I first read artisanal as arsenal and thought that’s about right.

I’d probably hit her up for barbecue advice, though.

…What did I just read?

It totally looks like purple drank/lean/prescription cough syrup and soda.

They’ve actually run those deficits up very intentionally. If you aren’t familiar with the Two Santas Strategy, this is worth a read:

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

I had moderate mysophobia as a child to young adult. I wouldn’t share food or drinks due to a fear of mouth bacteria (and would throw it away if someone else helped themselves to it), I’d excessively clean dishes and cooking surfaces, wash my hands multiple times if I touched something I considered contaminated, cooked meat until it was beyond well done, etc.

It got way better after I went to college for microbiology. Actually understanding microbes helped immensely. I’m still a little weird about other people’s bodily fluids, especially saliva, but otherwise probably care less than many people about “germs”. I uphold much higher standards for other people’s food, but I’ll (conditionally) eat food I dropped on the floor, cook my chicken to a bit less than 74°C and eat blue rare steak, ferment my own foods and brew my own alcohol, pull mold off my bread or cheese and eat the rest, and I now wash my hands an appropriate amount.

I can’t say no fucks given, but instead a situationally appropriate amount of fucks given, with a lot of extra leeway due to uncommonly advanced knowledge.

Given that’s now my field, why haven’t I started that comm?! I’ll get on it.

I did the same! In retrospect, I’m surprised it never occurred to me that something wasn’t quite right.

So I’m an environmental microbiologist. If it’s any consolation, these incidents are very rare despite people doing similar things frequently. Even if you do snort water that’s home to Naegleria fowleri, infection isn’t common. If you take basic precautions, you really don’t have anything to worry about.

Thank you!

Seconded, I need this!

I’m 5’6. Yeah. So much. I was rejected like crazy for my height in my teens and early twenties, but I lived in a particularly shitty part of the United States, so I’m not surprised in retrospect. I also dated a ton, so there was a lot of opportunity for rejection. I even remember a woman I was not interested in and had shown absolutely no interest in going out of her way to tell me she would date me if I wasn’t so short.

I relocated to a much more progressive part of the country and it hasn’t come up once in nearly a decade.

Edit: I should mention it was only an issue with women, I never heard anything about it from men.

Regardless of if the stats are accurate, I can assure you the education is terrible.

Instant micro plastics: just add seawater!

You may already know about this, but increasing the national debt has been the point. For five decades.

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

Haha, I did what I could. Thanks!

Ohhhh shit, you’re right! They’re… Uh… Fruit predators, stalking the wild papaya.

Don’t forget the mammalian predator fruit predator the wrinkle faced bat, a creature so ugly its face has a foreskin.

Edit: oops. They’re frugivores!

Am biologist, can confirm we’ll laugh.

Goddamn, we’re at around $4.10-4.20 per gallon here. Same as Hawaii, 33% more than NYC. Gotta love the PNW.