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Only two, neither of which lasted longer than a week. I am very disabled and very lucky in that I can get away with not working - currently shooting for disability payments.

According to the 2020 census, Asheville’s population is 10% African American, 8% Hispanic, 4.5% mixed race, 0.6% ‘some other race’, 0.27% Pacific Islander, and 0.26% Native American.

That’s a full 25% of the population that aren’t ‘kkkrackers’, and god only knows how many of them, including the aforementioned ‘kkkrackers’, are deeply marginalized in other ways - being queer, nuerodivergent, disabled… being a member of any marginalized group in an area like Appalachia isn’t easy, and now this flooding has destroyed all their lives just as much as it’s made the ‘kkkrackers get soggy.’

Be serious. It’s a natural disaster in an extremely poor area by American standards. It’s not just fucking over a bunch of rich white people.

You’re close, but missing some details - the mass quantities of milk didn’t come to be for no reason, it was a massive increase of production during WW1. The US made a shitload of condensed milk to feed both their soldiers, and, more importantly, exported a whole bunch of it to the Entente.

After the war demand naturally crashed but all the facilities and logistics for this production still existed, and the Department of Agriculture didn’t want the dairy industry to crash, and they didn’t want all that industrial capacity to go away in case of another war where they needed a bunch of condensed milk again.

So, they put out a big propaganda campaign promoting this stuff to home consumers, and naturally, this led to a increase in popularity for more normal forms of milk as well - this compounded on itself over the next few decades with additional advertisement campaigns - both government backed and those backed by the dairy industry - to promote milk more. By the 50s/60s milk-drinking reached it’s peak, and because of the popularity over multiple decades it just kind of got culturally ingrained - particularly for children, but adults still drink a lot of milk too, although the numbers have been going down recently.

That’s the big picture cultural reason - as a mayo American myself, I drink milk because I like the taste and texture.

Speak for yourself? There’s nothing special about being blood related. I would absolutely do it, if I had any practical reason to, which I do not, would be a horrible decision. My family never loved me, after all, so I naturally am not inclined to extend them any special status or care.

If it’s a thin, fast-food style burger, I usually eat it crown down.

If it’s a thicker restaurant or home-make burger, I usually eat it heel up.

I have no idea why I do it this way, but this is my main pattern.

In my case it almost feels like my body’s reaction to heat has a screwed-up sense of how hot things are. I can’t take hot showers, for example, which are objectively not dangerous, because they genuinely feel like they are going to burn me - normal-hot-shower temperature water feels like like a wet hot pan, it’s like my cap is just lower. Ambient heat in the air and light doesn’t do that in the same way, but it can make walls and stuff feel like that, naturally.

I hadn’t thought of it from the overstimulation angle before, though, but now that I think about it I think you’re right, that is at least part of why I hate ambient heat and particularly sweating. Thank you for that insight.

No, they do not, and most of them aren’t willing to understand, either.

People, or at least NT people, with higher temperature tolerance are almost always assholes about it - I have weird heat sensitivity, I suspect on account of my Autism, and I only stopped getting constant shit for it once I basically entirely stopped talking to NTs.

The people in this thread are just seizing on an excuse to shit on people they perceive as weaker, or an excuse to shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing. Or both.