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Does Subway sponsor them or something? I swear I’ve seen similar scenes in the last couple shows I’ve watched.

I’ve always heard them referred to as starfish

A stuffed animal?

Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.

Doctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.

Of course they’re a guy. Otherwise it’d be Drs. Pepper. _/s

Didn’t she work at McDonald’s as a teenager? Presumably paid minimum wage?

Sadly Saturday Morning cartoons just aren’t a thing anymore in the US.

I save up anime episodes throughout the week and watch them all on Sunday morning during breakfast. It’s my way of recreating that magic from my youth.

State and local elections still matter outside of the electoral college!

Stand left, walk right on escalators and moving walkways

This may be region-specific. In my area, I generally see it the other way around. But unless you’re the only person, it’s usually pretty clear which side to stand.

Likely because it’s $current_year and there are better choices available.

When I was a kid, I passed a marble. It was quite painful when exiting the stomach, but I’ll never forget the sound of it hitting the porcelain afterwards.

Honestly, it has a better mouth feel when they’re waxed.

Found it! 😄

I think for issues like this it may be good to develop a practice of using the spoiler tag with a warning attached. This way it’s up to the reader to decide if they want to read it and is flexible enough to cover all of the various use cases.

She just wants to ponder her spheres in peace!

Or if it’s anything like some of the places I’ve lived, it’s straight but the walls aren’t…

Pixels of the photos so everyone can have a piece of history! /s

IIRC, it was Neal Stephenson’s Anathem that had a similar line of thought. It was something to the effect of your consciousness warping to a parallel reality at the moment of death, provided there was a reality where you were still alive.

And index it against inflation. 😉