Food products are highly regulated in the U.S. - for labeling, safety, testing, etc. and fluid milk is one of the most regulated items in the U.S.

Yes, this has been happening for quite some time. Major market consolidation, fewer places to sell milk to, ever-shrinking margins. And there are further mitigating factors such as a steady decline in the demand for fluid milk, and COVID isn’t helping anything (though people did actually buy more milk from stores,…

It’s just that Walmart was such a large buyer in an already stressed market. When they started producing milk, they cancelled contracts with 100 farmers immediately. That’s 100 farms that need to find a home for their milk, which is dang near impossible. Last year alone, 3300 dairy herds went out of business. It’s not…

There’s literally zero competition for fluid milk. One of the most common reasons dairies go out of business is because they can’t find a buyer for their perfectly good milk. I personally know a few farms that have gone out of business for this reason. They called around to various co-ops and such and no one could…

Does anyone know if the smeared eyeliner thing is deliberate? I’ve been assuming it’s not but with pics of her floating around the internet lately, I’m realizing it’s rare for her to not have really smeared eyeliner. 

And what are our rights in that situation? If a bunch of guys I don’t recognize as police or military start wrestling me to the ground, I’m pepper spraying them at the very least. Probably wouldn’t have time to get the stun gun from my purse.

Yeah, he’s starting to get it and either I’ll make some extra stuff for him to have so that he doesn’t eat SO much of my food, or, he’ll just make something for himself. I think he might still find it a little bit selfish, but, he hasn’t actually said anything to that effect, so I might just be imagining that lol. 

I have flat out told him that once when he said if I left any in the dish he was going to finish right then. I said ‘uhhh I spent 90 minutes making this, so I’m going to want to have more than a few bites of it’. He was sort of *dramatic sigh* ‘ohhhkayyyy’. Slightly annoyed but also basically understood.

Yeah, I can relate. My bf eats really fast and he eats a lot, he’s a lot bigger than me. When he’s eating something that is specific to my diet proclivities and not his i.e. something I spent a lot of time making (with the intention of it lasting multiple meals) and probably spent more $ on the ingredients, as well,…

I’m doing keto, too, while my bf is basically the opposite (the more carbs the better). When I make myself a keto meal, I’ll make it to be about 4 serving sizes so that my 60-90 mins of work (not counting the shopping) is worth it. HE can eat the non-keto 10 min version of whatever I’m making. He has no restrictions…

I’ve always heard there are basically 3 Illinois. Northern Illinois is basically Chicago. Central Illinois is just Iowa and Indiana continued (so, corn belt). Southern Illinois is basically Missouri and Kentucky.

Indiana, here - also lightening bugs (they’re our state insect). 

LOL sounds like my mom. She sees me drink 1 beer and she’s like ‘Oh, you’re drinking tonight?” 

EXACTLY. I’ve tried to gently explain to my bf that it’s just a bummer that I bought or spend 90 mins preparing this food that miraculously fits my dietary restriction thinking it’d last me a week and now it’s gone within 24 hours b/c he eats 4x as much as I do approx 5x faster than I do. My bf isn’t an asshole, but…

No worries at all, I can imagine that being really insulting. I will say, in the kids’ mom’s neighborhood, the dads are very involved, it’s not some 50's dynamic there, either. I just struggle to understand the general neighborhood apathy regarding COVID. 

I’m the admin of 2 pages, including my place of employment and a board I sit on. So I tend to be there for those purposes but I’ll absentmindedly scroll down the newsfeed for a few until I remember why I shouldn’t bother. 

In my 20s I could seemingly not keep an argumentative opinion to myself. In my 30s I learned that most people are completely immovable, so it’s just a waste of breath (or typing). I think opinions can be usually only be changed by lived experiences.

At this point in their lives and family in the year 2020, I don’t think these two need beards. 

He doesn’t have to be quiet, but doing so would be far better judgment on his part. Airing dirty laundry is tacky and in this case it seems to serve no purpose except to dredge up some mess for selfish reasons.

I think it was tacky of him to put all of this out there while simultaneously claiming so much love and respect for Will/Jada, but, Jada chose to ‘entangle’ herself in a messy situation, so it should be no surprise that it didn’t remain a secret.