Yeah that’s not an option for many people.

Not everyone’s parents are reliable, still alive, willing to watch the kids, and conveniently nearby. You kinda need all four.

Also you can’t just leave your toddler at home when you go out for dinner, or drop your kid off with a boarding facility when you want to go on vacation

I hope so too

We stopped talking after she got herself stranded in a different city to manufacture a big crisis where people had to rescue her from south central LA at 2AM. She said it was a mistake but we later overheard her bragging about how she did it on purpose to get attention.

I had a friend who would watch this movie over and over. She said it was her “favorite movie”

I later found she was a little messed up in the head.

Seed back then would have just been unprocessed grain. I don’t know about prices in the early 1900s, but the current price of unprocessed wheat is around $230 per metric ton. That’s around $0.10/lb and would put 20 lbs at around $2 given wholesale bulk pricing.

Not even in the ballpark of the $5/lb you cite for grass seed.

If you are in a cosmopolitan area there’s plenty of access to tea houses serving loose leaf Japanese and Chinese tea that would satisfy the most demanding tea enthusiast. That doesn’t begin to count the non-traditional items like boba, tisanes, etc.

The USA doesn’t have much of a British style tea tradition, but that’s mostly because it’s a diverse nation and British tea and food is mostly crap to begin with. Why would the US drink British tea when there are so many alternatives that are actually good?

It makes you less jittery because it does not, in fact, have a lot of caffeine in it.

It’s absolutely guaranteed you won’t have the same feelings. People change and the new relationship dopamine wears off after a few years.

However, building a life together is a special thing in its own right and that takes commitment to stay together and work on the relationship when times get tough.

Yeah, I did some googling after I commented and apparently amorphous silica gel is actually a safe food additive according to the FDA

I knew a guy in high school that would do self destructive stunts for attention.

I saw him eat silica gel on several occasions. I’m sure it’s not good for you but it’s not like he died or anything.

Yes, when I was a kid in CA people would describe taxidermied animals as being “stuffed”

I distinctly remember the parks department bringing in “stuffed” owls and cougars and stuff into class during first grade to teach us about the local wildlife. It was rad.

It’s just junk food for birds

Honestly I think the hate for bread is a little out of hand. Is it nutritious? No, but it’s not poison either. As long as it’s only a small part of their diet it’s not hurting anything.

I have a pet bird and 90% of her diet is nutritionally dense foods, but she still gets nibbles of bread and tortillas and so forth because small amounts of treats are perfectly fine. Same concept.