I got a Motorola Stylus 5g 2024 for $250. There’s probably newer now, but it’s a decent device with a headphone jack, large battery, SD card slot, and a stylus. It feels similarly decent to my Z fold 4, which was surprising. I thought it would be laggy.

I always vote, local, state, and federal. I would never vote for candidates who specifically are out to destroy things, or do austerity measures. I also don’t vote by party, but by values.

Because few people vote in my area, my votes have enormous impacts on society at large, which feels uniquely powerful.

I love the woods a lot, so I voted for a candidate that wanted to preserve them. My singular vote alone counted as 2% of the entire state, and the pro-Muir candidate won. And that was me alone, I also talked to friends and family about voting, which they did.

Different person, but yes, even after watching the TC video. I preheat the water too. And it’s a fairly recent Miele dishwasher.

Rinsing the dishes definitely helps cut down on this, though. And occasionally checking the filter at the bottom. A little rinsing goes a long way, I’ve found.

Tax filing companies. Individual taxes are pretty straightforward in most cases. Our tax laws are just completely screwed up.

Health insurance and tax information can easily be handled by the government.

Sync, until it dies.

I just store mine behind the front door. It really doesn’t get in the way!

Nobody really follows the Bible to the letter, especially with things like clothing worn, foods ate and all that. At the time, religions in general were a great way to teach people how to wash poop off their hands before eating, how to avoid foods with parasites, and not treat the lowest in society like absolute dogshit.

The real takeaways from the Bible are:

• Treat others with respect, humility and love

• A lifetime of goodwill can be squandered with one act of cruelty.

• You can be screwed up your entire life, but still be redeemed in the end by admitting that you screwed up and genuinely making amends where possible.

• If having gay sex was sinful, God wouldn’t have made it so fun. He put the prostate and clitoris there for a reason, after all. He made us in his image.

Growing up, everyone felt pity for them, as they grew up sheltered and not very well educated. In modern times, I feel like this has been magnified significantly.

I’d only do it if your kid was getting the absolute shit kicked out of them at school(s). Social media makes it extremely easy to get chain-bullied at multiple schools even with a transfer or two.

It’s always a safer move to wear protection. If you’re monogamous and your partner hasn’t had any illness recently, it’s probably safe to do raw if they do a good clean out first.

4.15, PNW, today. Typical range is 3.80 - 5.30

We’re a car-light household, so it doesn’t affect us too much. I still want better mass transit options, though.

Grey

It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life? If so, I’ll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.

Nice! And yes.

Definitely a tough situation. I hope things work out well for all of you. I’m also extremely curious about what animal John has for his fursona.

FWIW, I’m not too worried about John’s dating life. The furry community is pretty strong and cross-functional, and there’s a ton of hobby overlap with furries and other hobbies and sports. Especially if he’s bi, there will be others that he will meet, and he’s young. Hopefully his depression gets better.

I want to grab mgsv when it drops below $20. $20 for a 2015 title feels a bit steep.

I think the Valve era was pretty incredible.

Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life + HL2, and Portal + 2 all pushed the genres forward or were utterly unique for their time.

I can’t think of any other dev ATM that was doing what valve was doing in the 00s and early 10s.

Definitely fine. I fill up my car like…once a month, if that.

Never buy anything that flies, fucks or floats. No planes, no boats, no horses. If you really want to try one of these, try renting or borrowing the thing for a whole summer. Maybe even two summers.

Nobody wants to do that. North Korea is a shithole-class country that hates SK, is propped up by China, and to a lesser extent, Russia, who basically use them as slave labor and cannon fodder for their illegal war in Ukraine.

While NATO could easily steamroll NK, SK is right there and would get heavily damaged in a war. And then SK would probably have to take care of a ton of starving, brainwashed, uneducated people and a bombed flat country. Nobody wants to fix them, and superpowers like China are actively working against peaceful initiatives like reunification.

It’s an injustice for the world, but there’s much bigger fish to fry on the world stage right now. Existential, extinction-class threats like climate change and nuclear war. Democracies fighting tooth and nail against totalitarianism, like Ukraine. And western countries in various fights against the predictable but extremely annoying rise in fascism.

I’m fine with adults mutilating their foreskin, but I want the decision left up to the individual. Having the parents do it when they are a baby leaves the individual with no choice