You should take a look at how simple civics tests have already been used in the US election system. It did not go well.

That’s a dangerous path, and also very likely unconstitutional in the US.

If you work at a company with a competent HR department they will be very interested in hearing about how your supervisor is forcing you to eat lunch with her while she interrogates you about your sex life. That is 100% not appropriate in HR world. Just don’t ever believe anyone in HR is actually your friend, stick to the truth always, and document everything. Literally, keep a log of everything. If you end up in lawyer world they will be very happy that you have documentation of dates and who was there and what happened.

I have military helicopters that occasionally fly low over my area at night and its always a moment of “shit what’s happening” because they are so loud and obnoxious. Fortunately it happens less than once a month.

I’ve never gone house shopping in Belgium but in the US at least, you would be fine just staying vague if they ask you any personal questions as long as you keep it friendly and aren’t rude about it. If you wanted to say you have an uncle or someone like that who is thinking of investing in apartments and he wanted you to check it out for him since you live in the area, that is a totally plausible story and will provide plenty of cover for you to be yourself. In my experience in the US at least, real estate agents want to show you the properties they are selling. They don’t want you to waste their time, but if they are selling a house they generally want as many people to check it out as possible. Ideally those are people who actually want to buy it, but anyone checking out a property they have for sale is always better than no one.

No, they effectively do the same thing so you can just set your router to use NextDNS and you’re good.

Tana French novels often live up to the hype, at least for me.

Did you ever get the money they owed you? I had a much less exciting version of that where a job I had was taking money out of paychecks for insurance that was never actually provided. Many years later the courts sorted things out and a few thousand showed up in the mail.

“Futility is freedom”

It depends on the area, many people live in places where 911 is for non-emergencies too. When you call the dispatcher will ask if its an emergency and potentially put you on hold if it isn’t.

Playing football during PE class a lifetime ago. I’m not sure what happened exactly but I got knocked out and regained consciousness face down in the grass.

I’ve blanked a lot out of my memory but I do remember one particularly awkward time where the pastor spent way too long explaining how god designed the asshole and its not for fucking.

Kind of the opposite of a lynch mob since they were trying to free the 9 IDF soldiers arrested for raping and torturing prisoners instead of attempting to punish them. I would call this more an attempted prison break, or possibly even a sort of coup against the rule of law by elements of the Israeli government, if its true those ministers were involved.

I read everything I can find about it, especially if its people arguing thoughtfully, or sharing their advice/experience, or if its about the history of the topic. I get kind of obsessive about researching things so I usually come at a topic from a lot of directions.

I’ve definitely had that feeling recently while digging up info from old forums. I start to appreciate the regulars who spent years posting useful comments and wondering what happened to them.

Minimize interactions, stay professional, be polite.

It’s a lot more complicated than that. Even if we accept a simplified model where “more oil = more agriculture”, the US has seen massive growth in oil production over the past decade so it contradicts the claim that there’s food shortages because of oil production. If there are food shortages happening right now it’s not at all related to oil production in the US.

I mean I don’t see how it has anything to do with allegations of a secret food crisis, it seems like a non sequitur.

I mostly shop at Costco and am not struggling so maybe my perspective is skewed but it seems like food prices have been coming down recently, and I haven’t noticed any shortages. If you think it feels like things are being covered up that sounds a little paranoid and conspiratorial to me, food distribution in the US is a huge and complicated system involving a whole lot of people, it seems completely implausible that a cover up of a major food crisis would even be possible. There’s just too many people who would notice (and there isn’t any kind of centralized hierarchy involved that could pull something like that off). I don’t see the relevance of shale oil production, the US produces plenty of oil to be both self sufficient and one of the largest oil exporters in the world. If you’re concerned the US doesn’t have enough oil or something like that you really shouldn’t be.

Get some Revolution Pro or Advantage, follow the directions on the box. They are very effective unless you have a serious infestation, which it sounds like you don’t. Just make sure it’s the cat version and for the correct weight range of your cats.