Notices by Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social), page 2

@brimshae @freemo Why stop there? Let's give individual sperms and eggs a say too.

@bonifartius @freemo One could argue that a lack of it does. Ultimately it just depends on when you think life starts and whether or not you're willing to use violence to enforce that belief.

@freemo Of course everyone has a right to their opinion on any subject.

But it does seem clear that while men are not unaffected, women *are* disproportionately affected and their voices should therefore hold more weight on the subject.

And the inverse holds true as well. Men's voices carry more weight when it comes to men's issues, such as the legality and ease of access to Viagra.

@freemo Or maybe, if they're smart, they *know* it's temporary and use it to fund their way through college and to build up a cash reserve for when they leave the sugar daddy.

I could easily see it go either way.

@freemo Okay, I could see that, but the "sugar" relationship tends to specifically be about a "kept" man/woman who doesn't have to work and gets bought nice things. I think a "sugar baby" having a job on the side would kind of defeat the purpose. So, I'd still be very curious to see some statistics on where they go when they age out.

I'm getting to the age now where, being single, I'm starting to receive offers to be a "sugar daddy". Much like regular prostitution, I think whatever consenting adults do in private is fine, but the arrangement is simply not for me.

However, it has led me to wonder.... what happens to "sugar babies" when they age out? They'd presumably be approaching age 30 with zero job experience. How do they survive?

@freemo Well, sure, but even the roads back then usually formed along natural wildlife trails.

I wonder how much of the gain in speed was simply knowledge. Better maps, better managed expectations, more trail experience, etc.

@freemo Interesting...

But wait, if only the last one has railroads included, then how did the first three expand so much? I wouldn't think bushwhacking and roadbuilding would account for *that much* of decrease in travel time.

@freemo Yes.

If I was actively having sex with a man and he stopped and wanted to have a penis sword fight, my knee jerk reaction would be to say "dude, that's gay".

@freemo Really? I figured once one candidate starts talking about how great Hitler was, the answer should be obvious, no matter how much you dislike the other option.

Besides, I thought you liked Chase Oliver. What turned you away from him?

@freemo One time is a typo, two is weird, but at least three times in your post, you refer to "first responded" when I think you mean "first responder". What gives?

@freemo Yeah, I'm a hundred feet above sea level, so I'm not too worried about my house actually going underwater or anything.

That said, I could absolutely see a house of cards come crashing down if insurers keep pulling out of the state, which is what I'm most worried about in the short-term.

Part of me is worried that endless hurricanes will drive my house's property value down and maybe I should get out now while it's high.

Then the other part of me knows that there will *always* be a greater idiot who will be happy to buy a house in Florida, even when it's halfway underwater.

@clarity Couldn't the same be said of calculators?

@inthehands Right, they are not talking to *you* specifically, but any public post to social media is inherently a conversation starter, or a public request-for-comment. If you're not DMing an individual, you're starting an open conversation. That's the entire point of social media.

@freemo @argv_minus_one @stevebenen I'd think the bigger problem is that smaller co-ops wouldn't have negotiating power while bigger co-ops would need a management structure that would be very prone to corruption and operate not too dissimilarly from the current providers.

Then there would be the thorny questions of "can co-ops buy out or merge with other co-ops?" and "what happens when consolidation runs amok and anti-competitive practices proliferate?"

@freemo Well, yeah, but if we're using kooky New Jersey definitions, then a gas station is a place you never get out of your car.

@freemo Well, they don't strip. But otherwise, yeah, that's literally its entire appeal.

Can't wait to see what effect this has on Trump's stock price when the markets open in the morning, especially since we're only a week or two out before he can dump his shares.

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Harris needs to laugh at him more. It puts him off-balance, but is very relatable to literally everyone else.

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