Ohio voters recently passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, so writing that bill here is certainly mostly a signal to national politics.

Also, I had a vasectomy, so would I still be able to wank away under the proposed bill? lol

Some of those things I could see a pattern as described. The exception for me is public transportation. It exists in urban areas with high diversity. But it doesn’t exist in the suburbs which are much more white. The rich suburbs, it doesn’t matter as everyone is driving a new Audi or whatever. But the poorer white suburbs are really a terrible place to live, you can’t go anywhere without a car, and most jobs don’t pay wages that accommodate housing, food and car expenses anymore. The cost increases have way outpaced wages. I know that affects urban life too, but at least they have access to buses etc.

I never pay for extras, and my financial stability is what you would expect from someone giving that answer. But I do like guac, so if I’m feeling the call for some avocado I order a veggie. You lose the meat but the guacamole goodness is included.

As an anti-aurhoritarian I’ve been of the opinion that that we’ve been an authoritarian hell hole for pretty much all of my life. Yes Trump is a fascist but the government is also heavy-handed when Democrats are in power. If you’re encouraged that almost half of the votes went to authoritarian Harris, I’d say you shouldn’t be. She wasn’t a leftist, honestly I think of her as a little bit fascist too, just less ironically puritan.

He could have tried to take action on wages though. Even Harris was relatively quiet on wages.

I’m daily feeding a 15yo boy, two 17yo girls, a 20yo girl, a cat, and my wife and I. I thought my monthly food spending was too high 20 years ago when we were just expecting our first kid, we ate out a little more than we needed to. I’m spending triple that now, almost never eating out, and I make less than I did 20 years ago too. It’s completely unsustainable.

Yeah I eat quite a few plant-based meals but I’m glad they’re vegetarians who are okay with dairy and eggs and not fully vegan. I don’t know if I could afford two vegans in the house on top of the other four of us. Food costs are crazy right now. I think having hand raised backyard chickens who love to be held and love to give their eggs, that made the difference. Not all poultry farming or milk production is traumatic. If I could get a little more land I’d think about a few milk cows so I could make my own cheese.

My problem is we have three teenagers of our own plus an extra one who lives with us 60% of the time. Two of them are vegetarian but eat eggs for protein. The rest of us just like eggs. We go through about 3-4 dozen a week.

Whatever it was, it’s zero now.

Men are killed more often. But men generally have less fear. We go boldly unto death.

Gangs drive murder rates. Looking at areas in the US without gang activity, the murder rate is almost as low anywhere else in the world.

I get about 10-15 spam calls a day, but I do have two business lines forwarded to my personal phone too. If I do answer a call from a number I don’t know because I’m expecting a call, and it turns out to be spam I just hang up immediately.

I’ll take Pellegrino. But the devil didn’t make carbonated water, he made Canada Geese,

So, a number approaching zero? I’d cede the point if people from other parts of the Americas were wanting to be called American. But they overwhelmingly don’t.

That’s essentially what I have been doing. You’d be surprised how many predators still roam the suburbs though. I have lost chickens to raccoons, opossums, hawks, dogs and foxes.

My only real suggestion is check your zoning. I was operating in a kind of grey area but I have known people who had to get rid of their chickens to avoid daily fines. Getting well set up for chickens is a bit of work, I wouldn’t want to do that in vain.

To be fair, lots of animals like to kill chickens. I’ve lost dozens to predators. And I’m committed to free range, I don’t want to keep chickens locked in a small coop/run all the time. I still lock them up at night and they appreciate that. I actually have zero at the moment, waiting for spring to start over after some dogs jumped over my fence and killed all of mine. I still get free eggs from my sister though. Oh, and you can’t suggest chicken ownership without disclosing all of the chicken shit. It’s almost mountains of chicken shit.

In a lot of the US eggs were under a dollar pretty recently. I’ve been paying $5-$7 the last couple of months. But I also get a lot of free eggs. But it’s just bird flu decimating the supply so they raise prices to reduce demand and make up for lack of sales volume.

How many of them commonly refer to themselves as Americans?

I like mine carmelized.

Who you gonna call?

Nobody, ever.