https://wechronicle.com/philanthropy/exploring-the-inca-tradition-of-ayni-reciprocity-and-social-welfare/

They also provided allowances (ie social welfare) to those who were too ill or old to work.

They tried that over here with Brexit. Those darned immigrants stealing our jobs (while also just living off benefits, of course). EU citizens were like, screw this. They left, suddenly farmers were faced with their produce rotting in the fields, because guess what? The Brits don’t actually want to do those jobs.

So what do you think happened next? They had to allow special visas to lure immigrants back in.

Meanwhile, the gammons were still raging that immigrants lower wages because they’ll work for less pay than UK citizens.

Strange coincidence, I just scanned in a photo I found of my siblings’ and my first bike. I taught myself to ride around age 9.

All I know is it’s a Tri-ang, but I can’t find any record of this model’s existence online.

I’m a trainee bike tech now, and it pains me to see how bad a shape that bike was!

I read that in Jixuan’s voice.

I don’t need to. I’m a cyclist, I get it on a regular basis.

I bought a few junk vinyls just because I really like the texture. I was touching one on the tube home and my friend told me later I was causing visible distress to the man opposite.

Little cutie! What’s his name? I bet he puts a smile on your face very easily. Little nutters, aren’t they? Nothing like a hyper budgie telling everything in the room about its day! I’m glad you’re doing better!

Here’s my birb tax:

He turned 14 in April, I’m hoping he can make it to 15.

I’ve been at the point where I wanted to die, but never bad enough to actually try to make it happen.

Here’s an article by the lovely Lene Marlin about her failed attempt:

G00gle translated version: https://www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/kronikk/i/Bjqe/Lene-Marlin-Jeg-ville-ikke-leve-lenger?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Original Norwegian: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/Bjqe/Lene-Marlin-Jeg-ville-ikke-leve-lenger

Isn’t banggood legit? I know the name looks suspicious as heck (well, if I didn’t know better, I’d think it was an NSFW site), but I remember Atomic Shrimp using it for legit purchases. I’d never use it though. I think it’s in the same stable as Ali express and that sort of thing.

Yeah I’ve had a couple of customers outright wrap their hand around mine as I handed them their change. It’s creepy and invasive. If it happened enough times, I’d just start putting everyone’s change on the counter.

Offensive to lemons and fans of lemons.

Lightweights!

Definitely more than five years. About ten years ago is when I saw it.

They will happily keep up unsafe products, why do they care about this?

Yep, at least ten years ago I went to reorder some electric toothbrush heads, went to my past purchases to find the same ones, only to see the listing (with my review for the brush heads still there) had a completely different product.

December will be my 4 year Amazon-free anniversary. Screw that site.

It’s definitely Bill Gates with his 5g microchips!

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how much effort this YouTuber puts in just for us (has nothing to do with this channel being how they pay their bills, they do it all for us!)

https://oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html

English used to be phonetic, it’s just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in “knight” used to be pronounced.

You get a pat on the back for that *ahem*

Edit: damn, someone beat me to it. Anyone for Fun Kart Grand Prix?

Even here, some like Oxfam will save the more valuable stuff to sell on ebay. I worked at two charity shops back in my twenties, so I got to the good stuff first haha. The Baldur’s Gate was lucky because another customer was going to buy it for her son, but changed her mind when she saw the age rating, and I was like, bagsy this!

I got my D&D Basic box set from a charity shop, £2.50. There’s one going for over £150 on ebay right now. Got my Baldur’s Gate box set from a charity shop too for £2.50. I also got Flash 4 (I think) for a couple of quid, it was selling second hand on amazon for about £200, but I was an anxious, clueless kid and was too scared to sell it.

Yesterday I got some squishmallows for my niece at £1 each. We still get good stuff here.

No worries. Good luck!