Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

A fountain pen is just a controlled leak

Identifying might be the best word to use, given the psychology literature all tends to use that, but thank you for your critique.

Why are people so interested in defining themselves along sexual identity and orientation in relatively recent western culture?

Why now? Why is it so different from most of human existence?

Because we are no longer facing famine. The Green Revolution has made our relationship with food so secure we no longer define ourselves in relation to it.

Throughout most of history people are farmers or ranchers or shepherds or bakers or butchers or millers.

So, we climb the Biological hierarchy of needs looking for our next characteristic that needs fulfillment.

Without birtherism Trump never runs in 2016.

https://youtu.be/315oUNq0olM

Both have temu-level garbage, but it’s cheaper on Amazon.

Currently, as they are dying today, yes.

This is not how malls have traditionally worked.

In the past, malls provided a plug-and-play way for national chain retail to offer premium, private-labeled goods that allowed them to extract money away from a community’s locally owned stores found on main street.

Malls were just a way to privatize mainstreet and allow the ownership class of capitalists to extract more money from a local economy through large chain stores and to give them private control over what used to be public space.

Now the middle class is worth a fraction of what it used to be, their purpose has dissolved.

People use Amazon instead of the mall because they can still afford the Temu-level garbage Amazon sells.

Just see the commercials on newsmax.

They’re not broadcasting to the healthiest.

🤔

Everybody loves their first Diamondback.

They are basically dinosaurs.

American Robins are not the same as European Robins.

American Robins were named so because they vaguely reminded British settlers of their robins “from home”.

Non-utilitized internet service.

Internet providers ARE UTILITIES. Regulate them like one.

Poverty in Kentucky and wider Appalachia is still a very real and very serious problem.

It’s very hopeless feeling and was hit extremely hard by the opioid crisis.

I’m sure it was bad 100 years ago, too–although alcoholism was usually the drug of choice back then.

Lots of systematic suffering. Children growing up in the nightmares their parents created for them.

But it’s not slavery, lol.

If you don’t think Trump’s potential re-election isn’t THE news story of the year, I don’t know what you think real news is.

Except for onions, ironically.

You absolutely can’t let perfect be the enemy of good.