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  Semi-relevant: I think that pancakes (not crepes) and waffles should be considered dessert, but here people eat them as the main course or part of the main course. I don't know if they were ever considered dessert though. Also semi-relevant: fruit. Multiple kinds chopped in a bowl? Dessert. One whole singular item? A healthy snack/food item.

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  Usually the host pays. If it's at a sit-down restaurant with a menu (where different food have different prices and people can order sides ans dessertand drinks and stuff) everyone pays for themselves... but surely you're not having a kids birthday party at a sit-down restaurant? It's a place that specialises in servicing children and hosting child parties, where you can order a buffet for everyone/the kids, right? But as long as you communicate expectations clearly on the invite yo...

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  So was it one woman doing this, or every woman you saw in the south?

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  I fully relate to being uncomfortable when others use my name. I dont hate it anymore, but people using it when talking to me weirds me out. I know who I am so you don't have to remind me, and you know who I am because you're currently talking to me! It just feels like constantly being poked with something sharp when someone overuses my name, or I get on edge like I expect them to try pickpocket me at any moment, or I get tense and feel my fuse shortening like they're being condes...

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  Any form of gambling. Console memberships: having to pay monthly to use the games I already paid for, on the console I already paid for, to access the internet I already pay for.

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  Really depends on jurisdiction. Where I’m from, a confession like that isn’t enough for a guilty verdict, there needs to be evidence backing it up. It can be enough to open an investigation and perhaps start prosecution, but anyone can confess to anything for any reason. If the confession includes details unknown to the public and impossible for an outsider to guess it would be more reliable than a general “I did it"-confession, but may still not be enough without additional evidence.

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  That's a damn good answer.

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  An issue I observe in kids is that children lack positive, physically available, male role models. Women can raise kids to be very tender and empathetic, but at some point most boys will start to model themselves after the men they see around them. I guess the issue then exacerbate if they as adults are surrounded by only men who don't check each others behaviour, but I have no eyes in men-only groups. I would not volunteer to socialise men, as I do enough free emotional labour for the men...

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  Search for and focus on their positive qualities, and respind to those instead of their current words. Almost everyone have some positive qualities. Finding them makes bearing their negatives easier.

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  I have not yet but may soon be required to give biometrics (fingerprints, possibly eye scan) to my employer. I haven't decided yet what to do if it comes to that... know I'm giving random tech conglomerates far more in exchange for far less, but this one feels more invasive and personal. But I'll probably do it if needed. I like this job, and I trust them more than I trust these tech giants I sell my data to, just for a glimpse of the online hellscape.