It really does increase the number of people that flirt with you, because it’s “safe” to flirt with you.

I took mine off recently and there’s this air of “Oh you’re single, nevermind.”

De facto decriminalization. Coming to a trafficker near you (like, really near you - probably in a hotel within 5 minutes of your house)

It will not let you use basic turns of phrase. Like “turn of phrase” will get autocorrected to something else. And then you have to go back and be like, no, let me type that again so you understand, phone. All the time

4 upvotes, no downvotes, removed by mod and banned. Huh.

I have a ton of people around me that do it, and yep, they’re mostly renters who talk about wanting to own but it being unaffordable (we’re in a LCOL state), can’t do things with their friends because they’re broke. I’m not cheap by nature but paying delivery fees to avoid a 10 minute round trip, that would do me good because I’d be out and active for a second - just no. Then I start thinking about how much I really don’t need to drive to severely overpay for low quality food that’ll harm most parts of my body, and I usually cook something instead out of relatively whole foods which costs 3/4 as much and won’t leave me feeling guilt.

Yep. Add to that, they give things short lifespans these days - for instance with cars, many of the cuffs and pumps and moving parts are now plastic because they assume car = 10 years. So the internal quality has gone downhill, it’s cheaper than ever to manufacture new, but taking a 10 year old car and replacing every plastic part with another plastic part that will also fail would cost a small fortune… just buy a new car. They very much assume you’ll be landfilling and rebuying in no time. Reparability went away when we became a disposable society.

We don’t do public health here anymore. Soon RFK will advise babies drink energy drinks.

Just like it says on the tin.

I felt like he started in the tradition of Mr. Wizard, who himself was a teacher who didn’t know the intricacies of every science, but knew how to put together a fantastic and accurate demonstration.

But I think Nye is doing talk shows and shit now, which Mr. Wizard, I don’t think, would have tried to sell himself the same way. He really sold education.

I got banned from the r-place for saying something like this.

Carry on.

Hopefully not her only copy, looks at Green Day

Fox News still got 'em convinced they’re cutting kids dicks off, no amount of suffering on their block will overcome the imaginary fears haunting them at night.

That actually made me want it a little, thank you

And the Barbie actually functions as an insulin pump for overnight trips.

Twice this year, it’s a him but yes. They make borderline in boys too.

America doesn’t do free market capitalism it does late stage capitalism, where profits do in fact need to be record high every quarter, even if that means people are gonna die (like 10m people becoming uninsured, plus us borrowing a bunch of money from China, so we can give more to the billionaires that own us and don’t need it).

Is there anything that shows that connection and I could be giving my friends who still eat there?

Public health - for every $3 you spend on infectious disease prevention, you save $100 - HIV but also so many diseases that are beginning to run rampant again. We have thrown away one of the greatest achievements of mankind in history.

Last year on the 4th, I was walking home from the big fireworks show, and I saw a teenager on a scooter, who was briefly crouching down and not being safe. But he came up beside a lady and surprised her, and she swatted at him and tried to push him over, which would have crashed him into several people walking. More than just a startle response, and the kid stopped, looked back, angry - but he was a black teenager and there’s this white lady and her beefy white boyfriend/husband staring him back, so he turns and disappears back into the crowd.

And I’m instantly furious.

“That’s assault,” I told her.

“Mind your own fucking business” she says. Several other people are watching.

Thankfully my husband and her husband pulled us in different directions and the crowd separated us.

But I was so fucking angry, and that lady looked like she had started a fight or three in her life. Her boyfriend looked like he wasn’t happy to be there in that moment.

So yes, but it has to be something serious.

Also quit smoking, vaping, anything with nicotine, which causes your discs to degrade faster.

I have degenerative disc disease at 42, I’m looking at multiple fusions.