That’s not so hard to remember! In France, turkey is called “dinde,” derived from “d’Inde” (“of India”), which is much farther east than Türkiye. So just remember that in France, Türkiye = India.

In 2013 Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a famous analogy about the US Supreme Court gutting the voting rights act. She said it’s like “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” That comes pretty close to your sentiment, OP.

When I use CAPITALS, no one says I’m CAPITALISTIC

Where do you get your drm free music? I’ve been using Spotify for a while but am very interested in switching. Do you use Bandcamp? Do they have basically everything a person could want or do you get your music from somewhere else?

I worked at a gas station about 20 years ago. Even then it would be impossible for someone to give away gas in this way.

Before the pump turns on, either the customer would have to authorize the transaction with a credit card, or an employee would have to manually authorize the transaction if they were paying with inside the store. If the gas wasn’t paid for, it would be immediately obvious by the end of the day that the till (or books or whatever) was short. To clear out the transaction without paying, we’d have to push some buttons on the register to declare that the customer drove off, and essentially accuse them of stealing, get the manager to check the security cams for the license plates, etc. No one could use that pump until the previous transaction was cleared out.

Maybe some gas stations worked differently, but I doubt any big chain ones had less security than that.

One unusual piece of Trump-lore is that he has really bad vision but hates the way that he looks in glasses. Maybe he wears contacts in public, or maybe he isn’t able to do so for some reason. But occasionally photographers get a shot of him wearing glasses.

Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi would pour a drink out in your honor

Love those birds! Got to see one earlier this year.

Thanks! But it was nothing fancy. A Canon T3i with EF-S 10-18m lens. I mostly got lucky with the bird staying very still, while very close to me, while I somehow managed to have a steady hand.

Stupid sexy panorama

DTG St. Louis

Down To Gawk St. Louis, amirite?

The law, in it’s majestic equality, imposes taxes on the private jets of the poor and the rich. - Anatole France or something

Plato, Republic, Book I, Cephalus’ speech:

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles⁠—are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master. His words have often occurred to my mind since, and they seem as good to me now as at the time when he uttered them. For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many.

Thanks! I’d say it was about 95% luck though ;)

Whoosh

It’s a cholla :)

I hope they change Say’s Phoebe just because it’s annoying to say, no one understands when you say its name, its name easily leads to confusion.

Since no one has posted this yet so far, the Mattress Underground is the place to go for high-quality information about mattresses.

You’ll learn far more than you’d ever want to know about mattresses. And you’ll probably end up paying more too if you buy from one of the recommended retailers. But if quality is your main concern, then this is how you figure out what’s real and what’s not.

This is only scratching the surface of the weirdness of semen retention advocates. Throwback to the Canadian political candidate who advocated for this a few years ago:

“Every time you’re tempted to ejaculate, every time you’re tempted to go watch porn… You are essentially in the fight for your life. You’re fighting for your very lifeforce. Nature’s forgiving, and because of nature’s merciful nature, we’ve taken advantage of that nature and now we’re depleting,” argues Nakula. “Right now the world needs men. Men with full balls,” said the PPC candidate in a YouTube video.

Source: https://thepostmillennial.com/ppc-candidate-calls-himself-a-semen-retention-soldier-claims-he-can-breathe-through-his-testicles

“Breathe deeply into your balls," he wrote on Instagram. “Imagine your testicles expanding like lungs. When you exhale, imagine your testicles deflating like your lungs would”. “Most men never breathe into their balls consciously,” he added.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/politician-says-men-should-breathe-25021657