TBH, sometimes they do just change the sign. You’ll have “all-gender (with urinals)” and “all-gender (no urinals)”. I saw that at an older theater in Western Massachusetts.

It probably has to do with budget and clientele. This theater’s audience skewed 20ish at the show I was at.

You’re not a felon until after you’re convicted. Until then you’re just a sparkling nogoodnik.

(Please pardon if the joke falls flat, I’m in a queer mood.)

I’d say it depends on how much the license costs vs how the service costs.

The analogy that comes to mind is old cemeteries (YMMV, this is from a New England perspective). People buy a grave and expect to occupy it forever. This is a problem for cemeteries because a cemetery will eventually run out of graves to sell. The sales of graves goes towards the upkeep of the cemetery. Once there’s no more space, there’s no more sales, and there’s no more income for upkeep.

Some cemeteries get around this by reusing graves. You rent a grave for, say, 20 years and after 20 years of occupancy your next of kin is asked if they’d like to renew your subscription.

Other places charge a much higher upfront fee and invest it, using the interest to pay for ongoing maintenance.

Other places just abandon the cemetery and let it grow over with weeds.

TBH, I know most of my neighbors by their dog’s names. Max’s owner, Buddy’s human, that sort of thing. And then there’s New Max’s owner. She lives 2 doors down from Original Max. No confusion there.

My partner’s company starts some standup meetings with optional ice breaker questions. Partner will frequently will say “pass” when the ice breaker comes to him. Since he goes early in the rotation, it helps emphasize to newer employees that they don’t have to answer, either.

Anyways, I’m proud of him for helping destigmatize non-participation in silly stuff.

Thanks. It helps that I’m white enough I glow in the dark. My big worry is that many of my students might be first- and second-generation immigrants from south of the USA and I don’t want them to have to deal with this bullshit.

(I say “might be” because I don’t know anyone’s immigration status and even if I did no I don’t.)

That’s one thing my campus has done decently–I know that to do if ICE shows up.

1. they’re not allowed to just walk in to non-public areas
2. we call campus police (whose main jobs seems to be keeping students safe and keeping campus out of the news). Annoyingly, I work in a public building (the library) but my office is private, big, and has a lock on the door. I’m well stocked up in case of a shelter-in-place situation and I’m happy to wait until campus police shows up.

Sadly, Florida doesn’t have the right geology for mines.

My brother ended up lost in a major city, 3 hours away from home and our parents. He didn’t know where he parked his car, just that it was “at a hotel”. Drugs were almost certainly involved.

His strategy was to wander around asking to borrow strangers’ cell phones until he ended up in a gas station run by an immigrant couple who were OMG lovely. They let him use their phone and they fed him until my parents could drive over and pick him up.

My parents found his car by posting “lost car” ad on Craigslist with a reward.

Anyways, my strategy’s probably to find a local library or equivalent and email my partner and friends a “please help” message. Hopefully someone lends/gives me clothes along the way.

Edit: oops, I said 3 miles. It was 3 hours. Updated.

First machine was an Apple IIe, second was MS-DOS, I want to say version 6.2.

Well, looks like it’s a real thing.

Tbh, kitty litter sounds like a practical idea in case of a lockdown. I was just cautioned to make sure my office trash bin doesn’t have any cracks.

I used to get letters from Who’s Who among American High School Students. Wikipedia has a write-up about that category of questionable practice.

I’ve used similarly-titled books from the late 1800s/early 1900s for research, but nowadays we have the Internet.

I did that last month at a new-to-me grocery store. Saved $5! Jenny needs to use her gas points, though. She has a ton.

What’s your pain med of choice? I like children’s chewable ibuprofen because I already have too many pills to swallow.

Lucky! My local DMV doesn’t take people without an appointment, and the only way to make an appointment is online. If you try over the phone they’ll tell you to ask the nice people at the local library to help you.

Btw, they didn’t tell the library about this policy. As a librarian, I do not like being an extension of the DMV, but I try and help my patrons. Including the dickhead that argued for the defunding of the library but now needs help making an appointment.

I don’t think you understand what the Census is in the United States.

Every 10 years, each household gets a long form to fill out. In it, you voluntarily list a ton of information about your household members. If you don’t fill it out people (census workers) come around and try and get this information in person.

The census is only as accurate as the people filling it out.

My impression at the time was the superintendent acted on his own. Not even the board of education was involved, and they weren’t happy to be blindsided.

My guess is the

1. superintendent had a student in that grade,
2. student came home with new textbook,
3. superintendent saw the ‘blasphemy’ in the new-that-year textbooks,
4. superintendent was his own Karen.

Western Kentucky in the 90s. . There was a ton of weird stuff at that public school. I went far away for college and am glad for it.

Edit: Better link/source

The thing that got me to significantly reduce my dairy consumption was

1. Being exposed to vegetable milk (first soy then almond) by my roommates
2. Not keeping fresh milk in the apartment because it kept going bad
3. Losing the ability to gracefully digest lactose

I eat much less cow now because of cute internet cow videos.

Anyways, I think if 5 people reduce their consumption by 30% that’s more impactful than 1 person reducing their consumption by 100%. (Math caveat: assuming each person has the same baseline level of consumption. 5 vegans reducing their consumption by 30% won’t do squat).