A couple of ideas:

• Home Ownership. I know condos exist, but it seems to me that we need a solution for home ownership that is accessible and ecologically viable. Traditional houses (and even duplex’s/townhomes) are massively inefficient from a climate perspective, not to mention the space requirements and cost.

• Child rearing. In college, I learned that children were typically raised by multiple neighbors, in order to lessen the strain on parents. I think it is unrealistic and unhealthy to expect people to nearly kill themselves attempting to raise a child for the first couple of years.

• Recreation space. I realize this is mostly an American thing, but lawns are a colossal waste of space. To be of any use at all, they have to be at least half an acre, and realistically, there’s no reason every single family needs their own outdoor recreation space. Plus, a tiny minority of people even use them these days.

It’s fairly common where I live, but dentists recommend against it because it weakens tour enamel.

I’ve never done it. Reasonably healthy teeth can be quite stained before they become noticeable to a random stranger while you’re talking of whatever.

Not necessarily. You can live outside your means at any income level.

Also, children are fucking expensive.

Meters are fine too, they’re basically just yards.

Kilometers, degrees Celsius, and kilograms can fuck right off.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/permanent-sterilization-increasing-after-dobbs#Female-sterilization-rates-nearly-doubled-after-Dobbs-

The researchers found after the Dobbs decision there was an immediate increase of 58 sterilization procedures for women or about 5.31 procedures a month per 100,000 people. This is nearly double the previous rate of 2.84 procedures per month for women.

Supposedly not a large increase in vasectomies, which I find strange. I got mine done lol

Unfortunately, cutting drugs with things to make them either cheaper or stronger is pretty common most places, in fact it’s basically universal here. Some weed dealers have relatively uncontaminated stock, but most don’t.

And good fucking luck if you buy any kind of pills or anything.

I love it. It’s a shame it’s as abusive and shitty as it is, but I love it regardless.

Unfortunately, my body can’t support it. If it could, that’s what I’d be doing with my life.

Not proper cooking to a well temp, but you never really know if proper food safety practices were observed or not.

Yeah, that’s it. I was diagnosed when it was still a very recently discovered condition (well…It still kind of is…). As a result, I have some secondary effects from “novel” treatments my parents tried.

Antiquated terms can and frequently do become more offensive when they refer to a characteristic people consider undesirable. This is true of >!negro!<, >!retard!<, >!cripple(d)!<, as well as several other terms.

You see the term “>!negro!<” used a lot in abolitionist literature, because it was a polite way to refer to a black person at the time. As we all know, that is very much not the case anymore.

Well they said “all”, so more like " the gang causes a massive global financial collapse."

As their edit suggests, this name actually was for Brazil nuts, where they are at least kind of the right color.

This name also dates back to the 18th century, which best I can tell was before that word was considered a slur in those regions, if not everywhere.

Shit, I’ve been this person since I was a teen. My BP drops like a rock in the heat, if I’m out in the summertime, I really can’t stand in place for more than a couple of minutes.

Generally it isn’t an issue because there’s enough seats to go around (and I don’t live somewhere with public transit), but I’ve had one or two less than pleasant conversations when on vacation.

Disagree with your underlying assertion that students do not read nonfiction books. Your textbooks are nonfiction.

In terms of more “classic” nonfiction materials, j don’t think it’s a very important skill. Something like Anne Frank’s diary or Night can definitely be powerful, but I don’t think reading a secondary source on the American civil war has any more value for a student than a chapter in a textbook.

Not all economic problems are a recession. Consumers are facing significant issues right now, but the overall economy is doing well.

Our issue is that all that wealth is mysteriously staying in the hands of large corporations.

Average car price before the pandemic was about $38k. By 2023, it was $49k.

The trend has been ongoing for a long time due to general inflation and a growing preference for SUVs, but it went fucking bananas during the pandemic, and auto manufacturers have taken advantage.

Uhhh isn’t the whole point of a bed that you can put things of whatever height you want in it because there isn’t a roof or anything?

That’s been the case for at least the past couple of decades. The massive price increases have been over the past 4 years.

Sort of. I’m glad we are wasting less in terms of automobile manufacture, but this is caused by price gouging on the part of automakers more than anything.

That means when we all eventually have to buy another car, we’re just going to get fucked.

That would mean you need to enforce the law for whoever built the model. If the original creator has 100TB of cheese pizza, then they should be the one who gets arrested.

Otherwise you’re busting random customers at a pizza shop for possession of the meth the cook smoked before his shift.