I make as much of my own food as possible. So I mostly buy basic ingredients.

Mayo, ketchup, BBQ sauce, ramen broth, grow my own yeast, bake breads all types, pizza dough for home made pizza, kimchi, grow some herbs and other plants when possible. You eat healthier, and tastes way, way better. Some planning required since you make things in bulk but since there are no preservatives, food will not last months, unless you also make your own preserves, but it gets easier with practice. Pickled stuff is delicious.

Also, will buy meat with bone in, use the bones to make broth and sauces for better for flavour.

Depends of where you live and what your definition of what your standards are.

If you compare to the rest of the world, you would be very wealthy in most of the world. In most of Asia or Latin America or Africa you would be laughing.

In some Wester countries you would be well off assuming you are smart with your money. Depending where you live.

In some cities like New York, San Fran or Vancouver you will get by alright. Depends on expectations. I known people who plow through cash because that’s their lifestyle. I do not relate.

It sort of depends, since many people get into the mindset of spending more, the more they earn, sometimes irresponsibly. Personally, I go out of my way to spend well beneath my means, do not throw money on fads and got the party lifestyle out of system a long time ago, so 200k would be plenty which would allow for savings for larger purchases like property or investments. Especially if your partner contributes to the treasury.

No.

I am on the Left, and if I am objective, a lot of very extreme lefty people seem to really like censorship when convinient. X does not censor the way they like, so clearly it is a National Socialist website now. You will notice they will claim anyone who does not think like them is a National Socialist or a Nationalist Socialist sympathizer. Disagreeing with people is not “hate” and people not agreeing with me or saying things I do not like is not hate. Free speech includes dissenting opinions and none of us should pretend to be the morality police since I too see calls of violence from the Left but for some reason that is fine when we do it. Do not like hypocrisy, does not matter what side it comes and all sides are guilty of it at some point. That just reality.

Elon, despite the silly claim that he is one, is not a National Socialist. National socialism is a full on political framework like socialism. Who here, aside a stupid hand gesture can point out the exact National Socialist policies that Elon follows? Endless ad hominems do not make a person a national socialist, at least not among adults and for the record, I do not like Elon.

But it makes sense why hate get brought up a lot since “hate speech” laws were introduced by Stalin.

Objectively speaking it is far more open today than it was before. If anyone actually bothered to read the Twitter files, which I assume most people here have not out of ideological bias they would see how much it censored as per the Biden admin requests.

If people do not like people’s opinions then do not follow them or look them up. This has worked for me for decades or just do not pay attention to them.

No.

Unless it can be imperically proven beyond reasonable doubt in order to remove human bias, say, like politics, et al. Otherwise it is glorified opinion. A lot of soft science is so-called science by committee.

Hard science already has an existing problem of soft science think-creep as it is.

But at least we have the choice. Cows don’t.

Albeit true, not to the extent of cows.

Grass is nutritionally poor. The reason we are smart in many ways is due to our varied diet. Even if we had evolutionary gone in that direction we would be dumber. Eating grass is a specialisation.

Also, we would not look like we do. If you look at the digestive track of a horse or a cow, you will see that they are longer. Carnivores have the shortest and we as omnivores are in between. Being an omnivote is a good thing and in the end, we can get more nutrition by hunting and gathering than by grassing.

Worth noting, while individual cows’ behaviour and preferences vary greatly, the time spent feeding and ruminating usually adds up to 4-7 hours a day. Our society would be were we are today if we spent 7 hours as a species eating grass in order to make ir worthwhile.

Evolution can only evolve so much within an existing animal especies in order to specialise or fit in a survival niche. Hence you do not see sea crabs that can fly or flies that live in the bottom of the sea.

Cows only have 1 stomach. That is devided in 4 compartments.

Hey, IPAC did help, too.

Wow, you still have it? Awesome.

I have added so many search engines to KISS! One of my best features.

Really like the tons of gestures on this one!

Sure. It is a user data collection funnel, developed with love and care, as to maxize MS shareholdee value, and increase the size of Bill Gates’s bank accounts.

No one should use it.

Okay, I get it that many people are not happy with the current administration but to claim what you just claim tells me that you know nothing of China’s actual political structure and how it relates to its citizens. The USA as a whole, is still way better than. The CCP.

Like the West recent 1984’s policy pushes both in the USA, and Canada, and Australia, Germany, And the UK are literally just coping the current CCP playbook.

Likely the consortium that currently bought TikTok does not agree with his political bias, where the Biden one did.

Same with Covid shots, Biden and Kamala were essentially saying that they would not or would hesitate to take “Trump’s Covid vaccine.” Then, a month later they won, and then had no problem pushing it onto everyone because it was no longer “Trump’s Vaccine,” but their own administration’s. I can’t be the only one that remmebers that.