My mom would sometimes serve sweet pancakes for lunch. Even as a kid, I didn’t really like it - it’s tasty, but it just doesn’t fill you up well.

A large part of plankton consists of animals like crustaceans and jellyfish (zooplankton). Though IDK if that was also true back when the current oil deposits were formed.

AFAIK, the important thing in polyamory is consent. It looks like the boyfriend didn’t consent, so that seems to be a form of cheating, though it’s possible that it’s an honest mistake - maybe it hasn’t been properly established that they have to tell each other first when they want to date someone new. Though it’s also possible that the relationship wasn’t actually open in the first place, or just not in the way “Asher” said it was.

Bit hard to say who was cheated on without knowing all the facts. Though either way, “Asher” definitely has to figure his shit out before starting to go out with someone.

It’s even harder to ignore people who are talking to you, or are just talking loudly in general.

If it’s near a popular fishing spot, the intended meaning might be exactly what it sounds like.

Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.

On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.

It doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).

Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner, and many employees who don’t make it into management have to leave their job because of age discrimination or health issues at some point before pension, at which point the usually get a job that requires fewer qualifications and thus usually comes with fewer responsibilities.

How does the tendency to monopolize fit into this? A monopolized market doesn’t seem very decentralized.

They pay bribes, though!

I’d assume that capitalists aren’t happy about getting their ships nabbed by hostile navies, either. Generally, the only ones who get rich off this kind of violence and usually get away with it are the capitalists who build weapons, and only if their country never gets occupied.

Most people aren’t entirely good or bad, I really think this kind of black-and-white thinking is hurting us as societies. Even Hitler cared about his dog and I haven’t heard anything about him being a bad husband, either - and yet this guy is one of the go-to examples for people who are considered completely evil. This leads to fallacies like people not wanting to believe that someone could be a murderer because they were always treated right by them.

People tend to care about some things in their lives and not care about other things.

The issue with recreating that environment on a wooden boat is that the sea is really, really wet. Sailing boats definitely had issues with spoiling citrus fruit, it’s part of why the british navy switched to citrus syrup at one point.

What exactly does “stored correctly” mean? I assume dry and cool?

Yeah, that’s fair.

On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.

That wasn’t the question, though.

Apparently meat contains enough vitamin c to fend off scurvy if you eat it fresh and not cooked to death (don’t remember just how raw it had to be); it worked for the Inuit. Depending on where your route takes you, that might have been an option. On the other hand, if you can get fresh meat, you can probably also get fresh fruit if you’re not on an arctic expedition.

Fresh fruit spoil easily. How do you preserve fruit for months without destroying the vitamin c, before refrigerators were a thing? Though that really depends on how “longterm” we’re talking here, evidently citrus fruit were, in fact, the solution for sailing boats.

It gets there too, but not as much. The dust comes from outside the closet, not inside.