Are you including checkin, security, bag drop/pickup, and getting to and from the airports? Didn't think so.

Even a stopped (analogue) clock is right twice a day.

Why is parent modded Off-Topic? It's spot-on.

The problem is that you do not have perfect knowledge, and neither do I.

Go watch The Century of the Self , and prepare to have your eyes opened.

To be fair, I wouldn't be much affected by the restriction, since I'm allergic to crustaceans.

Still, it's petty and mean-spirited and I hope SNAP users are able to hack around it in some way, just on GPs.

I just wish the taskbar weather widget actually displayed the temperature. I already know what city I'm in, thanks.

I suspected it was something like that.

Here in Sweden, like many if not most Swedish workers, I'm eligible for something called Rikskortet ("the national card"). It's a card that works like a credit or debit card that gets charged up with (in my case) about $250 (1600 SEK) every month. If you take the benefit, you're taxed on half the amount. You can use the card to make purchases of food and/or beverage at most places where plastic's accepted--café, McDonald's, grocery store, fancy restaurant--doesn't matter. No restrictions on what sorts of food or beverage that I'm aware of, either, other than that it can't be used to buy alcohol, which seems fair enough.

The longer I stay away, the more the US seems to be run by complete assholes.

Please provide some background or a link for your overseas friends. Cheers.

If and when you grow up, you'll learn that it's often more courageous *not* to strike back.

"People who bought Lea Thompson also bought..."

Mine says the same thing. Coincidence... or conspiracy?

You left out congee.

No, I don't think you're insane. I suspect that you, like me, have some realisation that the real truth of things is simpler than what most humans make it out to be. I used to consider myself a Deist before I outgrew the need to believe in a Supreme Being apart from Being.