Receipt

Edit: Most expensive items:

Pork steaks - $10.49. This is enough protein for at least three meals but I have a feeling two of them will be broiled and eaten inn one meal (I live with one person, my 17 year old daughter).

Three pounds of ground beef - $10.86. I could have got 10 pounds for $26 but my refrigerator is small. This is at least three meals.

Hot links - $12.54. This is 54oz of pre cooked J.C. Potter hot links. They are great air fried but a quick easy meal in the microwave too.

Butterfly shrimp, $15.99. This is 2 pounds of breaded fried shrimp, great in the air fryer. They go a long ways and if my daughter is hungry when I'm not, a few of those shrimp make an easy meal.

Cheese pinwheel lasagna - 2x7.88. Each of these is technically 4 servings, my daughter and I will eat one between the two of us.

3-meat rising crust frozen pizza - $3.98. I've found these store brand "premium" frozen pizzas are better than the more expensive name brands.

Other things - a big package of Mission tortillas can be used in a lot of ways. Pita bread is for my daughter who likes to eat it with Nutella or hummus or wrapped around a hot link. There's some frozen tortellini that's really good with a homemade sauce we can make with the dirt cheap tomato sauce. Refried beans used for taco night. Mayacoba beans can make 4+ quarts of beans in the slow cooker that can be eaten on for several days.

There's some staples we didn't buy on this trip that we have left over from previous trips. Rice is cheap and good with a lot of things. We're stocked up on butter, milk, eggs (cage free was actually cheaper than regular last time), cheese, and seasonings already. The minced garlic in olive oil was an impulse buy.

I'm thinking a group moving and making sounds in synchrony might appear to be a single, larger creature.

This is why I like intensely spicy foods. I use hot sauces with 6 digit scoville ratings. My entire mouth feels like it's burning but it doesn't bother me at all because I know it's just a trick played on my heat receptors, and the high I get from the endorphins my brain releases feels good.

I was given demerol in 2005 when they were cleaning dead flesh from an MRSA infected spider bite. It was the weirdest sensation, I could feel the pain but it had none of.the emotional component to it, I don't care or want it to stop.

If you define government that broadly, anarchy cannot exist as there will always be social hierarchies in any human culture.

Your definition of governance is too broad. It must have legal authority to conduct the affairs of a political unit. A strong man who tells people what to do and it's only listened to because of fear of force is not a government. A person chosen to speak for a group but who has no authority is not a government. My boss only has authority over me in regards to my work duties, and that is only at my consent...I can choose at any time to say "I'm not going to work for you" and he has no authority over me at that point.

Words have meanings, and a government requires more than just a leader.

That's an inaccurately broad definition of "government.". Are street gangs governments? Are the management of my office a government? Was General Buck Naked a part of a government? The answer to all of these is "No."

No, it means the absence of government, not absence of leaders.

I'm 50, it's not age making that guy a weirdo, he's just been so brainwashed he lumps all things he scorns together - non-binary people, emotional support animals, rats, young people

Dogs take almost a year to reach an age where they can breed. Rats take six weeks. Fancy rats have been bred for about 150 years. That's thousands of generations.

It would take more than one generation for the physical and behavioral differences to go away. Dogs born in the wild still lack there instinctual fear of humans that wolves have. You have a rather Lamarckian idea of how animals going feral works.

They have many traits that make them not as effective at living in the wild and I know of no instances of fancy rats forming a breeding population in the wild. They are much weaker and not poison resistant. They don't know how to fight effectively, they retain juvenile traits into adulthood and slap, not bite. Most have coloration that makes them vulnerable to predators and some will actually approach predators.