Thank you, very detailed reply!

Thank you!

I dunno why you're being downvoted, but could you explain the differences, please?

Media has taught us that a first date involves drinking in a bar or restaurant, in part because of movie shorthand. (Dinner and drinks is a date, forget the rest of the evening, we just set the stage to imply the rest.)

As many others have said, your normal is your normal. Don't let society or Hollywood pressure you into dating 'their way'.

I met my wife on a date at a coffeehouse near here house. We then went to a pizza place across the street. No alcohol involved, but I did bring a board game into the restaurant with us.

I once got drunk when the wife was out of town and went around the house putting googly eyes everywhere. (My wife's fault for buying a bag!)

Definitely recommended. We were finding them for months because I didn't even remember where some were.

The gish gallop has gone mainstream.

What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.

I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.

Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with "And who is currently profiting?" is and always has been beyond me.

...I'm not sure that's a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.

My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, "This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating."

For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.

Sorry, this probably isn't coherent but I'm tired and tipsy, and I've chosen to hit save.

All so that none of their tenants can afford any of those four things without constantly struggling!

She will be.

I'm increasingly confident about a blue wave this election. First multiracial female president in a time when bodily autonomy is under attack.

And that's all without taking into account who and what she is running against.

Actually the thought is if the government can just imprison you to stop your candidacy, they have too much power.

Thus they can continue to run.

Until there are some kind of real penalties for submitting unconstitutional legislation, we will not be able to stop these clowns from abusing our state legislatures.

He was an antivax conspiracy theorist who was convinced there was no Trump/Russia connection.

I have never been a Facebook user so I'm mostly guessing.

But I think there was a heyday where people spent a great deal of time on there.

Now they don't. They just log on when it's needed to get ahold of someone or check a specific niche community.

Thus it's dying because the ad revenue is way down. It's in decline not because it lacks users, but because they no longer spend hours there.