What’s your experience with the German tax system? Because it doesn’t sound like you know shit

Nothing as lib as supporting your community and parting with money you don’t have to.

Read a fucking book

This is the relevant section from the wiki:

Many jurisdictions have enacted regulations relating to the disposal of human bodies. Although it may be entirely legal to bury a deceased family member, the law may restrict the locations in which this activity is allowed, in some cases expressly limiting burials to property controlled by specific, licensed institutions. Furthermore, in many places, failure to properly dispose of a body is a crime. In some places, it is also a crime to fail to report a death, and to fail to report the disposal of the body.[37]

From your link:

Having a grave too close to a water source is either not wise or not legal. It also may not be permitted to have a gravesite within a certain distance of a building or your property line. These are called setbacks, and setback laws are different for each state. Often, setback rules make it all but impossible to put a grave in someone’s urban or suburban property without breaking the law.

I’d be interested in how widespread the legality is practically, because (reasonably) everything I looked at said to check local laws, but I can understand why that’s not included exhaustively. My family tried to in a rural area of a non rural state where the sources say it’s allowed, but the setbacks made it practically impossible- watershed areas are larger than you would expect, even without visible bodies of water nearby.

nothing illegal about just getting dropped in a hole as-is on private property most places

That’s not true for good reason- people who don’t know what they’re doing could contaminate groundwater/runoff very easily.

It shouldn’t be as expensive as it is, and I’d support dropping unembalmed corpses without certain diseases (an asymptomatic or undiagnosed prion disease could be incredibly dangerous) in a hole, as long as they are adequately buried. That would require an autopsy and either significant refrigeration costs or a rushed job without embalming though.

Yeah, but it worked

Holy shit, I always just assumed it was John Brown

I don’t know, but nobody in my life wants to talk about DS9

Bananenweizen if you’re efficient

Conlangs!!

Wasn’t he the Killer Queen?

To be fair, I don’t really think of NPR or PBS as print media, so I don’t really seek out their websites, unless I want to listen to the radio while away from an actual radio.

I used to work in long-tailed litigated liability insurance claims. Think asbestos, lead paint, toxic exposures, etc. Insurance comes into play for defending companies against lawsuits made by people suffering from those exposures. I rationalized it to myself for a year and a half (if we don’t pay for the company’s defense attorneys, we couldn’t pay the claimants their settlements; we’re just following the contract; at this point, the big players are bankrupt, so the claimants are just going after easy targets; etc.), but it makes the world worse and I eventually quit.

I looked at other aspects of the industry, but there really wasn’t a role that I could feel totally comfortable with. At best, I felt like I I worked for the organization which gave earth “adequate notice” for the hyperspace bypass in hitchhikers guide.

I went back to school and now I teach new immigrants the local language. It took a lot of work and I make less money, but holy shit was it worth it.

I like to say it to people when they excuse themselves to the bathroom.

If they do a double take, I’ll add “not too much, though.”

Both from good omens, I think

I don’t even believe in free will, I can’t talk shit to anyone

I’m assuming the poster is Christian, tbf. If they’re just a very demonstrative Zoroastrian, then it’s not the same god (mostly. That’s a little debatable, but I’m not informed enough to debate it).

But the god of Abraham is the god of Abraham. If there’s a debate there, you’ll have to explain it to me.

Edit: I saw your edit, nvm!

It’s even the same god

Regarding the first point, this is what he said, emphasis mine:

I want to be clear on where I stand. I believe both Nicolas Maduro and Miguel Diaz-Canel are dictators. Their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, jailed political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press. And yet, our federal government’s long history of punitive policies toward both countries, including extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans and the continuation of a decades long blockade of Cuba, have only worsened these conditions. Democratic socialism is about dignity, justice and accountability. And above all, it’s about building a democracy that works for working people, not one that preys on them."

It feels misleading to call someone’s statement denouncing the blockade as an effective endorsement of it. Did I miss him saying something else?

That’ll need to be Luigi 2036, because he’d still be 34 on inauguration day 2032.

Though I mean, I can imagine the laws changing quite significantly in the next few years, so who knows.

I’m not sure what difference this makes, but I can see snapshots of each of those, just not video. Though if I imagine biting into an apple, I can get all the senses together.

I think I might have just been trying to isolate sight from the other senses, because the only real experience I have with only the sight of apples is in pictures, so it being automatically 2d does make sense.

They can rotate the image in their minds, break it in half and examine the insides, see the seeds and the veins on the leaf and the discoloration near the stem.

Yeah, checking now, I can see those things as well as long as I’m also feeling, hearing, and smelling them.

Thank you! I first learned about this a while ago and I’ve occasionally wondered about it. I don’t think I would have figured it out without you talking me through it.