Given that large areas of the world do not see breasts as sexual, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that breasts are erogenous because our society has said that they are, rather than any innate characteristic.

When I lived in Africa, women and girls had no problem exposing their breasts, but would go to great length to keep their thighs covered.

For me, The Black Panther lost my interest when a super advanced, technologically-driven state decided that the best way to choose a ruler was to have two guys punch and kick each other.

That’s why you end up with an army that is too powerful for anyone civilian to resist.

Funnily enough, the two ladies in kimonos were probably tourists too, although maybe domestic ones. It’s a common thing in Kyoto to pay to get dressed up in traditional garb and tour the sights.

You were right, I am seeing batteries between about $25 and $60 (Canadian) on Amazon. I’m pretty sure that the last time I looked for one, which was, granted, about 10 years ago, the one I needed was significantly more expensive.

That’s really good to know.

One of the problems with used laptops is that batteries degrade over time. If it has been heavily used, you might only get an hour or two out of it.

You can buy replacement batteries for many laptops that would solve this problem, but they are often $100 or more. Still, it may be worthwhile for you.

The best language learning system I’ve ever used is called Language Transfer, and it’s completely free (supported by donations).

It focuses on getting you to use constructs and patterns that you already know in your own language and transferring those to the new language. That way you start off with a good vocabulary and basic grammar.

They have Spanish, as well as German, French, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili.

There is also an app, which is plain but extremely usable.

Even more irritating is when they give you the option to opt out, but you have to select every company individually. So you either give up on the article or let them steal your life.

About 7 years ago we had some very expensive consultants, hired by clueless management, do a presentation to our marketing team.

When that consultants declared that, “we see the future of the web centered on blockchain”, the two of us who were developers shared a mystified and slightly horrified look.

Fortunately, the consultants went away after extracting their $200k and providing our director with some glossy reports. They did have a few useful suggestions that we implemented, but on the whole they were never mentioned again.