GAB104

I think that was a great response by your friend. First, a $10 million head start is nothing to sneeze at. Second, getting too much money just handed to you decreases your motivation to actually use your talents and your (probably) expensive and excellent education. Which is a loss to all of us. So I'm glad your friend is working and contributing, and even understanding that this is what life is about. Hooray!

I don't know if this pertains to what you do, but it's a question about the food industry.

When we lived in the UK, all the frozen oven fries contained nothing but potatoes, salt, and oil. It's all you need, really. Here in the US, you CANNOT get frozen oven fries without some additives, generally preservatives and coloring, besides that. Even organic oven fries have apple juice concentrate added for color.

I thought the baking was supposed to make the fries brown? And the darn things are frozen, why do you need preservatives? Even if you don't believe they are unhealthy, the additives cost something; why not just leave them out?

This is true across the board; oven fries are just my example. Why so many additives in American food when, as the European food supply proves, they are not necessary and are just an added expense?

Texas doesn't want to secede. We want to make jokes about it. But except for a small number who live in the mountains and write manifestos, Texans are very patriotic Americans.

There ought to be a crime called academic extortion or some such. That's what this sounds like. If you don't have to take this teacher again, go to your university's governing board about him.

Yesterday, u/TalesOf1994 posted in r/CasualConversation that s/he wants to treat mental illness in Africa. https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/comments/3dy2tx/what_is_your_dream_job/

Can you help out u/TalesOf1994?