I ordered an avocado and toast in 2008 and still haven’t financially recovered.

I love this. I would live here in a heartbeat.

Had guests stay with us this weekend.

Our kids are 3 and 2. Our friends also have a 3-year-old. So conversations naturally revolved around comparisons between our kids. Even though we’re all great friends, our guests can be a little judgy. My partner and I don’t let it get to us too much.

I think the thing that bothered me most about their stay was meal times. At their house they eat all together at the table. Their kid cleans their plate by themself and will sit patiently when they’re done. Our kids, not so much. My partner and I joke that our kids would starve if we didn’t chase them around the house to feed them. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love my frenetic, feral little foragers. They eat everything we manage to shove in their faces, and they love stealing food from the fridge or the garden when they’re hungry. So what if we don’t eat at the table? It’s mainly for books and crafts anyway. We like eating on the floor, or outside, or on the couch.

That being said, our kids really did try to sit at the table with everyone to eat meals. But they really wanted to do their normal routine after a while. Our friends gave us sideways glances while their kid waited at the table. That works for them. This works for us. Each is fine!

Don’t forget the 2.5 children that each of those people would have had if they hadn’t died. Those hypothetical children are also victims of communism 😢

Hmmm… have you tried spending more on the military?

To be fair, anti-vaxxer rhetoric is extremely hostile toward companies like Pfizer. Not for any logical or dialectical reasons, but because of conspiratorial notions that pharmaceutical companies use vaccines to “control” people. This “control” can run the gamut from relatively innocuous assertions like “Pfizer uses vaccines to suppress adoption of alternative medicine,” to blatantly racist/bigoted conspiracies like “[Im not gonna write a heinous example conspiracy here.]”

Lol absolutely not. I’m saying that RFK Jr. is directly effecting pharma’s pockets.

Me personally, give me every vaccine.

Sounds like someone had a talking to by Pfizer.

So they’re gonna restrict how much sugar gets added to products marketed toward children, right?……RIGHT!?

This bridge is safely nestled in the water, where bridges belong.

That was what the bulk of documentary was about.

There’s a pretty lib documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad, that aligns with some of the things you’re saying. Basically the filmmaker’s father used to be an apolitical democrat until he took a job that required a much longer commute. Now he’s fascist. There’s a lot of missing dominoes in that transformation, but the longer commute was one of the biggest factors.

Ah cool, thanks.

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Uhhh…ok. I’ll ask someone else I guess.

Hey. Which way is the bathroom?

The style of painting is called linear painting, but the artwork as a whole resembles 50’s/60’s graphic art and pop art. With some American Realism inspiration, really feels like a modern take on Edward Hopper’s work.

Class consciousness is like a curse sometimes. It’s ok to take a break, go outside, read some books. Do things that make you feel.

I’m not going to blame you for your despair.

The US is directly responsible for 10 of millions of deaths related to COVID. Richest, most powerful country in the world lets diseases run rampant everyday.

If COVID did arise in the US then that revolution is bitter. It doesn’t offer much in the way of solace for me personally. Hopefully, it would help to radicalize others though.

Same. I haven’t investigated it in a while, but last I read virologists are still fairly certain COVID has a zoological origin. I would not be surprised at all if factory farming created it.