The post is about labor, you made it about animal welfare. The whataboutism is coming from inside the house.

Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!

I’m a little more upset that we can’t stop exploiting people.

This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.

High-top is tricky right now, they aren’t trendy so options are limited. If you haven’t looked at skate shoes, Vans has more options than most and are pretty affordable. There’s also ebay and a huge market of sneaker resellers but I can’t make specific recommendations there. Good luck finding something you like, I also have a hard time finding stuff that fits right and doesn’t look stupid.

There’s a lot of variables and it’s not just the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_footwear_indoors

The conversation is over when you hang up, therefore you can never be wrong.

There are “home labs” but they’d be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.

Namek exploding intensifies

Depends on… well, a lot of factors. I’d start by looking at “walking shoes” and “trail runners”, they tend to be lightweight and comfortable without fully giving up on durability. Appearance is a matter of taste.

14/f/cali, obvs

Yeah, if you want to chat off-topic take it to AIM.

Old-school forum with under a hundred people and a couple mods that give a shit is peak but does have problems with stagnation and over-specialization. Casual chat rooms or a -chan style board are a good counterbalance and nobody should exist in only one social space. Reddit et al. is a weird in-between and Discord feels like worse IRC.

Consistency is a very big deal for commercial products, they have a legal requirement for accurate labeling.

Because it doesn’t last long in cans. All the extra ingredients are to keep the appearance and taste stable. Meats and starches are particularly hard to safely can without preservatives.

“Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”

It’s literally how societies function. We’re seeing it collapse in real time where that’s not an option.

All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.

That’s kinda the problem. We don’t have an income tax so everything is handled through sales and property (and miscellaneous fees and levys but I don’t want to get too granular). It disproportionately impacts lower-earning households who see a much greater proportion of their money lost to daily expenses or housing costs that raise far faster than their wages. We literally cannot enact a fair income tax because the atate constitution disallows anything but a flat rate which also disproportionately affects lower incomes.

Eh, WA has a very regressive tax system that needs a change to the state constitution to fix before it can be a shining paragon of goodness. That and the ludicrous cost of housing/living.