We’re all products of our environment.

The ironic part about your statement is that you seem to have negative feelings towards your parents open sexuality, but there are cultures where that’s within the realm of normal. It just so happens that the environment you were raised in outside your home happens to consider the environment you were raised in inside your home dysfunctional.

Especially in areas of extreme poverty, there often isn’t enough space for privacy, so it just isn’t a thing. If you have a single room hut with 14 children… that didn’t happen because the parents snuck off into the bushes every time. It’s not considered improper or dysfunctional.

What defines an ethical company?

That’s an example of a false choice.

The most practical distribution is actually a mixture of the three systems divided up based on industry and other factors.

There is no reason we can’t have communism for the food industry, socialism for housing, and capitalism for clothes and movies.

Marx while influential isn’t the defining authority.

When they start acting like it.

First three always, fourth sometimes, definitely not the last two.

I was going to say a human can’t carry it, but yours is good too.

You still don’t get it.

You don’t need to eat Lettuce to be healthy, you’ve been taught to think that way but it’s not even close to the truth.

Do you think that people 100 years ago had fresh produce all the time? That’s not how it worked for most of human history and they definitely ate healthier than we do now.

Frozen vegetables don’t have extra salt. Canned sometimes does but a) salt isn’t unhealthy and b) you can rinse them to get most of it off if you wanted.

Juice is not healthy. That’s pure marketing bullshit. It’s almost as bad as soda.

Your mindset is wrong. You expect what society has told you to to do. That’s expensive because our society is built around selling you shit you don’t need.

This is only true if you have fallen into the trap of not understanding what healthy means.

Eating healthy can actually be very cheap, you just won’t get to eat the things that societies thinks are exciting or the most delicious. You won’t be getting “I can’t believe it’s not meat” and the latest type of chia seed detox bullshit.

You can eat rice, lentils, onions, carrots, potatoes, oats, chickpeas, beans, tomatoes, bananas, and some dairy products and keep your meal prices down to less than a dollar while filling all nutritional requirements.

A basic Indian Dahl on rice works out to significantly less than a dollar per serving if you buy the ingredients in more than single use packages, 500 calories, 17 grams of protein, 8 grams of fat, and 80 grams of carbs for $0.75 is pretty fucking healthy.

Two servings of oats and a banana for breakfast? 50 cents, for again around 500 calories, 17 grams of protein (mostly the oats), and 7 grams of fat. You could splurge on a bit of yogurt and keep it under a dollar easily.

In terms of “effort” if you consider cooking 10 portions of Dahl for an hour and then freezing them individually to be too much effort, you don’t actually care about the cost of eating, you’re just too lazy.

That last thing could be said for most humans, especially those in the lower salary brackets. We still employ them in droves, and supervisors to supervise them too.

Now THAT’S a stupid question.

Good Job.

The answer to your first question is yes.

Children don’t get to set their own boundaries, that’s why we consider them children. Once they’re ready we call them adults.

If I allowed them to set their own boundaries, they’d probably already be dead. They get some pretty stupid ideas sometimes.

I’m laughing so hard right now.

You’re so idealistic. When you grow up and join the real world you’ll realize that what you said was funny too.

A) You clearly don’t have kids.

B) If everything they did as parents was perfect, people would have felt it was unreal, more so than even the super powers part.

C) It’s a TV Show, conflict and drama keeps people paying attention.

D) Homelander… there may not be stupid questions, but clearly there are stupid statements.

100% inheritance tax on any value over 5 million, and slam shut any loopholes that get found.

Force them to either spend it stimulating the economy or give it up to society directly.

The whole thing with religion is not needing to prove or justify anything to other people.

It’s a social “team” and teams need goals to exist.

When it wasn’t the Gays or abortions it was something else.

The crusades are an obvious example.

The church has cycled through enemies for the entire time its been around. Hell, they even split the religion into different religions just to have someone to play as the “other” and to consolidate power under new leadership.

Many hours a day. I have kids that still need my attention, we all eat dinner together, watch shows or play games together, I drive them to their sports, etc.

Just look at the data, there are historical records going back a century in many locations around the US. Find one close to you and do some digging.

The simple answer is that crazy does happen, and has happened historically, but it’s much more common now than it used to be.

That’s actually not a bad idea with the charging. I don’t currently have a smart socket like that but it’s definitely something I could pick up and test. They should be returning it to charge after use anyways, so we can set that as a rule so that it’s always properly charged.

I wonder if I could tell the difference in power use between plugged in to charge, plugged in and playing, and plugged in charging AND playing. Maybe just the first two. Needs testing.

I did a quick search to see if there are any smart USB chargers that also report the Device Information rather than just on/off status, and couldn’t find anything. That would be useful since it is part of the USB standard to be able to collect that information when a device is plugged in.

Good movie, good acting, and even though the tech was absolutely silly the core concept is still as valid today as it was 30 years ago.

The Net (1995)