Probably from the Northeast or Great lakes area then? It’s half the US population, but it’s not evenly distributed. It’s much less common on the west coast.

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The happy ending places are usually pretty easy to spot from reviews or their website if they have one. A few indicators:

• The images they post online are just attractive women possibly giving massages. The focus is on the person giving the massage, instead of general relaxing imagery.
• Reviews are split down the middle between 5 stars with no details and 1 stars complaining about short, half-assed massages and requests for tips before the massage ends
• The building itself has all the windows covered and very little advertising except for a sign to reassure clients they have the right door.

Dry eyes are a common side effect of THC, especially larger doses. This is the main reason people have red eyes and squint when high. The smoke may also cause irritation making it worse.

Depends on emphasis. Said with normal stress on the first syllable is “able to be unlocked”.

But if you pronounce it with extra emphasis on both of the first two syllables with a bit of a pause between, I think most people would think “not able to be locked”. Very context dependent though

Exactly. “Common sense” is belief or intuition pretending to be reason. Typically invoked when someone does truly believe something is true, but doesn’t have information or arguments to back it up.

It’s not as bad as you’d think. I got it on my first attempt after playing through the game normally a bunch of times. Knowing where things are and what fights you can take in which order keeps things manageable.

And dream fights also do not kill you. So some of the toughest fights in the game will not end a steel soul run.

Plus 100% in Hollow Knight isn’t everything. There’s a total of something like 113%, so you don’t need to do some challenges you know you might die to.

A mill grinds grain, a windmill is just a mill powered by wind. It’s not technically correct to call a wind turbine or wind-powered pump a windmill, but that’s how it’s commonly used. So this comment chain is a pedantic correction leading into the ground water pun.

It’s a solid pun, but does require the background of pedantic Internet discussions

The eastern half is flat and empty. The western half is mountainous like Switzerland, but also pretty empty. Most of the people live in a strip of cities along the foothills.

The mountains are impressive and the elevation gets nearly as high as the highest point in the alps. What’s weird about Colorado is that even the lowest elevation areas are really high up. Denver is at the base of the mountains, but is at 5280ft/1610m. For comparison, most of Switzerland’s cities are below 1500ft/500m.

A lot of towns and cities around the world have similar requirements and will start fining you if you let your property. And the majority of HOAs aren’t overbearing, just a way to share costs for common infrastructure and make sure houses aren’t just abandoned or allowed to fall apart by collecting fines.

But petty power attracts petty tyrants and it’s easier to make it onto an HOA board than a town council. So sometimes your worst neighbor has the ability to hand out fines and wields that power with spite and glee.