That is a deep fundamental problem in our culture. Not recognizing the immorality, even grossness, of casually weilding the kind of sums of money that can buy and sell other people.

And it’s relative, and many of us are guilty of it, and even if we recognize it, most off us can say, well I’m not as bad as those people, pointing to those above us. Most westerners, even fairly poor ones, are in that position wrt people in other parts of the world.

I’m neither blaming anyone, nor letting anyone (including myself) of the hook. That’s beside the point. We need to change our culture’s understanding of this. How, idk, except that every time we can point at it and say WTF!?! we should.

It is sometimes recommended that each person have TWO toothbrushes to ensure that it dries thoroughly between uses. You don’t want to be culturing your mouth bacteria on your toothbrush.

You also don’t all have the same mouth biome, because you likely have different oral hygiene habits, diets, etc. So no, you don’t want to share toothbrushes, those of you with less healthy oral biomes may be giving undesirable stuff to those of you with healthier ones.

I used dandruff shampoos for most of my life. My dandruff is the best it’s ever been since switching to a shampoo and conditioner that are slightly acid of neutral instead of basic like nearly every other shampoo.

Your skin is meant to be slightly acidic. Constantly assaulting its pH is not ideal. Yes it reasserts its normal pH pretty quickly afterwards but being gentler with your skin can help with some issues.

I’m pretty sure giving the finger is entirely cultural. If you met a human from a group with no contact with the rest of the world, I don’t think the middle finger would mean anything to them, unless they infer something from your attitude and context.

Maybe this person is an asshole and has the reasonable expectation that people will say rude things about them if they can’t understand what they are saying.

That’s an excellent idea! It’s a pretty badly failed experiment.

I would also say it its important to understand and accept that what a person feels is valid even if something it is based on is ‘wrong’. If I hurt you, you hurt, and that is important to address even if I didn’t mean to hurt you, even if I think that isn’t a thing that should be hurtful, even if you misunderstand my motives.

When I act a certain way, you may think it means a certain thing, because that it what it has meant coming from other people, or what it would mean coming from you, or what you believe it is supposed to mean. I on the other hand may not even realize that another could take it to mean something other then what it means for me. It can be hard understanding what another person’s actions or reactions mean, and doubly so because we do not always understand ourselves.

Well if you both understand the problem (meaning the yelling and not listening) you could agree to a ‘format’. Like, say, each having a turn taking for, say 10 minutes while the other truly listens without interrupting even if they believe that what they hear is wrong. That still be too hard and you may need a moderator, to help interpret, and draw attention to areas of misunderstanding. That is much of what relationship councillors do, facilitate communication which admittedly is hard.

It’s always a numbers game. The more times you roll the dice the sooner you’ll see success. The lower the chances the more times you need to roll em.

A general thing you can say about opportunity is to put yourself places where opportunities happen, even rare ones. But sorry I don’t have any advice about where those places are.

Also, non successful attempts can still be learning experience.

As to what I am trying to accomplish: your comments, suggesting you have some theory about how the planets move that somehow scientists have missed, suggests to me some basic misunderstanding about how science or scientific knowledge works, and I’m trying to get at that, to possibly help you see something you are missing.

I don’t even know what you are talking about when you say ‘theory’. I can’t remember ever seeing a model of the planets rotating around the sun presented as a ‘theory.’ It’s just a model to explain what is understood about it, and of course a simplification. Of course scientists understand that the sun is also moving and if you combine that motion with the orbiting of the planets you of course get a spiral.

Did you really think that what you were able to infer from basic knowledge about the motion of the planets was not realized by scientists?

Fruits still have other flavors to my taste. Your sensitivity to sugar will change based on how much of it your eat, so if you’ve adapted to eating a lot less sugar you may have become so sensitive to sweetness that it overpowers other flavors.

I become aware of which eye I am looking at when talking to someone who has eyes that are misaligned. Like, maybe they have one glass eye or one eye that has some problem… I become self conscious that I might be looking at the wrong eye and worried they might be offended.

But I’m pretty sure I’m never aware of which one my eyes another person is looking at, or when their gaze switches. So I really doubt I could tell if someone were looking right between my eyes. Maybe if they were really close.

Whether you bake or buy, I’d suggest moving toward whole grain bread. Looking at the amount of fiber per serving is a good way to assess how ‘whole’ a bread from the store is.

The limited edition luxury model is extra heavy already, because it’s made from gold.

For those who need the weight of a blanket, they should make a loose chainmail blanket for hot days.

My keys, like my wallet, always stay in my pants pocket. This only fails on rare occasions that I forget to transfer my pocket contents when changing pants.

BTW, I’m someone who has a serious problem losing things because i set them down without thinking about it. Any task requiring numerous tools takes me twice as long as a normal person because I spend half my time hunting for the tool I just used a minute ago.

I think the only reason I rarely lose my wallet or keys is because I have internalized that I DON’T ever set them down.

Soundcore makes the Sleep A20.

I would submit that our culture is severely deluded in thinking that conscious reasoning is behind most of our actions and reactions to things. If you like a thing, and have reasons why, those are generally rationalizations to explain why, after the fact, not actually how you got there.