Might just be a subconscious response to still-active societal social pressures, and your mind reminding you why it’s not a good idea. Perhaps on some low level you may still want a certain amount of relation with your peers that’s reminiscent of those younger days that you no longer have, but your brain is fighting back to that base instinct.

I use it, and it has more helped with exposed tooth root sensitivity. Are you consistent with using it? I’m pretty sure it takes at least a few days to a week to build effectiveness and you have to keep using it without substitution.

Y’all know why the US is freaking out about Chinese innovation? Because America decided stock prices were of the utmost importance and stopped innovating a long time ago. They really only pissed off because China is playing a different game (the game we originally stomped them at) and kicking our asses in the process. Maybe if we stopped playing the market and started making good shit again, we’d have less to complain about.

Jergens is industry standard

Roll tide

America as we know it might also not be around much longer.

No doubt there’s a major push globally to descend into authoritarianism, arguably under the auspice that people are fed up with capitalism and voting for something different. But it’s hard to convince billions of people that the real root is a handful of billionaires playing Pinky and the Brain. We’ll just have to see, unfortunately.

Sounds about right. My wife has friends abroad that have been calling and asking if everything is alright, then start the questions of how we let this happen, why don’t we do anything about it, etc. And I’ll be honest, I do feel pretty helpless at the moment and very uneasy about the next period of time. I’ve been reading quite a bit about WWII and how Germany got into their situation, and almost too much if it parallels. Most of the population was sick of the status quo and wanted change, those who spoke up and tried pointing certain things out were labeled as worrying lunatics, and most of society was too ignorant to care until it was too late. I mean, what the hell is an individual to do? I could grab my rifle and take to the streets, and immediately get gunned down by cops, or start writing letters that will pretty just get me added to a list at this point.

I have such low standards for media these days that it doesn’t really phase me, and I get to be pleasantly surprised when something is good. I don’t really watch much TV outside of a few select shows that I throw on in the background, I’ve never been much of a gamer so I’m kinda glad I’m not really clued in to how bad it’s gotten, and with movies I’ll wait for a recommendation or just work through my server library of old and new. I think I’ve just kind of accepted media enshittification at this point and there’s already several lifetimes of great movies and books I’ve yet to experience that it’s no big loss, and anything truly awesome that comes along in the interim is a welcome light.

11/5/2024

In a year that will be a paltry sum, we just gave them the combo to the safe and said *have at it."

Of course not, at least not here in the states. My premium went up $60/year and their reasoning was that due to an increased number of accidents and claims across the board, everyone’s goes up, despite the fact the I haven’t had an accident or even a claim in almost 20 years.

She’s now a raging alcoholic, so dodged an ICBM

It’s almost like every state isn’t a monolithic political entity

Not just him. Trump has the most billionaire-packed administration in history, and they are all about to see huge gains.

I mean, you were given eyes for a reason. Also, how often do you go to the bathroom that warrants enough time for a spider to build a web??

Historically, it was the democratic party pre 1960s that were the defenders of slavery. Lincoln was a Republican at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the ideologies basically switched around the time of the Civil Rights Act.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats