I've definitely been there quite a few times. I can get by romantically, but sometimes I just don't have the energy. Finding someone you mesh with can be exhausting.
I have a handful friends of varying genders who seem to be in similar boats. I can't be sure as I haven't asked. It seems like the current options are inadequate for a good chunk of people.
And the temperature and sound changes too. Also it's pretty neat to be in a crowd for a moment of communal awe.
Does it also suppress inline images from others? Because that sounds real nice
Over the past 7-ish years more and more states have legalized online sports gambling. There was a longstanding law that essentially forbade it in most states. It was struck down at the start of this rush.
It could be part of a gradual decline as a result of that
The cards were definitely being called chip and PIN as they were being introduced.
I don't recall the PIN ever being used outside of debit cards (which already used PINs in certain contexts).
Occasionally gas pumps will ask for the postal code of the billing address, but that's about as close as we get.
Haven't done Ubik yet, but I loved a Scanner Darkly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep didn't really appeal to me either. It's got a bunch of cool stuff, but doesn't really manage to tie any of it together in a satisfying way.
I'd hazard most people like talking to other people. Even most introverts, although the threshold for how much is enough or too much is lower.
A few hours. For me home is always a few things: my current residence, the place I grew up, and any place I slept last night that I'll sleep again tonight.
They don't all mean the same thing, but let's go home could mean any of those.
Grooves and hooves are more common words than roofs.
I think I would notice if someone said groofs or hoofs (although that's also a word with a different meaning), but I'm really not sure I'd notice rooves vs roofs.
I think I've been saying rooves my whole life. I don't think I'd generally write it that way, but it feels more natural to say.
If I have, I'm not sure anyone's noticed. My speech patterns are odd though, so it might not be terribly noticable. It's also possible I've never had to say the word. It's not common that you need to pluralize roof.
Exactly. If you've got a head for remembering Latin, i.e. is id est, so you can try swapping "that is" into the sentence to see if it sounds right.
E.g. is exempli gratia so you can try swapping "for example" in for the same trick.
If you forget, avoiding the abbreviations is fine in most contexts. That said, I'd be surprised if mixing them up makes any given sentence less clear.
It does look like a pretty neat calque. I hadn't noticed that the -oline ending was likely related to oleum.