Bird.

Not necessarily. Sales taxes, payroll taxes, and income taxes are all paid by people who are living somewhere while not being an immigrant with a visa or the like.

Undocumented immigrants already pay more in taxes while not being eligible for most benefits programs.

This isn’t about a rational solution, it’s racism.

Ah, the Obstructionist Party.

Sure, sure. Plausible cover story…

But you just didn’t know about the hidden basement and the meth lab within it.

A peacock’s tail is a flourish, something that adds to the whole without detracting.

A cocktail combines spirits with other flavors to make them something else.

I don’t really drink cocktails, but thr antiquated term makes sense in a particular context.

Now looking it up, apparently the origin of the term isn’t actually known and my interpretation isn’t even in the running, but I’m saving this anyway because it’s amusing.

I’ll have to give that a watch. Dinklage is always a joy to watch.

The term you’re looking for is dingleberries.

That’s it!

I’d forgotten it was a match 3.

So imagine you have two of the same color side by side with no gaps.

You have the same color on the bottom of your current piece.

You could slam that piece into the matching ones, hoping that they would bounce up and allow all three to match in a row.

It was the one linux game I had that most friends would ask to play when they came over.

An old game that never really took off, Orbz.

I was one of the best players in the world while it lasted.

Simple little game, you’re a ball and you throw yourself at stars. The more you hit in a row without missing, the better your combo and score.

Essentially pong, but you play the ball, and it’s on a landscape rather than somewhere you fall off and die.

I made a few levels for it.

Another was Triptych, which my friends and I called jelly tetris. Imagine tetris but the bits are springy and bounce a bit. It was a blast. Both were commercial games available on Linux at the time, early 2000s.

Yeah, I was never on Compuserve, just aware of it’s history.

1990, through a local dialup university system that had security issues.

Within a few years after that we had home dialup internet.

In 1998, cable modems came to town. My neighborhood was the beta test area, so I had friends in my living room playing Everquest almost daily.

It was an old dial-up multi user system that charged monthly fees. Once the internet became popular, Compuserve connected, but they predate the commercial home internet.

Media has taught us that a first date involves drinking in a bar or restaurant, in part because of movie shorthand. (Dinner and drinks is a date, forget the rest of the evening, we just set the stage to imply the rest.)

As many others have said, your normal is your normal. Don’t let society or Hollywood pressure you into dating ‘their way’.

I met my wife on a date at a coffeehouse near here house. We then went to a pizza place across the street. No alcohol involved, but I did bring a board game into the restaurant with us.

Better funding of higher education, lower costs of living in general for lower income people. Better public transportation as well.

That tries to at least address each of your concerns.

The cryptocurrencies affected will just implement AI to circumvent these regulations.

Words and concepts have no meanings any longer. Fake AI money is the future.

What works for you, works for you.

It may be possible to slowly wean yourself off of these behaviors that are worrying you. If it’s down to once a month, there isn’t as much of a jump to zero times a month, but maybe sometime. And then once it’s been a year, congratulate yourself for that and keep going.

Habits are hard to break and much easier to fall into. But if you are more conscious of these decisions, it all becomes a little bit easier with time.

That kind of mindfulness is a skill that is hard to develop, but your post leads me to think you’re already on your way.

That’s a tactic I’ve seen widely used, especially by the assholes we are talking about.

Words have meaning to us, and fascists love that because they are not beholden to any truth at all.

Ah, then I guess I don’t know how to interpret that.

Maps cannot answer that question.

Genealogy could, but has its downsides.