swelter_spark

Buying and cooking your own food. Reading the nutritional info on labels.

I grew up thinking it was normal for grown men to be attracted to little girls. My mother had a habit of pointing out random men who just happened to be around and telling me they were staring at me/thinking about how beautiful I was/in love with my/trying to look up my skirt. The way she talked about it made it seem like it was a common, acceptable thing.

This looks like the kind of meals my grandparents ate every day.

The money companies use to fund projects comes from the value of employees' labor. It would be unusual, at least in the US, for an owner/CEO to be funding company projects out of their own pocket. The company's money comes from the employees' efforts.

Different people have different experiences for lots of reasons. Like I used to have constant problems with Windows that took days to fix, and some people never had any problems. It depends on your hardware, software, settings, what you're doing with it...with every OS.

So cute. So yellow.

Mine loves to reminisce, but she also claims to not remember actions that make her look bad, or she claims they never happened and I'm lying because of my "insecurity." But I think her preemptive "oh, but you were a child!" suggests that she actually does remember these things. If she didn't remember her actions, she wouldn't be trying to make me doubt my own memories of them decades after I stopped arguing with her and just distanced myself.

Yes, I think there's a lot of truth to that, sadly.

From your description, it sounds like it might've been revised in the last few years. The version I bought, which was published in 2015, was rough. Maybe I will re-read it and see how it hits me now.

Wow, I didn't know that Ben Norton left. I always enjoyed his work. It sounds like there's been a lot of drama there over the last couple of years. That's a shame.

I didn't feel like it ever got old, as a kid. I used to love riding down hills with my friends, with our feet off the pedals to see how fast we could go. Or we'd just ride aimlessly until we'd see some old building to explore, or an animal to try to catch, or a tree to climb, or an interesting person to talk to. I don't think I started feeling like we needed to be going "somewhere" until I was a teen. People aren't as nice about groups of teens riding around randomly.

Riding bikes was a fun activity. The point wasn't to go somewhere.