No, I'm honest. Even if I read them phonetically, the two sentences sound extremely different to me. But I'm French, so I can actually pronounce "bon appetit" with a proper accent.

Glad to see you're equating the two.

I was hired in June, three weeks before everyone in the lab wanted to go on vacation. Furthermore, I had been working for five years in the lab next door with no vacations at all during the last three years. I took my days off just after being hired, nobody complained.

Wow. I would never have guessed that. ô_O

I downvoted it for its vomitous spelling.

Fair enough. I guess I'm too used to doing this kind of stuff. Not everybody has a drill at home, or double-sided tape to stick LEDs somewhere. I would also have considered that kind of mod a major project twenty years ago.

Source? I'm not saying you are wrong, and I would assume that most tortoises are unable to swim. Even if they could stay afloat for a while there is no guarantee they could get to safety. I guess it depends on the definition of swim. For some definitions, no human can swim either (can't hold our breath for one hour and dive 200 meters).
Do you happen to know which tortoises can sort-of kinda swim in emergency?

Yeah, I can understand where it comes from, even though I think it's over-reacting. Something similarly silly happened to my girlfriend the other day. She's a natural blond and dyes her hair orange, she could pass for a natural redhead. Someone wrote to her (actual quote): "it looks dyed and makes a mockery of those who are born unfairly with that color". Seriously. Apparently, for this social justice warrior, redheads are handicapped and need defending, therefore dying your hair is insulting.

I live in the Netherlands. I'm talking about the highway between LAX and Los Angeles. No clue how it's called.

Thank you. Stagnation is scary as hell. One of the worst things someone can tell me is "you haven't changed".

Which isn't a requirement for "gangsta". Screw gangsta 'culture'.

When some people "joke" a hundred percent of the time, maybe they're actually not joking.

Well, that's correct, isn't it? Few humans reach puberty before being born.

And I modified my shelves by putting books on them. OK.

"amateur". Both phones and computers come with spell-checking software.

Asphalt vs rubber has a very high friction coefficient, it keeps your car on the road. Replace asphalt with random crap and enjoy the fun.

It uses rain water that is collected by rain water drains. Civilized countries have two sewer systems, one for rain and one for the dirty water. Rain water is easily cleaned and recycled.

What bothered the most about highways in California is that they're built out of discrete concrete slabs that don't join smoothly. Want to read a book or look at your phone? Lolno, infinite vibrations. Why not use asphalt? Can't we make asphalt that remains solid at Californian temperatures?