“End of life care” is entirely optional. I’m not going to waste away in a hospital bed, that’s for sure.

European bees wouldn’t be as big of a problem if people didn’t tear down native shrubs and import European plants. Plant native! Garden wild! Stop using pesticides!

describes every domesticated animal

I suspect that Google Maps preemptively routes some percentage of drivers through alternate directions in order to ease congestion. (Because if Maps tells you that the obvious route will get you there in thirty minutes and it takes an hour then you’re going to be mad at Maps)

Regardless of their route choices, Maps is always solid with ETA for me and it has access to a ton of traffic data.

Your responses make you look like an overly-sensitive, humorless jagoff, hence the vote differential.

You can get good Texmex pretty much anywhere with with a hispanic population. Won’t be as cheap as the South but still. There’s a couple spots near me in the PNW that set up sketchy pop-ups on the sidewalk after dark but they got dope tacos al pastor and they are always busy.

Nah we just think you’re a dick.

Sure, if it’s a nonessential business.

In left-leaning spaces it means “cognizant of the injustice pervading society”. On the right it means “uppity”.

The core voters are lost forever. Fuck them, don’t think about what they’re going to do.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411923/share-of-americans-who-would-not-vote-for-a-president-due-to-their-religion-2022/

There’s so much more to it, but the short version is that a huge portion of this country doesn’t consider atheists trustworthy or even properly “American”. God is on our money, the bible is used for official government ceremony, most of our public holidays are Christian, the word holiday and tons of others are explicitly rooted in religious culture. In-n-Out has a little bible passage on their cups.

Being openly atheist is a radical position in this country, one that will limit you professionally and socially.

I would like to normalize non-belief though.

We’ve been a deeply racist and violent country for longer than we’ve been a country. Built on genocide and slavery. We didn’t properly address our failures when we had the chance (Civil War should have ended with a new constitution and drastically different political structure to keep militant bigots from gaining power) and now we have this.

Why stop there?

Our whole-ass society is structured around Christian norms. Holidays, liquor laws, businesses closing on Sunday, loads of idioms and turns-of-phrase, it is pervasive and so normalized that any deviance is seen as shocking. (At least we aren’t one of the countries where heresy is still an actual crime)

This is what religion does to a brain.

Thay does nothing for the Ram 3500 behind me blasting pure sunlight into every mirror. Sucks for bikes amd pedestrians too.

People are just too afraid of the dark.

Yes? “Hey wanna catch a movie?” “Sure, looks like the new Deadpool has a showing in like twenty minutes.” “Dope. You order the tickets, I’ll drive.”

Why would they not apply the same system to all purchases? Either seats are reserved or they aren’t.

So that someone ordering online doesn’t try to buy your seat. Obviously.

The people I know that have cut out parts of their family are happier for it, not miserable.