Mostly because it's not like whatever nonsense you just imagined.
But you do get the ability to walk everywhere you need and incredible amounts of culture. Food, music, art, history, social gatherings.
Not all noise is the same. White noise is easy to ignore but hearing half a conversation will stress out almost anyone.
That's just how the brain is. A lot of city noise doesn't register as important (and it isn't), but overhearing half a conversation or random snippets of YouTube is annoying on a pretty deep level.
I will not mourn when someone harms you for your anti social actions.
I almost never wear headphones in public. I prefer the situational awareness and being able to hear "This train is skipping union square" announcements.
I'm also a guy so I don't need the "don't talk to me" signal they provide.
Republican women can't help but notice that their partisan identity conflicts with their self-image as strong and competent women. "I started to learn what misogyny was, and I started to learn what patriarchy was,"
Better late than never.
It is completely insane and regressive. Poor people who need the money to live should be spared the tax, and rich people who aren't going to miss it should pay.
A lot of places ask if you have a criminal record, often so they can not hire you for totally unrelated reasons wink wink.
There's something of a campaign to get applications to not ask: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_the_Box
Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald's, in large part because the job wasn't listed on her later resume for a legal job.
This man doesn't know how resumes or jobs work.
I think you have to also account for the kids' ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.
Baldur's gate 3 characters aren't even that complicated. You pick stats at the start from a limited range of options, and then make very few choices when you level up. Some levels you don't pick anything at all. This ain't path of exile.
I got a mod for bg3 that gives you a feat every level and holy shit did that make it more interesting.
To WotC's credit, making character choice really shallow is probably why the game succeeded so well. A lot of people don't really want a lot of choices, especially when some are traps.
They don't care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.
Conservatism has been aptly summarized as "There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect." That's pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.
Bandcamp mostly. They do writeups sometimes like "the best metal from Colorado" or "a deep dive into acid jazz". They seem to be human written too and not ai slop, at least in the past.
Also seeing who's playing with who. If I like band A, and band B is opening for them, well I'll check out band B. I saw "Year of the Cobra" play with "The Well" and it was a good show, and I bought their album.