Drugs have side effects and putting children on amphetamines is serious business. If it's necessary to get them the start they need in life, that's one thing. But you don't do it just to make the faculty's life easier.

I don't have kids myself. I think (and hope) that it isn't that bad anymore. They basically expected young children to sit attentively in class for several hours at a time, I really don't know what they were thinking.

Fair enough. This was the early 2000s for me. I was referred because I got distracted and started talking to my classmates after being in class for ~2.5 hours or so.

Like, duh, I was 7.

I don't know how old you are or anything, but when I was a kid, everyone did have it. In elementary school, only 4 of the boys in our class were unmedicated for an attention problem.

If you're diagnosing almost all of your population with a mental disorder, you need to reevaluate your diagnostic criteria.

Not if they use prison labor lol

I have a bonavita. It looks terrible due to something with the finish, but it's been used daily for 4 years and counting. It's also been dropped and spilled on quite a bit. It's not heavily built at all, but it's a kettle, so it isn't like it needs it.

As for the finish, it's either porous and terrible or breaking down somehow. I went through a depressive episode a couple months into owning it, let it get some dust, and the thing has looked dull and dirty ever since. And it's only just starting to develop scale, which given how hard the water is here, I'm very pleased with.

I've had most of my clothes for 10+ years.

Lands end is incredibly unfashionable, but their materials are very solid. I'm a fan of their basics, things like t shirts, button downs, etc. Their dress shirts and slacks are especially nice.

Eddie Bauer has some nice heavier options for flannels and henlys. They look basically new still.

For jeans, I highly recommend getting some cheap raws. I'm bougie, so I like the weird materials naked and famous uses, but almost any sanforized raws will treat you well. Unsanforized shrink with exposure to water, which makes sizing difficult.

Boots: Red wing. Expensive but irreplaceable. I've worn them every day for years, and they still look great.

Socks: I like gold toe for any non-wool socks I need. If I need wool socks, I get the Kirkland ones. I have some from high school still, they've faded, but they're for boots, so who cares?

Non-boots: I get my dress shoes from Allen Edmonds, and my sneakers from vans or converse. I get running shoes and nonslips from new balance. To be blunt, they're borderline disposable, but I want all that damage going into my shoes and not my joints.

Belts: Pretty much anything full grain will last forever.

The bartender is personally liable as well. In fact in some places, the bar owner isn't liable at all.

Legally you're correct, but bartenders don't exactly have the resources or legal authority to take people's keys or drive them home and put them to bed.

Dram shops laws establish liability in scenarios like this and as a rule, they're very old and haven't been updated in forever (think like prohibition). Many places they establish liability even when someone is responsibly served and later continues drinking.

I hate them. Legal liability for other people's actions should not exist.

Those laws were put into effect right after prohibition. They create extremely broad liability where there's often little or no control.

And God forbid someone face the consequences of their own actions.

Well I'd imagine the hard part is getting a hollow butt plug, although someone might make them for smuggling...other substances.

As for the ashes, just throw a little in there out of the urn.