This matches every account I’ve heard from friends in Seattle that have worked for the HQ.

I think we may be (re)-discovering the appeal of monotheistic religions, and why they hew patriarchal.

On average, men desperately need more mental health resources. But, on average, they are not comfortable building that with other men, and it often isn’t appropriate or effective to lean on their female significant other (if a straight man).

So - enter the primary description of ‘God’. Can listen any time but will always forgive, is super masculine but won’t emasculate you, and has never told another soul what you are thinking.

AI is always available and is unlikely to emasculate anyone, but that third item… Well, we’ll see where this goes.

Ooohhh I see, I am judgemental because your circumstances and stated preferences represent everyone in a hard place.

If you both could have and would have done it, it is completely reasonable to make that an expectation on everyone who struggles.

Your struggle was definitely representative of the worst circumstances bc you had 1 job and were a single parent – even though I mentioned how plenty of parents (including single ones) balance a FT job and gigs or a managerie of gigs. Or a FT job, single parenthood, and a disability. Or…

If you can’t see past your own life and circumstance, but want to proscribe what other people ‘should’ do (or no longer deserve your empathy), you are the one who is judgemental.

Wait - do you think that people who need food banks have a ton of free time for cooking clubs? Do you think it’s because they don’t work enough instead of what everyone knows which is that most people on the edge can’t make rent if they only have one job?

The jars likely cost more than the volume of produce it could store.

Also - have to arrange logistics for labor, supplies, and a kitchen to do the boiling in. Now that you are making a cooked food product, your kitchen also likely needs a license.

And insurance in case your rushed pickling operation creates any jars that go foul and anyone gets sick.

Also – ew. Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

I feel like food that takes multiple days to prepare needs a cost of labor included in the estimated price per person

The median zoomer can probably talk about it far more accurately than the median gen x-er or boomer

Ok. Before you get mad. Do you think you are a normal representative of your age group?

If you walk into a room of people you don’t know but who are all likely born within +/-5yrs of you, would you expect to be able to talk about crypto with any sophistication and at least half would be able to follow?

If not, then the generalization is true even if it doesn’t apply to you specifically.