We’re hardly even three months in… We’ve got a loooong way to go before even the midterms.

Unlike Amazon and all the other giant tech corporations?

I just go directly to the company’s website and go from there. Usually it’s the same price, on rare occasions it’s a few dollars more but to me it’s worth it not to do business with Amazon. I’ve passed up on buying things entirely because they were only available on Amazon.

In fact, over the last couple years I’ve been transitioning from buying online to buying from small-business brick and mortar stores. Sure it’s less convenient but it’s also less wasteful, it keeps resources within my local economy and I’m buying a lot less junk that I don’t really need.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense on phones. But for whatever reason the disconnect between the trackpad and laptop screen really screws with my brain. It’s like if you tried to drag the scrollbar and it went in the opposite direction you’re dragging it.

“Natural scrolling” or whatever it’s called with track pads on laptops where the scroll goes the opposite way your fingers are moving. I don’t know why that’s the default, it makes no sense.

I hope it’s not retroactive because I’d probably be fucked by the countless terms and conditions I’ve mindlessly accepted.

Her parents sound like dick heads. You’re 22 and you already run your own successful business? Ignore the elitist dick heads and carry on with what you’re doing. It sounds like you’re doing great!

I think more often than not people default to monogamy because that is the only moral framework in which our society generally finds intimate relationships acceptable. As a result of monogamy’s monopoly on intimate relationship structures, possessiveness and extreme jealousy in response to threats of non-monogamy are normalized and are almost considered a virtue depending on the context.

I think that what you’re describing is not conducive to monogamy but rather secure and trusting relationships in general. I think many people tend to assume that quality exists within monogamous relationships whereas they assume non-monogamous relationships to be more frivolous.

Would you expect an unwanted pregnancy to be handled inherently better simply because the relationship of the parents is monogamous. I would think that’s entirely up to the strength of the relationship and the maturity and means of the people involved, regardless of orientation.

Similarly with communicable diseases, I don’t think non-monogamous people are any less capable of practicing safe sex with people that they trust. Of course, it would make intuitive sense that the more people you’re exposed to the higher your chances are of contacting something but in reality there is no significant difference in the rates of contacting a disease between monogamous and non-monogamous people.

I’m not saying monogamy is amoral, only that I argue with the general belief that it is the moral standard for intimate relationships.

Kind of the opposite but I think monogamy is not tied to morality like our society makes it out to be and more often than not is a crutch for people with issues around extreme jealousy, interpersonal insecurities and possessiveness.

You have the freedom to choose God or face an eternity of unimaginable suffering.

I’m not sure I want to know…

Significantly populated areas of the developed world are going to be deemed inhospitable due to climate change

I’ve had plenty of really good craft beer but anything mass produced is fine at best and gutter water at worst.

Zero. I used to have a fried egg for lunch every day but many years ago something switched in my brain and now the flavor of them really puts me off.

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