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Someone would have to write a song about it.

I’d love to do a fecal swab test on your phone.

Yep, you’d definitely find some. just like everywhere else.

I wonder how many times you’ve put it in your mouth to hold it.

What? WTF? Never. Not in the nearly 30 years I’ve owned a cell phone have I EVER put it in my mouth. Why would you do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do that.

I wonder how many times you’ve ate shit.

Well, let’s not get into details. But it’s ironic that the same world with a profoundly unhealthy obsession with a germ-free environment is the same one that has normalized anal sex, ATM, and analingus.

I tend to stay away from both extremes, wash my hands well, keep up with my vaccinations, and don’t stress over the fact that literally every single thing I touch is contaminated. The number of people who get sick (particularly with fecal coliform) from their phones is inconsequentially small.

Yes, your phone is dirty; but if you clean it, you’ll be eliminating a tiny fraction of a percent of the bacteria and viruses you’re exposed to every single day of your life.

You do you, but cleaning phones is almost entirely the product of fear mongering by the media. I didn’t think anyone actually bothered.

Wow, neighbours! My dad was in Red Deer. I had a teacher in Edmonton who made fun of me for being left handed.

Who cleans their phone? Who disinfects their phone?

I wipe my screen if it’s dirty, and once every month or so I’ll take it out of the case to clean the gunk out.

My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.

When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.

So yeah, it happens.

For those with no personal morals, limits to action are only enforced by consequences.

In the US, there are currently no consequences for immoral or criminal activity by the government in power or their minions (e.g. ICE). Thus, the only limit to their actions is their own morality; and they have been actively encouraging/recruiting support from those with absolutely no moral compass.

So no, there are no limits until consequences stsrt happening.

Most provincial governments have stopped importing US liquor.

One difference is that U.S. liberals are still likely to believe in American exceptionalism.

Americans almost universally believe they are fundamentally the best - moral leaders of the world, even if they have temporarily lost their way.

The great protest folk singers from the U.S., such as Woody and ArlonGuthrie, the Seegers, and so many others, feel that they’re fighting the good fight to bring the U.S. back to where it was meant to be: the ‘leader of the free world.’

It’s an infectuous ego that taints the U.S. psyche on a deep and profound level.

There are three of us in the house, and I wash them weekly, more or less.

As for replacing them, I don’t know what to say. We destroy towels in about ten years. My mom had towels that were 20-30 years old and as good as new.

I’m an old cis/het dude, and while I’ve occasionally fantasized about being a woman, it was entirely out of fascination with something else - not identity. I don’t necessarily ‘feel’ male, but being female is incomprehensible to me.

Compare that with a dear family friend. When they were about 13, they announced that they were nonbinary; and two years later, decided they were transmasculine.

What was their trigger?

While presenting as nonbinary, they naturally got mistaken for either male or female. They realized that being mistaken for male was totally cool, but being mistaken for female hurt terribly. They identified with being male, and being female (their AGAB) felt abhorrent and wrong.

So if you don’t have some part of your brain screaming “NO NO NO!!!” at you, you’re likely an average, 21st century cis person whose ability to access infinite porn has dulled your sexuality a bit.

So don’t worry too much.

It varies like crazy for me.

I’m an insomniac, and some nights after being up for a while, I’ll fall asleep again within an hour of the alarm. Those days, I struggle to focus enough to sit up, and force myself to move in a minute or two.

Other times my eyes will flick open and I’ll be in full awake mode almost instantly. Some of that was trained behavious from when I was on-call.

Bye, troll.

1. Bleach + water (~1tbsp/L)
2. Vinegar + water (1:1)
3. Toilet bowl cleaner
4. Tub & Tile cleaner
5. Lots of rags

90% of my bathroom cleaning is done with the bleach and vinegar solutions (but DO NOT MIX them!!! Use separate rags, etc.) Toilet bowl cleaner is good for the angled bottle and the bluing is absolutely worthwhile.

Tub & Tile cleaner is good for hard deposits, but doesn’t really get brought out very often.

If there was anything else I’d add, it would be a general purpose light cleaner - despite the name, Windex is ideal for almost everything else.

Also, add something like Mr. Clean into this list and you have everything you need to clean your entire house forever.

EDIT: Something people may not realize about bleach. You really do NOT need a heavy concentration, but you have to leave it in contact for a while. Spray on the diluted solution, leave it while you clean something else, and then wipe it off. But crucially, if you increase the concentration, you don’t significantly reduce the amount of time it needs to work.

Did you create an account just to be sanctimonious and superior?

Exactly the same thing that every other country has done.

Now how about reporting on some news?

When they mention it, say “tell me more.” Or ask them to write it down.

Star wars, with models and miniatures.

Most great old movies, where cheesy effects were irrelevant next to the story.

Gravity Falls Little Gift Shop of Horrors, where the characters watch an ‘incredibly expensive’ stop motion scene that we (the audience) only see as reflected shadows.

Tech Giants will defend users against targeting and spyware software that doesn’t give them a kickback.

Apple will sell out so fast it’ll make you seasick if they get a bag of cash.

That sounds like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Also, meditation trains some of this.