I prefer the cellular peptide cake myself.

They made a blood tithe they feel can never be repaid. Compared to that it’s pretty clear they see all this *waves hand around* as trivial amounts of collateral damage.

Do Mormons not use the poophole loophole?

because the private company should create as much profit for the owners as possible - it has to be as lean / efficient as possible.

Yeah but no. It would be if the owner/shareholders weren’t skimming of the top. The process may be lean but the pricing is designed to maximize and take as much as the market will bear. Which undoes the benefit the efficiency could bring to a public service.

what we’re being asked to do is suffer alongside without being able to alleviate the suffering.

I know that isn’t actually what people think they are asking for, but it sure feels like it so often.

Thanks for putting this into words for me.

If feel like us guys are at a disadvantage here. All our lives were are told not to complain unless we bring a solution, not to cry, get up, keep moving.

Then suddenly the thought pattern we have been trained on all our lives turns out to not be healthy for supporting others and it’s a hard transition to make when we want so desperately to help and are asked not to.

Not saying it’s wrong, just hard.

I mean, yes, but they also need to forgive themself for not better understanding the situation and being better able to respond to it. We often blame ourselves for being vulnerable to the abuses of others.

Yeah, but that old technology is what still lets me run a 13 year old version of Adobe creative suite. If that ever changes I will have to learn something new!

These are not complete sentences.

It all depends on why you are a vegan. If you are trying to minimize harm, will discarding the sour cream reduce the harm? In this case no, so I say eat it. Personally I find it worse to just toss it because then it is also a waste. Will not being more careful in the future to be sure they get your order right cause harm? Potentially. I’d put your effort there… Kindly.

If it is for health reasons, you have to weigh the potential damage of eating it. For most people the risk is small and scraping it off would be fine. For a severe allergy, that wouldn’t be sufficient.

Trust yourself. There are a ton of people who will tell you how to live and they will never all agree. If you are going to disappoint someone no matter what you might as well follow your heart.

I heard some recent steam thing made it pretty great now? Or was that just marketing talking?

I met my wife at 28. When you do find someone, remember to try to separate whether you love being in a relationship from whether you love them.

The sooner you let the wrong ones go, the more time you have to find the right one.

Good luck!

A wash tub?

When your sense of entitlement outweighs your sense of wonder.

I’m doing my part!

Well, obviously they will have a second, shaper knife concealed as well.

Yeah, we do have to much Judge Dredd syndrome, that’s for sure.

It’s stuff like this that makes me think all girls should be pulled aside at an early age and taught no holds barred knife fighting and then given a very sharp knife to carry visibly at all times.

Not really no. But it is possible to find someone who helps your feel appreciated, loved, and valued for who you actually are instead of trying to change you.

In the way the words are being used here, it absolutely does.

There’s been a lot of propaganda for a long time that “socialist” countries are authoritarian, abusive, and usually dictatorships, so by that measure, of course you would have to make the argument you do, but the fact of the matter is that socialist policies are just policies where we pool resources as a group to provide a public good. It’s opposite would actually be free market capitalism, where you have to subscribe to a fire service to protect your house (it worked that way on the US once, feel free to Google it).

The methods of governing are a completely separate axis, ranging between power vested solely in an individual or small group, and true democracy.

It is absolutely possible to have countries that are democratically socialist, or free market dictatorships. Just because America is still mainly a democracy doesn’t mean we can’t look at it’s policies and see a clearly socialist component of public services. In my mind the truly perplexing thing is how people can label things like a tax to provide everyone access to free books and other media, taxes that support universal fire and police protection, and taxes that support free education for everyone (through high school only!) and say they are just normal non-socialist things, and then look at taxes that would pay for higher level education, for health protection, or for childcare so you are always able to go earn a living, and suddenly they are foaming at the mouth and screaming “socialism!”

But trying to derail an entire conversation by arguing about one word is a lot easier than trying to actually address the points of an argument, so we see that a lot.