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  • TIL I had not hear the term “tollway” before. In PA we have one major toll road that spans the width of the state, from Philly to Pittsburgh, called the Turnpike. We also have several highways a freeways that are elevated in different areas. Pittsburgh has it’s own unique version of “yous” which is “yinz.” I haven’t heard that anywhere else. It’s supposed to be a shortened “you all ones” or “y’all unz” which became “yinz”.



  • Many of these terms are not true synonyms.

    May vs might and freeway vs highway jumped out at me right away.

    May can imply permission, while might is unambiguously up to chance or whim.

    A freeway, at least as I understand it, is a highway with no stoplights or intersections to stop traffic. It has ramps for entering and exiting the flow.

    A highway could be a freeway, but it also describes larger roads that may or may not have stoplights and intersections. Highways are any major roads that connect cities, towns, or counties.



  • No, I feel like I was fairly clear about this. Statistically, all grocery store eggs are farmed using inhumane treatment of birds. That doesn’t make the eggs bad. Some people don’t think animal cruelty is bad at all. I’m not here to tell you how to be a good person.

    People raising chickens in their backyard also aren’t distributing their eggs to supermarkets. If you were an alien trying to squeegie water from the surface of the Earth like you’re zesting a lemon, then yes you should expect to get saltwater.


  • But I heard that in some procedures in America you have to say what your ethnicity is?

    Not sure what you mean by “procedures,” but no. It’s explicitly forbidden for anyone to discriminate against you based on your race or ethnicity. You won’t be asked if you are black or white or anything else. People might be curious where you are from, especially if you have a strong accent, but you’re free to tell them to fuck off (especially if they are being racist.)

    We even heard things like that in some places they divide people by “skin color” and base different cultures on that (we noticed that people from America even speak and behave differently based on whether they identify as “black” or “white”) and even have schools for primarily people with dark skin or so.

    We have laws preventing creating neighborhoods or schools that exclude specific races, but there are regional schools in communities that are primarily one race or another. Generations of racial segregation, redlining, blockbusting, and gerrymandering have created persisitent segregation that survives decades after those practices were outlawed.

    So no, you’re not misinformed. Historical segregation was real and still affects communities today, but there are no laws enforcing racial segregation. We do have a lot of bigots, as evidenced by the literal Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration today, so you should be careful in places like rural Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Utah, and South Carolina. But if you’re visiting a major city, or any famous tourist attractions, you’ll probably not experience any overt racism beyond a Trump bumper sticker.











  • Because there are over 300 hens laying over 90 billion eggs each year, and the number of ethically raised hens or the number of eggs they produce isn’t within three decimal places of the numbers rounded off of those figures. I know several people that raise their own chickens for eggs, and I would imagine most people doing it are animal lovers like them. But that’s never going to replace the eggs at the grocery store.

    Honey production is also largely factory farmed, but humane treatment of bees doesn’t require the same amount of space or cost to produce honey. I’m sure there are examples of honey bees being abused, but the egg industry is built on and designed around making animal abuse palatable.