My guess would be mental health.

Your rescues will fade in time, but you can never forget your recoveries. [emphasis mine]

“Recoveries” likely means finding the people who didn’t survive.

I think the biggest factor here is the immediate and tangible aspect of this type of theft.

Wage theft and systemic things are larger and conceptual until it hits, and more often than not because it’s so vague and not “just one person” it doesn’t evoke the same visceral response in a lot of people.

Not sure how we can start reframing to do so but getting on these conversations is a good idea for sure.

Pickles will never voluntarily touch my plate, and when they do I push my plate to the nearest pickle person so I don’t have to remove it myself and get contaminated with the vinegar.

Sun dried tomatoes and the occasional kalamata olive I can tolerate. Artichoke hearts and roasted bell peppers are awesome.

Grew up far north of the Mason Dixon and moved to a warmer climate; you’re not alone. You wrote out my thoughts exactly.

I curse every cold minute until I can wear shorts again because pants and skirts are awful and I hate long sleeves and socks and just all of it. That and the dark make seasonal depression go haywire even with the “shorter” winters.

Some days I dream of moving to western Ecuador where it’s ~87°F year-round.

Amazing how this is a genuinely lovely thing if you’re not a POS 😄

…the soil? That’s where seeds/spores are planted and subsequently grow into trees, and where they get their nutrients from.

Unless you’re talking about the seeds themselves, which are kind of a “shell” from which they literally branch out, depending on the species.

Generous placement on the starred quadrupeds to be honest

FP and Electron both are brutal on limited storage, so being able to pick and choose where needed can be helpful.

“Why are young Americans getting colon cancer so often?”

What’s the fucking difference between[…]

Multiple people are getting paid so they can make a living, more money flows through the economy and even if you don’t personally find it to your taste, it’s still the result of cumulative human efforts.

Gen AI has its uses in personal entertainment but I will spit on the corpo who tries to make me pay for art a person didn’t actually compose/play.

Spotify is no paragon of morality but at least I can find real, human artists via the platform and see/support them in other ways.

When it comes to human expression, I only want my money to go to human expression (even if it’s deemed “soulless”).

This is straight up human trafficking and murder. No mincing words about it; the monsters in this hellhole trafficked people in under horrific conditions less than 2.5 centuries ago. Now they’re exporting people to be enslaved, tortured, and extrajudicially executed.

So…they’re researching us?

They’re observant lil’ critters. Even the slightest twinge off and they’ll pick up on it fast.

My cats know I’m sick before I do more often than not.

Well damn, even I got confused then.

Something something states’ rights is my guess.

It’s Montana’s state Supreme Court, not the federal Supreme Court. Two distinct entities under a confusing name scheme.

Probably with no seatbelt too, given how Gen X that kid looks

1. What if I use it on myself?

2. Does the recipient have to love a person, or can we, say, make one for the environment and the wellbeing of all our fellow living things?

Using my phone helps me sleep.

I play a simple grid-based game (crosswords, sudoku) for about 15 minutes and before I realize it I’m out cold.

Every bit of “sleep hygiene” that gets condescended at me only makes my insomnia worse, save for the generalized concept of a routine.

More time in my room helps too, as opposed to less - unfamiliarity and performance anxiety creep up on me.

I was in elementary school when the 360 came out, so no, I wasn’t aware at the time of the corporate smarm coming from Microsoft.

You’re right to be put off of it though, MS is…yeah.

I’m (also pleasantly) surprised most of those arch derivatives are listed separately.