The protagonist of this book forgave his terrible family far too easily

[conuly]

I mean, look. You're sending your kid to pre-military magical training camp, and he comes back and says that he was tortured in a top secret experimental program, and the only explanation you'll consider is that he's trying to get attention, you'd obviously know if the camp had a top secret experimental program? (Nevermind that context makes clear that the rest of the camp is also abusive, generations of his family has gone there so now they all believe it isn't when it obviously is.) And you won't even ask yourself why he's suddenly trying to get so much attention with such grotesque lies, or if maybe you should be worried about his weight loss every summer and his behavioral changes? Even if you don't believe him, why are you still sending him to camp!? "Oh, well, now that we saw the secret records we believe you and are appalled by our behavior!" Yeah, I bet, but showing up at his door uninvited and unannounced? Jesus. That familial ambush could've been an email.

Those people do not deserve this easy forgiveness.

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In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon (Weird sort of "joke")

Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom

The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.

Sinkholes cost almost as much as tornadoes in annual damage. The problem is only going to get worse.

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[armiphlage]

In Canada, the banks collected and returned them just like old or damaged paper bank notes, and they were melted down for scrap metal.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all-you-need-to-know-1.1174547

[conuly]

Yes, well, we're not doing that here!