I don’t see why having options are turn-offs except maybe for those who provide said options.

No port forwarding, though. Some old guides still list them as having that capability, so I try to mention it frequently.

I once realized so many of my favourite businesses were cooperatives. I started thinking of what other co-ops I could start and grow. The excitement faded once I realized it would have to not be about the money.

I edited for clarity to explain that I’m referring to the subgenre pop punk, which one could easily argue is not punk.

I’d disagree, unless you want to say pop punk isn’t punk (and if that’s what you’re saying, that’s fair).

Stuff like this springs out of acts of popular piety. When you teach that the relics of people in heaven can work as prayer aides, it’s a foregone conclusion that some may want to decorate (or even wallpaper, like the photos of the skulls) a prayer space with the highest class of relics.

This is how altars came to have a relic in a stone that the priest kisses at the beginning of every Mass.

It’s an unanticipated but popular reaction to authority and came from the bottom up rather than top down, ergo pop punk.

Just because something is old enough to become mainstream doesn’t mean it’s not punk. Green Day. Blink 182, et al. started out being labeled as punk before the term pop punk became widespread.

I mean the next generation of vehicles (and since I bought used, that’s also a generation ago)

I intentionally sought out a used vehicle with haptic menu controls. It pissed me off when I realized there was no point of having it, because the UI still locks me out of most of the interface when I am not completely stopped.

It seems like the next generation just entirely gave up on the concept of safety.

I think we know that.

Catholics believe the principle of double effect could act as a moral compass here.

In a direct abortion, the intended effect is to end the life of the fœtus. There are probably other medical procedures that could achieve the desired effect of saving the life of the mother, unfortunately I’m guessing they are not sought out due to cost and the low likelihood that both lives would be saved.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Haters gonna hate.

Are they the same ones that claim “we are all sinners”?

They’re different, but not opposite. It’s like comparing height and colour.

This is what I often did before going to a party. Sometimes before, sometimes after driving more than 90km to get there

I agreed with you up to the point where it appeared as if you felt that logophiles are miserable and spread misery. That being said, I appreciate your perspective and I’m sorry sharing what brings me joy has the opposite effect on you.

Vegan-friendly here:

Revealed? Don’t worry – They’ll tell you who they are.

That’s limerence.

A more stable relationship is when feelings crystalize, but until then, there’s limerence. Two-way limerent relationships are as unstable as a bottle of undiluted nitroglycerin. In any case, limerent relationships are quite common, and are the stuff of music, art, and poetry.

This is where the Simple English Wikipedia sometimes helps.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar

Then again, I did say sometimes.

Sorry, I meant ‘the elected’.

I don’t think the electorate determines who gets clearance, directly or indirectly.

…needs to see a doctor about that infection, or at least get some Viaderm-K.C.