I’m so glad you said this because I came to say the same thing.

“Oh, the 62-year old man with diabetes lost vision? That’s literally never happened to anyone ever.”

That happens to people on insulin, off insulin, on other sugar controlling drugs! This is diabetes!

It’s probably made of that super light material, and if I use too big of a fork, I’ll drop rice all over myself. Or get too big of a mouthful.

I’m glad someone on the internet finally figured out that we all have rules about forks. Every ND person I’ve met has a fork rule. My fiance (ADHD) and I (ADHD also) have two sets of silverware- one for him, and one for me, and then we have the weird loose ones from either set that were imperfect in meeting our demands.

I have an answer for this that’s from my personal life if that’s helpful.

I’ve lived either in the great plains or in the rural south my entire life, and I only found out a year ago you can pay $20 to rent a pickup truck. So up until that point, I thought, every group (of friends or family) has to have a person with a truck in it, in case someone needs to move, or in case of an emergency (like a tornado effing up their house and now you have to clear the property).

When I found out that renting a truck is so cheap, I was so mad! All that time wasted paying extra for more car than I needed! I prefer something small and cheap and efficient, personally, but so does everyone else I know so I always wound up with the truck. (And I helped a LOT of people move over the years as a result.)

Obviously this is n=1 but at least it’s my story? And my answer is legit, “ignorance and being too poor to own my house, and landlords like to jack rent on someone staying in one place every year so you have to keep moving to avoid that needless creep of fees.”

I was replying directly to your post. You said you were playing devil’s advocate. I was saying, you don’t need to.

That’s why I said it might have something to do with who you’re around.

Mega corps like Nestle pay a fortune for whole PR departments to advocate for them- don’t do it for free.

Look. No one blames you.

Glad you mentioned ‘next of kin.’ This is the important answer. If you’re married, you can do all that important legal stuff- make medical decisions if your partner is unconscious or indisposed, get the death certificate if that happens and give it to all the people who will need it.

Say your partner is in a car accident and you go to the hospital. There’s no marriage, no forms, no nothing to indicate you’re at all related to this person. You’re just some dude or lady, showing up at some dude or lady’s bedside. You can’t make the decisions for this person. Even if, say, they have a horrible narcissistic mother they’re estranged from- that mother, just by being the mother, can get all the authority to make decisions your unconscious partner would hate!

(Drawing from my own life. Fuck my mother.)

You can’t even call the hospital and get information on them. If they aren’t awake to indicate a release of information, the hospital can’t let you see them, can’t tell you anything.

This is just the first example that came to mind. The purpose of marriage is, it’s a legal way to indicate that you’re the most important person in the life of the person you marry. (And yes, depending on where you are and laws in your state or country or whatever, domestic partnership and other stuff can grant that, too.)

This is so weird to me. Maybe it’s about who you are, or who you run with, but when I saw that Discord was about to go that way, I messaged my Pathfinder group and every single person there immediately hit me back with, “so where to next?”

On the plus side, if anybody reading this ever has reason to think that they might need to go into a police station and remove someone being held there, apparently if you and a friend or two look sufficiently the part, you can just walk in, in plainclothes, and claim to be Homeland Security, and just… take a dude and leave.

You’re… jerkin it to the joker from Balatro?

I would download your car, not because I need one, but just to seed it.

We talked about your languages and where you’re from. I remember stuff sometimes.

Thanks for asking- it’s healing! Only a few more days before I can get the stitches out!

Eta after the fact; should make the couple of stupid long comments I’ve made look even more unhinged, given the hand injury.

I was totally going to ping you to come to the comments, glad to see you’re already here!

It’s triggering some sort of primal fear response in me. Which, honestly, I think is a good thing.

Francis appointed a majority of the voting cardinals. This isn’t a democracy, where people have groups that lobby in any meaningful way- the Pope is the supreme executive. Like a dictator.

So either he appointed in a stupid fashion, and the next pope is more conservative, or he appointed wisely, and the voters follow him with someone equally progressive in view.

(Progressive here, of course, is very, very relative.)

And to be clear, it’s not like, a slim majority. Of the 135 cardinals who will be voting for the next pope, Francis appointed 108 of them.

Don’t get me wrong- some of those have been quoted as saying some super backwards shit. But statistically, I would put my bet on “around about the same.”

It’s well known that since he came back from the dead but he didn’t decay or lose intelligence or anything, that Jesus was a lich.

I hear they just gave everyone on the Skyblivion mod team a copy of the remaster.

Moot sold 4chan years ago.

This is amazing. Thank you for this.