Anyone else remember Service Merchandise? The whole store was just one display model of each thing. You got a ticket and waited for the item to come up a conveyor. I thought it was a great approach

They’re cheaper at Inovelli’s store, plus you can buy multipacks to save more: https://inovelli.com/collections/inovelli-blue-series

I used to do this too, until I found something more targeted. I also have a sensitivity to common lotion ingredients so can’t use them without making things worse. Unfortunately the petroleum jelly is never absorbed so without the gloves everything you touch gets greasy

Blame education levels when medical advertising is no longer allowed and when companies need to be able to substantiate any health claims. A huge part of the problem is our exploitational and dishonest system: we don’t need an education as much as a skeptical eye and being able to spot the scans, fakes, and lies

Better balance all that by including New England. In Massachusetts, we’re already closest to universal healthcare

There’s a dog training strategy where you out down water in a routine, rather than keep it always available. Constraining when water goes in helps constrain when it comes out.

Don’t just take their water: make sure to look up the details so you’re not just making the dog suffer

Edit: but that’s for dogs with a bladder issue

insists on going outside 4-5 times a day to go pee

Dude. That seems entirely normal - any creature has biological needs.

For my dog

1. When we get up
2. When/if I leave for work
3. “After school” when the kids are around to play
4. After dinner
5. Before bed

When my kids were little, I went with them on a group tour of the police station. Hopefully the jail part of the tour was intended to be a “scared straight” experience because they really succeeded in making it dehumanizing.

For food, they said they would take money from your possessions to buy McDonald’s. No choice of what food, no choice of better food, no choice of when. And you get your meal whether you eat it or not.

Whataburger seems like a huge step up, plus if you’re stealing my money, giving me a choice doesn’t seem out of line

Well, I’ve had a bad case of the flu. It slow-walked through my family over the entirety of winter break, but I got it last and it’s mostly down to sniffles and a hoarse voice.

…. But somehow it turned into a relaxing time, letting me recharge. I still had nowhere near enough sick time to take but I spent the last week working from home and mostly taking it easy. I even got enough sleep some of those nights

Profit-seeking is capitalism doing exactly as it’s meant to. I don’t place any blame there. Every time capitalism optimizes for the wrong benefit, is detrimental to society or its citizens or its fixture, the blame is entirely on those who establish and maintain the market. A profit-seeking healthcare industry is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of regulators to focus capitalism on positive outcomes, or a failure of regulators to establish a beneficial market. In that case, the existence of the market itself may be the root failure, but capitalism can’t fix that, only those who should be regulating that market

People assume capitalism is all powerful, but it’s not. We have extensive systems in place to establish fair markets for capitalism to act within: where are they? Who do they serve? Who benefits? We keep forgetting capitalism is just a tool, not a goal itself

For my family of three, I’ve had to start buying “party size” of too many things.

Family size cereal is ok though, since I’m the only one who eats it

No, the analogy is “maybe I’ll shoot myself in the same foot again, but with 12 gauge”

After shooting yourself the first time, you may have recovered enough to walk normally. Imagine being so frustrated with that so you make sure you can never walk again

If people just vote for “the home team”, wouldn’t the results be similar every time? Yet we have different parties winning by different amounts every year.

Going only by myself, I don’t know, I suppose you could be right …… I moved to an area where people were politically more like me and I vote for different variations that are mostly compatible with my desires. I have voted third party in the past but aside from local offices, that just seems like a waste of my vote. I have voted for candidates from the other party when they seem to be the better choice. So I do generally vote for candidates from the same party, except when I don’t.

45 democrats didn’t vote the way you want? And how many republicans didn’t? Are you really saying both sides are the same?

Or there’s always “by this time tomorrow, I will have shitted”

Even if we stipulate that, I’m not convinced it’s a big deal. The software field continues to grow like crazy and we can never find enough people to hire. If ai gets good enough to take the place of some of that hiring, fantastic!

I really need some green peppers. I never thought I cared but after so many years of my ex banning them, and now my teens refuse them …. I just want a normal green pepper. Is that too much to ask out of life?

Wait, was this legit? Was that idiot foolish enough to travel with this purpose, and expect any other result?

While I understand this is just a distraction ….

I am somewhat curious how it would play out. As the upcoming Commander-in-Chief, Trump will be in command of all military. He can say “go”. However any officer with any ethical backbone should reply “no”. So, will he get enough sycophants in enough places instead of competent leaders, that he could actually pull shenanigans like this?

Now that I have an EV, those situations are just amusing. Joe redneck puts the hammer down, you hear a big rackets as things rattle and bang until the vehicle starts going a little faster …… then when I’m tired of watching the show I zoom forward with ease in effortless quiet

Even worse, chances are really good they have minimal insurance coverage. Even if they’re established as at fault, their insurance won’t cover repairs to most vehicles