Warm the cream cheese, chop the kimchi, mix them. Back into the refrigerator. Done.

$1 - $5

Toothbrush Candy Hand cream Teeny bottles of booze

But mostly candy

Huh. I hate them in food but use them for stock. Shrimp peels and an onion are all you need for a very flavorful stock.

Canned tuna on grits. Cheese and raw sliced garlic on crackers. Kimchi chopped and mixed in cream cheese for everything bagels.

I love those salty sour weird pickles so much, the ones with unripe mango are heavenly.

Made sourdough rye, planted more radishes, hoping to go to Pokemon go raid hour today.

Awesome, that is great progress no matter what. Practice is what matters. Take care of yourself. Not kidding about the yin yoga - slow and cold, with pillows, it sort of tricks your nervous system into feeling safe.

Good luck to you! A beer, a healthy supper, a walk in the night before bed. You can build healthy habits not just unhealthy ones. Do things to replace that beer. Yin yoga is really relaxing too, good bedtime practice.

Purity is a bullshit concept. You can’t be good without understanding what that is. Doing bad things is one way to figure that out, and yeah you can be good after doing harm, particularly if you face the harm you’ve done and work to fix it and not repeat it.

Lady, about 174cm and yeah I like it, I think of it as the short end of tall height.

Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.

If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?

Sitting at my desk at work is probably the biggest health risk I face.

I eat well, exercise, drink moderately (not every day, never more than two, almost always one drink only), don’t smoke, have sex every day, manage my blood pressure, really try to be good to my body and do things to reduce anxiety but the enforced idleness of desk job is for sure unhealthy.

Usually I get cafe con leche from the Cuban place in the morning, and ask for no sugar - if you don’t specify none they will drop in so much sugar it is nigh undrinkable.

But if ordering cold coffee without milk I do want it sweetened just not as much as the coffee shop standard. So “half sweetened” usually gets me there.

I do not like hot coffee without milk, and don’t like cold coffee unsweetened.

Not usually getting the flavored ones, no. Coffee is a flavor.

Oof, I was not going to share my thoughts on this but: my first thought when I saw the smiling footage was that it had to be a cute psychopath, I don’t think most people could smile while they planned to kill anyone, and I was glad that if he was a weapon at least he was aimed correctly. I wouldn’t say my impression has changed.

My gay coworker said, and I quote “ooh, hello handsome!”

Nobody I’ve talked to has been able to dredge up any sympathy for the victim, like literally nobody of any class or inclination. All feel he killed for profit, live by the sword, die by the sword. That is separate from any feelings about the killer or vigilante justice in general.

Yeah it’s funny I have no problem ordering coffee half sweetened, but it feels like insulting the bartender to ask for an adjustment like that.

Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don’t feel like changing them.

I agree with this. We have rented houses when we didn’t want to buy a house. Even though technically we probably could have bought one, it’s a pain in the ass to purchase and expensive to maintain and even now I’m not quite convinced it’s worth it. Housing is important but not everyone wants to be a property owner.

It’s more like the whole system is fucked, housing is too expensive and part of that is because of rental profit but it’s not the whole problem. We paid less per year to rent than we do to own, for similar properties. Even though the landlords made money.

First:

No, you don’t need a purpose, and your lifestyle sounds ok, if you were enjoying it (I think plenty of people would) but a couple of things stick out to me. One, you are avoiding romantic attachment - if any women are attracted to you, you are not unattractive or too awkward or whatever - you are really not attracted to any women who find you attractive? Or your brain rejects them because you subconsciously think you cannot possibly be attractive so there has to be something wrong with them?

Two, you do honestly sound depressed. It doesn’t have to mean so catatonic you can’t make it to work, it can mean going through the motions of life without feeling anything.

Things I didn’t choose or earn? Taller than the average woman in my country. Both parents were smart as hell, university professors. Dad who thought women had every right and ability to do any job they wanted, we weren’t raised differently based on sex.

This is what I’d want to do (the bar not the commune) if I won the lottery.

So yes I agree with the top post here, it’s lack of access to capital that limits this. Farm cooperatives happen because people own farms. It’s very difficult to grow these from the bottom. You would have to buy your share, with money or work.

We need more co-op businesses and also more entrepreneurship from the bottom and small business grants can help with that. You can’t only yank wealth from the top, they got it from us, we can make more and keep it in our communities.