I’m not a fast food person, but the McDonald’s Arch Deluxe was amazing. I’d love to have one again. Also Pepsi Kona (coffee-flavored Pepsi) was really good.

I miss things having actual buttons instead of touchscreen - most commonly, car dashboards. But even my microwave’s interface has a touchscreen feel. It’s not an actual screen but the “buttons” don’t need to be pressed so much as grazed, or sometimes my finger being near the button is enough to “press” it. So it ends up in a lot of false inputs that I have to clear out and start over. I have to be very deliberate which slows down my ability to use the stupid thing. And I mostly only use it as a kitchen timer, I can’t imagine how annoyed I’d be if I used it more frequently!

So yeah, buttons.

…mizu?

Honestly I know I’m an acquired taste, so if this ever happened to me I’d probably say “Different strokes for different folks! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

Thank you! :)

I did just drink some Metamucil…

Maybe my dog (RIP old friend) as a scifi cyborg superhero?

You motherfucker…

I shall not take the bait.

Sam Harris blamed trans people for Trump’s win so…

Yeah, probably the same Texans who were shouting about death panels and “don’t pull the plug on Grandma” when Obama tried to fix healthcare.

OOP uses centigrade and spells color as “colour”; they’re probably not American.

some people go to the market just to haggle because it’s fun

This sounds like an actual nightmare

Pees in it a little first.

She might want to look into thingamabobs

An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature

I own one. It’s the Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine. I saw it at Barnes and Noble and thought it was cute so I got it.

I don’t really get why people would collect tons of these things, but I didn’t understand baseball cards or beanie babies either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For a simple example: my mother is Catholic and until Trump came along, a lifelong single-issue Republican voter who always said she would be a Democrat if it weren’t for abortion. She attends church in an extremely progressive, famously LGBTQ-friendly town.

There’s a transwoman who attends her church (let’s call her Rita). This lady is probably in her mid-50s to mid-60s and has been a fixture at the church for at least 5 years. My mom has been in choir and bible study groups with her for years now. She still just can’t see Rita as a woman. Treats her politely but behind her back refuses to call her “she” and says she’s a “man in a dress”.

She’s really offended that Rita uses the ladies’ room. I’ve asked her why and she can’t articulate it, she just feels like it’s an invasion of her privacy, because men don’t belong in the ladies’ room. And when I point out that Rita isn’t a man, she just rolls her eyes. I’ve asked her if she’s worried that Rita is in there for predatory purposes and she admits that she doesn’t think Rita intends any harm. I’ve asked her how she’d feel if she were forced to use the men’s room and she says “but that’s different!”

My mom prides herself in being a moral person, and still can’t manage to get past her bigotry to see Rita as a woman. There are just too many mental blockades against it. But since she thinks she’s so highly moral, she thinks she must be correct in this situation. It excuses her from finding empathy and bettering her attitude toward trans folks.

My longwinded point is that when people who consider themselves highly moral are bigoted, there’s almost zero chance of getting through to them. And I think a lot of the people who are bigoted against trans folks feel that morality is on their side and being trans is morally deviant, so they think they’re justified in their prejudice.

Those are pretty great cat thumbs.

Yeah…GrubHub is so fucking expensive that I’m surprised they’re still in business.

Republicans

I didn’t change my name. My perspective is that my identity doesn’t change just because I got married. My name has been mine since birth and it’ll remain that way.