Liana

“Ha! Face to foot style, how’d ya like it?”

“I’m sure, on some planet, your style is impressive, but your weak link is: this is Earth.”

Friggin love Kung Pow.

You see, there’s a ‘b’ in there. A lot of people don’t know that. I’m very smart.

It’s quite thin for aluminum, and the downside with glass is the high energy cost of melting it. I’d like if we went back to washing and reusing bottles, but I suppose that’s a big shift in processing capabilities.

I prefer using the opposite windows. I don’t like a breeze directly at my face.

My bidet allows me to build a stockpile for hoarding!

Knowing very little of the economy, it seems bad on a long-term scale. If you don’t produce anything, you’re reliant on donations or tourism. Heh, good thing the orange buffoon loves people from other countries, right?

So that would correspond to a min wage of $20 per hour, whereas people were bitching hard about my area going up to $15.

If wages kept up, I think a lot of things would be easier. As is, ya got too much greed up high.

The partyhats were a limited time item available through the consumption of “Christmas Crackers”, which you had to open with another player. They were only available for one season way back, and were tradeable. Because they could be traded to other players, and because they were limited, they shot up in price, and their cost only grew as inflation occurred.

I had the goal once of gaining enough gold to purchase the cheapest color (purple, coincidentally my favorite), and by the time I had enough gold, the price had risen by 100x what I had saved.

The company has made a point to not allow any limited-time items to be tradeable since.

I’m sorry on their behalf. Thank you for providing a viewpoint of someone who’s affected by this; we all need to keep in mind that war is not a good thing.

Would it have seemed the same if the reporter was a guy?

I think they were using the technique of adding periods for emphasis:

AS. IN. THE. CASE. OF. NORMAL. SENTENCES.

They must have missed that that’s not the way you’d emphasize a word by spelling it, and should instead have typed Z-E-R-O.

Sweet, thanks for the info!

I was unsure of the effect of the dead-blow, since “minimizing damage” and “same driving force” sound contradictory to me. The latter makes it sound as if both would drive a nail to the same depth, and I was thinking the beak is effectively a nail. I’m glad the paper mentions concussions, and I’ll give em that bird and primate brains are probably similar enough in that respect.

Odd that the tongue wraps around though. I’d figure it would just slide down the neck, since that seems closer to what we have.

Your link says the page does not exist.

By my thinking, the damage to the brain could outweigh the better foraging. Then I thought that the brain mooshing into the front of the skull later in the peck would turn the head into a dead-blow hammer, which are still quite effective hammers.

“A dead-blow hammer delivers the momentum over a longer period, resulting in less peak force, but similar total driving effect for the same head weight.”

Mmph, I could go for the cleansing flames of a phoenix right now.

I’d think it more likely that they wouldn’t admit to doing a false flag. It seems like they think they’re in the right. I haven’t heard about that, though.

Explore that wooden bridge and take pictures of anything that looks interesting to show us weirdos :D

That was my first thought, then I remembered that ‘v’ was originally the symbol for ‘u’ (which is where we get ‘w’, double-u from). This is the only example in which over-the-top censorship gets a pass from me, though there’s very little chance OP knew that, I think.

Maybe… “Unfortunately, we aren’t going to hire you”? People are having tough times finding jobs, so that’s my guess. Though that would indicate OP is the one writing it, so I don’t know.

Yeah, that sounds all in good fun. I bet he’d say it with a sly smile.

I learned a few good lessons from him. Most apropo one nowadays is “The man who least wants to lead is the only one fit to do so.”