ageedizzle

Okay thanks for the heads up

Yeah. I think having no responsibilities would eventually get really depressing

This is exactly why I don’t want to lie to my kids about Santa. I saw my younger sibling get really upset when he discovered the truth. Seems like an avoidable problem. But people tend to think I’m a grinch for not wanting to do the whole Santa thing 

How did you manage to get your kids to believe in Santa without lying about it to them first? I also don’t want to lie to my kids so I wanted to do away with the whole Santa thing, but my wife wants to keep him around so we decided on some sort of compromise position where we keep Santa but don't explicitly say he’s real. To me this seems untenable, but apparently not. So I’m interested to hear how you did it. 

My younger brother had the same reaction. My dad told him that he was the one putting presents under the tree and my brother was like “you mean you’re Sa ta?”

Thank you!

How do we know the information they make public isn’t cherry picked to make them look good? It takes a lot of trust in the Chinese government take the cases they do publicize at face value and assume that nothing else is going on, because without the total numbers it’s impossible to know how many cases are being omitted.

I don’t think I could bring myself up to that level of trust. It’s not even anything against the Chinese government in particular; I don’t know if I’d trust any government to that degree. 

but I'm not going to say the PRC is executing people willy-nilly.

But how do you know that if they keep the numbers secret? 

It does sound interesting. Where do I start? 

The execution thing does seem backwards though, no? The death penalty in general seems pretty backwards. It’s no less barbaric when China does it than when the US does it. Most civilized countries do not kill their own citizens.

Hi there. Can you talk to the astronauts for us lol? 

Plus a lot of people with revoked licenses just continue to drive anyway with a vehicle insured under someone else's name.