I’m pretty sure this is wrong but 400 years of history certainly agrees with you.

My 6 year old big sister convinced my mother that my father lighting up in the house on the way outside to smoke was not okay and then convinced my father that smoking was bad enough to quit, even if it really was only every one or two pipes a week

Online anonymity also let’s people forget that the people they’re being assholes too have real feelings. It’s not just retaliation that stops them. Most of us really don’t want to hurt someone, but some need a reminder that online folks are just as real.

This is kind of true, but a little misleading. They sell it at a loss because it was about to expire. If it’s reaching the sell-by date. They cook it and sell it as a rotisserie chicken to recoup the losses. They’re usually only selling it at a loss because that’s the alternative to throwing it out.

Expanding it to keep all political discussions out would be nice

Not even possible. Every post would devolve into a discussion of what’s political.

Just don’t. Why would you? We’re talking about adults

When I met am otherwise neurological adult who gets hung up on what others choose to do with their free will, all I can think is “grow the fuck up”

I’ve got a cousin who gets upset about what I choose to eat. I don’t even understand where someone like that is coming from.

As far as I can tell they’re set for marketing reasons, but they actually represent meaningful epochs and how those events effected people in different stages of life.

World war, depression, postwar expansion, civil rights, cold war, internet, smartphone.

Making them all fifteen or twenty-five years doesn’t make sense.