Yeah, those nights are so few and far between anymore. And I always just tell people, how is this night different than the hundreds of thousands of other nights between 2008 and 2020?
And when I order laptops from Amazon, they generally send them UPS and make me sign for them. Pretty much anything expensive I've had to sign for. Chargeback should be ezpz for OP, though they may want to file a police report (can't recall the first thread, if they did or not).
Nothing against OP, but there's a lot of people who are completely unaware of their surroundings. Perhaps OP is young, not a homeowner, whatever. The older I get, the more I certainly become aware of these things. The question I asked myself was why come here and not a search engine? But it's not important, and I think OP got some valid answers here, and hopefully they learned about their community.
As others have said, it's not across the board. I'm sure there are places in the US where it's hard to recycle this kind of stuff. Just like I'm sure there are places in Europe where people bury these things in holes in the ground. It's just the whole "Hurr durr America stupid" thing is old af, and so when I read these jabs I like to talk about how I live in good America, where we have education and social safety nets and electronic recycling.
And the majority of comments I make in this fashion apply fairly broadly to the entirety of the Northeast Corridor, DC to Boston, which is kind of where America started. Just wish there were more northeast corridors, because I do understand and appreciate that some of the criticisms I read are true of portions of the country, and it's unfortunate.
The jesters that immediately come to mind for me are Wit from Storm light Archive, and then The Fool from Farseer, and each of them had the freedom to do whatever they wanted. It seemed like a nice gig, but you got a earn it.
They should just put these signs in time. Just put "5 seconds ahead" if you're doing 35mph. I feel like I can rationalize 5 seconds better than I can rationalize 300 feet.
It just loses its luster after a point. I've been to hundreds of shows, went out pretty much every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for like 15 years. Now, someone will be like, hey, you wanna go see x band/DJ that we've seen a dozen times? I do end up working two to three nights of the week in board meetings, and so having a night that I can be at home and just relax is just more appealing. I'm also becoming more and more a morning person, so I'm game to go out all day, get home at a reasonable hour, and go to bed.
That's not to say there's not things that bring me out these days, but I think it's gotta have some draw.
All this being said, I'm good for a show a month probably, grabbing drinks a couple times, or dinner at friends' houses. Not doing nothing, but certainly don't have the compulsion to kick it like I'm 10-15 years younger than I am.
I like dubstep too but I'm trying to figure out what word was supposed to be in "An important dubstep of that," unless there's some alternate meaning I'm unfamiliar with.
And to add to what you said here, check out the meal services that send you fresh ingredients to cook a meal. Find one that has a discount for getting started or whatnot. Don't feel compelled to buy last the discount period or whatever, but it can be a nice way to familiarize yourself with cooking without worrying about compiling ingredients. I'm pretty happy with my kitchen prowess, and with our assortment of spices and whatnot, but there's still times when I look up a recipe and it's like, huh, I don't have that one ingredient and it's a big deal. The meal kits avoid that altogether.
Frozen veggies are also good in a pinch. They don't lose their nutrition like canned veggies do (not that they don't have value, just less value), and they obviously last a whole. I throw a cup of frozen mixed veggies in to a Nissin ramen and boom, my meal isn't that unhealthy.
I'll toss my easiest one. I get chicken breasts from Costco, so we freeze six 1.5lb packs and bust em out when we can. I generally don't do frozen but have in a pinch, but chicken breast in a crockpot with a jar of your favorite salsa and either taco seasoning or some alternative, sazon packets, or some other shit. Eight hours on low, shred around 630, plop it back in, stir it up, and you have chicken that goes great over rice. Can of black beans, don't drain, just dump it all in a pot, heat over medium, add some adobo. Super easy, my kids eat it, can go in a taco, rice, we do it on nachos from time to time. And best of all, it ain't bad for you.
I'm fortunate, but I have time in the morning to drop my kids off at school and then hit the grocery store. School is a mile east from my house, ShopRite a mile west. I grab fresh veggies for whatever I'm making tonight, throw it in fridge, then shower and get to work. I was tired of having a plan for a dinner later in the week, but then life gets in the way.
I try to get meats in bulk and freeze, but veggies I usually buy and eat that day, save for the bags of carrots and peppers and cucumbers that we snack on. We do admittedly lose a cucumber every so often.
Yeah, I just think you've oversimplified it all. Like I said, I love the idea, but it's a huge ask, and it would require a lot of coordination over a period of time. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that sending Marines to the border, and sending them to protests in LA, is causing some kind of disenfranchisement amongst the enlisted, but a circle of dudes throwing rocks at a nalgene complaining about how this is bullshit is a far cry from an organized mutiny, essentially.
It'd be awesome. But how do you get a whole unit openly discussing insubordination? I love the idea, but it's just not practical, and not in the short amount of time. The order came down within the last week? It was probably go go go since then.
Yeah, nobody here knows what they are talking about. "I won't go, I refuse to go." Cool, here come the MPs, you go straight to jail. This shit happened quick. It wasn't like these units had time to talk and maybe try to form a unified front. They got mobilized quick, and so any choice you make, you're doing it on your own.
And so is it right to disobey? Maybe. Is it easy? Absolutely not, and to suggest that is foolish, but easy to do from behind a desk.
And so I think they'll do what they must. They'll show up, they'll stand in a line, and they'll hope they don't need to do any more than that. And it goes unsaid that there's some morons who want to beat on people, but they're the 10%. The rest of them don't want to be there.
You say "easily," but I doubt it appears so easy, because disobeying the order first starts with you violating the UCMJ and paying for it. Only then can you fight and say hey, the order was unlawful. But you're doing that from military jail. It's an uphill battle and there's nothing easy about it.
I imagine the mindset is go, stand around with a shield, don't murk protestors, and try to just wait this shit out.
Plus, for the Marines, they were living in 29 Palms beforehand, so it's practically a vacation.
Yeah, those nights are so few and far between anymore. And I always just tell people, how is this night different than the hundreds of thousands of other nights between 2008 and 2020?