The meeting took three hours, but it felt like two months, nine hours and forty-six minutes. Meanwhile, Dina and the children went exploring the neighborhood.

Probably.

Why is it okay for people to celebrate the death of someone they disagreed with politically?

Again!

I am not familiar with Tolstoy. Can you elaborate?

Just because the people representing a fact, idea or opinion are behaving badly, doesn't mean that they are completely wrong. Beliefs should be based on perceived truth, not on the character of their proponents.

There are monopolies. There are externalities. There is information asymmetry. Why do some people want to pretend that the perfect free market exists in real life?

I'm hearing a lot of "but they always make the 'it was just a joke excuse'", but I think it is kind of relevant that in this case, it is factually true.

It is, however, actually offensive that he said "awoman" instead of "awomen".

I mean literally, it is an actual joke. In this case, it might not have been, but it has been told as a joke for a long time. (The most popular variation is "Why amen and not awomen? Because it comes at the end of a hymn, not a her.")

New York's entire identity is composed of performative New Yorkness.

There isn't any difference in denotation. Is there a difference in connotation?

I don't mean to sound accusative,
But NutraSweet is non-nutritive.

I never lose my keys because I keep them attached to the top of my keyboard where they belong!

It sounds fun. (I'd sell it, of course, but not for profit.)

Yaakov and Dina were getting ready to deplane when Yaakov got an urgent text message. It was from work. There was an emergency remote meeting. He was annoyed, but at least he had cut back his hours to 11 AM to 3 PM on Mondays. This was likely to be the only exception. The problem: his laptop was at ...

They do. May you never know of such things.

Saying things like "May you remain ignorant on this subject" is an insult even if it would be a genuine bracha not to know about the subject.

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He thinks so. I do not.