Who decides what is “real” though, if it’s not the person in the body? So someone says they are a boy, but the MRI says nope, you are wrong, you are a girl through and through.

What if I am a cis woman and have a mind that works more like a guy’s mind? But if I still am comfortable and happy in my woman’s body, who cares how my mind works? Nobody, that’s who. Why would trans people not get the same consideration?

I just don’t think it makes sense to use tech to invalidate someone’s experience, and it’s just not anyone’s business if someone wants a different body. My sister got big fake boobs, nobody said “well, you don’t have a body that matches the boobs” they just gave her what she asked for and paid for. Why can’t a man do that if he wants? Why does he have to prove he’s a woman first?

None of that makes sense to me.

A drama free department, yes! We have that where I am. The whole company? That seems unlikely. But accounting and IT are calm and not dramatic at my workplace.

I am a lady and I ferment plenty of stuff, both drinks and foods. But don’t like beer, so I don’t make it. The only guy I know who makes beer is a white guy, so my experience mirrors yours, but it’s also true that there are minority run commercial breweries and distilleries so I’m sure there is home brewing going on too.

I have Moissy ring and it’s gorgeous. I’d have been pissed to get something that cost more. It’s really a pretty stone, and durable as fuck.

You will need an idea of her taste in jewelry, ask her literally to send you pictures of what she likes. I think a solitaire is best and that is way more affordable if it’s not diamond, or at least that was true when we were getting engaged.

As you should? You can’t think like that. In a religious sense, sure. If you have two coats you stole one from the poor, to paraphrase Dorothea Parker.

But in real life, it’s more like the airplane advice, put on your air mask first then help others with theirs. In an absolute sense you will be able to give more if you take care of yourself. If you only have $2 and give someone $1 of it you are an angel, but if you can make more and feel comfortable giving $10 that is more helpful to someone.

You didn’t create this problem, you just live in it, and you can’t single handedly fix it. Take care of yourself and give as you can, and speak out when you can.

Online? No. It comes off as snarky.

In real life, and emails? All the time. Please and thank you.

What I like to do with kids that age is cartwheels. One hand, two hands, one foot, two feet.

Good time to introduce them to interesting foods too.

Spitting watermelon seeds really far is also fun.

The macarena.

I have lived on the streets too. I just don’t feel like I can possibly help everyone, if that makes sense. And would question the motive of someone I don’t know trying to get into my house.

It’s a very complicated problem. Some people are homeless from simple poverty and can climb out with some help, but we know these guys (it was always guys) who just don’t fit into society and can’t have a regular job or hustle enough to have stuff, but can get by without much, there doesn’t seem to be room in this country (USA) for them anymore. Like they have been illegal -ized.

My mom used to say I had the taste of a teenage boy because I like sci fi and fantasy and comics so much.

LOTR trilogy is my favorite.

Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly is one we can watch over and over, as are Hot Fuzz and Into the Spiderverse. Those 3 are so good too but my favorite still is the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

We bring food sometimes to the local homeless guy but he doesn’t seem to want anything else.

This answer for me would really depend on a lot of factors. I don’t want a homeless roommate who won’t leave and can’t work, don’t want a mentally unstable person in the house with my daughters. So random guy probably not. I’d bring him food and a gallon of iced water and say I could not let him in. If it was the guy we know from under the bridge, and husband home, probably would let him shower and give him some of husband’s clothes to wear, sure.

But we HAVE had homeless people stay with us for a time if we knew them, quite a few times. Wandering guys who just didn’t live anywhere. Couch surfing people.

I do think at some point you really can’t call them shorts. Some of the “shorts” men wear are more like wide leg capri pants.

So after taxes about $4B?

Take 500 million out for me, start a business and do all the stuff we want to.

If possible: Use the rest for a fund for perpetuity to fund transit all over my city, make the buses free and running every 15 minutes, and pay the drivers and all the other workers a really good wage.

If that’s impossible, I guess I have to run for governor, win, and Make Florida Freaky Again! Work for the good of our state. Is billions enough to do it?

$150 for weekends. We pay for house cleaning and lawn mowing so that we can have weekends free, and it’s absolutely worth it to me. We don’t actually get these done every week but together that is what we’d pay to be able to not spend the weekend cleaning and mowing.

My work? If I was providing what I do professionally to someone, I would say $50 an hour, for actual productive hours. But I’ve done odds and ends work for less, and very occasionally for more.

Of your available options, I would definitely go with the shared housing. That’s a great deal for your area and for your income. You could actually save/invest money.

And to the people pushing on you because you rent, oh my God what the heck? I hate housing as an investment, we bought a house but it’s so expensive to maintain and the taxes and insurance, having somewhere to live for $600 a month seems like a great deal, take it.

I would hate the hour long commute, personally. Very sensitive to commute time. But if you are already doing it and don’t mind, that’s a separate consideration.

You need roommates. When I was younger we lived in groups, to split expenses. Tackle this from that side first, get into a situation you can afford on your pay so that you aren’t panicking. Even if you go live with your family.

Then you can work on increasing your income.

And don’t think it’s any kind of failure on your part. I have never lived alone, most people at my job make good money but nearly all do live in 2-3 earner households because it’s better and more secure.

There is an economy of scale in multiple earner households. One house, not much more electric use, food costs less per lb in bigger packages, you might be able to carpool.

Can you get into a trade? Go to the electric worker union and start as a helper? Those jobs are getting so much more valuable and that trend is increasing. I don’t think you need a college degree to get a good paying job, but you probably do need to put in that same 4 years working your way up.

I crawl out and explore then. Hope to God I brought a straw water filter. Step onto the bouncy moss of the forest floor, look around at the landscape, happy I can breathe. Wonder how something horse sized can flit, then duck as it comes back towards me.

I had a friend who was a great friend in so many ways, she was clever and very helpful when I needed anything, also would ask me for the same when she needed help. She told me once that it’s way better to kill someone else, than yourself, because then you have time to repent before you die. What a horrible belief! But it’s not like she actually went around killing people, it was hypothetical.

I don’t have the answer but the belief did not make her act in any terrible way.

Freak out. After that, it would depend on which world.

I don’t know. It’s interesting tech, but just not useful. I don’t need to start it from my phone when away from the house, and it loses its maps and makes new ones that don’t have the whole house if it encounters closed doors; if you then put it into the room it forgot and start it, it just sits there confused. It gets confused when furniture moves too. We have to close doors a lot to keep dogs separated, teens close their doors all the time, my house is not static enough for this detailed mapping function. I tried giving it zones but even then the closed doors break the maps.

There are things I like about the app. Getting the details on what an error message means, finding it more easily when it’s hiding. But overall losing the ability to just set it down anywhere and let it run without mapping was a bigger loss than what was gained.

Yu Gi Oh!