I feel a normal number of years old same as I always have. 23 was once too old, then it was normal, but these days I understand it’s quite young.

Thrift shopping!

Nah that’s when you get off on 5 tons of iron ore that you only symbolically own

Well then do i have an opportunity to preach the good word of syndicalism to you.

It exists, but like, in the same way species exists. The variety and frequency of intersex conditions indicates that it’s two clusters of traits that most species that show this characteristic fall into one or the other of and certain components are remarkably mutable.

That understanding is just fundamentally different from the traditional understanding of two entirely distinct bins that anyone who doesn’t fall into one or the other is a strong outlier and the only alterations are castration or divine intervention (at least in euro-christian tradition).

The two bin model is going to work ok on most humans, it’s not like it’s an obviously wrong one. But as society and science have advanced we’ve found more intersex people that either didn’t know (my cousin would have just been understood as barren, and nobody would’ve noticed my ex’s mom having XY sex chromosomes) or didn’t understand that it wasn’t just some weird quirk that you either hide in shame or just don’t feel is worth mentioning. And anywhere you try to draw a firm line or any trait you try to point to try to ignore the gray is going to leave you with an awkward grouping in some way

Yeah that’s tasteless, but the sort of think you can look past, especially 8 years later, but it definitely doesn’t look good in combination with this.

Wait, they have a history of bigoted jokes?

They claim it includes New Mexico, but I don’t see why we’d have a new Mexico when the old one is still perfectly good. Sounds fake to me

Croatia is just out there accepting blame nobody else is giving them

Just plant some American chestnut. Ignore why such a wide ranged tree is endangered

Matches my personal experience

Also, idk, I think that what an ape thinks looks good has little bearing on what avians find attractive. For all we know male ducks think that bright plumage is unattractive.

Like for real, would parrots looking at us understand what we see in permanent large breasts? Or would they look at our other comically oversized sex characteristic (large, exposed penises without a baculum) as the primary showy mating display. Or would they see us as a species where sexual selection has resulted in both parties having a display to show off? Would they think that from their perspective it’s obvious which looks better?

I mean it’s not like any of these men have ever listened to women, much less read any feminist theory with an open mind. And gods forbid they notice that unshaved women who don’t wear makeup can be gorgeous.

As a lesbian I’ve definitely seen plenty of gay interactions that are so gendered that I feel most people of the other gender wouldn’t be comfortable participating, especially conservative straight people. It’s really funny to me how this stereotype of gay people as less gender conforming (while it absolutely carries a lot of truth to it) results in people not even considering that sometimes gay sex is just two really masculine men going at it in a manly way or two women being extremely feminine together.

And to generalize it more, pests and diseases are rarely truly eradicated, that’s part of why smallpox is so notable, the virus only exists in laboratory settings anymore (and that’s partly because it’s a predominantly human disease). Usually eradication means in an area or in people in an area. Because of that it’s usually an active effort to keep it out. Measles was eliminated in the developed world, but it was still around, it was just kept at bay by mass vaccination. As vaccination rates fell it was able to come back through interactions with places it hadn’t been eliminated.

That’s totally fair, and I think that taxes should be included as part of the prize in non cash prizes (and cash equivalent should include the taxes as well to avoid the incentive to make it difficult not to take the cash or for people to not take it).

And yeah, windfall taxation is tough because it includes large financial inheritance (which left unchecked results in nobility, at least according to the founders of my country), lotteries (which I see no reason not to tax like any other income), sentimental inheritance of small goods (like grandma’s jewelry), sentimental inheritance of real estate (yeah that needs taxed, but the taxation system should work with you on it), non sentimental inheritance of real estate (which will be claimed to be sentimental), and large winnings/gifts that while very nice may become a burden when taxes are applied. And the lines between all these are blurry enough that some people will be cheating it

Beans tacos. Basically cook canned black beans in taco seasoning and some water until the water cooks down. Then just throw whatever you like with your tacos on it. Cooking an onion in with the beans makes it even better, but it requires chopping an onion

In general I’ve found that a lot of meat recipes work well if you replace the meat with beans or mushrooms.

I know, reproduction? A man and a woman having sex with each other? Wild the shit some folks get off on

I was aware of the full situation and joking about it.

And while I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Seattle since moving to the PNW I generally prefer to not explicitly narrow it down more than that. (And yes I understand that Seattle is wildly overrepresented on here).

In some of the places I’ve lived? Yeah maybe. Across the country, probably not, but I’m not good at telling if strangers are drug users.