Most people don’t know this but the USPS has their own official stamp for that purpose and any marked or drawn on letters they receive likely go to the trash. Try attaching a sticky note and putting it in the outgoing mail, or talking to the post office directly (although many offices go to great lengths not to give you time).

TLDR: Don’t write on the envelope or it won’t be returned.

Not very environmentally friendly. I just send it all back, then they need to waste space and personnel on sorting their own junk.

Fred made a lot of money, especially compared to his son or his father, but he nonetheless inherited a business and sizeable amount of money from Friedrich Trump. I wouldn’t call it Middle Class for the time period.

Wealth is certainly a religion to many Americans.

I think for every PhD there are a hundred students who stopped short, so even if you don’t respect the knowledge that comes with devoting your life to academics you can at least respect the effort they put in.

I hate when people talk about Donny’s father as if he was some sort of saint. That fucker was a segregationist real estate mogul that funded the KKK.

I think she’s got a PhD in Psychology. In my book, that’s worth something.

I’d never use it, but the idea of a small electric motor with enough torque at that price range really wows me to my core.

I feel that. Recently YouTube has been recommending me videos from the “manosphere” and tons of Arabic and Cyrilic commentators talking pretty harshly about women. Feels like slipping backwards in time.

The cultural divides are getting a little thinner online these days.

1. TikTok is China. Literally owned and operated by the state.

2. Don’t compare for profit corporations to a hostile militaristic dictatorship.

Probably buttons, I don’t think any real food would be posed on a concrete floor against a pallet.

hehe flour against a palette. Sorry, that just popped into my head.

In general fast food and restaurant food are overpriced compared to home made food, and the working class often don’t have time between locations during the day. Also, like 40+% of the population in many developed nations are elderly now.

The reason people splurge on greasy junk food covered in sauce is never because it is a reasonable option, but because it’s an option our monkey brains are willing to make the most sacrifices for.

Democracy at risk? Earthquake destroying homes? Drought threatening thousands? Sure we could pitch in $5 for that, or instead we could get the Large meal and an extra Fries…

EDIT: I think my hypothetical was decent and important, but I don’t want anybody to feel ashamed to eat. Enjoying food is necessary for happiness and abstaining from so can be detrimental to mental and physical health.

China is already using it to generate shorts on YouTube. I hope Google has the balls to invest in fighting it, but that company has been downhill lately.

If one of us were more clever than the other, would it be the one capable of discussing new concepts without comparing it to other media?

I think far moreso than any other drug, regulations for drugs in the USA is shit. It needs to be regulated as if it were already a weapon.

Secondly, the nature of mRNA delivery through nanolipids opens up the possibility for oral delivery instead of only injection, a large amount of research is going into that.

Why is everybody trying to post off topic garbo in the replies to my comment? Are you all incapable of independent thought?

Population decline is the opposite of a crisis. The whole economy can fuck right off, entire regions can become abandoned, it would still be a massive win to cut the total human population in half twice.

If a mutation occurs making a cell cancerous then what has changed is human DNA. We’re creating technology that can turn immune systems against cells containing specific proteins in human DNA. I think curing cancer is good and maybe even necessary but if creating targets within human DNA is what Moderna is doing then it needs to be strictly controlled and regulated.

Here is a wild hypothetical for you: if you can target the parts of human DNA that make a cell cancerous then in theory you could target parts of DNA that make a person black or target cells in people with green eyes.

Nah I’m good, thanks for irrelevant unsolicited advertisement.

Honestly kind of happy for China for a change, this is a pretty big indication of women’s rights that they’re able to say No to begin with. I hope they continue to resist and eventually cause a larger change for the better across the region.

no idea who that is