My wife loves putting all the produce in plastic bags at the store. It has to do with contamination, especially keeping it from touching the conveyer. What solutions would you recommend to avoid these one-time use bags?

This was originally in the DOGE plan. What took so long to process? I’ve been watching for news on this catastrophic decision.

Bullshit! I found evidence of their proliferation in my cupboard and behind the bed.

If subtitles are on I may as well be deaf because I’m no longer watching with those damn words getting in the way. That’s what books are for.

That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.

My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.

Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.

That’s a good point. I haven’t used drafting software in a long time, but that shows this imagery is a practiced skill rather than an innate ability.

That looks like a healthy cry. She will go through much self reflection and come about as a better person.

Nope! She has spent her life with a religious as her backbone and now will seek it as a crutch with greater desparation. Trauma…survival mode…etc…

Teachers are generally quite adaptable. We have asjustes for AI in our classrooms. We have adjuated to not teaching up to standards because we would be fined by our states for pushing some imaginary agenda. We have changed our entire curriculum the week before classes start because the County curriculum specialist had a bright idea.

The reality is that we have to navigate arbitrary law, we have to not do what’s best for our classroom and teaching style because someone who hardly spent any time in a classroom thinks they know better. We have to do all this while being blamed for the behavior of students when their parents block the school phone numbers.

You, for being such a whiny little bitch of a sore loser.

We would make it too complicated. Almost all animals are in survival mode. Some that have free time could understand limited concepts. It would be easier to setup commerce with some corvids for example but not to keep them out of the corn fields. Dogs would have a lot more anxiety and cats wouldn’t change much.

Not to give the argument credibility, but there are women who do that. I knew one and heard about another.

Confirmation bias is too strong for everyone to resist. They often don’t even need a single varifiable source.

Okay, so, I completed this impossible task. Now, how do I get coffee into my cup?

The internet was so full of life and learning.

I would read this series. I can’t wait until he throws his mouse out to fight a snakE. Or when he tries to keep a snapping turtle in his pocket.

The “none pizza, left beef” story got me pretty good when it origionally posted.

I think what you are calling toys are what I would call addictions. They can get innovative with finding ways to access those addictions, but really they just want that mind numbing, repetative flashing lights and noises. Anything to shut down and avoid thinking, like a bunch of zombies.

Sorry. That’s just the rant of a 7th grade teacher.

Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.

I don’t understand your explanation of your habit. It comes off as you don’t like vegetables and are choking them down to get to what you like. Is that a correct interpretation? My wife just made the best dinner and all three items were green vegetables.

The sun is a fiery, life-giving snail that is creeps across the pale blue outer shell of the great mother snail we live upon.

How can you possibly pet all the goats? Google AI helped me calculate that there are over a billion goats in the world and nearly 2 million new goats born every day.

edit: You’d have to pet 1.7 million goats per day to finish in 1 year. this doesn’t seem to add up. sorry. I tried. it’s not possible is all I’m saying. But if you could, Baphomet would probably find you.