1. gold coins at the local coin shop

2. I clear out the grocery store canned and boxed goods aisles and donate everything to the food bank

Dehumanizing the enemy! You would make a great Nazi. You’re already partway there!

The god of the gap? No. I believe in proof and evidence, and once you have that it’s not supernatural anymore. Isn’t the real world interesting enough?

This is only true for exactly as long as the weapons are held, though. Unless you plan on holding someone at weapons -point for life, the power eventually reverts.

The problem with age gaps isn’t age; it’s experience and power. Three years is still a big percentage of your life right now. In ten years time, three years will not be as significant a part of your life.

Think about how different you expect to be as a person in three years. Can you even realistically imagine who you will be?

As far as relationships - they work out when the people in them have common goals, and they fail- no matter how much love is in there- when the people involved are going in different directions in life. Part of your problem at your age is that the direction of your like is likely to change drastically over the coming years in ways you cannot anticipate.

Every single fertility god and goddess throughout history is giving you the side-eye right now.

I would happily argue that the plastic is a step down; metal potato peelers last a lot longer.

Steel capped ends

Ceramic might be better than wood

Silicone might be better than wood

Everywhere people live there too live men tempted by easy wrong solutions to blame their problems on. The only way to eliminate that is to eliminate people.

The fact of our administration going full fascist does not reduce the fact of other fascist regimes who still hate our guts.

Fullmetal Alchemist

The Vorkosigan Series

Swordheart by Ursula Vernon

You frequently want to set your clients on fire, huh

Oh! Last time we moved I found free land! All you had to do was pay for the road. Do I looked up road costs.

Nope. Noooooope.

I got them twice in reddit. One was some wildly racist whackjob who really got off on calling me stuff while making up some weird story about who I was in his head. Report and block and move on. Another was a Freemason candidate who was SUPER upset after he acted like a douche and got called on it by his own people. He blamed me for his actions. Lots of people will blame other folks for their own actions.

Reddit is nearly 100% AI bots these days on the popular subs. You’re good to get away. The interface over here is shite and takes forever to figure out, but the people are nice.

That’s such a weird order of operations. Like, your medical conditions are simultaneously such a big part of your life, and yet also so deeply personal that it feels like they should not be part of the initial conversation, which is supposed to be shallow and light, not immediately heavy duty.

I think perhaps there are other more important considerations than mere trans-ness, like “do they have the same overall life goals that I have” and “are they taking care of their mind and body and fitness”. But transness may inform those aspects. If a significant focus of their life is on their own gender, I might struggle with that. If they’re already at a point where they have dealt with it and moved on to other things, then it might work. If they have comorbid issues beyond transness, like depression and anxiety, that can be a deal breaker unless they are managing themselves and putting in the work.

On the other hand, good fences make good neighbors, and paywalls are a way of drawing healthy boundaries. If I write a book I am not donating that book to the world free of charge to use as they please and train an AI to replace me. I would like to be paid for my work somehow. If I and a team of researchers and engineers and finance folks and HR folks and janitors work together to build a vaccine distribution system, we don’t get that for free.

Paywalls are a useful mechanism for ensuring that people aren’t abusing you and your work.

Problem isn’t paywalls. It’s that how you do things matters. If you hoard all the food and paywall it at high prices so you can buy fancy cars, that’s not ok. If you set aside food for a local community supper so that kids can’t use it for their trebuchet practice, that’s sensible.