My theory is that psychosis due to self-imposed sleep deprivation causes some of the crazier things Elon Musk does.

Dibs on being the palm tree.

…and why do kids these days say ooh-wooh?

Sometimes when I open my mouth really wide, I somehow spray a little stream of saliva, like from a squirt gun. It makes me feel like the dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park, but so far I haven’t been able to do it on purpose.

buying bottled water

perfectly good pond in background

Are you claiming that Batman wears spandex because originally he was supposed to be naked but the CCA wouldn’t allow that?

Deadpool. He’s not funny, he’s just obnoxious.

Nice restaurant food, but I guess that doesn’t count.

Lychees. The funny thing is that I can afford lychees, but I always think “Why buy them when these perfectly good grapes cost three times less?”

Does that doll have Spock’s head?

calls himself a predator

van isn’t windowless

I can’t even.

If Tourette’s involves a compulsion to say socially inappropriate things, what happens if those things don’t turn out to be socially inappropriate? Does the compulsion switch to something else? Does it fade?

I have found kvas in Russian delis to vary in quality quite a bit, but unfortunately I don’t remember which brands I liked and which I didn’t. Good luck!

I was just a kid when I came to the USA so most of my memories are in the context of how different things were after we came to America.

One particularly vivid memory for me is of bananas. My grandma would go on business trips to Moscow sometimes and she would bring bananas back for us. Otherwise the fruits we had were the ones that grew locally, and you had to preserve them if you wanted them out of season. It blew my mind when I came to the USA and I could just go to a grocery store and buy bananas at any time.

There were a few foods there that are harder to find here.

• Buckwheat, which is my favorite grain.

• Fresh peas, not the kind that people eat along with the pod but rather the kind with an inedible pod and big seeds, like canned peas but raw.

• Russian-style rye bread. My family was so surprised that Americans had such an abundance of food but still ate Wonder Bread.

• Kvas, a sweet beverage made out of fermented bread. I think it tastes way better than soft drinks so I’m not sure why everyone isn’t drinking it. Maybe it’s an acquired taste?

Also American cakes are usually terrible and American deep-fried french fries are inferior to Russian pan-fried potatoes.

Edit: one more thing, crepes. They’re not exclusively Russian, of course, but they’ve very common in Russian cooking with a variety of sweet or savory fillings - applesauce, jam, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes, ground meat, etc. Sometimes they’re fried after being filled.

You can hope that billions of people choose to act against their own self-interest in a way that has never happened before or you can move somewhere with a cooler climate.

It’s show-accurate, for those wondering. At one point, Pinkie Pie makes a bunch of magical clones of herself, but they’re really annoying so her friend Twilight Sparkle pops them like balloons. It’s OK though, the original Pinkie Pie survives. (Probably.)

Cursed serif.

Is this loss?

There’s a difference between being unable to move out and simply liking to live with your family. If you like living with them, I don’t see why you should move out until you find your own long-term romantic partner and need more privacy. I know there’s an expectation in the USA that adults won’t have a lot of contact with their parents, but I think that’s sad. I don’t currently live with my family for practical reasons but I live near them and visit them every weekend. My life is richer because of this.

There’s a legend that the Roman Emperor Tiberius executed the inventor of flexible glass.

After the inventor swore that he was the only man alive who knew the manufacturing technique, Tiberius had the man beheaded. He feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable.

So y’all better watch out with any plastic…

No. I don’t like where I live (because it’s a big city) but I’m living near my family.

If not for that, I would probably be back in New Hampshire. I used to live there alone with a 100% work-from-home job and I would go weeks without speaking to another human being face-to-face. I left because it wasn’t great for my mental health but for some reason I still really want to go back.