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Being a bit hyperbolic here: I have to deal with 1000 stupid societal things every day, either directly, as mandated by the legal system, or because of the popularity of religion, etc. I have to drive slow through school zones when the lights are flashing. I have to deal with Trump voters and the last eight years of political drama. I have to deal with teenagers driving wrecklessly down my street because other people feel have the right to breed and disturb my peace 17 years later. I have to listen to the soapbox preachers shouting at me about how I'm going to hell. I have to deal with poor people breaking down on the side of the road, creating dangerous traffic situations.

If I can deal with all of this, people can deal with my modified exhaust for five seconds as I drive by. Otherwise, I'll just find some other way to be obnoxious haha.

Usually I agree here, but this is completely silly in context. We are all perfectly capable of helping OP interpret and follow the directions, because you don't need to have eight years of medical experience to understand the instructions on the back of the medication box. We're also talking about over-the-counter medicine here, and it's basically guaranteed safe for all but the most excessive doses, which OP is not in any danger of exceeding because they're asking if its okay to take a second pill, when the box already said you can take two simultaneously every "x" hours.

He traveled out of state, with a gun, looking for trouble. And killed two people. He's a murderer as far as I'm concerned, and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up killing again. He's so proud of having shot those people that he's literally going around the country and speaking about it lol.

Excellent. Now if we could just get this for all of the public officials who abuse their power.

Yeah, I feel like the Us vs. Them is kinda originating from the conservative Right though. Every radicalization is just met with more radicalization from the other party. At the end of the day, it's gay people who are being opressed.. and all right-wing people have to complain about are fairy tale propagandas from 4chan and the talking heads on Fox going on about the Trans Agenda converting kids to be gay, which isn't real.

Yeah, I'm just fishing for a response so I can tell them why they're wrong lol

Could you give an example?

I worked in Red River for about a year and a half and it was pretty great. It was like Colorado Lite up there, and presumably much more affordable--I just had a condo paid for by my employer so I dunno. It'd be tough to live there without a remote job, I admit.

Taos was cool, but a little small/touristy. Santa Fe seemed great, but I heard it was expensive so I dunno. The rural areas did feel very impoverished overall.

I agree that it had its own feel. The native New Mexicans I met out there were just kind of their own people doing their own thing. The state had those fruit/pepper/produce stands here and there on the side of the road that you'd see in like Brazil. The landscape and terrain was this pretty mixture of desert shrubland right adjacent to mountain cypress-type ecosystems, at least in all the places I went to.

Would be worth going back again one day.

I hate the windshield uniwiper

Makes sense. But traveling to the office one day less per week, one day less per week of daycare, and having one more full day per week to do things like food prep will also help cool demand for adjacent markets. Not an expert though, obviously!

This is a bad faith response. Of course nobody is going to refine their own gas, since it takes a multi-billion dollar refinery to refine gas. People can definitely do the two things I specifically mentioned, as well as a myriad of other things that I did not mention, which will take load off of the economy, and price gouging power away from the specific industries I mentioned.

And if not, then they can keep paying for overpriced, unhealthy food that they will continue to be price gouged on (which I also already said).

Literally addressed this in my original comment. The key is not purchasing their products, which will be enabled by us having more time to do our own stuff. But obviously, it won't apply to things we can't replace or reduce the consumption of (gains, electricity, water)

But yeah, if Americans (for example) want to keep eating terrible, unhealthy food at exuberant expense from McDonald's because they can't be bothered to figure French fries out themselves, why wouldn't McDonald's raise their prices? Haha

I can see how this appears burdensome to some jobs/areas of employment where productivity is directly related to output such as mechanics, plumbers, veteinarians, or maybe even like food service. It's probably not an issue with many fields where productivity is achieved more through creativity/ideas/or generating more efficient workflows to save time. I suppose some fields are already at their "maximum efficiency" and will probably just need to raise prices to accommodate.

I'm actually cool with the prices of those sorts of things increasing if I get three day weekends. For one, I'll have more time to do them myself if I desire, offsetting the cost entirely. Large corporations will hopefully be forced to just eat the loss; sure, companies have no problem kicking up the prices of their services.... but I think they'll find that we won't be quite as dependant on eating out and buying garbage once we have more time to live our lives. Maybe people can learn to maintain their own cars as a swift "FU" to car manufacturers proce gouging and refusing to produce affordable automobiles for the masses.

Just throwing out some thoughts!

Gasoline is only one part of what comes from oil. If you participate in modern society, you're using petroleum products whether you like it or not lol

The what told you?

I have no problem taking responsibility for that decision, so yes. I'll decide. The same way Republicans think they can decide that being gay is illegal, being trans means you're subhuman, and that women don't deserve reproductive rights. I have no problem making these decisions if that's the alternative.

Yeah, for sure. I used to think they just both sucked, and maybe they still do, but there's no excuse for the level to which Israel has gone. And now I question whether Palestine was acting in some sort of "self defense" all along.

I think back to other revolutions and such, and although they aren't 1-1 comparisons, I wonder.... I bet the people of England thought the Americans were absolute terrorists during the revolutionary war.

Anyways. Not an expert... just been trying to make sense of the happenings.