Pool cue tips are another place I’d like to see a real vegan alternative. It’s such a small percentage of an even smaller population it would take a vegan world chmpion or something to make real progress.

I love pool but I don’t think there is a viable way to avoid the leather tip, it kinda sucks.

Very few can say that they truly exist without ANY trace of animal products in their lives.

Forreal, longtime vegan here… Vegans (online mostly) annoy me more than most people. I swear we aren’t all jerks! I’m probably a major sell out, I don’t even have a problem with hunters.

The answer is here, but you just can’t fight physics. Light needs to come through a lens and hit a sensor. There has to be some significant distance, in relation to the thickness of the phone for this to work. Until camera technology advances and somehow produces a comparatively sharp image, we will be stuck with the bump. It’ll happen at some point I’m sure, but there is a whole bunch of tech that will need to change to get there.

Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz https://youtu.be/HyHNuVaZJ-k?si=zdhqSgmxOTNKBR9E

Yes. Fearmonger more. You keep up that driving! The rest of us will take advantage of more spare time to read while we cruise smoothly by the cars sitting in traffic. Truly a nightmare.

It wasn’t milk

Zappa even has a song about this very subject, from 1967.

Call any vegetable https://youtu.be/XhDXbElN1oY?si=I1GT-6SFweEeNuAO

Don’t feed the paid troll, you mill only frustrate yourself.

You should apologize to yourself for not seeking out better movies, they are out there you just gotta do the work a little more than in the old days.

Then you don’t seek out movies that you would enjoy, not exactly a flex but I understand if it’s just not your thing.

I understand resolution improvements but I don’t understand the push for higher framerate for film. In real life motion is blurred when things move, the higher the framerate the less of that you see.

For me it’s awful, the “soap opera” effect or whatever else they call it kills me, like I’m seeing a cgi picture even when I know everything was captured in camera.

24-30fps is the sweet spot for film and TV imho, I have yet to see a good argument for watching regular real time footage at a higher frame rate.

(To be clear - of course high speed footage for super slo mo and all of that has plenty of cool applications)

Her organization failed. As the head of the organization her job is to accept the failure and resign. Doesn’t matter the exact reason, she needs to take the fall. Trump never should have been cleared to speak if his safety wasn’t guaranteed. And I fucking hate the guy, but the secret service fucked up, a whole bunch of them should probably be fired, top brass first. Absolutely absurd to imagine they should keep their job after this. Normal people get fired for undercooking chicken, missing a day of work or delivering a package to the wrong place, what are we protecting here?

She should get a promotion maybe? Some extra paid vacation time to sort it out and deal with all the extra stress? Several people are in here with this ridiculous take, I don’t get it.

She failed as the head of an extremely important high stakes organization. She no longer has the faith of those she reports to. Should have offered her resignation the day after it happened. That would have been at least been honorable, anything less is ridiculous.

Correct, I help around the house and am primary parent during weekends as well as taking him with me to work regularly. Definitely an active father that takes full responsibility for my son nearly 100% of the time that I have outside of work. Thats a fair consideration when we talk about sharing of responsibilities, I don’t think I mentioned that anywhere here.

You are correct, I’m just hoping we can chill things out enough that she can understand where I’m coming from so I don’t have to completely clam up on my side.

Thanks

The shared budget has been primarily from my income. We have discussed in the past that pushing the balance back towards 50/50 is desirable and fair when she would be financially comfortable enough or that. So, our “system” has largely been informal and I am taking personal responsibility here to agree that probably should have been clarified and set ahead of time, sure. But the tie in with mutual trust, sharing, and interdependence cannot be overlooked. If I’m in a relationship I would hope a rising tide lifts all boats, because thats what Im working for. As I said, it is hurtful and leads me to question my own ability to be generous if someone is not mutually trusting. It’s likely around the corner that this question will be faced on the inverse and that is a core piece of my conflict. I already said we have big concerns that need to be addressed, but its a whole relationship, Im discussing one piece of it here to hopefully gain some perspective. Thanks for your reply though. I think I already said that in this case transparency is what I am not getting and I feel is well deserved. You can call that entitlement if you like, I call that the basics of a healthy relationship.

If you read that as a personal attack it is clear you are not here for good faith conversation. Have a nice day.

Thanks my friend, will see where the dust settles and I will let y’all know.

This is good advice, thanks for the support. I don’t need to have any say in what she does with her money, I just want her to be honest with me.

I see. Yeah the kiddo factor definitely is a big shift in the dynamic. I can see how different it would be… I get it though, if you can say “hey babe I just got a bunch of money, we are in a good spot and I would like to do x, y, and z with it” then the actualy amount is less relevant.

The deception casts a different light on some recent interactions and makes it feel like we weren’t actually engaging in good faith discussion.

For example she was recently visiting her family in California and I offered some extra loot to upgrade to a better hotel for her and her sister when I saw how pricey the options were. She could have waived me off and explained that she really doesn’t need it, clearly that money has a much larger impact in my own modest account.

A willingness to take money from your partner when they don’t know that you secretly have way more than them feels grimey. I guess the deception is what is fucking me up here. Ultimately the deception is allowing your partner to have an incomplete view of reality.

I think I am leaning towards suggesting that finances are now 50/50 across the board unless she is willing to explain to me how exactly that isn’t fair. It sucks that I am feeling like I can no longer be generous, that’s not who I want to be but it where I am at.