A Canadian charlatan who makes millions off telling manchildren they should do the same things their mothers told them to as children but they never learned, who can't even manage to do them himself? He's not a natural born US citizen, thank goodness.

I love Sylvia Plath.

Still haven't heard better computer speakers than the standard Klipsch $100-150 stereo speakers with the sub that have been around for 25 years with minor aesthetic changes.

A cast iron skillet. If you use it regularly the seasoning will be so good that it's as functional as any PTFE nonstick pan, you can use metal cooking utensils on it instead of having to get plastic/silicone stuff (for PTFE), and it serves many purposes from stove top to oven. If you can find a "vintage" one at a yard sale from when they used to hand polish them smooth instead of pre-seasoning them with a rough texture, even better. When I bought a small Lodge one years ago, I used a grinder and sanding discs to polish off the factory textured seasoning and re-seasoned it myself, which worked a charm! If you go that route, I recommend doing it outside, because the amount of metal dust that it stirs up is impressive (and magnetic, so an absolute mess to clean up).

That is not an answer, it's a man avoiding the question entirely.

God existing would absolutely place all responsibility upon God, not on its creation for doing only what it was created and constrained to do by that God. Every "decision" would require that God to allow it, making that God responsible.

5k people is a bigger population than many towns yes, but crammed into a 250x250x1100 foot box in the biggest case (Ford class)

Tiling window managers like i3 may be what you're looking for

I assumed you were getting downvoted initially for the disingenuous "both sides" rhetoric which is a non-point that has been gone over in detail here ad nauseum, and then subsequently because you doubled down by implying if people downvoted your first point, it means they think politicians have their best interests in mind. I don't think anyone believes that, so it kind of reads like you're tilting at windmills.

Rich people having to take a ferry to the mainland to get their weed = immediate effort from legislators.

Licensed Clinical Social Workers are a dime a dozen, and while there are some excellent ones, they're diamonds in a very abrasive rough. I have had mixed luck with PhD psychologists as well. Engineers and psychologists with PhDs were the first people I met who made me realize a PhD indicates someone is persistent, but not necessarily smart.

Great writing! This reminds me of Amy Hempel.

Not necessarily pertaining to your point, which I get, and have also heard directly from people I know IRL who are now or used to be police. I just get surprised every time how indignant they will get over other people committing crimes repeatedly, while they overlook the same things in their own in-group, or even help shelter.

Interestingly, the rate of domestic abuse among LEO is significantly higher than in the normal population. "Good cops" clean their own house so rarely that when they do, they can become a celebrity and have a book and movie written about them (Serpico).

There's the rub. The outdoors and land in BIBN are beautiful and inexpensive but you have the local wildlife bigotry to contend with.

If he's really dosing ketamine, it feels odd that he can't seem to develop any sense of oneness with the universe, awareness of the innate value of other people, empathy for them, and self-humility. I guess it affects people differently, but what's it actually doing for him?

It's also happening to practically every other animal, and some of them were more sensitive to the effects before people.

It should say inflation-causing.

F I R E F O X already

Just "as any" everything until it runs. That's runs, not works.