I also have three cats. One tends to sleep on whatever blanket is folded on the floor. The other two sleep on such a way that I always need to contort into an S.

“Step ladder, no!”

I’m sure that’s partly true. In my experience, that’s just most of what’s tagged as “reality”, so any other situation with anything resembling a storyline takes digging. No wonder I couldn’t get into it.

One of my teachers said something like that in class once. Something about how it’s much easier to sneak a text during class since you can feel the buttons.

The masculine urge to become feminine

Absolutely. But I doubt companies would agree to even try that. They’d rather compete for the spot of “the launcher everyone goes to” (and fail).

I agree. But I’m also keeping in mind that this is the situation capitalists claim to want: competition for everyone to continually improve. They just missed the part where they were supposed to improve and not make things worse. Aside from that, with all the major sites people think of like EA and Epic, it makes things even more difficult to topple that monopoly. Everyone wants to have their games in a convenient place. Having competition is incompatible with what players would want, because they’d need eight different launchers for games. I’m fully content with cycling itch and steam when I want what one or the other offers. For what I imagine is most people, it’s easier to use just one list/site that already has everything.

They got me on this one. I fully expected him to have said something like: “Intelligence had no part in this. It’s just common sense, it’s what we need to do. No thinking required.”

This isn’t exactly new. But it’s still problematic, especially in today’s age. And also much bigger now because of today’s age. Mainstream media is owned either by the right-wing, or by the rich who just surrender to the leading power (which in this case is the right wing anyway). My politically literate friends understand this, at least. But when the major media outlets are unreliable, it leaves either unknown or biased sources of information or citizen journalists (who have their own biases). So there’s no reliable outlet of information that favors the left, at least any that would be considered trustworthy in the wider media sphere. So again, this isn’t news to the politically literate. Those that aren’t get perpetually stuck in the right wing infosphere, because that’s the only “reliable,” known sources, in their perception.

For myself, it depends on where I look and what store I’m in. Sometimes the international section can get me soursop juice. Locally owned stores have a better chance of variety.

I’m more annoyed that stores can have entire “juice” aisles, but only the last 10 or so ft. are 100% juice, only 2-3 ft. of which is organic. The rest are juice flavored drinks.

I have a relative who is a doctor. Had a claim denied once from someone that was not a doctor. Next: denied by someone not actively practicing in the field. Then denied by a doctor with no experience in that specialty. Only after all of that was it approved. They’ve also been picky about order of operations, such as not covering an MRI because there wasn’t also an order for a CT.

“They said I wouldn’t believe it.”