You realize people still live their lives at 2am. People are working, shopping, doing all the stuff 24 hours a day.

It looks like a security intercom/camera with bees attached.

Man you’d be suprised the directions kids veer off, especially when raised in a monotone culture that provides no room for wonder and curiosity. It’s almost like parents can’t actually control what their adult children believe.

Oh I can do that, this woman sits in her chair all day watching right wing youtube and complaining about her failing health. God forbid she take a walk or get a hobby!

If you look at effective voter manipulation strategies ie the cambridge analytica scandal, they object is not to rationally or irrationally persuade voters to change sides. The object is to sucessfully discourage the “other” side from voting. Making it seem pointless, “both sides are bad” and so on.

Your in-laws not voting is probably the best possible outcome. If they voted for Trump repeatedly they’re not going to magically develop respect for the life, liberty, and happiness of others.

Whoa I didn’t know the answer, I’m dead wrong. Months are 30 days so months average 4.3 weeks. So 40 weeks IS closer to 9 than 10 months. Mind blown.

40 weeks is 10 months.

Yeah step 6 is the mind flayer.

I often reflect on the role it filled for mental health before the advent of science, psychology, and neuropsychiatry.

I was raised in a very opressive sect of protestantism, where I was instructed to pray and meditate. I find it analogus to visualisation and self reflection. I learned silence and meditation, I was put in situations where sitting silent by the hour listening to empty droning speech was my only recourse. My first awareness of the concept of mental illness was from bible stories of those people being healed implying their condition was not inherent to them, they were innocent.

The act of singing together about our beliefs and feelings has always seemed like a powerful thing that has vanished from our society, except at baseball games.

South Park never forgets

I don’t know what is considered a lib anymore but my answer is let’s have more than 2 parties. Reform electoral law, get rid of first past the post. Raked choice voting.

Speak for yourself. When I quit vaping my entire neck and shoulders locked up in a painful cramp and I spoke in a shout for weeeks. It did not. Go. Away until the day I chewed nicotine gum. Which was a MONTH after I put down the vapes. I swear if I get my hands on that alan carr I’m going to throttle him for his cold turkey bullshit.

Fucking jackboots?

I don’t feel guilty about looking at reddit now and then, but I do it through browser and I will NEVER contribute content or moderation, ever again. Fuck them. I used redact, deleted all my shit. Site is 90% dead internet trash 10% humans who haven’t been banned yet for saying a bad word.

Clear aloe gel from the drugstore. Not the aftersun with “cooling” medicine for sunburn, you’ve been warned.

Just the plain clear stuff. Prevents ingrown hairs and makes it all sterile and not inflamed. Good slippage when dry too. You’ll be sticky for about 5 minutes while it sets.

Slithered all over middle earth starving and eating dead things to bite off Frodo Baggin’s finger? Is this a trick question?

I downvoted you because I’m prejudiced against your kind.

“not torturing children”

He is ready to welcome your hairless kitten.

P.s. I have to cover my guest bed with a sacrificial sheet until company comes, I have a dog who likes to keep it ready as well.

I suppose if you are just thinking about things like cost of formula, diapers, clothes, education. In terms of time spent, children take less and less one on one time as each year passes. They have a finite timeline of required care.

The elderly become less and less independant, the care they require becomes more and more medical in nature, and there is no timeline. Someone with dementia can require around the clock medical care for decades.