I’ve got a strict hoa that you probably couldn’t play on it if you tried. Neighbor had a tiny swing hidden under their porch and got fined repeatedly before they took it down. I never see any kids playing on the grass. I bet all of the balls and toys laying about would give them an aneurysm.

It’s because of the anonymity and lack of consequences. If it were in person they’d actually be confronted about it. Online however you can spout the most horrific shit all day ,every week and nothing could happen.

Place was loved by people because it was interesting and showed lots of human ingenuity. People were so angry that reddit abused it in an attempt to take attention away from the criticism and protests. Especially because it was assumed to only happen every 5 or so years, and having two close together felt very abusive by reddit.

Personally, I’m not really sure if a true “neurotypical” exists. Just people with traits that don’t yet have scientific/quantitative definitions or labels for. We’re all just people and our only common trait is that we’re all different and weird.

I’ve got to say, before the chemicals, use a bench scraper. Almost no matter what you spray, hard crusty crap is gonna remain hard and crusty, it’s best to scrape everything off and into the trash, then whip the chems out (I use isopropyl alcohol).

Make sure to use a scraper softer than the material of your counter top, or intentionally dull your scraper. Some countertops have plastic vinyl meant to look like stone and those will be marred very easily by a steel scraper.

Unrelated not, sharpen your wood spatulas with a knife, makes scraping pans 10x easier and 10x easier to clean.

1 The middle income trap. Many countries used their cheap uneducated population as an opportunity for cheap labour, for large companies. This brings lots of capital to the country and people, and the country develops. Building more schools, infrastructure etc. but as a country develops, pay increases for workers, and suddenly their labour is no longer cheap. Their country’s economy is now effectively stuck.

2 Conflict and instability. Investors don’t want to pour money into a country where it might have a coup, leadership change, etc. They don’t want to lose what they invest, since these events usually result in lots of private property being taken or destroyed. This fact leaves a lot of countries in a catch 22. They need investment to stabilize, but need to stabilize to gain investment.

A lot of countries are also unstable because of badly drawn borders. This often leaves a lot of ethnic tensions that continue to boil away indefinitely. Sometimes the borders give a country horrible geography and incentivise them to invade their neighbors.

One example would be that country #1 is downstream of a major river, behind country #2 and #3. Country #2 and 3 use a lot of the water and there is none left for country #1 and their only option is to invade.

The final and probably most common reason is that dictators don’t care about prosperity, and that dictators lead to more dictators. Far more often than not, coups lead to another, worse dictator, focused on holding power than their country’s success.

The reason that south Korea and Taiwan are successful and democratic today are because they rolled the 1/1000 chance on a benevolent dictator that WILLINGLY steered the country into democracy and genuinely improved the economy.

If you get deep into cooking it does actually become very easy. The most important thing is organizing the kitchen because I find that many people have tons of clutter. Once you have experience and a well organized kitchen cooking is usually less than an hour.

Another important tip is that it’s usually best to stick to one kind of cuisine. It shouldn’t be exact (like french, Spanish Italian) and it should be something vague like “Mediterranean/European”, “India/south Asian”, “East Asia (pretty much Japan, China, Korea)”. Otherwise you will require so many ingredients and sauces it’s impossible to keep track of.

Honestly this is why I never pay any attention to “uplifting news” communities as it ultimately gets your hopes up for nothing. The bi monthly “revolutionary cure” for cancer is getting pretty damn old too.

Or merely being a pawn for the CCP. A couple years ago they arrested (kidnapped) 2 Chinese Canadians so they could have a trade for a detained Chinese businessman/politician in Canada.

I can’t believe there were no reprucussions for this, literally kidnapping and holding anothers countries citizens for ransom. Somalian pirates did this and there was a coalition of dozens of countries to shut them down.

*for clarity the Chinese Canadians were visiting China when they were detained

Many objects are meant to kill by design. Daggers are frankly entirely useless as a knife except stabbing people but would you sue a company for making one? Even then if daggers were banned people would just use kitchen knives.

The bullet that kills the most people in the US is actually the scrappy little .22 LR, a very weak cartridge. If all guns were banned a knife or a variety of other things isn’t much less lethal.

Yeah exactly, not to mention that the EU has called the UK “a trouble maker” in regards to the UK rejoining.