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This isn't 2 things; Trump is a part of the billionaire class. They're just not being specific enough, mostly because many of them work for the billionaire class.

I wake up at 5 for my workout simply because I'm a morning person, and I like getting it out of the way first thing. It's also a nice, calm time, which helps me rest more effectively between reps. Plus I'm still half asleep when I start, so I skip over the feelings of "I don't want to do this," since I'm already doing it by the time I'm awake enough to have those thoughts.

It's certainly the place that needs the message the most, though the chances anyone would listen is virtually zero.

Yeah, we like to glorify individuals, but just about every big endeavor, both good and bad, comes from people working together. An organization like Epstein's Island was big enough that it definitely had more people running it than just the 2 big players we know about. Someone from upper management seized the reins and has things running smoothly again by now, I'm sure. We shouldn't be acting like things have been halted - there's still a lot of work to be done to save the victims of the wealthy.

Just grabbed a couple albums from the Tejon Street Corner Thieves the other day - good stuff! I’ll have to give those other bands a listen as well!

In what way?

Morality is subjective, and as a result moral condemnation carries no weight to anyone but those who already agree with the condemnation. Condemnation isn't meant to directly change the behavior of those who disagree, it's meant to spur those who agree into taking action to combat what they view as immoral.

This trick has become a reflex for me, to the point where I barely even wake up when I get a Charlie horse in the middle of the night, since I start flexing my foot automatically when I feel it coming on.

Yeah, I've always been a morning person, so when I add something to my routine, I often just start waking up earlier to do it. At this point I'm waking up around 5, and it's crazy how much stuff I can get done just by auto-piloting while still groggy from waking up. My wife isn't a morning person at all, but she's started getting up with me too, and she begrudgingly admits that it's pretty nice to have stuff done before going to work, rather than tacking them on afterward.

It's important to understand that change happens when we force change to happen, not when we implore the people who have already decided not to make change to reconsider. Demonstrations are great to raise awareness of the issue, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they're pretty crap. At best they can scare someone into making change if they think the demonstrators might get violent if they don't, like how the black panthers scared politicians into that very belief during the civil rights movement. The issue now is that nobody believes we'll actually get violent, and for good reason. Generations have been raised on the idea that "violence is never the answer." Basically our only option to really make change is to use our numbers against them, but that means that some people are going to need to overcome their conditioning and volunteer to be the first to make the choice to rise up, likely to their own demise. If we can't do that, we're screwed, so the question is how bad does it need to be for it to happen, and will it be too late by then?

A girl told me in 8th grade that she knew I liked her, and was cool with it. I thought she was nice for not being creeped out that I liked her, until one day on college when I finally realized what she meant.

Got a huge bag for Christmas one year and ate the whole thing in a few days. The inside of my mouth was white with canker sores for a good while.

Yeah, annatto is a traditional cheese dye, but outside of the US cheddar doesn’t often have much annatto if any, so it’s not usually died orange. Here’s a video of someone making a marbled cheddar cheese where one part has annatto and the other doesn’t, so you can easily see the difference in the final product.

There’s a reason it’s pushed so hard, and it’s because people in power don’t want to lose the golden goose that is American apathy. They can oppress us as much as they want, and we think having the moral superiority of taking it on the chin makes us strong. It doesn’t.

Looks like one of those disposable flossers.

The issue is that the vast majority of people don’t view religion as “what I should or shouldn’t do.” They view it as “what should and shouldn’t be done.” They can’t just follow the tenants themselves; in order to follow their religion - at least not the way they interpret it - they need to make sure the tenants are being universally followed. That’s why religion is always at odds with society as a whole unless that society is already overbearingly religious. It will never change unless there are no major groups within society with different beliefs than the norm.