Usually one a day, morning or afternoon, but I’ll add another one to two black teas along with it, and perhaps a coke. Coffee I’ll stop earlier in the afternoon but tea I’ll have until the evening.

Oof that hurts a bit - fortunately (?!) at the receiving rather than offering end. Great list.:-)

If I may add, the person behind it is even awesome-r 😎

Great list!

Codependency is rough, absolutely. Sometimes we need to focus on ourselves before we move onwards,.:-)

I would argue that it’s the “addiction” to those, or other substances (even work, or possibly even social media), but yeah I get you:-).

Holy fuck yes. Also, if you truly wanted a line starting with a dash, like for a quote attribution, preface it with a backslash character \ . I’ll show it here:

- me, just now:-P

Online I could see that more - especially as certain apps seem to hide the community sidebar almost like it’s on purpose to do so, despite how posts are shown individually in e.g. All - but irl that seems toxic AF, for the same person, yeah! 👍

At that point it’s not ignorance but obstinacy.

I did not say that they were “equal”, just that they “shared” this in common. And that disinformation has worked against us too, as well as them.

That’s a good way to put it: I support the cause (of honoring firefighters) but not the execution of that idea.:-)

I guess it can mean different things to different people. To a conservative, a strong past followed up by a bright fascist future only held up by corrupt liberals, while to liberals a march toward a welcoming socialist utopia only held up by backwards thinking conservatives.

Truth lies in the middle I am afraid, but anyway I feel like I get some of what you mean even if I inject my own lines of thinking into that as well (that both sides are naive and led around by the nose by the wealthy who purchase politicians who promise much and then deliver next to nothing or even worse sometimes).

Personally I think that we need to make life happen locally regardless of what they do, but I understand if someone else thinks otherwise. Although in your case that’s kinda what your said maybe, except I don’t care if the tax collection system gets dismantled or not, I just think that the former is true regardless.

Nice!

Highly ironically - and you may hate me for saying this but… - that you share in common with the other side. Man, disinformation has worked so incredibly well to prey upon our existing division spots and weaknesses.

Yeah, be careful - I don’t know if we’ll have an actual civil war but I also don’t know that we won’t, and what I do know is that we aren’t what we used to be even a handful of years ago. Be safe, and be strategic.:-)

We are humans. We are animals. And we are more than that. Perhaps we are also lesser than that at the same time?

The duality was how the idea was presented to me - this is not my OC, or perhaps the words are but the concept I first heard told by an atheist apologeticist (if that’s a thing) Daniel Dennett speaking out against Intelligent Design (which at the time was still a thing that people bothered arguing against). I believe he was relating it to a binary classification scheme such as machine learning approaches are often built to follow. Anyway it’s just a vehicle for the conveyance of the idea - obviously nuances exist irl, yet there is some value in keeping things simple too, especially at first.

That style does seem to predominate, especially in video form, but there are others where humans compete more on if not quite fully equal than at least more equal terms. Babylon Five springs to mind there.

Also more outside but some still fully inside of “scify” the more “fantasy” elements may posit the existence of alternative universes that we travel to & from not by traversing physical space in between but through portals, accessible here on earth. Like Stargate.

So, those others are out there, but yeah it definitely meshes less well with what we see and know now about what might be in space.

I mostly see the black ones on people’s clothing. Some have been fitted into the punisher skull shape. The distress is very much the point that they are trying to convey: that liberal America is destroying the once great USA and now we have only what’s left. I wonder if those will now fall out of fashion after Trump’s election? Although they didn’t seem to last time so I dunno.

Yeah I don’t like the insertion of any lines whatsoever for any purpose, since it seems to fly in the face of the wording of the law pertaining to flag, according to my reading of it. Like I get the sentiment but that’s a slippery slope and surely there’s a better way to convey that, like taking a whole flag and adding something adjacent to it, without disrupting the internal integrity of the shape.

If aliens were to visit Earth, human vs. not-humans (aka sentient vs. not) would be the single biggest thing to consider. Far more so than male vs. female, plants vs. animals, even alive vs. nonliving (rocks), humans can literally send nukes in their direction while they hang in outer space, while literally nothing else can. We light up the night sky… on purpose and could stop it in a moment if we wanted.

We’re kinda a big deal.

Although now computers (e.g. Skynet) could do it too, so it’s humans and those highly specialized rocks together on one side, vs. literally everything else on the other.

So humans are not “just” animals, like computers are not “just” rocks.

Maybe you don’t know, but I do! 😉

No…

-t if you already have one!:-P