the average person doesn’t eat much if any vegetables, leafy greens, or fruit, which fill up your stomach much more than meat or bread.

I know he likes Bruce Springsteen, but he’s not really a music person in general.

I personally wouldn’t do tofu in a crockpot. For simple “drop meals” I’d recommend an instant pot chana masala or lentil curry. Generally beans and lentils are going to come out better in stews, whereas tofu will come out better baked, like in this simple tofu curry or special occasion tofu tikka masala.

To be clear, the guys who voted against it in 2010 were literal 70 year old boomers who were raised in McCarthyism and scared of communism. Like actually cited that “it’s too communist” as a reason to vote against it.

bae is the one that was really everywhere and then just fell off a cliff.

I get a reasonable amount of mail. Like a few pieces/week. You could also use a lease/print out the utility bills in your name.

They really do though. Like, you’re assuming a level of rationality that they don’t possess.

Behavioral standards plummeted during the pandemic and never recovered. People are a lot more stressed, and they refuse to behave. We’re divided, and it really does not help that our leadership literally believes that AI is going to replace most jobs.

I don’t know that this has an appropriate comparison. Right now it’s more like the US committed a terrorist attack than a war.

therapy is not a magic “make the trauma go away” button. nobody is designed to experience high levels of stress that frequently. all anyone can do is tolerate the traumatic role for as long as they can and then transition into a more comfortable role when they can’t deal with it anymore.

I’m a little confused on what basis you mean left, because without strong government there aren’t going to be any checks on capitalism, discrimination, abuses, etc.

one time when I was talking about a video I saw about Moldova, someone commented “I rarely see people know about my country”. Moldova is on Ukraine’s southwestern border (so opposite of the Russian side). It’s mostly impoverished rural backwater, and its city is in decay from the soviet era.