Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

A fountain pen is just a controlled leak

Identifying might be the best word to use, given the psychology literature all tends to use that, but thank you for your critique.

Why are people so interested in defining themselves along sexual identity and orientation in relatively recent western culture?

Why now? Why is it so different from most of human existence?

Because we are no longer facing famine. The Green Revolution has made our relationship with food so secure we no longer define ourselves in relation to it.

Throughout most of history people are farmers or ranchers or shepherds or bakers or butchers or millers.

So, we climb the Biological hierarchy of needs looking for our next characteristic that needs fulfillment.

Both have temu-level garbage, but it’s cheaper on Amazon.

Currently, as they are dying today, yes.

This is not how malls have traditionally worked.

In the past, malls provided a plug-and-play way for national chain retail to offer premium, private-labeled goods that allowed them to extract money away from a community’s locally owned stores found on main street.

Malls were just a way to privatize mainstreet and allow the ownership class of capitalists to extract more money from a local economy through large chain stores and to give them private control over what used to be public space.

Now the middle class is worth a fraction of what it used to be, their purpose has dissolved.

People use Amazon instead of the mall because they can still afford the Temu-level garbage Amazon sells.

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Everybody loves their first Diamondback.

They are basically dinosaurs.

American Robins are not the same as European Robins.

American Robins were named so because they vaguely reminded British settlers of their robins “from home”.

Non-utilitized internet service.

Internet providers ARE UTILITIES. Regulate them like one.

Except for onions, ironically.

Linux gives you the ability to be your own system admin.

Most people don’t want or need that and have been steadily handing over more and more admin duties of their systems to Microsoft, Apple and Google since smartphones have become widely adopted.

But Linux is totally usable to anyone who had enough admin skills to run Windows XP and not get totally wrecked by malware. It’s just a matter of learning.

Military, most manufacturing is metric only thing that’s not metric are street signs, building trades and anything else the redcaps interact with daily.

walmart.org

The ronald mcDonald House?

Kroger Community Rewards?

There are LOTS, brother.

You’re often donating to the store’s charities, which can function to ease their burden.

You can be bisexual and still support the trans and fluid communities.

The corn is the kernel and the “cob” of any grain. Perhaps you’ve heard of “barleycorn”. But there’s also wheat corns, oat corns, etc.

And this is why we colloquially call maize “corn”. Because compared to other types of grains, it’s corn is very large.

To use a older construction maize is “the corn of corns”. Meaning the biggest and best.