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Cursed AF…

Forgive me for thinking that instead of keeping them out, Israel had been allowing them in and then murdering them ‘by accident’.

Same here. American, not going hungry overall but can no longer afford meat. I just looked at prices for it even at a discount market and I was stunned.

But I get plenty of complete and varied protein, even cooking vegetarian. The loss of occasional meat just means I’ll face some cravings and have to stay creative with fats and spices.

As it was always unfeasible. The necessary energy input means it’s an economically losing proposition unless the government were to take the (absolutely unlikely) step of forcing all plastics, but especially virgin plastic production, to incorporate a heavy carbon tax and environmental impact tax in its pricing.

I am sad for the disappearance of the subjunctive mood in English

This just happened as I opened this post to read about this stuff… Gemini chose that very moment to message me for the first time offering to be of service in my future use of Google messages. That’s both creepy and kind of hilarious. I wouldn’t be surprised if their system is (anonymously, but still) intaking the content of all Google messages regardless of what they or their legal and privacy departments say about it.

oh never mind, guess I can’t upload an image with this comment, but the content of the message from Gemini was “Hi, I’m Gemini in Google Messages. Chat with me to draft messages, brainstorm ideas, plan events or simply have a fun conversation.” 🙄

excellent and on point

Ouch. I read this and followed links to read numerous other posts of his. Seems spot-on in his analysis and entirely parallels what I think and feel about our world. I’m struggling to avoid sheer terror in addition to the already present crippling anxiety and burnout. The only comfort, much of the time, is that none of us are truly or purely alone in all of this. The catastrophe surrounds everyone we know, regardless of whether their personal circumstances have yet broken down to a degree that allows them to witness it consciously.

This was a good read and you beat me to posting it by minutes :)

Same here, then it pops up a prompt to install the website’s ‘app’ 🙄

Excellent and timely reading material, thank you.

TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhachkala

Makhachkala previously known as Petrovskoye (Петровское; 1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (Петровск-Порт; 1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and largest city of Dagestan, Russia. The city is located on the Caspian Sea, with a population of over 623,254 residents. Makhachkala is the fourth-largest city in the Caucasus, the largest city in the North Caucasus and the North Caucasian Federal District, as well as the third-largest city on the Caspian Sea. The city is extremely ethnically diverse, with a minor ethnic Russian population.

Thanks for this. I’m glad you didn’t have to deal with searing pain since panic is already more than enough.

I don’t mean this to invalidate your experience in any way; I’ll just state sources to make clear where I got that idea.

https://medilexinc.com/a-spoonful-of-medicine-blog/the-process-of-drowning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928428

Yes, drowning is known to be quite painful but only for a very brief time before unconsciousness sets in.

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FPTP: “First Past The Post”, the system of election where the winner is simply the one candidate who receives the most votes even if it’s not a majority (for example if many candidates ran and many received a significant share of the votes). FPTP is simple to carry out, but it’s often criticized for the fact that the winning candidate can be someone whom a majority or even a large majority of the voters didn’t want. The two-party system in America usually obscures that issue in general elections because they turn into, effectively, elections with only two significant choices so the winner tends to have a majority as well as the greatest number of votes. But the problem does show up sometimes in primaries.

FPTP can be contrasted with other systems such as ranked-choice voting and proportional representation.

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Black Friday? Oh, you mean International Buy Nothing Day!

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