“The war will continue until everyone we want to kill is dead.”

Don’t forget cops and military protecting stores in disaster zones, full of supplies that will wind up getting paid for by insurance anyway and will go bad before the store reopens.

Don’t forget that Trump has pretty much promised to import the genocide home. It might not start off with people being gunned down in the street, but it’s definitely going to make life hard-to-impossible for immigrants, LGBTQIA+ people, and everyone who’s not a straight white man.

I did this once to my store manager. Dude wanted me IN, no matter how much I told him I’d been throwing up all morning. I managed to drive the 15 minutes into work…and promptly threw up all over his shoes when he started trying to yell at me on the sales floor.

Never had anyone doubt that I was sick again at that job.

Don’t forget mending tools, tending or butchering livestock, repairing your house…

And the fact that they steal recipes from small businesses and rebrand them.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s a decent piece on the subject from Taste.

https://tastecooking.com/we-need-to-talk-about-trader-joes/

They likely won’t do anything. The IRS is extremely gun shy about enforcing that doctrine ever since the Church of Scientology thing.

+1 for If Books Could Kill. They’ve kinda run out of shitty famous self help books, but they still do good rundowns on other books now.

I’ll also recommend Michael Hobbes’ other podcast, Maintenance Phase, which is largely about health grifts.

And at the end of the day, if you have separated it but you’re STILL not sure, throw it out. Not having mushrooms is preferable to being a corpse.

Most plants that we eat are excellent at taking up heavy metals too - potatoes and herbs especially.

Their home version of Spokesman is great.

Did Star Trek ever do one?

We sure do NOT have universally mandatory civics, not anymore. I graduated in 09 and my school district didn’t teach anyone anything beyond the basics of the voting system.

Pretty much this. The average gets dragged down by a HIGH infant mortality rate - nest predators from snakes to raccoons to hawks and vultures kill a lot of hatchlings, as well as things like simple accidents (falling out of a tree, for instance).

Want to build an explosive? Here’s an equation you haven’t seen since 9th grade that determines how big an explosive you can build.

I saw several people try to go hiking like that at Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas when I was there.

It was summer. The temperature was 113F that day.

Like a lot of places in the US, it could be bastardized from local indigenous languages.

Kentucky was named the Bluegrass State because it was so invasive that when settlers came into the area, they found the whole state carpeted in it.

Nah, this is an AWCY-grade weird performance art thing.

There really aren’t any. No candidate has withdrawn or died before the election, and nobody ever really considered the possibility even as candidate ages grow older and older.