No worries, we’re all trying to make it through the best we can and I didn’t feel anything adversarial in your critique, just a desire for you and your fellow worker to be treated with dignity in their labor

That’s fair. I meant cost as in cost to me, the consumer, which is the price, but I think what you’ve said here is a valuable thing to consider when wondering why it’s so expensive and yet shit now.

The feeling bad part is aging.

Quality has absolutely gone down, though, while cost has gone way up.

It’s not quite as convenient, but I switched to making popcorn in a wok. It’s faster and way, WAY cheaper.

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism complete with transhumanism a la Iain M. Bank’s The Culture series

Hey I’ve been on a Spirit flight.

I get it.

If they come inside your house throw em some cash. I’d say $5 for bringing it in the door, $10 for putting it near where it’s gonna be and $20 for placing it where it’ll go and unwrapping/assembling it.

That’s what I do, at least, no clue if these values are appropriate.

Goddamn right!!

The only thing I need on a screen is the GPS, everything else is an annoyance.

I tell you that you’ve misunderstood me and you’re telling me “I disagree, I know what point you are trying to make”?

Oh boy, buddy, I need your thoughts and opinions like a hole in the head, good luck!

If that’s the point you inferred from my post, you’ve grossly misread

If we truly live in a democratic state, shouldn’t the onus of be on the candidate to capture the desires and will of the electorate and not the duty of the citizen to vote for the party?

Honey, no…

We don’t have to do this “respect the man, he worked hard” routine. That doesn’t help anyone. The dude failed to protect the most vulnerable or safeguard the country from Nazi elements within while also propping up genocidal regimes and he never did close those “kids in cages” camps that the media stopped talking about Jan 20, 2021.

Biden won’t do anything useful.

He’s had 4 years to be useful and he decided early he’d rather drool than, oh, codify roe v wade or set up protections against fascist rule

You were having good times??

This isn’t news it’s like one sentence written about some idiot kid in Reno.

Thanks for doing some homework on behalf of lil ole me!

Got a link to the quoted article, by chance?

Well you don’t want to eat every fish you catch, that’s not good for the fish population. You want to ensure you’re only taking fish that have had a chance to spawn, determined by size.

Catch and release fishing is fine for the fish. If you gut hook them and they won’t survive, well, you eat that one, but it’s also easier to avoid that if you know what sort of fish you’re looking for and change your hook/lure accordingly.

Go fishing.

For real. Take some time to focus on something new and “pointless”. Soak in some gorgeous views and learn about your local waterways. Reconnect with the land around you.

Life’s easier with a clearer head.