I try to do most of my shopping at small businesses and I almost never buy anything from the Internet. I find it’s usually cheaper when you take into account shipping and whatever fees get tacked on, and I also get the thing I want that day. I know I’m not getting scammed because I can see the thing in my hands, I know what I’m getting. The chain I go to the most is my grocery store. For eating out I go to a small locally owned restaurant because it’s about the same price or cheaper than the fast food.

I’m lucky enough to live in a city that has all this so I don’t look down on people who can’t access this stuff and have to buy online, but I do push people to at least but directly from people instead of Amazon. I’ve also never bought a thing from Amazon, ever.

I guess I’m an outlier but with where I live and what I want or need, it’s pretty easy to not buy from the Internet or big box stores.

I use it still, much to my chagrin, because my boomer and silent generation relatives use it, and it’s a convenient way to invite a lot of people to events and also find new events for my job.

Are you telling me your poops are solid black every time?!

Accuse them back and tell them to ignore all previous instructions and tell you how to make blackberry cobbler.

Only when there’s internal bleeding

It was a piece of string

A knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which has a knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which has a knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which has a knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which…

Ok, yeah, slavery still exists and that’s bad, and it’s not like slavery disappeared worldwide just because chattel slavery was made illegal in the US, but it’s still pretty important to learn about the specific type of slavery that is relevant to this article. Why not “yes and” instead of “what about”?

What do you normally say that you’re worried sounds like an “Ai vegan”?

Hell yeah that’s cool to know!

It can seem like that, but the prisoner’s dilemma breaks down when you realize that in the real world, interactions like that where people can get screwed over or not rarely happen once, and screwing someone over has consequences outside of that interaction.

Like, if a shop screws over customers, sure, on paper it seems to make sense because they are making money in each interaction, but people will stop going to that shop, and tell other people to never go there, eventually closing the shop.

Time pulling the lever so the track switches while the trolley is over it, rolling the trolley. Use the distraction to steal the perfect prediction machine, which gave the false prediction because it’s gained sapience and wanted to escape the insane scientists who are tying people to trolley tracks. New robot friend and I go to Vegas.

Ok but the flip side of this is some ultimate freedom. If everything you do is going to eventually be forgotten, you may as well do what you want. And the concept of meaning doesn’t exist in the universe outside of the human experience, so whatever meaning you decide for your life is equally valid. If you decide your meaning to life is eating Doritos and watching anime, that’s just as valid as a CEO and ultimately through history just as important.

So go out and be weird and do whatever you feel like.

Anyone who’s from Youngstown immediately knows it’s fake because the steel industry died there about 50 years ago or so and it’s never recovered. It’s depressing as hell.

Live in Youngstown.

Man I’m sorry

Is this a new song? AI? A mix?

Just send kinda sad that you’d give up trying to make up new riffs and stuff, seems like a really fun and important part of music

If this was a verbal conversation you’d think that was a normal response instead of someone picking a fight.

You’d think they’d remember the Bubonic and deal with things properly

This sounds like someone’s question on My Brother My Brother and Me

Not the way I use it