Sure. If you enjoy broccoli on a burger, who am I to say you’re enjoying it wrong?

It’s basic thermodynamics, really

Relevant username?

As a counterpoint, I’ve been with my partner for 15 years, and we started as a one-night-stand. It’s backwards from how it usually happens, but he was particularly cool so I took him to breakfast the next morning, and then we got to know each other better. We became FWB, broke it off, dated other people, then got back together for real and haven’t quit since.

Yes, sex can’t be the only reason for love, but you can start there and find mutual interest after.

I like to take a national defense stance for healthcare, and it deffo catches people flat-footed.

Providing healthcare to the citizens is how we keep our population healthy enough to repel an invasion. There’s that famous apocryphal quote about how the Japanese didn’t invade in WWII because we have a gun behind every blade of grass and they were afraid of our fighting spirit. These days, the rest of the world sees us as fat and lazy, so we’re making ourselves into sitting ducks by refusing public-option healthcare. We couldn’t do a draft now, we’re too unhealthy.

I feel your pain.

I’ve been saying it for forever, happy people don’t do crime.

I’m not sure what you’re saying? I think that if you really want to decrease car usage, you need to focus more on interurban transit and let bikes be for last-mile.

The local metro area is very walkable, low traffic speed, and has (shitty) bike lanes. The outlying areas are two lane highways without shoulders that is much more dangerous to bike than city roads. I tried it once, got run off the road by a semi and nearly went into the blackberry bramble. I was picking gravel out of my skin for days, and haven’t been on a bike since.

A huge problem I have is that America uses transit for greenwashing and we don’t use it as a service. The only reason I got a car is because the bus comes by five times a day. The last bus home leaves the station at 6pm, so that seriously restricts job opportunities. The local neolibs love to argue that us rural folk are against transit, but ignore that it’s popular enough that the last bus (that hurtles down bumpy 50mph highways) is packed with standing riders and feels super unsafe.

It’s infuriating that the answer to “I want decent transit” is “pay 2.5x rent to live in the city”.

Yeah, if we were putting billionaires against the wall, GabeN would probably be near the end of the line.

Yeah, I’m just scratching my head because all the roads in my rural town are one lane in each direction, with heavy industrial farming traffic. There’s not even shoulders, its just the road, a ditch, and a field.

I’d take better public transit over bike lanes.