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“clearly wasn’t”

I see now, you just phrase things abruptly in a way that SEEMS rude but clearly isn’t. My mistake. Have a nice day.

Fair enough.

Not sure why you phrased that as correcting them when you were agreeing and adding to it.

She was wrong. Live your only life your way.

Hey just wanted to say I think it says good things about your psyche that you’re being kind to you.

That’s good to know. I usually have to cut McDonald’s sweet tea with water, and I’d rather not support them anyway, but next time I’m on the left coast I know where to get my fix. Thanks, Kolanaki!

I was at a BBQ/steakhouse in Red Bluff once and they acted like I had a third head when I asked for sweet tea. I understand you were south of there but whereabouts in California can I find sweet tea?

There’s a species of monkey too large for any local birds to predate that still has a prey response whenever they hear a hawk cry. There used to be, but is long since extinct, a hawk that was large enough and did predate these monkeys. There’s an evolutionary fear of predation these animals carry even though they aren’t prey anymore. I would think it would be the same for livestock. Similarly, I used to have egg laying hens and a rooster to protect them. None had ever been attacked by a predator, but they all knew to run inside when they saw a big shadow fly overhead, and the rooster knew to call out and puff himself up. What I mean to say is as far as their “happiness” goes, the input from instinct vs input via knowledge isn’t really important. If the question is “how does the animal FEEL” then what it KNOWS only informs the feeling just as instinct does.

The article you linked mentions it isn’t a recognized syndrome.

*Edit: That’s not to say I disagree it exists; I’ve even felt similar things for a few days after stopping cannabis use. But if the scientific jury is out then it should probably be disclosed that this is the case.

And then with the waitress’s tip, it shows how none of them really knows each other, they’re all shocked when the one jerk won’t contribute. It’s not a team, just a job.

I found this list of true-to-seed fruits and vegetables I thought you might find interesting. I found it on The Spruce.

Certain heirloom apples, such as Antonovka

Polyembryonic mango seeds

Lemon

Lime

Orange

Peach

Papaya

Apricot

Nectarine

Heirloom tomatoes

There are tons of other heirloom vegetables, I don’t know why they only mentioned tomatoes on their list but yeah.

Why’s everything gotta be about money? Good things happen without it. Rain falls, feeds a fruit tree, makes a fruit, I eat it, poop out the seeds, new fruit tree grows. Money doesn’t fall from trees, but I can’t eat money.

The whole system is poorly prioritized to protect people’s things instead of people. Even then it does a poor job and only protects the things that belong to those with the most things. It’s not even about those people, just their wealth, because if somebody else got their wealth no one would care about them anymore.

I don’t care about communists or capitalists or any ists you can name. To hell with Mao and Thatcher and Lenin and Reagan and Trump and Biden. Fuck em. My question is why can we always find money for war, and for rich people to do stupid shit, but never enough for health care, or food for hungry children, or anything like that. Fuck anybody okay with hungry babies.

That pimpin’ Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck…

Weeellll tek-nik-uh-lee they might have built a town along the banks of a small river, dammed the valley blocking the river, and then filled in the old riverbed. But either way yeah those guys are dumb for staying there.

You’re right. For a while Russia might have been considered a “regular” capitalist society following the cold war, at least by popular opinion in the west, but they’ve driven further and further into kleptocracy and facism. Of course, facism can be wrapped in a capitalist or communist flag. One may be a better breeding ground for facism but it can root anywhere.

He looks more human this way, somehow.