I definitely wouldn’t care about that personally, but I would just block anyone who is an issue.

Because you’re a member of a community that recognizes marriages as life long partnerships, and you want that person to be your lifelong partner. It sounds like you in fact don’t want that, so marriage doesn’t make sense for you.

I definitely have no interest in content where it’s just conservatives who want to pretend that it’s normal to hate people or whatever. I meant more like, fun memes, earth photography, local events, etc.

This is the best one, but it’s not a replacement. I feel the need to add threads/bluesky to have more “normal” content.

The meat and dairy industry basically are non-profits, in that they only survive because of government subsidies.

oatmeal, rice, beans, tomatoes, spices, broccoli. each of those foods is truly non-negotiable for me and without one life is not worth living. thanks.

it’s a play on the super bowl (American football championship). it airs every year right before the super bowl. animal shelters send a bunch of puppies to play on a mat with toys. the hosts act act like it’s a sports game, and the shelters get some free advertisement.

oh my god, she’s so fluffy I’m gonna die

A certain amount of wealth concentration is necessary to organize the production and distribution of goods efficiently and invest in research and development, but it’s the competition that drives people to strive for efficiency. Too much wealth concentration produces the opposite result where one person is able to make irrational and inefficient decisions, which negatively impacts everyone below them. See: Elon Musk. If was less wealthy, to the point where he couldn’t afford to fuck up, then he wouldn’t be able to screw over the people beneath him.

I hung up signs on the outside of my door reminding me to wash my hands when I got home and on the inside reminding me to wear a mask when I go out.

A billion dollars is one million $1000 dollars, right? So make a million month plan. $1000 for the next 1 million months. There you go. It is now more more manageable. If that’s too hard, try $500 for the next 2 million months.

A week is 7 days, right?

So make a 14 week plan. 4 hours for the next 14 weeks. There you go. It is now more manageable.

First date went well. It was kinda tough to make conversation but the kiss at the end was fun. Dunno if he’ll want to see me again but I’m willing to try.

I’m not sure in what world you think a desktop system is easier to use than “just push the button”.

Oh no bud. Teen years are horrible, then it gets better for the next 2-4 decades.

a cell phone. if it was a teen who actually needed to learn an operating system to be able to be employed later in life, ok get them a gaming laptop, but for a random old person who doesn’t care mobile is way more simple to use and less addicting.

Buildings have become significantly more expensive to build, so only rich people build them in planned formats to make as much money as possible. Back in the day, regular people could build their own properties or afford to renovate according to their taste.

The way this question was phrased made me think of res ipsa loquitur, which means “The thing speaks for itself”. The common case to teach it in torts classes is an old English case called Byrne v. Boadle. In it, a flour barrel somehow fell out of a window, rolled down the street, and hit Byrne. We have no idea HOW Boadle was so negligent that a flour barrel fell out of a window, but the flour barrel rolling down the street clearly proves that they did something really careless.

The same thing actually happened in Colonial Vietnam with the French and rats.

We do have multiple brilliant epidemiologists who give good health advice. You just need to understand who a credible source is and what people are trained to do. Eg. your typical medical doctor only receives 3 credit hours in nutrition. It’s almost never their speciality. Just like you wouldn’t trust an eye doctor to do surgery on your heart, you shouldn’t trust a heart doctor to be intimately familiar with nutrition epidemiology.