I think in Europe it’s just the smell of cancer, addiction, and Europeans

For seafood yes, but I’m unlikely to bother regrowing the necessary gut biome for other meats

That’s one way to let people know you’re headed to the restroom

It was not my fucking year. But all the shit I had to deal with was on a personal level so that was actually fairly refreshing.

I hope I make it through.

That sounds so atypical as to make me think it may be best to have a conversation with a mental health professional about.

For me there’s an initial discomfort, but it’s the same discomfort I get when I’m exploring somewhere new. Its exciting and fun and I’m figuring out how I feel about this person/place. I get sad when I don’t experience it enough

Just online? I wish. I’ve unfortunately met dudes who talk like that irl

You should be discussing what you want early and take your time before deciding that you’ll do it together

I think it’s a lot of things. I’ve seen people looking for a badass, I’ve seen people looking for a project, and I’ve seen a lot of people looking to self harm by finding someone who treats them like they feel they deserve often seeking people who will tell them the same things their parents did

I’ll give an exception here, I’m an extrovert with social anxiety and I benefitted immensely from making myself do things and talk to people.

A friend commented on my wife and I’s attachment style the other day and yeah that’s a big one. I naturally have a disorganized (leaning anxious) attachment style and my wife naturally has an avoidant one. But from the beginning we did the work to reinforce secure attachment thought patterns in ourselves and it’s made a world of difference. So yeah, a lot of people could really use to work on their attachment style

One of the harshest lessons I’ve ever had to learn, especially as someone who struggled socially growing up, is that some people don’t have any friends for a good reason

Rather than stimulus checks we need to be using the money to subsidize alternatives. And we can just switch subsidies. Some examples of that include that by reducing cattle subsides we can subsidize lower emissions meat alternatives or even offer free classes on how to cook meals that happen to be lower emissions, and we can stop funding airports and put that money into rail systems, similarly by removing mandatory minimum parking and reducing road funding that money can be put into transit solutions that enable less car centric lifestyles.

Exactly, and thst sounds like the sort of rations Americans had during the world wars. It was supplimented by a mass movement of community gardens. Personally I’m more a fan of the ration points system we used so that you aren’t stuck with stuff you won’t use and those who’d rather eat like Hannibal of Carthage and go less hungry can do that while those who’d rather eat more resource intensive foods like meat can accept the cost of their demands in the form of calories. Though that may just be because I’ve always been the sort who’d rather be full of lentils and potatoes than hungry after a burger, even before I quit meat.

Nope. I’d love some community but most people move every year or two here

M4A

I read huckleberry Finn in high school, but that was one we weren’t allowed to read out loud

The land of freedom has reached the point that we must ban banning things rather than framing it as guaranteeing the right to d9 a thing.

And one thing to understand about anarchism is that it’s very much a goal oriented philosophy more than most other political philosophies. What that means is that you get a lot of different approaches and concepts from people trying different things to attempt to achieve similar goals. And this often involves practical differences between different situations. Rojava is necessarily going to do things differently from how the maknovists did things and they’re both very different from how some punks who bought some land for a commune in the American Midwest will handle it.

Yeah this is a man who committed a minor crime that’s rarely prosecuted who was sentenced because his father is President, he was about to have a real bad time because of who his father is if he wasn’t pardoned. I can’t judge Biden for this. He’d never have pardoned him if someone who would treat him on his own merits was the incoming president