Wahots

Both of you are right and wrong, it's not so black and white.

You absolutely can make friends, chat with people at the bus stop, strike up convos at bars, the local ski resort, bike park, etc. Friendships can naturally blossom into relationships (or remain friendships, which is healthy and natural too).

You can't approach people and immediately ask them out, it feels weird and unappreciated (and that goes both ways, I've had a complete 180° role reversal and it was still weird and gross).

You're young, you have plenty of time, and honestly the weirdest thing about all this is that your parents are worried you're gay, like there's something wrong with that. There's barely any differences between genders, people overhyped the shit out of it in church, tbh.

Anyways, any% dating really doesn't work, and I feel like your parents should know that. Don't even try for dating, everyone can sense desperation. Just dgaf and focus on having fun and making friends. Love will naturally evolve out of good friendships.

My thoughts exactly. You never want things to double down and become more toxic, even if it's smaller. You have to neutralize the toxin. The dose is what kills you.

Ea kills everything it touches.

You could always just pull out the fuse on the GPS/network module, or remove the module itself. When my eye tracker in my car annoyed me, I just pulled the unit out and put the cladding back. It fixed the false positive issue it kept having with sunglasses.

I meant more in the long arc of "being a place that values life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" like most modern nations.

Other countries need to hammer republican states with tariffs and boycotts. Since they control the government, it's the only way they will relent on economic sanctions and ICE nonsense.

Or...

The West Coast needs to form its own trading bloc and reform ICE, as the former rules don't seem to apply to anything anymore. We'll continue to uphold traditional American values from 1776-2015, values held before all of this New Right horseshit.

I've really been enjoying chia seeds recently. They are great in smoothies. Spinach too, it's essentially undetectable so you can just add a handful of either. Works great in any type of smoothie, and feels like "dessert" even when it's just fruits and veggies and seeds. Plus, you can freeze (or buy) frozen produce, or freeze what you can't eat, so it keeps for ages.

Unflavored yogurt tends to work best, imo.

Measles and other diseases will have quite an effect on the new right.

I absolutely loved my apartments that had a heatpump and toilets with water-pressure powered engines(?), which barely used any water.

My summer electric bills (all electric appliances) were $66 in the 2020s, $130 in winter. My efficient toilet could have flushed a fucking coconut, it was so powerful that there was actually air getting sucked out of the room when you flushed it. It's tank had no visible water, but had something that looked like a black car engine, which would blast air and water when flushed.

That's sad, it's actually somewhat nice to have. It actually works better than my 2021 car's integrated maps, which is wild. Yes, the OEM screwed up the maps app so badly that most streets don't even have names visible, and the car struggles to find even basic chains, camp sites, addresses, etc.

I like my $40 watch for surfing, but setting alarms or timezones on it is a massive pain. Smartwatches are great for easily setting alarms/timers when cooking :)

That, and I'm trying to also pull out my phone less and less, as it's distracting. (My smartwatch is unpaired from my phone)