CandleTiger

No. “Much worse” and “more of the same” are different from each other.

People do need to keep that in mind.

15 years ago I bought a beautiful stone-topped wooden table from them that was cheap enough to not feel bad drilling a hole in it and turning it into a sink stand for my bathroom.

It was great.

You can thank me for keeping them in business.

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So I'm not the only one who doesn't understand the principle because I've never had one. Uff... I felt a little stupid and very lonely.

Dude, they borrow your hoodies because they want to smell you. If you like the girl then let her wear you around. Giving them a decoy is a self-own.

What’s this about monopoly money?

Not really. The ocean is going to constantly move the loose sand on the beach around from place to place, which means, away from wherever it is right now.

Whoever builds devices to prevent new sand from coming into play, or devices to trap sand and key it from moving, will starve the downstream places that would normally receive that sand.

Yes. Say it out loud.

I am almost 50 years old and understood for the first time this month that the reason my wife doesn’t like going out alone to explore new places is fear of men and not fear of getting lost etc.

For mumble-mumble years it has never occurred to me to wonder about this

Preach on.

I went to the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, and of all the things that really struck me hard there (it was a lot) I think the biggest hit was realizing how fucking long it took between the start of mainstreaming the movement and women actually getting the vote. None of the women who started that movement lived long enough to cast their own vote.

There was no "women's black panthers". There was no threat of violence if women can't control their own lives. Everybody got to pretty much just stay comfortable with their nice order. And change did. not. happen. For years.

Maybe the slow pace was worth it, I don't know. I'm not a woman and I'm not much devoted to order. But it seems pretty clear that "avoid offending anybody" is not an effective tool for change.

Having your kids watch you lose your dignity is not going to make a good relationship.

They are very attuned to that sort of thing. If they watch one parent allow and invite the other to trample on them the kids will also lose respect.

Makes me think we’re getting to a point where cars will stop working in high-noise environments and troublemakers can set up car jammers to block cars from driving in an area

How do they know what it should cost?

Installing HVAC ducts in blistering hot attics is backbreaking work but people can be found to do that.

I wonder what those people get paid, and whether they have access to bathroom breaks, clean drinking water on the job, and a decent place to sleep at night?