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There's a few brands of the instant stuff I'll use like half a packet of the seasoning and then save the other half for seasoning something later. Full pack is just too much, basically burns the tastebuds out. Which is sometimes the only mercy involved, ahahaha.

More to do with not having functioning headphone jacks on the computer, heh.

... I'd support a perfume ban in workplaces, really, or maybe just some kind of limitation on the amount or type, I'unno.

I've been put down a few times (once for a few days) due to being stuck near someone that decided it was a good idea to pour a perfume/cologne (same thing, really.) bottle over their head instead of bath (or something along those lines, gods know, but it was bad enough to make me physically sick).

But if we put our pride aside, and look at it honestly, things really are pretty good, no?

Actually, no, no, it's not. There was a delightful analogy I thought up -- and has no doubt been expressed before -- that really puts forth the problem with that "Oh things aren't that bad" concept.

See, it's like this. When something (probably a particular power group) has been causing your ancestors to have their legs chopped off, you can't really legitimately say it's a good thing when whatever that cause is suddenly decides to only cut off your feet, or, (Rejoice!) your big toes. Maybe they decided on a whim, maybe your ancestors did their damnedest to gnaw on the cause's kneecaps or whatever, doesn't matter. You're still getting a foot chopped off.

Basically, it's not a case of "Pretty good," it's a case of "Not as bad as it could be." It's still net bad. Yes, other people have it worse, but that's not sufficient reason to say the situation is good. In this case, the chance to become part of the problem isn't good reason for those suffering due to the problem to rejoice and sing praise.

... from what I'm reading of what you said, G, they're actually perfectly fine with transgendered going through the transition operation and hormone treatments and so forth, self identifying as whatever, changing their name to whatever they prefer, etc., so on, so forth, they just can't legally (as in only on the census or tax forms or whatever) change their gender?

I mean, it's still absolute bullshit, but that's a considerably different order of bullshit compared to, say, forcing sterilization before the other aspects of transitioning is allowed.

They have boobs.

Do you have proof of this? They could be very skilled crossdressers. Given the amount of money behind them, I wouldn't be surprised if they could access very convincing accessories.

Increasing aviability can in turn increase the problem.

Well, definitely. That's one of the reasons alcohol and tobacco related deaths are among the leading causes of death in the US.

That's apparently not sufficient to criminalize those two (or at least the previous attempt at the former failed, leading to increase criminal activity and no really substantial drop in usage... parallels, much?).

No one's arguing that drugs aren't harmful, and are not a problem, I don't think, only that they'd be less of a problem if legalized and controlled so as to be as harmless as possible.