Temperance was led mostly by the protofeminists who wanted fewer drunk husbands beating their wives and then taken over by xenophobes and antipapists who realized that alcohol use was correlated with immigrant and catholic communities. At least at the start, it was very grassroots.

Well, I’d probably want to keep the sex worker in question out of jail, but otherwise yes

I’ve always heard to put them on top of an already cooked slice, don’t cook them at pizza oven temperatures. That might be why you didn’t trip, but it might also be an old wives tale

Yeah, my exs brother was from New England and went to school in the south. One year there was a snowstorm that closed everything there for a couple of days. He made a bunch of money doing package store runs for his dorm because he knew how to drive in the snow, but he said it was still much worse driving conditions than at home because the town didn’t have any snowplows and had to scrounge to get enough sand for the main roads

I’m from the US, and I only left a few years ago, but I can’t really recognize it anymore.

I used to work at the headquarters of a fortune 200 company (one of the largest 200 companies in the US, for reference, Adobe is #201), which is probably the most conservative environment I’ve ever been in (though it was still in New England, so take that with a grain of salt). Sometimes I think about my former coworkers and try to imagine them as trump supporters, which is difficult to do. I have no issue picturing them as diehard Kamala supporters, and I can imagine them being totally unmoved by the genocide in Palestine, but one of three things must be true: society is so stratified that I just don’t know many trump supporters; people have significantly changed since 2021; or they were hiding.

No, no, no! Of course these are popular policies, but we have to resist them because of Calvinism they’re greedy how will we learn to take care of ourselves without surviving off of a small fraction of the value we add to the economy?

In the afterlife, nobody asks him if he’s still a fan of ayn Rand

That’s what the floors in my elementary school and church looked like growing up, but I haven’t seen a floor like that in decades. It’s gotta be fucking cold in the winter.

Inter city express, just FYI.

Although it’s a great way to sneak public transport past republicans

Yeah, millions of Johnsons survive sharing a name with a guy who must have been a real prick.

I’d take a pill beaker or gonzo gave me. Not because I trust their medical opinions, but I trust them to know some fun pills.

I work at a bakery and wear shorts at work year round. Customers are always surprised that I’m wearing shorts, often exclaiming in the same breath how nice and warm the bakery is.

45% of shoplifters steal food, not shoppers. I would guess the others are taking clothes, jewelry, electronics, etc.

Honestly? That’s way better, even though it feels grosser.

I think so, but I really vibe with that description. I don’t think humanity’s bad, I just rub people the wrong way much of the time in ways I can’t really perceive, so it feels like I don’t really “get it.” I do try though, and it seems like it often takes up all of my energy to pay attention to all of my body language and facial expressions so I don’t come off as rude.

Your form is more of a human-shaped animate object than an actual human being.

Plot twist: I already feel like that

Shapeshifter: it’s broken as hell if you take it to the molecular level. Shapeshift into something that can fly, into a very thin transparent film on the ceiling of a room, into something which can withstand great temperatures or bullets, hell, you can even shapeshift into something that photosynthesizes.

Just like ice hole fishing time

I’ve eaten a variant on shepherds pie with cabbage instead of corn and pea based fake meat for the last two nights for dinner and wooooof.

This is very timely, thank you.