Reminder that literally every argument supporting the straw ban has been countered by individuals who need straws. Every single one of your ostensibly helpful suggestions has already been addressed ad nauseam.

You just refuse to look for it. "Buy your own straws."

Yes, one extra thing you have to remember to carry just so you can enjoy activities ableds like me don't think twice about. And it's yet another tax for being disabled.

Also, I'm hearing about environmentalists literally snatching straws out of hands so..

I'm going to do an evening #AnswerMeThis. It's 9pm here, or 2100 if you're mathematically civilized.

Tonight's theme: be a curmudgeon!

Remember to QT your answers. I may not RT all of them just because it gets to be a bit much, but I'll try and RT a few. 1) What is one thing everyone enjoys that you hate?

Part of my job involves hiding a microphone on a person to capture what they're saying. These are small radio microphones that I have to hide under clothing as well as the radio transmitter.

I also have to tape it down carefully so it doesn't pick up the sound of fabric rubbing. Today I had to mic up a model. She was wearing a single piece very thin dress and no undershirt or bras. She also didn't have pants or a separate skirt to clip the transmitter to.

Nobody every gave this talk to me.

Look, we all understand conceptually that rape is bad. Doesn’t mean we understand boundaries, enthusiastic vs revoked consent, or some of the more subtle forms of predatory behavior.

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Like, we all understand that Edward Cullen popping into Bella’s bedroom to watch her sleep is creepy as hell, but we don’t understand how Ross Gellar’s entitlement and subtle manipulations are also quite predatory.

There’s been a lot of huppluh today about the changes to Patreon’s transaction structure. The TLDR is creators will lose a lot of lower tier patrons. This will affect the one dollar pledged mostly, which seems trivial but they add up and often people making those pledges are themselves strained, so an extra 38 cents per creator adds up.

So I just saw a thread where a white woman was asking why natives didn't domesticate moose the same way Europeans domesticated horses.

Because they are fucking moose. There are six criteria for domestication of any animal in a pre-industrial society. Any candidate has to fit all six. Moose fit two.