Drugs: anything not prescribed by a doctor will lead a person to being a homeless crack addict. Marijuana is such a powerful gateway drug, don't try it even once.

Sex: is for reproduction within the bounds of marriage. And even then, women won't enjoy it unless they're promiscuous sinners.

I'm right-handed but years of piano and violin made my left hand fairly dextrous short of being able to write with it.

I've been trying dragonboat racing lately and I got to steer at last practice. There's a lot of momentum to those boats and I fell off my path a couple times but no crashes and no one fell out.

Many of them are weekly questions to drive engagement. As long as they keep getting comments, they're serving their purpose.

Personally, I like the Pets Sunday thread and read it every time.

Ball cap while hiking. Not for the sun so much, more for the ticks to keep them out of my hair.

I was hanging with a group consisting of mostly older millennial gay men who don't like that trans people are being included alongside them in conversations about human rights, sexuality, and gender. They think it takes away from the fight their community has gone through over the past few generations.

I chewed them out. Like, a lot. I am usually not at all confrontational but I pretty much stunned them into silence. Now I'm waiting to let them process, expecting a couple to reach out to me to step back from some of the shit they were saying. If that doesn't happen, I guess I'm not really welcome in that group anymore and I'm ok with that.

There are no trans people in this group. I'm not a gay man nor am I trans. But when I hear shit like that, I hear echos of gay men activists not being willing to work with lesbian women activists, white feminists not includig black women, male laborers trying to keep women out of labor rights movements. It's stupid. It's tribal and hateful. It undercuts the strength the movement could have if we weren't asshats about it.

Rights campaigning 101, strength in unity. This is basic ass shit.

If you have to ask, probably don't use it.

Easy peasy. Don't want to be captured by surveillance cameras? You are free to not go where the cameras are.

Oh, are you not wealthy? Do you not have land? Do you not have access to food, power, other resources without venturing out to where these cameras are? Get more money and stop whining, you dirty poor.

This is why my infatuation with libertarianism that most teens seem to go through only lasted a week.

Anytime we ask questions about poor people doing things to make a buck, you probably won't find me talking negatively or blaming the people with few to no options.

I've been in a financial situation where selling my blood plasma was an easy, safe, guaranteed amount of money that kept me from getting deeper into the hole. I'm not going to knock anyone who does it, only the shitty social services that fail people to the point they have to sell their plasma to survive.

This is what I would choose, standalone rather than something that attaches to the laptop and folds out.

Attaching, hanging off the side, potential to be bumped, all the weight hanging out cheap laptop hinges. It seems like high risk of things getting loose and damaged, both the extra monitor and the base laptop.

I don't have trouble explaining. I keep it high level and generic because 99 times out of 100, people are just making small talk and want to know just enough about you to categorize you.