"It was 20 pounds per bag. The new ones I had just purchased were 16-pound bags. Sigh."
Four years after a 3-year-old vanished in Colorado, his shoes and clothing were discovered intact on a steep mountain slope, hundreds of feet above where he was last seen.
"When you're mixed, everyone wants to measure your 'enough-ness.'"
"Teachers 10 years ago complained that students talked too much. Teachers now complain that students can't look away from a Chromebook for 14 seconds. Same chaos, different software update."
Carpeted bathrooms. Wood paneling. Heavy drapes. Sunken living rooms. Which "dated" home trend do you still genuinely love?
No, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood didn't make the top spot. Here's what did, and why.
"That Costco hot dog hit the spot."
"It's a little thing, but when I go back to the US, the lack of it strikes me as weird."
Some of these made the textbooks. The worst parts didn't.
"I realized it was all wrong. It wasn't a live baby."
"That Costco hot dog hit the spot."
"I can't even afford teeth on 80 hours of work each week."
Some of these made the textbooks. The worst parts didn't.
"They think he's gone completely crazy — and they live in Texas."
"I realized it was all wrong. It wasn't a live baby."
From France ditching Microsoft Windows over Trump's sanctions to Germany overtaking the US as the world's largest ammunition producer to a Chinese court blocking companies from firing workers to replace them with AI, these stories are reshaping the world — but they're barely registering in US headlines.
"Men want kids the way a toddler wants a puppy."
"It's a little thing, but when I go back to the US, the lack of it strikes me as weird."
The Wild West had stricter gun laws than most US cities today.
"We'd be sweating like mad and completely parched, and they'd give us an eight-ounce Orangeade."