Clearly they meant Non-Alcoholic

It could be ambiguous to a general audience. A Chevron logo would’ve been more elegant

By “misspent”, are you referring to those deposits?

Because of the “every time”. Only sith deal in absolutes.

Not necessarily, depends on the groceries. If you shop irresponsibly, you can spend just as much if not more on groceries.

Look into the kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum, it’s an interesting take.

Is that why Jews say “la chyme” before they drink, since it’s going into their stomach?

What about Keynesian-style pizza?

The low 000s are all generally pretty meta subjects, how we interact with and organize knowledge in general. Journalism and library science deal with reporting and classifying information, computers and programming deal with processing generic data, unexplained phenomena deals with things that can’t be assigned to a specific subject by their very nature.

Witchcraft, Feng Shui, and Tarot are all generally found in 133 (Parapsychology and Occultism), although I could imagine particularly high-level books to be sorted into 003 (Systems), since they are supposed to be comprehensive systems.

Books about computer hardware would be next to electronics. Computer science is where it is because it’s a more abstract topic about general information processing. If anything, I’d argue that fundamental mathematics belongs in the 000s with it.

Actually, I don’t really like the progress flag and think it contributes to division. The original rainbow flag is perfect: sexuality and gender expression are a broad spectrum, the stripes don’t represent individual groups, the whole rainbow represents all groups.

The progress flag adds symbols for specific groups which were already included in the rainbow. Once you start singling groups out piecemeal, you enter an endless spiral of having to individually acknowledge every group, and there’s always another subdivision being left out.

I also like the reclamation of the word “queer” and think it’s a far more unifying label than LGBTQIA+, for the same reason.

It’s fine to have focused actions, but unified movements are better.

Someone else suggested that the rise in belief in human goodness is a function of the rise in belief of human incompetence. When you start recognizing that people frequently do stupid bad things not because they are bad, but because they are stupid, your heart softens a bit with regards to their intent.

Anti-abortion is a great example. The majority of anti-abortion people genuinely believe that a zygote is an innocent human life, and terminating it is literally murder. If that’s what they believe, why wouldn’t they do everything in their power to stop it? People are murdering innocent babies!

The more you get to know people, the more you start believing in Hanlon’s razor. Most of the “bad” people aren’t bad, they’re just good people with stupid beliefs.

At least you save money on shoes

Maybe there’s a god above

But all I ever learned in love

Was how to shoot at someone

Who outdrew ya

The same thing I’ve said from the beginning?

Not for me though. Using no water at all would not have decreased my payment. Using 10x as much as normal would not have increased my payment. I did not have the option to opt out of or reduce the HOA fee.

Functionally, that’s “free”, so far as it affects usage habits. Kinda like universal healthcare, “free” at point of service.

I don’t think they had any meters on individual units, they had no way of knowing who was using what, so no basis to change the agreement. I’m not saying it’s common, I’m just saying it’s a situation that exists.

I mean it was, just not for me. It was a townhome in a row of connected townhomes with an HOA. Water was paid by the HOA, and an estimate was budgeted into the HOA fee, which was passed on to me through rent. The point is that what I paid was not affected by my usage.

At my last place water was included with rent. Technically not free, but not metered, so using more didn’t cost more.

Y’know, if anywhere was going to have an ATM machine, it would probably be Costco

I suggest “bug” applies exclusively to chitinous invertebrates.