I think we have different definitions of “technically true,” but that’s probably true for a lot of terms. Have a good new year’s, if you celebrate.

We currently produce enough food to feed everyone and the international system is capitalist. Does every death from starvation or malnutrition count as a tick against capitalism for you? What about deaths from diabetes in the US? If not, you should look more into how the numbers you’re citing were generated and see if you still want to spread them. If so, you might find that capitalism has killed more than “communism.”

Also, just as a nitpick: 6 million Jews died in the holocaust. 13 million people died altogether (not including war casualties).

I know you feel like we’re on opposite sides here, but I really do just want you to research this a little more, no need to come back afterwards if you don’t want to.

A free market can be implemented in many economic systems.

I’m asserting that capitalism didn’t do that on its own. The USSR is not a good example of communism, no, but it’s certainly not capitalist, and if they hadn’t provided competition at every step of the space race, beating the US out most of the time, the US wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.

Ah, the Space Race. Something that was famously only participated in by capitalist countries.

I’m not surprised he got his kid out first, I’m surprised he called the cops instead of going back there alone.

If they’re an actor who can no longer act as a result of trauma, it could be partly lost wages.

I don’t know, people donate blood for juice boxes. I might occasionally visit a professional vampire who could get rid of an annoying knot in my back

I’m not, because my real worry is that I’ll regret it.

No, but you see, I already have broad hips. I’ll never pass as a dude, so why try?

Sorry, I meant this to also be light-hearted, but it’s… not.

Nigerias got oil, it’s not a secret

If you’re an adult in no danger of pregnancy and not breastfeeding, licking the solder wire once won’t hurt you noticeably.

But if you’re worried that you’ll like the taste and might seek it out again, that’s a possibility.

I had a customer tell me once that he could always recognize me from behind because I’m so skinny. I didn’t have a comeback, because what the fuck, but I told him that was something I didn’t want to hear from him and then he got all offended. He told me it was rude, so I told him next time he could recognize which barista was rude.

I will grant him this though, he did recognize me from behind at a different store, a couple towns over from my regular one. He recognized that he should wait for the other barista.

Sorry, it’s just soup to me

Do they still feel slimy if they’re finely diced? I love the taste but hate the texture of mushrooms, and mincing them to incorporate into a dish is the best of both worlds for me.

You mean like how chamomile isn’t tea? Because I probably call chamomile broth “tea” 100% of the time. Tea for me is anything steeped in muslin in boiling or near boiling water that you might sweeten

I’m also not big on tea, but rooibos tastes like essence of baked goods to me

Or it’s delicious, store brand rooibos

The weirdest part is how as soon as I decided to give up and wear comfy, ugly (to me) clothes, they came back in style. I straight up started wearing my dad’s old clothes (I’m afab, maybe an egg, but I definitely read as a woman to others) and long socks (in the cooler months- part of getting older for me is that things start to ache when they get cold), which I felt a little insecure about. Then somehow shortly thereafter the kids in my college town started doing it too. I’m glad younger women don’t feel like they have to wear all the uncomfortable stuff I did though, it’s just a little surprising.

I was once given cocaine eye drops in a hospital though (it’s a combined vasoconstrictor and analgesic, which makes it good for facial injuries that tend to hurt and swell/bleed a lot). Just because something can have a clinical use case doesn’t make it safe for anyone to use it regularly.