US, English and Spanish. But we had the option, schedule permitting, to go to one of the other highschools in town to take Latin, German, French, or ASL. One friend took ASL, the rest of us took Spanish. I still speak it every day.

Because you didn’t get enough art education when you yourself were a child.

Middle Eastern cuisine has a lot of meat dishes but not nearly so much dairy, and the vegetarian dishes tend to also be vegan: falafel, hummus, Jerusalem salad, Persian salad, maklouba, baba ghannoush.

South Asian cuisine tends to be vegetarian and the dairy is usually ghee (sub in olive oil or another liquid vegetable fat). 90% of the recipes are already vegan-friendly: Chana masala, tarka dal, aloo gobi are my favorites. And if you do come across a meat dish, sub in green jackfruit and you’ll have a good time.

You don’t need a vegan cookbook, you just need Middle Eastern and South Asian cookbooks.

Depends on how good the AI was, surely? An LLM would be shocking, but something actually designed for policy work might be worthwhile.

Easier to do something for someone else than for myself.

anything else invites ruin

It’s a velco strap you can wear on your wrist or ankle, it’s got a mesh pocket where you insert a little tab of gauze soaked in citronella.

I wear strap with a pad of citronella in it, that’s all. Never sprays.

This is the Way.

Because people want to believe that there is something special about them that distinguishes them from other animals, or from the merely physical.

And also, many people want to believe there is something in them that will survive past death.

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Mythology is only a part of religion (and often survives after the rest of the religion has withered away). Mythology is the stories that try to explain why the world is the way it is.

A living religion will also feature doctrines (a set of teachings, typically about morality, correct beliefs, prescribed or proscribed attitudes or sayings or practices) and rituals.

I do vote, I would consider voting for Social Democrat candidates, I’m probably not to the left of them and I’m not anti-capitalist (though I am anticorporatist).

I’ve never heard of PSL.

I would never vote for someone like our current President, for any office; accelerationism I find ethically repugnant.

Please vote. Even submitting an empty ballot is better than not voting.

The Greens are not anti-capitalist, no. I vote Green for all the offices they run for in my local elections.

I find sitting sideways so I’m physically facing the station signage helps a lot.

You can edit posts here, even the titles.

no, only if it has to be re-pushed periodically

Thanks. I mean, look at this guy.

Yeah I just used it last night.

everything inside the angle brackets is not displaying for me, just FYI