I always figured it was nature trying not to breed us into a race of giants, or midgets. I’m a lady and about the average height of men in my area (which my husband points out puts me in the top 5% of women’s height here even though I’m barely even tall) and mostly have dated men around my height. My ex was about my height and our kids were all average height. Husband also around my height. My husband’s ex was a lot shorter than him and his boys are not as tall as me, and I tease him, if he wanted tall kids he needed a tall mom.

So I guess if she had her kids with a tall guy they would have been average height but I never had to think about that, right? But if my kids dad had been really tall my kids would be like Really Tall, maybe more than is healthy?

I know nobody is having kids anymore, lol, but the preferences could be hard wired to some extent.

Also - if only 5% of women are my height or taller, there probably just aren’t enough of us around even if we wanted to breed giants.

I am on team cast iron, nonstick coatings always seem to be problematic. Cast iron gets better and better with time, and I cook with fats, so it works for me. Buy once use forever, other pans have come and gone but my cast iron is still here and my kids argue about who will get it when I die.

But as I’m sure others have already noted, technique makes a big difference too - oil into hot pan, food into hot oil and not moving the food at the beginning helps it release.

I have a big family and cannot understand thinking everyone else in the world needs to do the same thing to make me feel ok about it. Like, how insecure do you have to be to need that? Can’t you just do what you want to because it’s your preference without needing it to be the only ‘right’ way? Just because something is good for me doesn’t mean it’s good for everyone, and it’s a good thing, too. I figured the only reason I even can have many is because others have none.

Yes. My kids would laugh at me when I worked from home because I would not stop typing when I looked up to answer something they were asking me. I suck on the phone keyboard but good with QUERTY big keyboard. My fingers can talk on those

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Florida. It’s this plant, nopales are the leaves, tuna is the fruit. Also the whole plant and the fruit are called prickly pear, but when I see it for sale, it’s Tuna. Nopales taste sort of like green peppers to me.

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Republican voters skew older (retired) so if you make voting difficult for people, the ones with more free time are the ones more likely to vote.

The easier it is for everyone to vote, the less the Republicans are favored.

Mail in ballots would also favor rural voters but I guess there are not enough of them for the conservatives to worry about?

But in short - no, the mix of voters does not stay the same as it increases.

Well, where I live, Tuna is also a cactus. Prickly pear is often called tuna. So yeah, tuna (fish) and tuna (fruit) can need disambiguation.

For me, it’s just such a rare treat to have time to myself, so I like it. If you mean without a partner or family, I dunno either, I did enjoy being alone in that way too. I guess I think if you aren’t happy with yourself, you aren’t going to fix that by being with someone else.

If it’s literal loneliness, I would say make sure to build habits that involve others. Go to yoga class, don’t do it at home. Go get coffee every morning at the same local place. Walk your dog, sit on your front step. Get a job that isn’t done at home. Be in the world, don’t isolate yourself.

That would be cold as heck here, but we are also in open windows season, with nights near 50 and days skirting 80 (10 to 25 ish) and yeah it’s so nice to have fresh air and it finally rained last night, we are in an unfortunate drought after a disappointing rainy season last year.

That’s not as profoundly bad as I was, nor my nearsighted child, and I had a work colleague with -12 who got her vision corrected with Lasik.

I had the Lasik in my 20s for a -6 prescription and got, not perfect, but good enough vision to only need thin, light glasses.

When I was profoundly nearsighted I got really good correction with contacts, hard contacts gave me supernaturally good vision, but glasses never did. Even now I can’t get perfect vision with glasses, it’s just good enough.

You are farsighted? Two older ladies at my work had to get cataract surgery and in the process, their vision was corrected. Do get a second opinion, but it is true that you may not be able to see perfectly through glasses, I never could. Well enough to work, to read, and to not get headaches from squinting all the time, though, I don’t feel disabled by my sight.

Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.

Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.

Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.

It probably depends, but in my city (Tampa FL US) the frequency is by far the biggest problem. We live within easy walking distance of 5 different bus routes (on purpose) including one that goes directly to the uni my penultimate kid went to, the community college my youngest attends, my job, both jobs my youngest works, and my husband’s previous office. Without transfers. One bus. So basically we are the best served family in the whole city, right?

Two of those routes run hourly. The other three only every half hour. So it’s useless for work & school, if you have to be there on time.

This is a degradation of service, too - when I went to the same university, I lived by a bus route that went directly there, and ran every 15 minutes. Buses need to run every 15 minutes to be useful, even if the routes are good.

Paying is not so bad now with the tap to pay but free would streamline the whole affair for sure.

I did have a more themed cocktail today. 2oz bourbon, 5 raspberries, demitasse spoon of sugar, half oz lemon, half oz raspberry liqueur, quarter oz Campari. Muddle fruit and sugar, add the rest, shake with ice.

Strained twice, put in a barolo glass over ice, garnished with raspberries on a pick.

Deep penetration, hee hee.

Red light therapy is reasonably well proven at this point, it’s not magic but can have an effect.

One year on my birthday, years ago, my mom gave me a gift in a jewelry box. I was inwardly groaning, but when I opened it, it was memory for my computer. Which was a thoughtful gift, and a funny way to package it.

Way ahead of her time I guess.

That is so silly. I love pork sausage but veggie sausage is the next best one and clearly is sausage.

Same as “burger”, it is a preparation not an ingredient.

I can fit 2 paper bags of groceries in my bike basket. There is not a grocery on my short commute route or I would go on the way home. But really I can haul a few days stuff in the bike if I want to.

The car was essential when the kids were little, but as a couple the e-bike does more of the heavy lifting.

I love good whiskey, particularly bourbon but anything good enough to drink by itself, lengthened with fizzy water and a lemon wedge. On ice. It’s such a perfect drink. Sort of a Kentucky ranch water.