Nobody making $8 an hour is spending $200 on something so transient as a meal without some serious consideration. That’s 24 hours of labor (spread over at least 2 days) for something that may last for 2 hours and will sustain you for 8-12 hours.

MIT made a living wage calculator that shows that federal minimum wage is basically not sustainable anywhere.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

Perhaps impossible unilaterally, but worth bringing up. We’ve already seen how powerful online conversations can be.

And before anyone says “what about the–” the answer is yes, arrest and imprison in accordance with the law, regardless of party affiliation

Technically, sure, but I still don’t like the connotation so I won’t be using it that way.

The short answer is probably yes.

Maybe it’s a quote I read somewhere, but basically everybody agrees that language changes over time, but nobody wants to admit that it changes during their lifetime. I think the only thing to do, rather than campaign for or against one form or another, is to do what you’ve already been doing and make yourself understood given the context of the situation.

In terms of technical accuracy, new variables have been introduced that are–through no fault of your own–making you less understandable. I think, though, that it still falls to you to make yourself understood, either by brute force and using your definitions regardless, or by being more descriptive.

I’m a non-lonely male and my answer is basically the same.