Fair enough! It’s rare in the US, and obviously that is not everywhere!

Although that makes me want to never ever ever cohabitate in Canada/BC because wow that’s fast (in legal terms, I mean).

Pretty sure it’s historic. Same was that x-mas is used for Christmas. I think it’s related to the Greek alphabet or something? Idk I’m feeling disinclined to actually Google it but I definitely even grew up calling it x-mas.

It should be noted that common law marriage is EXTREMELY rare. If you call them your boyfriend/girlfriend instead of your spouse, you’re (at least in states I’ve looked into) not ever going to be common law married. If you never hold some kind of ceremony, you aren’t common law married. It’s actually way more complicated than just living together.

Edit: filing taxes as if you’re married is also often not enough to make you common law married either, but obviously ianal and you need one if you want to know if you are common law married or not.

This is the actual answer, along with decades of right wing propaganda pumped into our ecosystem after Citizens United.

We have been cooked for a while now. Some people see it, but it’s not the majority, not by a long shot.

An interrobang‽ In the wild‽ Thank you for that!

I suppose that is true of everything in the world though. Cars jump to mind pretty quickly.

I’m curious how SMRs will end up affecting overall cost of nuclear as well. Once we get into a unit that can be mass produced rather than tailor making each site, I could see the line going down at least a bit and would also allow us to keep pushing those boundaries.