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You don't get kids from the asshole...

And depending on where you are the biological parents may be able to reclaim them at some point. My sister looked into it in my country and determined that they never really became your children, you were just taking care of them until they either grew up or their parents came back for them. I can't imagine taking care of a child for years, treating it like your own, and then a stranger just coming and taking it back (and possibly taking it into a terrible environment).

All the adopted kids I grew up with were adopted from overseas and now I understand why.

I assume they want the states to have full autonomy over their education for starters. RIP kids in the south, they'll never even be taught how badly they've been screwed.

He won't say that - he's incapable of telling the truth.

My phone has been on DnD for over a year now. I have a (cheap) smart watch which vibrates on certain alerts like message, calendar, and phone and I can quickly glance and see that it's something I don't care about. I also ignore the calls from numbers not in my contacts if I notice them. In the time I've been doing this I don't think a single person has left a message on my voicemail - validating my actions.

Humanity is a shithole. Social media is a cross-section.

The article doesn't say, but were the cars perhaps illegally parked blocking the safe cycle path? Both sides of Sylvan road have no standing periods to account for bicycle commuters.

The world of selling is caustic. You literally have to be an arsehole to succeed.

Odds on the vacant home having a development application in the works?

It says that the fire originated in one of the occupied houses. You'd have to be pretty dedicated to burn down an inhabited house to get around a DA blocker.

Fuck the Olympics. This stinks of a way to sterilise the city of anything that isn't new, shiny, plasticky, shit. Let them stay.

Don't be sad, you got to see what he really is. He lived on the hard work of those before him, and fortunate (for him) events during his time in power. As it turns out he's an asshat who got lucky.

He got to the finals by letting people in front of him fall as well. Not disrespecting him though, he was coming back from a huge injury and knew he didn't have the raw speed to beat the best, but he was smart enough to put himself in the right place - twice. The race isn't finished until you cross the line.