Seconded. I grew up in the desert and fish was never available. I still have no idea if market price means $15 or $75, so I usually avoid fish altogether. 

“If you can’t afford where you want to live, look at where you can afford to live and make a compromise. It’s called being an adult.”

And if you want to make Chipotle-style barbacoa, here’s a great recipe: https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/chipotles-barbacoa-copycat-recipe-472445

Something like this was my fear the first time they were doing this nonsense when I lived in the Bible belt. My friends and I started keeping a cache of birth control and emergency contraception in case one of us needed it and couldn’t access it. We didn’t need it, luckily, but it might be worth thinking about to keep…

And yet here you are, still pissing into the wind. Guess you’re not really less likely to engage when someone’s been rude, are you? 

This is a great point. Car buying as a woman is nightmare and trying to educate myself about cars isn’t much better. There isn’t an easy way to make car ownership a not-terrible task for me, so with the last car I bought I was mostly focused on something that would be reliable so I wouldn’t have to worry about getting…

I’d like to know how to get more detailed information from insurance companies. I’ve run into odd situations where there’s a Rube Goldberg reason why something is/isn’t covered and I’d like to be aware of those before I choose an insurance provider. Unfortunately, most companies don’t want to disclose that level of…

I think we also have to consider that people who spend time in an echo chamber don’t necessarily spend *all* their time in an echo chamber. Heck yes, after the Kavanaugh debacle I’m definitely going to hang out at Jez where I can worry less that someone’s going to crawl out of the woodwork and go off about lying,…

Exactly. I was jokingly thinking, “A man must have written that suggestion,” and I wasn’t wrong. 

Wow, okay. That sheds a lot on what you’re looking for and why. Also, in case nobody’s told you, that’s a gross and fundamentally incorrect way to categorize people. 

This is assuming everything works as it should. I can’t tell you how many times my parents were shuffled from polling place to polling place on election day, despite having lived in the same house for the last 40 years, and it was only their willingness to advocate for themselves that allowed them to cast a vote. But…

Yeah, this is a tough one. I’m in a highly educated, poorly paid field and partners are fine with this when casually dating, but the difference in finances make more serious dating difficult. A lot of men will say they prefer a woman who doesn’t want their money, but I’ve found they get testy when I can’t afford to do…

I wish we did more parallel play as adults. I’d love to go hang out at a coffee shop and read/put a puzzle together/etc. with other people who are doing the same thing without the pressure to interact. We need better ways for people to make natural affinity groups.

I’ve found Slice super helpful, too. I’d definitely recommend it. 

Good luck with your campaign!

That’s a good question. There are times I think I should try to incorporate more plant-based foods, but typically what I see are meat replacements. If that’s the case, I’ll just eat the meat. I’d be more inclined to try plant-based dishes if people were talking about what they are and good they were, not how well they…

The conflict of interest really should be enough to shut it down. Referral fees are closely regulated and this seems like it would run afoul of current ethical standards.

Rad, thanks! I don’t live nearby but I’d like to support them. I had a family member who was intermittently homeless for a little while and I hoped so badly that people were as kind to him as they could be. It sounds like these folks definitely are.

That makes sense, thanks! I grew up in the desert and hadn’t thought about the erosion of softer soil. 

That’s awesome! Would you feel comfortable sharing the name of the restaurant?