Lol. If I forgot my key I used the earpiece of my wire-rimmed glasses to open the basement door. Crap lock.
Edit - when I got my 1st car (a Chevy Cavalier hatchback) I kept a coat-hanger under the hood so I could get in if I locked my keys inside. That was back when you could open the hood from the outside. I got really good with popping the lock.
That is actually an outstanding idea. They could announce it for next year and tell the kids to prepare. Maybe they would actually learn something for a change - even if it is just to drink free piss water.
Seriously - you should submit that idea to InBev (or whatever they are known as now).
I'd love that, although I'd rather go back to the old text pagers. You could be reached in case of an emergency. My dad used to have one of the original ones that just beeped when he was on the kidney transplant list, and had to call if he got paged.
I had one that would show the number and a short msg for about a year and it was much better than the original. I also told people if they ever paged me with their number and 911 it better be a real emergency or I would never answer another page from them again. Once businesses started issuing cell phones to employees we completely lost work/life balance.
How many Gen-Xers here wore a shoelace with a key on it around your necks at school (so you could get in the house after school before your parents got home from work)?
Millennials or Zoomers probably think we were crazy, but it was pretty common.
It might have something to do with them still restricting some countries? I have a special setup with docker containers that run socks5 and tinyproxy, and both use another docker with a vpn installed. On firefox I use the SwitchyOmega addon to let me add a default proxy, one each for socks5 and tinyproxy, and a no-vpn proxy. That way I can set the add-on to auto and program in certain sites (like TS) to use the direct option while others use socks or http. SwitchyOmega works very well.
I'm not a fan of sites that block all (or certain) vpns.
This reminded me of an exercise we did when I went through USAF basic training in 1988. We had a mix of people in my squadron - whites, blacks, hispanics, and people of many different ethnicities.
One day early in our training the instructors sat us down and told us to start telling them all the racial/ethnic slurs we knew or heard of, and told us to explain what the word/phrase meant - and nobody was allowed to get mad. They had to threaten us with picking up more cigarette butts and doing extra work if we didn't all take part. It took about 5 minutes and everyone started naming slurs they knew and explaining them to people who didn't know. I didn't even know what half of them meant myself, but it was eye-opening. They didn't want someone using those slurs against someone else by accident because they didn't understand exactly what it meant.
These days the instructors would've likely been fired - which is sad. It was helpful once we understood what the instructors were trying to do. I'm not saying that should be done here. It was appropriate for that setting, but probably not for many other settings.
I saw a chart the other day about that. It showed child sexual abuse from some time in the last 10 or so years with numbers of Catholic priests charged versus numbers of teachers charged. I don't remember the actual numbers but it was like 90/10 teachers over priests. I saw it on an OAN news story and can't find the chart online.
My gut says to believe it, but my mind says there are way more teachers than priests so the numbers will be skewed. It is also more common for priests to be charged than teachers, although both organizations historically have tried to push the perps to another location to make the problem "go away".
Both groups have a fair amount of pedos, but also a fair amount of good people. Both are also shielded and/or demonized by both the left and right. The only good course of action is to closely watch both groups if your children are around them - trust but verify.
Anyone who has ever had step-siblings understands the relationship between Americans and Canadians. We both came from different places with different practices, and rightfully kid each other like any dysfunctional family does. It's healthy and expected. However when push comes to shove we will defend each other nearly every time. That said - if one step parent does something the other step parent doesn't like, the kids pick up on it and will carry that out themselves for a bit. It's nature.
Here's a good example of everything I just wrote. This song was nominated and almost won an academy award.
I hated MD so much growing up that I figured out a way to graduate high school early and joined the USAF at 17yo.