I have a mortgage, which we like to call “owning” but is really me renting-to-own from the bank.

I vastly prefer this to just renting. At least a portion of the money I spend on housing is going towards something I will eventually own (20+ years from now).

Stuff like that certainly exists here, but it’s not super common.

Peanut butter is pretty much our standard of that type of thing. We use jellies/jams/marmalades/etc also, often paired with peanut butter.

Nutella is popular, but not nearly as much as peanut butter.

Marshmallow fluff (basically marshmallows melted into a spread) exists and used to be more popular, but is basically seen a a novelty item now.

We also have apple butters, pear butters, etc. They’re basically a very thick apple sauce that can be spread on food. They’re not super common, though. You’ll mostly find them at specialty stores, farmer’s markets, or farm stands.

Beyond that, the type of stuff you mentioned are fairly uncommon. If people get them, it’s likely as a novelty for a special occasion. Maybe a kid’s birthday party or something like that. They’re not the type of thing people will keep in their house and have frequently.

My kid fits in just fine. She has plenty of friends.

Right? And I’m over here failing as a parent by buying books and letting her play outside. /s

Is there really fault at play here? I mean, is playing Minecraft a life skill that’s vital for a 5 year old to learn?

Maybe I’m parenting wrong, but my 5 year old has no idea what Minecraft is, let alone knows how to play it. The only video games she’s ever played is some Super Mario Bros 3 on a vacation once. She doesn’t even know how to do anything on our iPad except use the sketchpad app for drawing.

Could you imagine what language would look like 10-15 years from now if this actually took off.

Like, think of how ubiquitous stuff like ‘unalive’ or ‘seggs’ has become after just a few years trying to avoid algorithmic censors. Now imagine that for 5 years most people all over the internet were just inserting random phrases into their sentences. I have no idea where that would go, but it would make our colloquial language absolutely wild.

I trust, then, that you got out there to add yourself to the numbers? The next big day is May 3. What are you doing to increase these numbers so we can surpass the 5% mark?

Is this the showdown we’ve been waiting for that will finally definitively prove we’re no longer a Constitutional Republic?

I guarantee you there’s going to be a fuck ton of obnoxious fascists on Reddit and Twitter quoting the fuck out of Jackson today.

I was mostly just making a snarky comment about how everyone is going to get tooth decay from lake of fluoridation.

Sounds like a good time to be in business as a dentist!

I’m just a simple construction worker who’s not wise to the world of international geopolitics, but isn’t a military strike on a foreign country’s sovereign territory usually considered an act of war?

He didn’t seem to care when he got dozens of kids killed by measles in American Samoa, but now that it’s white kids in the metropole he changes his tune…