I’m not surprised. I’m just complaining.

gentrification!

Flights are for sleeping, friend. I personally don’t see any benefit from reclining my seat so I don’t, but you should understand: reclined IS the default.

I don’t think the fist amount is “poor”…

Once we stop being alienated from our labor and our communities this will be much less of a problem.

Yes, but: I’m a parent.

Systems like this work great for me right up until I forget to use them.

It does cost money to find and prosecute the offenders. Plus many crimes don’t have a specific victim, but pose risks or harms towards society in general.

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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