Only fans is like shopping locally to support small business. If you can afford to, it’s better than the big box* stores.

*Yes, I know you’re into that.

Economics 101. It works great because you get to ignore greed, collusion, external forces, and human behavior.

There’s a reason they also teach economics 201.

From what I’ve seen, it’s like the beans. It’d been a while since we had some ridiculous/fun trend.

I still haven’t found what started it though.

Today? Well you see, there was a lot of corn yesterday and it’s still going.

Tablet. And the cage was created by me to keep them safe. They’ll get more access and bigger toys as they age.

No. Listen. I know a lot of US politicians who can be signed up.

How quickly we adapt. The president SHOULDN’T control the DOJ. separation of powers is supposed to be a thing.

How would the Democrats have already used it?

Let’s take it and recycle it

Source: a doctor with a flashlight and a rubber glove.

I think you’re underestimating the amount of real pain that is caused by the current iteration of society. People aren’t supposed to function in a world like this. It’s broken and they’re suffering. It’s great if some small fraction of people can tough it out. Good for them. They’re the aberration.

Gender fluid was just mimosa. Going to brunch is how you get more.

This is a definition problem I think. I don’t use the word “responsible” to mean sole ownership. For example. We are all responsible for the cleanliness of our roads. It is a shared responsibility that we all participate in.

And, I think, we are all responsible for modeling good behaviors for people to emulate.

It’s how I’ve explained it to myself over the years. Otherwise people are insufferable :-p.

Of course it does. You’re only ever responsible for yourself.

And that mentality does not lead to good things.

Oh yes. Pushing personal responsibility to the end user has always been a very effective security strategy.

That’s still part of the job. Building and maintaining relationships allows you to call on those relationships to be productive. Even people that seem useless could be connected to other people who are useful.

It’s also part of the job to maintain a baseline of morale.

If a person is truly a time waster, set a boundary and tell your boss.

I’ll bite.

The risk is training people in bad behaviors, and then having those people do stupid things like type in a password.

instead of wasting 30 minutes?

Did the paycheck clear? Did you get paid? Then it wasn’t a waste. It’s part of the job. Do your job. Even the parts you don’t like.

feel like I won’t get anywhere in running

Running is the one sport where you’re guaranteed to get somewhere. Sure, it’s only 500 meters away. But it sounds like you’d benefit from distance from the crazy.

People requiring consent more. Also, people being less likely to lie about sexual topics now.

I’d like to see a graph of consensual sex per week over time.