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When I saw this on Reddit last week they said something about finding the details and it was a set of siblings they were fostering where the boy was violent, aggressive, autistic, and uncontrollable, while the girl was none of these things. They could not physically handle the boy, but did want to adopt the girl that they could provide a better life for. There was a whole thing about at first glance this sort of question fired up people who didn't know the background. Can't find the post in my 10 second google-fu/reddit search but one from about 5 months ago with the same picture but not the extra info. It's not choosing one just to spite them, it's about what they can handle and afford.

Pregnancy can cause both lethal and non-lethal damage to the woman carrying the child/children. It is their choice to continue or not, the father can provide their opinion but it should not ever be their choice over the person who would be at risk. It is the reason why there are birth control (hormonal) for women, each and every one has pretty terrible potential side effects but those side effects are less risky than carrying a child to term.
Your brother may have been willing to raise the children alone but simply carrying them to term was a risk to his ex-wife's life (especially with multiples).
And with the "scream their heads off...when the Dad refuses to pay for the kid..." child support is to support the child, who had no choice in their being born or not. The money is supposed to be for keeping them fed/clothed/housed/alive. It's not supposed to be "hey free money for having a kid" as your comment would suggest, and most child support payments don't come close to 1/2.

Agreed, Kinder Joy are just sadness and everywhere, Kinder Surprise are fantastic with a cool little toy inside. Kinder Surprise are still banned in the US, even in whatever state you're from. Usually it's the Canadian border where you hear about them being confiscated and fines of $300+ per egg for trying to import them because the FDA is worried that some idiot is going to let their baby, or some drunken fool is going to swallow the toy capsule and will choke. Sometimes you can find them in a store where people somehow snuck them in for super inflated prices, but standard import for Surprise is a no.

Then you 100% should check out the tiny planters they have in various locations (Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, etc.) (handheld size) - an adorable porcelain Bulbasaur where the thing you plant will be sprouting from its back, or the 3d printed more blocky Bulbasaur (same plant position) and Oddish (out of its head)

I'd be more inclined to believe your comment then the hashtags. Marble, especially the size required for this sculpture, is heavy, hard to mine (a solid piece this large) and immensely hard and expensive to move. The time involved to sculpt it would not be valued at zero, so he may not have been thrilled with the material but it's not like he was all "Oh no, woe is me to have this million dollar (or whatever the equivalent for the time period was) slab of marble delivered to me, whatever shall I do?"

...What the post is about (a nonvaccinated child bringing back measles and spreading) is probably referring to, as typically happens, is the antivaxxers live in a community of antivaxxers and so the measles spreads easily among them. "Larsmo is... some 5,000 people, many of them members of fundamentalist religious communities. The child who fell ill ... visited a prayer room where other unvaccinated children were present before being diagnosed.
...epidemics were common in Finland..breaking out every 5-7 years, but the illness has been virtually eliminated in the country since 1970. [People born before 1970, have a > likelihood of having had or being exposed to measles, and thus having natural protection against contracting the illness again]
...a resurgence of the virus in EU. The WHO says that a record 41,000 people were infected in the 1st 1/2 of the year, w/ 37 deaths... up from just over 5,000 cases just two years ago. The WHO attributes the explosion to lower numbers of people."

...If you were hurt due to some rare thing from vaccinations Guillain-Barre, anaphylaxis, a simultaneous illness, or some other complication/side effect, sorry, but in general the larger population is more important, and by having the ~90% needed for herd immunity to protect the 10% who can't have the vaccines from other vaccine available viruses in the world. The antivaxxers who go along with it because they're uninformed and it's trendy in their groups, are the people provaxxers think are idiots, not those with legit reasons not to receive vaccines. If approved by a doctor, children do get DTaP at 2, 4, 6, 15-18mo, 4-6yr, then Tdap at 11-12yr & every pregnancy; MMR at 12-15mo (quick immunization schedule check). Some vaccines take multiple injections to be what is considered fully protected; if some no-reason-but-ignorance parent allows their infected child near others before those ages they are potentially, willingly, harming the ones just waiting to age in from preventable harm.

Some vaccines can't be given because kids too young & are at risk. Some people have their immune systems compromised (like chemotherapy destroying bone marrow so can't produce enough white blood cells to fight off the disease, or they are simply ill/injured from other things and it's easier for the virus to infect them). Some, very few, people legitimately cannot receive vaccines due to allergies to ingredients. Some viruses mutate in the child which then can then infect those who would have been able to resist the original virus. Provaxxers aren't saying there are 0 people who have serious negative reactions, they're saying those idiot parents insisting that vaccines cause autism and cancer, or are some conspiracy, because they've only lived in the communities where there are high vaccine rates & haven't seen the preventable damage/death that the diseases that can be vaccinated against can cause (polio - paralysis, smallpox - disfigurement, etc. brain swelling, blindness, deafness)..

A coworker used to work on the legal cases that dealt with disgusting sick people like this guy. It's not just an attraction thing, it's a power thing (yes, I know it both are horrible). If you chemically castrate it doesn't stop the abuse, they just use fingers and foreign objects. Chemically or physically castrating won't solve the issue as nice as the fantasy that it would is imagined to be.

Yes, but it's not a remake of an animated film into a cg/real life monstrosity.
We 100% have not needed those remakes of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland x2, Jungle Book, Pete's Dragon though that was already a mix of real life and animation like Bedknobs and Broomsticks and such were back in the day, Aladdin, Lion King, Mulan, Pinocchio, Snow White, et al.
They've been burned trying out new things rather than remakes of animations (John Carter, Mars Needs Moms), and the quasi-sequals & prequils are iffy (Christopher Robin, Mary Poppins Returns, Brooklyn Family Robinson, Solo), and who knows how many more they'll continue on with the "villians/alt side" (Maleficent x2, Cruella, Rose Red). But
These people own the entire Disney franchise, Marvel, 21st Century Fox, Lucasfilm, ESPN, A&E, ABC, Buena Vista. If anyone could take a risk on a bit of original content (with reduced$) it's them, instead they do big budget remakes trying to con on people's nostalgia.

Incorrect. They do not have racalcitrant seeds (mostly tropical - avacado, mango, mangosteen, cocoa, etc) as they cannot survive drying or freezing temperatures.
Bananas do have seeds, the most common commercial bananas do not have viable seeds as they are clones of the species that have been bred until the seed (in those the tiny brown/black flecks) is useless, much like seedless watermelon have been bred to have the fruit ripen while the seed is undeveloped. Potatoes do have seeds, the flowers can set fruit which produce seed pods, but commercially they are grown from portions of the tubers.

Honestly try contacting the FBI, (fbi.gov/contact-us) child exploitation is in their scope. There is a tips and public leads link off of that site. Unlike local government/police they can work across state lines (not needing to know the location of the person posting, nor needing to know where the crime occurred).

Costco rotisserie chickens are at minimum 3lbs, 20 McNuggets are nowhere near that, go for the Costco!

...Seriously? I understand it's a common american pie-esque joke but in the best part of summer for watermelons being on sale they're $5-6, any other time they're a few dollars more. Going with the cheap season, if you're going to fantasize about bruising yourself against the hard rind of fruit for however watermelon would feel on your parts (not a guy but it just doesn't seem like an appealing texture) splurge the extra change ($6.50) and get any one of the Tenga Eggs, something designed for exactly that, lubricant included.

Because it's more secure than email, and faster than hand delivery (in most cases).
Don't get me wrong, I hate facsimile for it's lack of ease, but if you need to send something secure, in a way that can't potentially be hacked (medical info, documentation with PII/identification cards, sealed/private contracts) then faxing it is one of the best ways to do it.

Likely with a very strong proof alcohol ;)

To be fair, the store bought fruit salad usually has the abomination that is crunchy, mostly-flavorless, unripe (if you're lucky it's just under-ripe) honeydew and cantaloupe (and sometimes watermelon) that are mixed in as weight/space adding filler instead of more expensive berries.
If you buy your own and get one that smells ripe/sweet (if it doesn't have a scent don't even bother with it) and is a more yellow/orange in it's rind they are wonderful. Too many people just assume if it's in the store it's going to be ripe.

bah, just now noticing I did "you're" because I was going to put "you're held in contempt of court" and then switched it to what should have been "your." Guest so I can't edit it, but I know the difference :/

You don't testify and you're butt gets contempt of court jail and/or fines.

If you look on the FDA site for their article "Raw Dough's a Raw Deal and Could Make You Sick" from last year there are more details including:
"Flour, regardless of the brand, can contain bacteria that cause disease. In 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local officials, investigated an outbreak of infections that illustrated the dangers of eating raw dough. Dozens of people across the country were sickened by a strain of bacteria called Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O121 ... And don’t make homemade cookie dough ice cream either. If that’s your favorite flavor, buy commercially made products. Manufacturers should use ingredients that include treated flour and pasteurized eggs."

Actually, at least in the US, it's the raw wheat (flour), not the raw eggs that tends to be the bigger problem in having bacteria that will cause sickness when eating raw cookie dough.

If you go with any character showing up in Marvel comics as ok to put in the tattoo letters, then with the DC vs Marvel crossover that happened in the 90's then you could say they're both correct.

It's fake. To have popcorn that pops it needs to first dry (the stalks are dry and brown like straw when it's harvested in Autumn), that corn in the picture is not dry, the kernels are still plump and pressed tight against each other, then cook very hot so fast that the scant bit of moisture left inside boils making it essentially explode inside out. This is just an ear of corn with some popcorn glued on.

Agreed, I have bad eyesight, and quite often tell them it's the same, but also if you have an "O" to look at, or a "P", it helps to look at the round parts, how those change shape slightly (Squishing/stretching/which looks most circular), pick the one that looks better for you and just say "They're basically equal good/badness but I like # a little more."

Yes, it's the judge by the spot method that is easiest to use (even the people who knock on them for hollowness can use this then their method to their preference), the more yellow it is the longer it ripened on the vine. Once they are picked they do not ripen any more so if it didn't ripen you get that bleh lack of flavor. It makes it really easy to see which are the best in a big container of watermelons.
Caveat - if the watermelon is soft don't pick it regardless of the yellow "sugar spot" the only thing worse than a flavorless watermelon is a mealy and rotting one.

Or Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction did quite well with this.

Likely a textbook warehouse for the local school district getting rid of old (outdated or physical vs the ever increasing trend of digital only) textbooks. There just isn't the space to hold on to everything.

A country's worth is not measured by the way they treat their women.
A country's "worth" is measured by their assets and debts, if you're going to generalize like that try for something like a country's people are measured by how they treat those in need of help" or "children/elderly/disabled/animals" or "those they disagree with. In India, and I assume Bangladeshi's caste system is the same since they share a border, if you think anywhere else is whatever-ist/-isms (race, sex, whatever) then oh my goodness you should see the casteism/prejudice against other castes, you won't be praising the country for one instance of students being protective.
If you see someone protecting women of their community/country but also making any random person's life hell you wouldn't think they were a good person or a person of value.

Well not only that but also the sort of sippy cup lid they made in order to "not need" straws takes more plastic than the regular lid. It's just the PR trend of the day.