That’s right, it goes in the square hole

When talking about supplements, grams of protein in relation to grams of food is irrelevant.

There is a very large contingent of people who believe animal protein is superior to plant protein in every way, shape, or form. So this result isn’t obvious to them.

Textured vegetable protein, a vegetable-based/vegan replacement for ground meat

Rinse your carrot before eating it you acorn

Sure, I’m not under the impression that the solution is simple or quick. Still worth working towards improvements anyways though, don’t you think?

I don’t know. I don’t know much about apartment ownership, it’s not really an option where I live, so I don’t know much about the process.

Do I need to have a solution for improving a process in order to recognize that the process needs improvement though?

Definitely not trying to make any commentary on the quality of your friendship, my bad if you took it that way, but that wasn’t my intent. I’m glad you and your friends came to an arrangement that worked well for everyone.

I worded my comment poorly in a way that forced my ideals onto you, which I shouldn’t do. I should have just expressed that renting is something I personally disagree with and wouldn’t do if I could avoid it. I shouldn’t try to fit everyone into my mold or my way of thinking though, sorry for doing that to you.

You paid a mortgage payment (and then some) and only received shelter, when you should have received shelter and equity in the home. Are you trying to say your friends did you a favor?

It’s nice that your friends didn’t screw you I suppose, and maybe your friends will give you a payout proportional to the amount you paid towards their mortgage when they sell the home, but until that happens, you did them a favor, not the other way around.

If short term apartment ownership is unattractive because of the hassle of buying and selling, we should look to reduce that hassle, not replace ownership with a parasitic financial relationship.

The superior kart racing game

There will come a time when your AI girlfriend’s context window fills up and its responses become increasingly unhinged and nonsensical. The average person doesn’t know to expect that though, so it probably is pretty harmful when someone’s emotional support robot suddenly goes insane

Do you think there’s zero risk of shots being fired if a bunch of police show up on a Marine base and start slapping cuffs on soldiers?

1. Cops don’t stand much of a chance against actual US Marines.
2. Most cops are probably all for this show of force, it’s kinda right up the pigs’ alley. So I doubt they’d be super enthusiastic about arresting those Marines, especially in a circumstance where it’s not super clear what law they’ve broken (I doubt most cops know anything about military law or laws governing the military, since they likely haven’t taken any civics classes since flunking out of high school).
3. Heaven forbid cops go in there, things get violent, and Trump uses that as an excuse to retaliate or invoke the Insurrection Act. He’s already on a hair trigger, something like that would almost certainly send him and his base over the edge.
4. They did take action to keep their citizens safe, by closing down the roads near the base and diverting traffic away from potential danger.

Look, I’d love nothing more than for a bunch of bad ass good guys to go in there and slap cuffs on anyone involved in this little “celebration”. Unfortunately we live in reality and not an MCU movie though, so they had to do the next best thing.

Uooueggh

lmao what the fuck does this word sound like?

Darn

“It’s all just ideological masturbation, and boy is my right arm tired”

So what do you want Newsome do to? Send California police officers to storm a Marine base?

You know what, you’re right.

You know what has an even better safety track record than a car with FSD supervised by a human?

Trains.

If your concern is actually safety, advocate for the safest methods of transportation - mass public transit, coupled with pedestrian- and bicycle-safe roads, and advocate against passenger cars, in any form.

I feel like AirBnBs just aren’t for single travelers though. When you can rent a whole house that sleeps 4-8 people, that’s when you can get things closer to $100-200 a night (or less), on par with hotel pricing. A group of travelers can also take advantage of the extra common space to hang out in, something you can’t really do in a hotel. A single person probably doesn’t care about being able to play board games out in the open concept living room/kitchen area, but that’s a marketable feature for the group of 6 that are in town for a bachelorette party or whatever.