Yep. Any external noise can be a big distractor.

Now make that noise repetitive, or something like the sound of someone eating, and it can send you though the roof.

Both Paxton and Rodriguez were the highlights of the rest of the cast. Paxton is the guy showing us how we ought to feel, that this is indeed terrifying and fucked up. “Game over man!” is definitely one of the most memorable lines from the film, but a film having two absolutely badass women in Ripley and Vasquez that stood out because they were badasses, and not because they were specifically planted as women to have women be badasses, was great writing - probably thanks to the script being written for “unisex” characters.

Save the magnets, lol.

Basic needs only? Still work so I can have money to do more than just basic things.

Wasn’t it new in the ‘70s? Some papers put it as officially recognized (in the US at least) in the ‘60s. I’m not sure when medicines became available for it though.

Processed unhealthy foods are generally viewed as the items that have been stripped down in to some degree and then reassembled with ingredients like sugar, preservatives, flavors, dyes, stabilizers, etc.

Many studies have shown that yes, indeed, there are processed foods that are inherently unhealthy. We don’t need to play with semantics of what “processed” means to split hairs in an effort to be right.

Even with the points of the teeth to plot he’d have to be offroad or on private property to set the pointd.

Because the gun nuts are on the “same side” as the fascists.

They’re just too stupid to understand that the fascists will come to take their guns eventually. They never want anyone to be able to challenge their power.

That’s 1375.

Not good, not bad. Depends on where you ended up on the globe. There absolutely is civilization, but it’s all kings and Tsars and the like. The English and French Hundred Years War is winding down but the plague really did a number on Europe. Lots of war in India. It wasn’t a great time in the Middle East what with the Crusades and all. The Egyptians are conquering Armenia. The Songhai Emprire is growing in Eastern Africa. Southeast Asia had a lot of conquest and a large kingdom growing, might not have been so bad as long as you landed on the winning side. The Ming Dynasty just started in China.

So it’s not like you ended up in pre-civilization or among dinosaurs or something. There are plenty of people around, but it’s still an age of war and conquest. Your best bet to have a great life would be to ally yourself with a strong leader and give them advancements to help that leader “win”. Of course, if he were defeated, you’d be slowly tortured and killed by the opposing side.

I’m going to learn how to:

Program with a basic language

Sketch a still life

Draw Celtic knotwork

Run for my health

Do photography with my phone camera

Etc.

All of these are cheap or free with tools one probably already has. You can take decent pics with a phone, you already have pencils, paper, and pens, and programming can be learned for free online (assuming you have a laptop or PC to work with it on)

Probably one with a literal kink in it. The stretched out area will slow the flow vs the un-disturbed smaller diameter. Probably dribble a lot, too.

I’d suggest reading about it before making such a statement. Understand that the single income created its own problems. It kept women isolated thanks to the way postwar housing developed, kept them out of the workforce, dismantled their social network, resulted in suburbs that drove longer commutes, etc. women have had it hard in society for quite a while, but the separated family unit made it harder. These things also dismantled the “village” support network that people had, along with extended family and community that could help people.

Yeah, the wealth that allowed the luxuries of a single family home in the ‘burbs was great, but it came at a price.

I suggest “The Way We Never Were” by Coontz if anyone is inclined to read about the sort of manufactured history surrounding American society and particularly the family unit. In some ways the past was better, but we somehow managed to get rid of the good parts, make up parts that never happened, sidestep the bad, and make the present worse.

Most of us would consider someone’s demise to be a bad thing.

But if it’s a bad person, is it a terrible thing?

No. Just another way to mine for data.

You can tall a lot about people by how they interpret the bible and which parts they choose to ignore.

Agreed. Are they punching up or down? What’s the potential harm and who will it harm?

If they’re just setting themselves up for disaster it’s probably best to remain hands-off and distance yourself. If they have a family I’d at least tell them what an idiot they are and then distance myself. Probably might be worth checking with the partner and tell them to protect themselves if they aren’t part of it.

And yeah, like you said, anything causing harm to innocent parties like selling hard drugs or guns is a non-starter.

Recently? A shower door catch was broken. I got a new one and it sat in the package on the bathroom counter a foot or two from the shower door for a really long time. All that was needed was to fetch a screwdriver, take two small screws out, and replace the unit. 30 seconds to do, if that.

Meanwhile, if anyone used the shower, you had to creatively wedge something in the door every time to keep it from opening. That took far more effort than simply replacing the catch.

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That’s prime trash talking territory. There are no rules.