just furrow your brow a little.

Combining mirroring their expressions with listening more than you talk and they’ll feel like you’re a really good listener.

It takes time.

I first noticed other people looking for eye contact in 7th grade. Add that to your mask first.

Next, you likely can’t express excitement “normally,” but it’s fairly easy to fake aloofness. Be chill.

Finally, listen more than you talk. Most people love talking. If they feel like you’re really listening to them, they’ll want to talk to you.

I started making my mask in middle school, but honestly it was probably halfway through high school before it felt like a “normal” person. Even then, and now 30 or so years later, it takes effort. It feels like I’m faking it a lot, and I guess that’s because I am. But my boss just complimented my personal skills, so faking it IS it.

Keep pretending. Keep noticing what the “normals” are doing and work to imitate it. Not overtly. Just be a little quiet, chime in when you have something, and practice. And you’ll notice even when you’re trying to blend in, you’ll likely attract other neurodivergent people that will make up your core friend group.

Stop knocking over their straw man! They worked so hard to prop it up.

Genuinely curious, is there something wrong with them, or are they just mad they can’t replicate it as nicely?

Finally! A boot not even the NRA will lick!

Give me twenty bucks and you can call me an asshole.

I mean, you can call me an asshole anyway, but I’ll take your twenty bucks.

I’m actually disappointed he didn’t have some goofy explanation.

Shanks are made for quick, shallow stabs. That’s why inmates are rarely stabbed a single time. It’s always quick, short strokes. You’re looking for infection or blood loss, not typically organ damage.

Kentucky has one

Did the Soviets not have their own Operation Paperclip?

Operation Osoaviakhim - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim

If we’re only talking recent politics, did they lose it when they decided the attempted insurrection shouldn’t disqualify someone from being president, or when they gave up targeting criminal immigrants and just decided to round up as many as they could in order to fill quotas?