Because the fanfic would lead us further away from our path to god.

He lost the casino because he wasn’t willing to play ball with the family. He thought he could be a big shot and say what happens and found out you don’t try and cut in on the business of the family without giving tribute.

You swallowed smoke.

They were better as Mermaid’s Purse Bistro.

Monthly briskets, brewing alcohols, fine overcomplicated precision woodworking with exotic wood inlays because “bubinga” is fun to say, road trips for natural features and new taco joints, painting, restore/modicfy cars, and a concerning amount of day-drinking because that is the only way I can get through the day knowing what the world has come to when I can’t distract myself with any of the other things.

Rich people don’t tip service much better than other people. You can make more tip money working in places that cater to rich people, like a high end hotel, mostly by volume but random odds generous rich people that will tip far more than average. Most rich people do know the value of a dollar and tip like they make $40k a year. The people who come from money and have never had an actual job are the ones that are out of touch with reality and will tip $20 on a $40 pizza delivery.

Tradesmen, especially union, or construction managers tip well and often.

Rappers tend to tip stupidly well because their entire thing is throwing money around like it is nothing as a flex.

You are just trying to live your life and it is so unimaginable an existence that it is incongruous with their concept of a comfortable life.

There is nothing wrong with your life, so long as you are happy and healthy. There is nothing wrong with their concept of a comfortable life. Both are shaped by notions derrived from life experience and personal prioritizations and either party cannot hold the other to be worthwhile without a greater understanding of the individual.

Hurting someone else’s feelings is an unavoidable truth in living a radically different path that they do not understand.

The best you can do for them is to try and help them see that their path is not the only one. Help them to understand your needs are met and you respect their path.

Next time, you can try to help them understand that they can offer nothing of value that will make your life better for you and give them an opportunity to understand you are whole in your path. Ask them what they want your life to be like, what your life is lacking, what they can do for you, and address each of their points with salient and cogent arguments that express your contention in your life’s circumstances.

If their best efforts have no value to you, help them understand that, if you don’t want to hurt their well intentioned efforts.

Social workers are typically people who love to help people, it gives their life meaning and purpose. They have helped numerous people in rough situations get a comfortable living situation and have no further need of assistance and every time they are over the moon with joy for what they have been able to do for that person.

They meet people who genuinely need help that they can provide and are turned down because of pride/humiliation. Some of those people just need them to be persistent for their help to be accepted.

It must be so soul crushing and demoralizing to have someone you believe you can help tell you to take it on the arches.

While you don’t need their help and are happy living as you do, they think you do need their help and won’t accept it. Your radical freedom breaks their well-meaning, but misguided, hearts.

In current mainstream thought gender =/= sex.

So your second point should be phrased “Is changing sex also (soon to be) possible”, as sex is genetic and gender is a concept.

Maybe with some radical gene therapy sex could be changed, but I imagine that to be a rather long and unpleasant process if physical changes happened. It would probably be more feasible to make a clone with the different sex and then transplant consciousness. That just raises further questions like if you died and is that still you. Probably before that is viable we will be uploaded to computer systems to escape the environmental effects of our actions and your avatar will be up to your whims.

What it is like to chew 5 gum, on DMT.

You don’t keep the rooster separated from the hens on a farm. If he can, he will.

I have had chickens for years.

You don’t keep the rooster separate from the hens, they fuck.

Farm egg is probably fertilized.

You have to use the flaw as a strength, the extra material on the sheet can be removed with the edges of a panel. The panel edges are like the tear blade on a tinfoil box.

What they don’t always touch on is how long they are in those caves for. They will be in the caves for 5+ hours, with a couple hours where one guy is solo and squeezing through areas with no hope of rescue if he gets stuck.

I am certain one of them is going to die in a cave after he went off alone and was crushed as he crawls under a breaking off flake or drowns when he gets turned around underwater. They don’t have any sort of gas detectors either and have ignored serious signs that they are not in an area with breathable air.

I don’t like that type of competition and we end up losing everybody else as the sarcasm and references get more obtuse and obscure until one of us loses and slingshots up to potty humor.

ActionAdventureTwins on YouTube has fantastically anxiety inducing cave exploration videos.

Even better is that it has a deep dark abyss to crawl into!

You understand what a centrist is, however the meta perception in online America is that a centrist is a right-winger in disguise.

News has determined decades ago that they get more attention by being entertaining. Dry factual news and clearly delineated opinion pieces don’t get the views/clicks, and by extension money, so it is unsustainable. It still exists, but it isn’t prevalent.

“I swear, there is only one body in this vehicle.”

Technically correct if you are the only person(living or not) in the car, but the phrasing just leads to further questions and a greater delay.