I feel like that title calls for a joke but I’m too tired

I like buying local California olive oils, then I know it’s real.

You’ll still probably get better flavors when things are in season locally. Also, you’ll need to check, but often the frozen version of produce is cheaper when the fresh version is in season, and frozen is easy to stock up on.

Anyone applying to colleges probably has one already.

Sell it and set the money aside for the next thing that needs replacement/repair. A '69, eh? Nice.

Burnt to a crisp, and spicy

As an old woman myself, I’m sorry to you and your little cat too. Sounds like you got stuck with crappy old losers. I hope you meet other old people who treat you nicer.

I am angry a lot, but it’s because as a kid I thought the world was getting better, more tolerant and caring etc. and instead it keeps getting worse, more fascistic and hateful and filthy and destroyed. Every time we take a step forward we get smacked down backwards about six. It’s exhausting. But we do still have to keep trying to take those positive steps every day.

I’ve never had a geese-observation opportunity but now I know they eat grass and the bugs in it, so thanks!

In California we’re all mailed paper ballots, which we can return by mail (no stamp needed) or designated ballot box, or in person at a polling place up to closing time on Voting Day. My ballot (in a westside Los Angeles district) had 37 items, (on about 7 pages iirc) some of which were yes/no on propositions, others of which had a choice between 2 to 15 candidates for various offices. From school board to US President. It was very clear, just needed a black pen to fill the circles, and I could have gotten it in a dozen different languages. It’s also accessible for my quadriplegic husband, who can’t get to a polling place. But it took time and thought. It wasn’t like the pictures I’ve seen of French ballots which were just a single name on a sheet of paper, take the one from the stack of your choice, I guess? So counting them takes more time. Plus counting ballots that were mailed and postmarked by the deadline, those are allowed 2 weeks to arrive.

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I believe it’s turkey carcass that makes turkey stock for soup.

The Turkey Caucus makes legislation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Caucus_on_Turkey_and_Turkish_Americans

Cut off the base and the tips, rinse it all, cut scoop-sized pieces of the perfect stalks or parts of stalks and pop them in some ice water until you can try the suggestions. Chop all the rest, leaves and too small inner bits and strong-flavored rough outer stalks. Put the chopped pieces in the freezer. Perfect for chicken soup, or in almost anything that starts with “chop an onion.” (Not instead of the onion, in addition to it!)

My husband is quadriplegic, has been our whole marriage, so travel has been very difficult, and as we’ve gotten older (that toddler’s 30 now) it’s pretty much impossible. I agree with your point though, too many people put off traveling for retirement and then realize they’re not able to enjoy it.

Oh fuck, “so long as there is funding for the arts,” seems very precarious right now.

Would you take the job if offered, knowing you’d need to restrict your cannabis use on workdays so you’re not driving high? If so, why not go for the interview with the same number of hours post-toke as you’d consider driving for the job? If you pass you pass, and if not, maybe a driving-around job is not a good fit for you. If it’s not legal, scrap the whole plan, you don’t need to be courting legal trouble.

Well I will agree with you in principle, and stick to showers at home. The most enjoyable bath of my life was when I was about 8 months pregnant and we took a weekend at a very swanky hotel, our room had such a big closet our toddler set up the foldout bed in it as her own room. The bathtub was enormous, the hot water constant, the suds delightful, and I floated blissfully free of gravity. And yes, being able to just drain and rinse and refill so the toddler could swim in it, and know someone else would clean it for pay was a big part of the enjoyment.

Brilliant. Now help me figure out how to relax in the tub without thinking about how I’m going to have to clean the tub when I get out

Those legging-thingies may make her more physically comfortable if they support her circulation. Or they might just make her more emotionally comfortable. Rather than insist she change her public appearance, you can appreciate her lovely legs in private, and be glad she’s willing to let you see and touch them.

Trans people are also a historically oppressed and marginalized group, so much so that history has hidden a lot of them. That oppression has also been rooted in misogyny. So any attempt to uproot misogyny which ignores this fact is doomed to fail.

Only their narrow definition of woman. And as an old cishet woman myself, I say the only thing radical about them is the amount of conservatism they’re channelling. There’s nothing feminist about that.

Those internet people are lying. It’s the Internet, after all.

It’s better for you to try to be a whole person, who has some social time and gets some exercise and maybe cleans up their living space once in awhile.