Along these lines, if anyone craving Altoids sours of yesteryear, cracker barrel actually sells the spiritual successor.

This is adjacent, but it’s worth pointing out that framework has recently started selling risc-v motherboards for their laptops for adventurous folks.

Reality has a left leaning bias. Immigrants have largely become normalized, so they need something else to scrape goat.

They keep you fighting a culture war so you don’t fight a class war.

It’s definitely worth pointing out that some styles have taken over 20 years to cycle back in, so I also definitely think the former is more practical haha

Fair enough. I made a wrong assumption about where you came from and was inappropriately hostile, my apologies. Hope you have a good weekend!

…yeah afaik there’s pretty good evidence that trans folks wouldn’t be culturally eliminated under the Biden administration. Do you disagree with that assumption?

And you’ve misunderstood me. I don’t care that you voted third party. As I mentioned, in some contexts that could be viewed as admirable. I’m not trying to convince you to vote Democrat.

Just don’t puff out your chest about having clean hands when, given the single most pronounced choice we have in determining government for the next cycle, you prioritized trying to maintain a clean conscience over keeping Trump out of the white house.

How about the start of two genocides?

You CAN argue that, but could you look yourself in the mirror and say that’s a good faith argument when you don’t know how I voted for the last 50 years? That’s a good sign that your argument is simply deflection, by making up a strawman you’re hoping to avoid admitting that you had a role in getting trump elected. Your comment here indicates that you know you played a part, but I agree with you, the Democratic party put up a shit candidate and played a much larger part. My heart fell when Kamala indicated no policy changes in Palestine.

However, folks who ignored the effects of fptp voting to vote (or abstain) for the sake of their conscience do not have their hands clean of all of this. In seeking to protest a genocide, they have invited the start of a second genocide on our fellow citizens, as well as accelerated the original genocide they were protesting. These effects could’ve been seen from a million miles away.

It strikes me as privileged to be able to ignore the predictable real world effects of a decision, in the name of maintaining a clean conscience. Sure, maybe in a few voting cycles, the vote made a difference. I hope so, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen it happen historically. However, generally speaking, do not boast that your hands are clean of the trump administrations actions if your decisions (or lack of) in this election made it more likely for him to be elected. They are simply are not.

Oh I didn’t say that.

I just find it amusing when folks claim that their conscience and hands are clean when they played a part in getting trump elected.

It was a decision telling of priorities, and sending a message, or maintaining a clear conscience, was likely deemed more important than the ramifications a trump presidency. That’s why I mentioned the ivory tower - I assumed that you thought you weren’t going to be too affected by a trump presidency? Either that, or you wanted to maintain a clean conscious despite that? The latter is admirable in it’s own way, but i believe less likely when looking at entire populations.

This is prime “enlightened third party voter” meme material right here.

Must be nice in that ivory tower.

If he compares sex to paying the mortgage as a “marital duty”, then kindly remind him that the reason you’re tired is because you’re working more difficult shifts to financially contribute to the “marital duties”. He’s welcome to pick up more slack himself, sounds like he has plenty of energy.

Nevermind how goddamn icky that phrasing feels…that is highly manipulative language that does not come from a place where your best interests are at heart.

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Thank you kindly!

I have no clue, I’m more utilitarian than fancy. I’ve tried fountain pens but found them to be too high maintenance. If it means anything, my second favorite pen is probably a G2.

The f701 is 8 bucks, a space pen refill is another 9 dollars or so.

So for 20 bucks you have a stainless steel pen that will last forever, while writing in damn near all conditions. Looks snazzy enough to trigger the “I better not leave this” for me, too.

I’ll have to try it out! I currently use fisher space pens, and while the pen is reliable, I definitely notice that it’s not guaranteed to write evenly.

Was there any hacks you had to do to fit the refill?

I’m not familiar with the pilot refill, what about that swap do you enjoy?

I commented this elsewhere, but I figured it deserves it’s own top level comment.

You can take an affordable stainless steel zebra f701 and swap out the ink with a fisher space pen refill for a solid, utilitarian pen for less than 15 bucks.

You can chuck a fisher space pen refill in the f701 if you want to spice it up

If you want to ball on a budget, you can get a steel f701 pen from zebra for $10, slap a fisher space pen refill in it, and call it a day. It’s what I use.