You need to learn the ways of the dumpster:

A) Find the good dumpsters. Some grocery stores have ‘compost only’ dumpsters, and those are an absolute gold mine. Those ones will be full of food and only food.

B) Of course you need to wash everything thoroughly before eating it. And don’t take (unwrapped, unsealed) things that can’t be washed.

C) Follow your nose. Billions of years of evolution have actually equipped you pretty well when it comes to determining which food is and isn’t safe to eat. If it looks good and smells good, it probably is good. Add a bit of common sense and looking out for signs of a few of the more dangerous things – like botulism – and you’re pretty well safe. Also pay attention to recent recalls – if the store is throwing away lots of the same thing, and none of it is expired yet, check for recalls on that product before eating it. (And look at why it was recalled. Recalled stuff is sometimes still perfectly safe to eat. Lots of recalls happen for reasons such as the product being mislabeled and not mentioning an allergen that might be present. In that case, as long as you’re not allergic to that particular thing, you’re good.)

I’ve never once gotten sick from eating dumpster food. IMO, unless you have some specific health condition that puts you at higher risk, you’re very unlikely to have problems.

Most people don’t do that.

Legit, yes.

Went to the local hardware store yesterday to pick up some necessary nuts and bolts for building a bicycle trailer (itself being built so I don’t have to spend money on gas as much). And fully half of those nuts and bolts went into my pockets instead of the little bag they give you to go through the checkout. The more expensive half, of course.

Until the Epstein class is behind bars – or better yet, 6ft underground – I will continue to do everything possible to keep my money out of their pockets, which includes stealing things when feasible.

But, also, beef is pretty much the worst meat when it comes to environmental impact of producing it. So it probably should be the most expensive.

and unfortunately most fresh produce at this point

Special secret: grocery store dumpsters are often full of perfectly good fresh produce – and I mean full. And in most states, it’s perfectly legal to take some. Learn the ways of the dumpster, and you’ll eat like a king.

that’s almost old enough to get a driver’s license itself

Bruh. As far as I’m concerned, a car under 20 years old is a huge luxury.

E V E R Y T H I N G

“Amy, we were talking about guacamole.”

Oh, in that case, did you know that the vast majority of avocados in the US come from Mexico, and a large part of those are controlled by Mexican cartels, with avocado profits going directly to the cartel?

Bruh, just use any mainstream distro with KDE. It’s really a lot easier than the tutorials make it look.

Okay, so what do you want instead? X-rays that beam the computer’s input and output directly into your brain?

Or just leave the gross mayo out of it entirely.

Wanting to not be ruled by theocrats and forced to follow their fucked up rules is not ‘edgelord’.

Don’t get addicted to Jesus, either. It’ll fuck up your life.

to make people who turned their life around through faith relapse.

lol, if you turned your life around ‘through faith’, you never really recovered – you just switched one addiction for another.

You can’t get rid of authoritarianism the same way you can’t get rid of stupid.

True, but you can get rid of hierarchical authority itself, leaving the authoritarians nothing to work with. Ask your local anarchist how.

In the conservative mindset, any person under 18 is the property of their parents, which they can do whatever the fuck they want with.

What’s the alternative?

Open your music app yourself, select the song, and press play.

presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.

Yeah, to me that sounds like what’s going on. They’re trying to implement a Discord client within their game, and to really do that successfully, it needs permissions to do all the Discord things.

True, but I could also see an authoritarian “communist” government doing all the same surveillance bullshit.

So, while it’s a capitalism problem this time, I don’t think it’s a capitalism-exclusive problem. It really is, at its root, an authoritarianism problem. This time, you’ve got capitalist authoritarianism, but next time maybe a different flavor.

The actual ‘grown up’ take.