The Democrats have cried about “the most important election of our lives” too many times, and people tuned it out. For people crying how terrifying a Trump presidency was going to be, their actions told voters that they would be happy to let this happen and keep working with the same individuals they told them would end democracy, and so far, they continue to work with the Republicans, with a very few conspicuous exceptions.

People warned the Democrats they could only run that play so many times before it no longer worked, yet they decided to stick with it anyway. If the Democrats wanted to win, they needed to have run a very different campaign, if not a different candidate.

I don’t know about that. I think in a lot of cases, it’s also down to our parents not getting any help for their mental health and not knowing how to deal with stuff they’re going through also making being around them a genuinely uncomfortable thing to do, even without anything like that going on.

That and a lot of people wind up having kids when they’re in no position to actually care for them and raise them properly, which aggravates the above, as well as providing material incentives to kick them out earlier.

Nope, it’s true. When I went for the first time a couple of years ago, my bank decided I needed more £50 notes than anything, and I got several “Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these,” comments when I used them.

Also, fwiw, depending on where you’re heading in the UK, cashless payments can be way more prevalent than they are in many places. I’ve been to multiple bars in and around Manchester that just didn’t accept cash, and would bring out a card terminal to tap for every £2-3 beer I ordered.

On the other hand, bring a coin purse or something with you, because when you do use cash, you’ll get a ton of coins back, and it becomes a pain to have rattling about in your pocket real quick.

Didn’t even really need to overlevel him for that, though. He was fast and had a high special attack, so he got the first move in most situations and could oneshot most things. Even when it first evolved, my Kadabra carried me through pretty much every gym on its own, just because of how broken the psychic pokemon were in gen 1.

The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.