It takes a village to raise a child, not a “mother” and “father” specifically. I do not idolize the hetero nuclear family.

Better that only you know than everybody knows but nobody wants to talk about it. Communal shame is terrifying. Here’s an excerpt from the story Guts.

This friend of mine, he waits months under a black cloud, waiting for his folks to confront him. And they never do. Ever. Even now he’s grown up, that invisible carrot hangs over every Christmas dinner, every birthday party. Every Easter egg hunt with his kids, his parents’ grandkids, that ghost carrot is hovering over all of them.

I’ve never had a cell phone in a dream but I’ve dreamed about other pieces of technology like video games. Though in my dreams if I interact with something like a video game there is no abstract medium like a peripheral and screen through which I’m interacting, it’s like I’m transported into the game whether it is first person or third person.

I have read many things just fine in my dreams, never had a cell phone though.

Bread or cracker with peanut butter, mayo, and mustard (the ground seedy kind).

Catalyst

This doesn’t actually apply on a federal level in the US. Taxes don’t pay for government services, taxes are basically a measure to control inflation.

Yes, some people being pushy and judgemental is the real travesty. Not animals having their autonomy and lives taken. I didn’t realize we were supposed to coddle people who we see partaking in grave abuses.

People also continue to benefit from the work of slaves in the past and even present. What’s your point? Do you think slavery is ethical? Is someone choosing to avoid products created from slave labour not a more ethical choice?

I became a vegan at a time in my life where I was close to being homeless. It might be hard for some people to switch to a plan based diet (veganism is more than a diet) depending on their access to a grocery store or food bank or people who can’t choose what they consume such as children, but it is definitely not a luxury.

Can - Live in Paris

I was quite fond of Altoids sours and cherry vanilla coke. Though I don’t miss the latter much because I’m not much of a soda drinker anymore and those mix in fountain drink dispensers exist now. Still a fiend for mints though.

I have some spray on leave in conditioner that just applies a thin mist of oils that you message into the mids and ends of your hair (I have long hair). It would probably work for short hair as well just instead of rubbing you’d comb it through.

What percent of Americans died in the 9/11 attacks? How many 9/11s is this?

Seems to be working now. Only issue I have with it is it isn’t quite obvious when a post is considered scrolled past. Seems you have to scroll 1-2 posts beyond a post being completely off your screen. But at least things are getting hidden now.

Seems to be working now. Only issue I have with it is it isn’t quite obvious when a post is considered scrolled past. Seems you have to scroll 1-2 posts beyond a post being completely off your screen. But at least things are getting hidden now.

https://youtu.be/e1ejN6hlfsM?si=n7FL2yKSDQCrZ9aa

Never judge a book by its cover.

Cattle can get both listeria and salmonella, which are human pathogens.

A 90% figure that is pulled out of your ass sounds a lot less compelling when billions of animals are slaughtered for food each year. How many is too many? And the killing isn’t even the worst part.

I go old school and rock a pocket watch (my cellphone).