Awh, thank you. I hope I've got this. At the end of '99 I went all out on some fancy new appliances for myself, and since then I've only replaced them when they've fallen apart (or have literally exploded..) so this is quite the experience.

*panics* they have gadgets on them now?! I'm probably going to have to think it all through for a bit - definitely interested in something more energy efficient this time round, at this point it's all new territory for me so I appreciate your thoughts on this.

I'll check out Consumer Reports - this is definitely going to be daunting to say the least, I haven't the foggiest clue about these new fridges.

Awh :) right back at you. Appreciate you.

(i'm not doomposting or anything right now. i feel fine, i'm just contemplating the absolute absurdity that is my existence. absurdposting if you will)

Okay so back in the 1980s and early 1990s there were a lot of regulations put into place to get rid of the communal child care "solutions" Vance is touting specifically bc kids were dying in unlicensed, poorly monitored facilities.

Only way I'm getting through this is with intoxication and a gay romance novel, tbh.

As Naomi Klein said, "Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."

Welcome to aging..