If you are over 18 you should be extremely careful about any romantic or especially sexual relationships with those under 18 as they could be construed as statutory rape. I know it makes a lot of otherwise innocent and positive relationships problematic for a certain spell during your life, but that’s the way it is, and it will pass quickly.

I don’t think they really care THAT much about them, but you have to remember that it’s been turned into yet another conswervative “save the children” bullshit. They think liberals are pushing gender change drugs and surgeries onto children, and they have really shown how they don’t think children’s ideas about who they are matter one bit. Tyrant father is their whole model. Kids don’t decide shit. Kids become who they are told to, not who they think they are. Fairyboy feelings of being a girl are to be beaten out! Remember these are the same people who push “gay conversion therapy.”

I think you’re starting with the position that Naziism is a poisonous nonstarter, and wondering why anyone would attach themselves to that.

But that’s not where they are starting from. I earnestly believe that some major revisionism is happening. People are taking another look at the Nazis and finding they like what they see.

Of course, it’s falling into the whole complex of “Nazis aren’t so bad - you were just told that by your woke liberal school propaganda.”

As liberals cry out about the Nazi shit, Trumpers delight in their pain, further adding to the magnetism of Naziism.

And of course there is a slice of the Right that have always been literal Nazis, explicitly. And that slice is larger than ever, with looser boundaries than before.

Basically the divisive politics of the US have finally become big enough to be bigger than our feelings about Naziism. That’s really fucking big. But the political civil war we’re in the middle of is all about tearing down everything that came before as tired, corrupt lies. I guess that is includes simple basics like “Nazis are bad.”

If you’re still confused and disgusted and horrified, you are in a lot of very good company.

when u use correct grammar I feel so distant from you it’s tearing us apart

If people want to abbreviate their words and phrases when they’re texting or whatever, fine. Skip the capitals and punctuation, fine. But it is never rude to use proper spelling and grammar, even when texting. Your friends need to unplug, read a book, and enrich their fucking brains.

OP, every day for the rest of your life you’re going to be the oldest you’ve ever been. As time goes on, that age will even become a number you never much thought about or imagined yourself reaching. Around 24 you have pretty much passed all the major rites of initiation and markers of adulthood. There’s nothing else here except getting older. My advice is to get out that imagination and think about what you want your life to be at 50, because it will come.

It’s not even required that apartment buildings have laundry services at all. There are commercial storefront laundromats in the US which serve as the ground floor for where people do their laundry. Until landlords are required to provide laundry, it will be hard to legislate what payment forms they must accept.

I may have to yield this point to you as a demonstrated authority on not understanding plasma.

Very hot flames can contain enough ions / free electrons to be considered a plasma but a wood campfire the likes of which cavemen built, which is what we are discussing here, do not achieve such temperatures. If cavemen wielded acetylene torches then they might have more experience with plasma.

If you were thinking something simple like “fire is plasma” that is reductive, and the cases where flame is plasma are not the everyday kind. Hence, when I said “a campfire is not plasma” I was being pretty specific. Your reply that ”fire is a low temperature plasma,” as an unqualified blanket statement, is wrong. Go read on it. It’s interesting.

We also did not build turbines then.

Also, a campfire is not plasma, so you probably shouldn’t be building any turbines either.

“Free trade” means letting everyone do what they’re best at and then exchange the goods they produce. This is so that everybody is focused on what works best in their country, everything is done as well and as cheaply as possible. However this makes no guarantee about any one country’s ability, at the end of the day, to stand alone without dependencies on others for vital goods. In fact if anything it works against that.

I don’t know why Trump talks about globalism as some Democrat thing. It’s his own party that has been driving for free trade since forever.

I think we have to allow that when you’re raised on sugar like we all were, substitutes are never going to live up.

However lots of people throughout history didn’t have refined sugar. The ancient Egyptians for example. What would they have thought of stevia?

I once went on a strict no-carb diet for a few months and a stevia tea at the end of the day was a very enjoyable treat that I looked forward to. Now, having gone back to a normal diet, it doesn’t taste as good.

So I think habituation is a big part of it.