Drusas

I think the idea is that the person would go through the tedious work of removing all the stringy bits from an orange on the other person’s behalf.

As someone who used to work in the identity management/authorization field… Not all cookies are bad. But yeah, I still agree.

I don’t know why anyone asks. The answer is always yellow.

Complicated. There’s the city, and it’ll be broken into neighborhoods with their own names. Then that will be broken down into blocks (approximately) with their own numbers. Then each building has its own number within the block. So you can only find a place based on its address (assuming no online mapping) if you already know approximately where it is.

Before Google maps became a big thing, taxi drivers would have massive books full of neighborhood maps which they would refer to when you told them the address you wanted to go to.

That sounds even more chaotic than the Japanese system.

Yeah, go ahead and do this somewhere like Home Depot, but most garden centers and nurseries are just small businesses. They need that income and lose a lot more money from this practice than one would expect (plants can get pretty expensive).

Like, there’s this rhododendron garden + nursery near me which has some truly amazing varieties. Things that you can only get there or in Bhutan, for example. They actually send people to these remote places to find rare varieties. Would I love to take a tiny cutting from basically everything there? Absolutely. But no. I pay because they’re amazing and I want to support them.

Fits with Chinese imperial history.

Dealing with health insurance and disability insurance has made me sincerely wonder how people don’t target insurance offices with violence. I’m surprised this is the first time something like this has happened. The average person is treated as completely disposable. No more money in the bank? No ability to work for somebody else’s profit? No value to you.