1. Visible tattoos. Have to be off legal age to get a tattoo, right?

2. Talk to them. Even if it’s awkward, it’s practice.

I was thinking Russian Roulette, but I guess your way is fine.

I forget what they are called, but there is basically a parachute on a rope that gets dropped into fast deep water currents to tow boats.

I don’t do it as often as I should, but I like making a big batch of soup or stew and freezing it in portion size containers.

45: $20,000 in sinus surgery so you aren’t halfway suffocating while you sleep.

I wrote for 7 or 8 books of a popular role playing game. Won an industry award at GenCon for one of them.

There should be a 100% tax on every company’s advertising budget. For every dollar they spend on advertising they should have to pay just as much.

It may not seem cheap at first, but 3D printing. What it costs to set up, you can quickly make up by not having to spend money on things you can just print for yourself. There are loads of little plastic parts that break that cost a fortune to replace. I’ve done new shelf brackets for my fridge and new locking clips for my windows for example. On top of that I’ve printed loads of presents for people. My mom can’t stop talking about the windmill I printed for her deck.

If the essentials of life are all shifted to “welfare capitalism” the power of class and capital to subjugate is greatly diminished. Add in mass union membership and it gets even better.

Not really. It’s entirely possible to pick and choose. We chose a socialist model for fire department because the capitalist model proved disastrous. Many countries successfully did the same for healthcare, retirement, and all sorts of things. At the same time, capitalism is great when you want a million choices on TV to watch or a grocery store with a whole aisle of different types of cookies.

To me, the difference is the impact of failures. If someone starts a company making a new type of cookie and it proves not to be profitable, it goes bankrupt. Unfortunate, but ultimately not a big deal. If someone has cancer and curing them isn’t profitable, you can’t just give up. That person’s life is more important than profit.

People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.

There are dozens of us!

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I’ve seen enough HGTV to know the answer is always shiplap.

Falling in love is not a choice. Staying in love is a choice.

Check out an app called Karrot. It’s basically craigslist but you periodically have to confirm your location, so you know all items are local. It also has a shockingly accurate photo identification and pricing feature.

Honestly, I gave up on dealing with bed adhesion issues on fine parts and just use a glue stick on the bed.

Amusingly I got a spam call last week that came up on caller ID as “Obama 2012”.

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The chemical most places use for drycleaning is perchloroethylene, or perc, which can contaminate groundwater if not stored or disposed of properly.