Great Lakes or Rust Belt, take your pick.

No state that is in the Eastern Time Zone is a part of the Midwest.

If you are able to do a load of laundry for them, that’s a huge help.

Mostly because I already have a burner and two 75-count spindles of blank DVDs.

I use them for archival backups of personal media.

Not much and not that well.

It’s my real name.

Most people can’t afford to just “move”.

There are no good electric cars.

You don’t really have imposter syndrome, the people who do are struggling much harder.

I was trying to bum a square at a concert.

There’s a lot of middle ground between those extremes, and as usual that’s where the answer lies. But If I have to pick one of these extreme positions, I choose anarchy over tyranny.

Maybe not the top five, but five top-tier pieces I can name right now:

• Milton Horn’s sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake

• The Carbon & Carbide Building

• Philip K. Dick’s novella Galactic Pot-Healer

• Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith”

• The Magnetic Fields’ song “If You Don’t Cry”

You deleted your other post because you didn’t like the critical comments, and you’re still crying about censorship?

When did FF7 get good? A lot of people love it but the first hour made me put it down and never look back.

Season 2 of Other Space

If I’m shopping, as opposed to just buying, it’s because I don’t already have a brand I prefer. Or because I’m thrifting. There a few brands I avoid for quality or ethics reasons, but mostly I’ll take whatever fits best at a reasonable price.

Perfect Jeans are great for standing and walking, but not so good for biking. But since my commute is twenty minutes and my shift is nine hours, they’re still my go-tos.

No.

And, by-the-by, “other people are doing it” is never sound ethical reasoning.

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