I'm oscilating between like three books: Dawn of Everything, The Ministry of the Future, The Omnivores Dilemna. Just choose what to read based on my mood. I'm not reading very much as I am doing a lot of childcare lately.

Also, is there anything we can do to help?

Sending positive vibes. Get well soon

Not ideal, but tolerable. Could we not just have a captcha?

Happy holi by the way (if that's a thing you celebrate).

I used an air mattress and then a couch for like 8 months. It was honestly great. Sometimes I would just sleep on carpeted ground. Kind of miss that set up.

On one hand it sucks to see things changing rapidly but on the other it sort of makes me optimistic to see nature adapting to changes on its own, more or less.

Wait what's wrong with onions?

Can we get some Drogon posts

Agreed. I have so little to share but I agree we need this

ziq the arch anarchist strikes again. how dare they lead the young to question the old?

Is there anything you can make and sell? Its not that hard to sell stuff on Etsy. People are buying all kinds of easy stuff on there. Christmas ornaments, seasonal decorations, even flower seeds, plant cuttings, and stuff. I sell seeds on there myself. I also know a few people who buy stuff of craigslist and then sell it online.

I've also noticed a lot of people selling homemade candles at huge markup at farmer's markets -- same for simple stuff like jellies and preserves. Getting into a farmers market normally is a yearlong process. However, assuming you are in US, state level cottage laws could allow you to sell preserves incl. jellies, but even hot sauce, pickles, etc like directly from your house (this could mean on facebook or craigslist even). Pretty cheap to do something like this main cost is the upfront cost of the jars. Make some "cool" or "funny" labels, whip up some hot sauce or pickles, do a batch or two on the weekend, then post in local craiglist or even on bulletin boards at grocery stores that you are selling organic shit or whatever and people might be into it.

Just some ideas to make the best of the time you have available. Obviously the best scenario here would be to get paid more or to need less money if you can make either of that happen (but I assume its not that easy).

It comes down to what they buy with it. They end up largely in debt, paying off various things they feel are theirs but actually belong to various creditors. In America, this is largely cars I feel but some of it houses as well.

Once in this bracket though, it is often "best practice" to live "paycheck to paycheck" because doing so reduces their taxes. Just for example, having a big house (or multiple big houses) allows them to offset their taxes by deducting the interest. Similar techniques are used with cars. In fact, rich people have been known to scam the system by buying new electric or hybrid cars and then flipping them, netting them nice $7500 tax credit for each vehicle. This used to make no sense but in the last three years it has been all the rage, since there is a car "shortage" due to trade/pandemic woes. They will also put a certain amount of their income into retirement accounts for the same reason.

Basically, they want to be living paycheck to paycheck so they can give less back to the communal pot.

Maybe I'm being too even handed about this but it feels clear to me there is no "right answer" on this issue so it seems really disingenuous to censure you under the implication that there is.

Kudos for standing your ground. These days a lot of left politics feels opportunistic; in this moment, I think we definitely need the kind of resolve you demonstrated here.

Loukanikos was a legendary "stray" dog in Athens who was known to join protests and bark at police. One of my top five favorite beings of all time.

pineapple on pizza, y/n, discuss..

I have been trying to make Spring Equinox a thing for two years now. This year I made a little poster and sent invites to people. I also made my partner wake up at 5am to watch groundhog day live. Completely artificial holidays though -- I haven't gone that far (yet).

Just wait until you add the thundercloud/lightning strike animation /s

Very nice... Now it might be time to package it into a flask application and deploy it to heroku? Or something like that. Forget the taxes.

It is not enough to read about rolling of dice. One wants to roll the die and feel the thrill!

I'm eating uttapam and its delicious

This type of approach works a surprisingly high portion of time. I can think of a few instances where I've done this. Most recently to order a coffee device with a $9 discount. At first the discount was applied randomly, then it disappeared after my credit card was rejected (what can I say) but when I went back I was able to get the credit back again by adding URL parameters. I try to do this stuff all the time when frustrated tho so it's probably still only like a 5% success rate for me.

Is it me or did the coherence and rationality of this piece sort of wane as it went on?

Overall, I think he has several good points. However I just feel that maybe this needed to be teased out into several good pieces.

This looks amazing. I'm gonna give it a try.

Whoa, I don't think I realized you could make these without masa