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@spookykink57 for me, I didn't have "imaginary friends" so much as I had imaginary "ghosts" of my existing friends to keep me company when my friends couldn't be there. I'd say I saw my free time as an opportunity to make a story of my life, and a story needs characters, so I'd add some. I was a writer from a very young age, so that may explain my thought process. It would be kind of "hmm, I'm on a long car ride right now. That's not exciting. What is exciting is if I was playing make-believe with a friend! I'll pick So-and-so. I want to play make-believe that we're pirates, but there needs to be some conflict, so I'll have her want to make-believe that we should be space explorers. Actually, we'd probably come up with a better space explorer story than a pirate story, so I'll have her win the argument." I can't speak for everyone, but that's how I remember myself having imaginary friends.

Every time someone mentions this idea I'm reminded of Speaker for the Dead...

There are several shows/manga/books/games that involve anthropomorphic personifications of naval vessels (or military hardware in general, including naval vessels), almost exclusively as girls. Breast size may vary, but it's kind of the unwritten law of anime jokes now that everything is "big titty anime girl" because the anime/manga art style is where you're most likely to encounter the most ludicrous examples of comically large breasts.

You all sure it's not a sodium acetate solution?

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Single tap instead of multiple taps to say "hey". Also, clear signal instead of a thing that's awkward to try to phrase (it can be hard to put "I want attention" into conversational words). Also, the effort and time investment is part of the gift. Many homemade gifts would be easier to buy at a store but general society places more value on the homemade one because it took more time and effort from the gift giver.

(other guest here) I don't think it's so much being amazed that celebrities are kind than it is that celebrities are more likely than an average person to be a role model for many people, and if you want your message of "hey, be a good person like this guy!" to reach as many people as possible, you focus on people that already have an audience.
Although it may be what you suggested, that we like overturning the notion that power corrupts and makes famous people become jerks.

(Also, yeah, sorry I'm two years late. Guest comments are grouped by IP, and I was in a different state for two years and never tracked this comment back down to see if it had replies. Now I'm back home and can see it. I figure no one will see the reply this late, but hey, the Internet is an archive and I didn't want to leave a question unanswered or a story untold if I was in a position to add to it.)

It was a Code Lyoko fanfiction. I was frustrated by "mistakes" I perceived other fanfictions making, like introducing a new generation of characters or bringing back dead enemies and allies or changing the setting (I've grown and realized that those were good too, I just wasn't their intended audience) and decided to "do it right." It was an original flavor series continuation fic. (Which was fun when the eventual actual Season 5 ended up having some similar plot developments as the ones I'd hinted at.) I only finished a couple episodes and I made a mistake in formatting so the fanfiction was published as a gigantic wall of text with no chapters or even paragraph breaks, and it also needed a significant bit of editing (particularly to have a consistent tense and point of view), so I wouldn't consider it well-written, but I'm still proud of the ideas and feel like the resulting episodes I wrote achieved my goal of feeling like a natural continuation of the series.

Only lead I could find is a reddit comment suggesting it's in Indianapolis, Indiana. A Google street view search seems to confirm it. There's a fenced-off parking lot instead of that white building, but the buildings behind the white one are the same, the street has the same contours even down to that section of missing grass, and the chapel matches (although that's a common LDS chapel design). The intersection is W Market St and N White River Pkwy W Dr.

A problem similar to inflation. The money will hold its strength internationally because the amount hasn't changed, but businesses in the country may raise the price of goods and services because it's reasonable to expect that a population of millionaires can afford a price hike.
(Or maybe not. My friend's the economist, not me. I'm just guessing that if there were to be a problem, it would be this.)

Eh, I'll admit that I haven't traveled the world and met every single person, but in my personal experience with the people I've interacted with, the reaction to sex appeal advertising has been mostly negative. I haven't actually heard many opinions on breastfeeding. Although to be fair, I've seen way too many "sexy" obnoxious ads and only once ever seen someone breastfeeding, so that kinda makes sense.

One possible way (my personal experience), is he could have siblings and a shared family data plan.

He was introduced in the Star Wars Holiday Special. You should go watch that!
No, but seriously, he was actually introduced in that and it's canon. But you should never watch it. It's not even "so bad it's good," it's just bad.

The way it's been explained to me, people think they just write generic formulaic songs. That they do it just because they happen to get paid, not because they have a love of the art. And that somehow makes the music bad. I personally don't care, because the end result is songs I happen to like, and I think that they do actually put in a lot of effort and care in their songs, but hey, who am I to argue with the internet?