That is the beautiful and tragic flaw of democracy and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

You are just trying to live your life and it is so unimaginable an existence that it is incongruous with their concept of a comfortable life.

There is nothing wrong with your life, so long as you are happy and healthy. There is nothing wrong with their concept of a comfortable life. Both are shaped by notions derrived from life experience and personal prioritizations and either party cannot hold the other to be worthwhile without a greater understanding of the individual.

Hurting someone else’s feelings is an unavoidable truth in living a radically different path that they do not understand.

The best you can do for them is to try and help them see that their path is not the only one. Help them to understand your needs are met and you respect their path.

Next time, you can try to help them understand that they can offer nothing of value that will make your life better for you and give them an opportunity to understand you are whole in your path. Ask them what they want your life to be like, what your life is lacking, what they can do for you, and address each of their points with salient and cogent arguments that express your contention in your life’s circumstances.

If their best efforts have no value to you, help them understand that, if you don’t want to hurt their well intentioned efforts.

Varies based on location and doctor’s non-medical beliefs.

Social workers are typically people who love to help people, it gives their life meaning and purpose. They have helped numerous people in rough situations get a comfortable living situation and have no further need of assistance and every time they are over the moon with joy for what they have been able to do for that person.

They meet people who genuinely need help that they can provide and are turned down because of pride/humiliation. Some of those people just need them to be persistent for their help to be accepted.

It must be so soul crushing and demoralizing to have someone you believe you can help tell you to take it on the arches.

While you don’t need their help and are happy living as you do, they think you do need their help and won’t accept it. Your radical freedom breaks their well-meaning, but misguided, hearts.

I would never let 16 year old me vote.

25 is a solid voting age informed by life experience in the “real world” and a developed brain. Nobody in their late teens to mid 20s can vote with a grasp of reality and understanding of the actual problems that plague society. There is too much optimism and idealistic intentions at those ages. Progress is a slow march against an established defense. Progress, no matter the speed, gains more than attempting brute force attacks against a greater dying populous fervent in their position in opposition.

With a declining birth rate, slow and steady wins the race; or maybe Idiocracy was a documentary and WALL-E is a hopeful outcome of Surrogates.

Severe brain damage; to such degree that having the desire, or enjoyment of music, impossible.

I would rather be a vegetable than give up Baby Shark.

Hard to choose, they are all great in their own way.

I guess “The Deadly Mantis” because of the “little man in the boat” joke that has changed meaning in adulthood from when I saw it as a child. Eegah and Manos do stand as cornerstones, but Mantis has that one line that is burned into my association with the show and holds a special memory.

It isn’t outrageous that you have them, the problem is you keep them in an illuminated bookcase in your living room and keep wanting to feature them as part of the tour.

In current mainstream thought gender =/= sex.

So your second point should be phrased “Is changing sex also (soon to be) possible”, as sex is genetic and gender is a concept.

Maybe with some radical gene therapy sex could be changed, but I imagine that to be a rather long and unpleasant process if physical changes happened. It would probably be more feasible to make a clone with the different sex and then transplant consciousness. That just raises further questions like if you died and is that still you. Probably before that is viable we will be uploaded to computer systems to escape the environmental effects of our actions and your avatar will be up to your whims.

I don’t like that type of competition and we end up losing everybody else as the sarcasm and references get more obtuse and obscure until one of us loses and slingshots up to potty humor.

You understand what a centrist is, however the meta perception in online America is that a centrist is a right-winger in disguise.

News has determined decades ago that they get more attention by being entertaining. Dry factual news and clearly delineated opinion pieces don’t get the views/clicks, and by extension money, so it is unsustainable. It still exists, but it isn’t prevalent.

It is the ensemble that really makes his channel great fun.

Username relevant. Most people would imagine a yellowish-white popcorn shaped dress and poofie shoulders, maybe her hair is shaped like a popped kernel. Not you, you can’t be that whimsical, she has to be a popcorn smuggling heiress with undoubtedly greasy thighs.

Sure you ain’t catching a reflection in the screen?

You don’t.

You marinate until you reach your hand up and grip something and the hand juice runs down your forearm and into your armpit.

Sure, changing them helps, but you are going to fill the fresh ones shortly and the company doesn’t pay for them.

San Jose or Austin

True or pseudo intellectuals are exhausting. What with their logic and ontological empiricism. Bitch, I want to laugh at a limerick about a dude from New England.

True intelligence is knowing how stupid you are. -Socrates

Smart enough for her strengths to make up for my weaknesses.

Well I have like 3 decades of wall adapters collected, so I would dig one out with the right specs lol. You can find the exact voltage and amperage one on Amazon or any number of electronics suppliers.