Eminent Domain definitely has a hell of a lot more reason to exist than Civil Asset Forfeiture, for sure.

My main complaints, personally, are stem from using Eminent Domain to screw the people being bought-out out of the value of their property. Stuff like paying the value of the undeveloped land, not the actual sale price of the property if they listed it.

Ditto.

Crossing the center is something we spend our entire lives knowing is anathema, and then they ask us to do it. It's just wrong, on a conceptual level no matter how efficient it is.

Problem is, it gets abused horribly, just like Civil Asset Forfeiture.

Indeed.

You don't have to go to Ireland, though. Just head for Louisiana, Baltimore, or similar places with a strong seafood tradition in the US.

From what you're not saying, I'm guessing it was your kid's first or second birthday and you ran afoul of their 3+ policy for general admission shows. Just because you don't like the explanation and they didn't cave to you trying to talk your way around the rule doesn't mean they didn't give you one. Poor planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on their part.

EDIT: Either that, or you're lying out your ass because you're part of the smear campaign. One of the two.

Home theater tip for your popcorn:

There's a product called "Flavacol" that's been around since the 50s (as you might imagine with a name and packaging like it has) which is a super finely ground salt, like confectioner's sugar almost, that has an artificial buttery flavor.

Add it to your popcorn before popping at a 1tsp to 1cup ratio, and be sure to pop with coconut oil, and you'll get that old-school movie popcorn flavor from back in the day.

For bonus points, use a whirlypop to get the same stir-bar mechanism theater poppers do, just hand cranked.

Because the parents are entitled assholes used to being able to waive the Disabled Kid card and get their way, so they're throwing a tantrum because they got told "no" and it stuck.

Haven't tried the stuff yet, but probably will now that it's legal.

From what you describe, I imagine it's like gulping everclear vs enjoying a good whisky. Both will get you drunk, but one is actually enjoyable.

Good to know.

On a related topic: Any "first try" recommendations for someone that only didn't touch the stuff because it was illegal?

Standing in the middle of the concourse blocking the flow of traffic while you chit-chat with someone is a dick move, too. Just because you have to deal with inconsiderate assholes everywhere doesn't make you not an inconsiderate asshole for doing it.

I don't care how much you drive like a grandma, just don't match paces with another traffic-clogger and completely block the road.

It's called "consideration for other drivers."

Driving slow is fine, forming a rolling roadblock next to another slow driver in the other lane so other people can't get around you is being an asshole.

Because you're subscribe to a subreddit devoted to some town, city, or other geographical region somewhere in the world, and Reddit's recommendations are fucky that way.

Yeah, that shit is just heinous assholery of the highest order.

The problem is people get ice and snow mixed up.

Nice!

Gonna have to head that way soon.

Are they still cash only? Pretty much the only reason I don't go there is I hate fiddling with physical currency; I think the last time I held actual money in my hands was pre-COVID.

Everything has gone downhill since COVID.

Try Wing Stop.

For boneless, just do Wing Stop.

Sure they're a chain, but they're a chain that just does wings.

Morb smash!

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So very much this.

The ironic thing is that the schools administrations were trying to catch up to with that kind of BS are doing the exact opposite and teaching critical thinking, big-picture type lesson plans so the students are just better able to learn and get better scores.

People seem to never learn that you have to come at this stuff sideways.

Don't know what your gifted program was like, specifically, but you have to ask yourself this: Would the 50th-percentile kids actually find it as interesting and engaging as you did, or would they have floundered and felt bad about themselves because they couldn't keep up?

>He recently qualified for their gifted program and they've gone out of their way to keep him engaged.

As someone who is just barely over into the "profoundly gifted" range, myself, I'm super glad to hear they're on top of this kind of thing.

It took until junior high for someone to actually realize I didn't have ADD, I was just bored and disengaged because the teachers weren't keeping up with the speed at which I could digest information.

Huh, nice. I'll have to look them up.