Someone once asked me that question, and I had the fun opportunity to let them know that my mom did in fact get several abortions before me, which is what allowed her to get to a better place in her life before having me and my sister, giving us a better life than if she'd had a kid in her teens.

Plus, if that first pregnancy had come to term, she never would've had me and my sister, so ehy does the first pregnancy get more right to live than the potential second?

Someone happy with who they are and what they have doesn't make as many purchases. In a capitalistic society, that's unacceptable.

Immediate convenience is the metric we've been trained to exclusively focus on. Bread and circuses and all that. It's why I've been purposefully adding inconveniencea to my life to try to build up some of my patience and preservation again.

The company is called NoTip, which would have me hope that the business pays its drivers a good wage so they don't rely on tips. Without knowing more than this one side, I can't tell if the prices really are outrageous, or if this article is trying to draw people away from a business trying to get rid of tipping culture by wrapping it into the price of the items and paying well directly, the way it should be done.

Pancakes are great, but waffles are just the best. And they're versatile - I've made my own recipe for cheesy waffles using queso dip from costco, and they're so good with a dollop of sour cream.

I'm of the opinion that we've been specifically trained to be proud of our uninformed opinions, since that makes us easier to fool and exploit, but I don't know enough to verify it.

Fresh baked bread that's still warm enough to melt butter is my favorite, but toast is great for the rest of the loaf after that.

It took me a while, but I eventually realized that I'm not defined by my job, and I have such a rich fulfilling life outside of it, or I at least have the opportunity to build one. Once I stopped defining myself through my job, I was a lot happier and more motivated to just find another job and not worry about whether it's something that a stranger would find impressive, since I'd be talking to them about other aspects of my life now anyway.

"Please do a wealth tax?" Who do you think taxes the wealthy? It's certainly not the wealthy, and it's certainly not the government, populated entirely by the wealthy. It's the people who come to the houses and banks of the wealthy with masks, guns, and the willingness to kill and die for the sake of their country. The real soldiers - and there are scant few of them.

I plan on replacing most of my yard with native plants and getting a sign explaining the benefits, but for now I just deal with being the "bad" neighbor. I didn't really care that much about what they think of me.

Not exactly. Plato was against books because they made it too easy to remember information - people no longer had to memorize facts, because now they could be written down, forgotten, and read later to be relearned. So it was very much someone arguing against new technology making things too easy, and whittling away at humanity's ability to process and remember information, just like people arguing against AI today.

Ultimately, Plato was right that books made it harder for us to remember information, but the benefit of being able to share information so much more effectively outweighed that drawback, leading to books making people smarter overall even if they aren't as good at retaining that information. The same can't be said for AI, which further whittles away at our ability to retain information on top of limiting our ease of access to verifiably correct information, instead leading us toward assumptions and opinions, which is the real reason why this argument falls apart.

Eh, I got an electric leaf blower for $80 on sale for Father's Day this year, just so that I could blow the leaves out from under my bushes and away from my foundation since I had ants in my house. It's pretty quiet - far quieter than the gas lawn mowers my neighbors have running at all times of day - and gets leaves out of hard-to-reach places way better than a rake. Now the insects and I can coexist peacefully, and I get the benefits of fireflies in the summer without the drawback of ants in my house.