See, now you have something useful to leave for the next generation

I consume both those things frequently, I’ll have to try it! I switched to freshly grinding my nutmeg earlier this year and will take any excuse to try it in different things.

Palestinians are semitic people too

Keep hitting the streets London! Can’t help but think this is partly due to the absolutely massive protest near Starmer’s residence over the weekend.

Anarchist here. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all answer to this— in some adequately rural towns you can have a real impact engaging in local politics.

In most mid-size cities working in local government will feel like pulling teeth and you won’t be able to accomplish anything you want to. You will also be working alongside people who want to be career politicians.

Personally I think your energy is usually better spent organizing to address local issues directly. Even if you start small (filling potholes or cleaning up a park) I feel community work often snowballs in a positive direction because accomplishing small things can help remind people that they can just take responsibility for things they want to see changed. Conventional politics seems to lean towards the idea that you’re outsourcing your responsibility at the ballot box, which would be excellent if representatives actually shouldered your responsibilities, but they usually do not (and probably could not) and we end up with a sort of responsibility vacuum where things are bad and no one feels personal responsibility to fix them.

Bay leaves in savory dishes

Nutmeg on/in sweet things

She gives Disney Channel Original Movie energy in everything she’s in. Not a good fit for Dune or Odyssey.

u1 looks like an a/c current symbol power source so that usually means plugged into the wall, and the transformer is giving out an infinity sign, presumably of energy, so that is very useful. You should pay good money if someone offers you something that does this.

“It’s sad that people try to make it controversial when you speak out for children that are facing immeasurable suffering,” Griffin-Accurso said. “The largest cohort of child amputees in modern history. That acronym for a child who has no surviving relatives. I think it should be controversial to not say anything.”

Yes

Or badly designed ones with a combo of yield and stop signs that effectively prevent the people with the stop sign from ever proceeding

My mom taught me to never trust a turn signal (or lack of one)

Fancy pickles are always such a disappointment to my taste buds. I do appreciate a fancy cheese occasionally.

Fun fact: This post actually singlehandedly launched Shakira’s career

Ohh agreed I have no idea. I think this is in the ‘throwing spaghetti at the wall’ method of merchandising where the only rationale is that if it is for sale, SOMEONE will eventually pay for it even if it’s useless trash. A favorite method of scammers and peddlers of plastic toys.

I didn’t really want to plug their AI shop but you can put “handheld cow” into the etsy search with default sorting and it will come up near the top.

I peaked the shop the baby cow was from and the whole store is digital downloads of AI mini cows in hands

Three sentence horror stories

I’ll give that a try next time! I’ve sort of made progress on a similar technique for social anxiety (stop, breathe, tell myself no one is spending serious thought on judging me).

I have definitely improved on the ‘saying no’ tactic you mentioned or the similar ‘remove yourself from the scenario’ one. Luckily my workplace gives me relatively broad control over my time as long as I’m meeting deadlines and such so it’s more a problem I run into with family or friends. I prefer to run errands and even go on day trips alone and have to fight my preferences to lead a normal social life/be a reasonably active member of my community (which I do value, at least theoretically).

I did regular meditation for a year and a half or so (now more intermittent) but never mastered the kind you can do with your eyes open. I do enjoy a walking meditation though.