I've been a vegetarian most of my life, and am pretty much vegan at this point. Vegan food is so much cheaper, esp with the current inflationary trends. Meat, eggs inflation? Doesn't affect me at all. The processed vegan/vegetarian stuff can be pricey (like organic vegan frozen meals, fancy protein powders, specialty nut-based milks, etc). But those are a small part of most vegan's food choices. Beans, rice, pasta, potatos, and veggies are cheap! I think the thing that can be an issue is that being veggie does often mean you will cook more. And having the time and space to cook can be considered a luxury. But cooking most of your meals yourself is also one of the best ways to save money. And you can batch cook and freeze things to save some time. But poorer people sometimes have more chaotic lives, so I do get the idea that it's hard to be a picky eater when you have less money. If you're vegan, you can't just go through the drive through for dinner when life gets complicated. Well maybe, I guess you could get a salad and apple juice at mcdonalds or something, but it's hard to get a complete vegan fast food meal. Maybe Subway? I will say, most poorer people I know do cook most of their meals, so becoming vegan for them would be switching out meat/dairy/eggs for beans so that would be cheaper and not be extra cooking time.

Just fyi, evening primrose thrives on neglect, do not recommend for a small garden plot. Ask me how I know.

Yeah. It’s time to start charging adults who leave their gun unsecured in these situations with murder. Nothing else will work. This is disgusting

Ahh I see. Don't know the answer to that, sorry.

Nah I don’t think it’s stupid, despite the hate they get here I really enjoyed living in the urban equivalent of these in Scott’s Addition. Maintenance was good and responsive, I couldn’t hear my neighbors, and it was convenient having all of the amenities. If it was a condo I would’ve seriously considered buying it.

Hopefully he gets some HELP and isnt just thrown in with adults

Depending on your timeline, there are new complexes going up in short pump.

The court psychologist in the article says he’s too “funky” to be accurately diagnosed

It sounds like your friend has something else going on entirely because most vegans either don't take supplements or if they do they take B12 and/or D. Interestingly enough, a large percentage of non vegans are deficient in vitamin D, particularly in the US, it's not really a diet thing. It's more of a sedentary office lifestyle causing us to miss out on the sun thing. And you don't have to take B12 if you get it from fortified foods, many of which are already things non vegans consume regularly and where they get their B12 from as well. Your friend just may have other things going on that they don't feel comfortable discussing with you, or maybe they're misinformed about what they actually need to take (which isn't a far stretch since the general population is as well thanks to advertising and marketing).

Grain of salt since I'm still newish to the area: I live in a similar-type community (Retreat at West Creek in Henrico) and can attest, it's not as bad as you might think.

I relocated from NYC not too long ago and just needed a place to land with minimal stress too, I don't regret making the choice for something more...corporate. Esp if you don't plan on being there long term. But you're still paying a bit of a premium for "amenities" you may never use and for (what is probably) spotty renovations. -shrug-

The one thing that is bordering on god awful is the traffic since mine is a more commercial area.

Bruh I literally have $30 in my bank account and eat rice and beans every day, been vegan for five years. Please GTFO with your apologist bullshit.

lmao you absolute pinecone

Not weird at all. Different strokes for different folks. Possibility of more modern amenities is higher. Management miiight be better.

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Oh man DPU is so bad at their job.

They have apparently been billing me at my old address despite them having me tell them to send it to the new address.

Now they are claiming a water bill that I've been paying my landlord ( who switched last summer) has gone un-paid for 18 months... What a rats nest to unfurl.

I love veal and veal stock. I raise rabbits in my back yard and my wife makes a mean rabbit pate. Rabbit stock and fried kidneys in my quail eggs cannot be beat. Meat, the best protein considering amino acids are the building blocks of protein and the most important ones can only be found in animal proteins. My friend is a vegan and the amount of shit he has to take, supplement wise. Just eat some fucking meat. Don't even need a lot.

Yay Davis Natives!

If adults don’t get nowhere near the full sentence, I highly doubt this kid will. That’s the unfortunate reality of the justice system with some of these judges that have been around way too long and are easy on crime.

What a fucking joke.

> the amazing difference of ecology within a 1 hr drive from us.

I appreciate this change and eat it whenever I'm in the area by going to Merroir.

Praying he gets the full 60 years.

Not OP but I did take the train last month and when I booked it was around $60 in total but if you book at the right time you can get a ticket for $16 and sometimes even as low as $12 per ticket so it can range from $24 to over $100 depending on when you book (how far out you book, the month, and the time of departure for the train all factor into the price in my experience)

"According to Taylor, Judge Margaret W. Deglau cited a “safety talk” given by Pierce about gun safety as “sufficient instead of simply locking away a lethal weapon in an appropriate manner.”

JFC.

I took it in early December that way and got to DC in like two hours and earlier than the projected time

I can't believe I misspelled it. Lol. That old family grocery store was one of our customers. The owners were so nice. Yeah its a drive out there. Coming from Richmond in the early morning on 360, there was an endless stream of cars coming from the Northern Neck area heading to work. Glad I was going against the flow.