Thank you for agreeing with my point. No one ever listened to AM radio at home. I don’t get why this perspective seems so controversial here after having living through it and observing this

Being someone from back in the day, yes, I remember. And back then the dominant demographic who tuned in to AM talk radio like Rush Limbaugh were white men driving for work. There were just as many TVs around pre-2000, too, we’re not talking about the 60s…

Which only reached middle aged and older men who drove a lot

Edit: I don’t get the downvotes. In AM radio’s heyday, pre-2000, women and younger people were not listening to it at all. Older men were the target demographic. Of course everyone had access to radios, but women and younger people were listening to FM, not Rush Limbaugh. And at home, AM was never on unless you were in a very rural area and an AM station was your only choice.

Always keep a year supply of dailies on hand

Shit, my parents were boomers and raised me on 50s and 60s music. The oldest boomers would’ve been 35 in 1980.

All that said, nothing wrong with listening to music from the past. Most popular classical music was written well over a century ago. I personally love music from the 40s. My son gets an earful representing every decade

The prices discussed in the article are wholesale commodity prices and do not reflect retail markups. The price you’re paying accounts for transportation costs, store salaries, and much more, whereas the prices in the article is what rice farmers are selling for. Also, short term price fluctuations are unlikely to impact retail prices at all, where long term fluctuations may impact prices slowly over time, assuming retailers decide to pass cost savings on to customers at all

Scraping with plastic is a good way to create microplastics. Better to use a wood or metal tool

Sounds like chainmail

According to the chart in the article (which only discusses the price of one specific type of rice) almost all of the price drop occurred over 2024, and it’s only dropped a little more throughout 2025 so far. Maybe compare to your rice order a year ago

I’m no expert, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I found this study indicating among a samples of people with rheumatoid arthritis, having a previous measles infection was actually overrepresented.

I also found this discussion indicating scientists are already studying immunotherapy methods that may give you the effect of an immune system reset but in a safe and targeted way. The measles virus itself likely just has too many potential short- and long-term effects to be worth the risk, but that doesn’t mean studying how it works won’t be useful!

The negative impacts of our systems of consumption and exploitation are different the number of humans that are on the earth, though. We could easily sustain everyone on earth with much less of an environmental impact with current technology and a more just economic system

In ecology, animal populations grow in a distinct S-shaped pattern up to the environment’s carrying capacity. Globally, the human population has been following a similar curve, and we’re already past the inflection point, where population growth rates have begun to fall over time. The global population of humans is projected to reach steady state sometimes between 2060-2100. This could change though, what with humaty’s proclivity for making things awful

The sort of event you’re describing is incredibly rare, and I can still only assume you haven’t been to a concert with a GA section in decades. You’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to a concert than by a crowd crush at a concert

Like where? I can only assume you’ve never been to a large pop concert

if your reason for going out with him is to be friends, communicate that

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I don’t think that at all, I have great friends of both genders. My point is you need to communicate with him, because you came in here thinking it was probably a date and asking us whether he wanted to sleep with you.

There you go, if your reason for going out with him is to be friends, communicate that.

(If I’m being very honest, everything you wrote above gives me the impression you like him, so maybe sit with that and make some choices)

Is there any comfortable way to bring up this topic without making me sound like a narcissist who assumed a guy wants to sleep with her just because he asked her out🥲.

I’m less interested in knowing his motivation than I am in your motivation for saying yes and going out with him. Whatever is motivating you to go out with him, that is what you need to communicate, rather than just saying “I’m not going to sleep with you.”

I found this great story about this picture: Music Monday: Uncovering The Mystery Of The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra

Uhhh…the average new college student is fresh off of going to school before 9am for the previous 13 years