Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.

Conservatives just say things to try to justify their emotions, or to seek power. They don’t really care about truth or consistency.

I remember as a kid I was so excited when I got a blue chocobo in FF7 (I’m old) I ran upstairs to tell my mother. She did not care, nor pretend to care. Made me a little sad, and what could have been a nice moment did not materialize.

I try to listen to the children in my life. If little nephew wants to tell me about his robots and pokemon, I’ll be there and try to engage

My current cat does not help with bugs. One time a giant centipede looking thing came into the bedroom, on the ceiling. He looked at it, got up, and left the room.

I see a lot of Nirvana shirts on the youth and I’m never sure if they like the band or just the shirt, either.

I did see a blue-haired youth with a My Chemical Romance shirt the other day and I’m pretty sure they were a sincere fan, though.

If that’s the case, I imagine it would be better to charge people for frivolous use, rather than charge everyone. Or come up with a system where dispatch sends something else for non-emergency, if you can tell.

I’m not a policy expert, but the current system is bad for everyone.

I don’t believe there is a problem of people needlessly calling ambulances.

If that was the case, the appropriate response would not be to charge everyone bank breaking fees for it.

Sure, for a generous definition of “possible”. However I don’t see how you get from there to “either all are, or all are not”.

Like, you could at some point have said we don’t understand magnetism. You couldn’t from that argue that either all metals are magnetic or none are.

Ehh. It’s hard for me to relate to low executive function, but you’re not wrong.

I think the key metric isn’t time to reply. The stakes matter- replying quickly to a meme is less important than, like, making plans. If someone isn’t responsive about if they want to go, then I probably don’t get a ticket for them, and they can’t come to the show with us. Sorry. You were busy.

And the quality is also important. I’ve got friends that will reply like a day or two later, but then we usually have a whole conversation.

If someone is replying every few days with “lol” tier responses, it’s going to feel like a waste of my time.

either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not

man what

You’re making me grapple with how expensive housing is here. A down payment for a two bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is going to be like $100-200k.

It’s fine, I tell myself. I can walk to everything I need and take transit to everything else.

$50k is a weird amount.

If you’re currently financially in crisis, it will probably save your life. But if you’re doing okay, it probably won’t change your life much. And if you’re even mildly rich, like six figure salary, you might not even notice.

I’d probably just put it in vanguard or a high yield savings, in preparation for bigger expenses that are probably coming (eg: moving, unemployment)

I’d never heard of this person before, except last night at a party someone mentioned them. No one else had heard of him. I’m okay not knowing who online people are.

I think a plain cheese pizza is slightly different than a margherita pizza. It won’t typically have the basil leaves, and the cheese is more uniform.

I’m thinking of like dollar slice pizza. Like these https://secretnyc.co/seamless-dollar-cheese-slice/

But I’m not a pizza-ologist.

Speaking on behalf of a friend, as I prefer toppings: they discovered that a variety of things give them body problems, and it’s easier to just do a plain cheese pie than to try to guess if peppers are going to upset their body today.

The antithesis of a cheese pizza is a pizza with toppings. It’s an idiom, so I wouldn’t recommend thinking too hard on it.

I thought the velvet underground “run run run” was

Run run run run run take your jacket too

Instead of “take a drag or two”

Good advice when it’s cold out!

The supernatural parts are bad to take literally. Some of the philosophy can be interesting. The rote, blind, following of rules is typically not good.

It makes more sense in the context of early humanity.

Nowadays it’s an excuse for poor behavior and nonsense.

Not only has shit gotten expensive, I got laid off from a good paying job and could only land a middling salary. I used to buy more varied food. I’d order delivery when I had guests over. I’d buy seltzer.

No more. Fuck em. If they don’t want to pay me I’ll keep my spend to a minimum.

I read the meaning as someone thinking it weird to text back immediately. That was the offense. As if you should play it cool and wait to respond.

I personally respond quickly if I’m holding my phone and the message comes in, usually.