Got married and had kids earlier than everyone else in the friend group.

A cubic foot of baked ziti casserole with eggplant.

I’d argue that ending just one nation will not be enough to end corruption.

I think the implication is that OP uses tiny padlocks, but okay

That man’s face looks like a ballsack, is my guess.

because “social media” is the corporate buzzword for when people are not primarily consumers but product

I’ll second Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi.

RF Kuang’s Babel

Adam Levin’s The Instructions

and my favorite novel, PKD’s Galactic Pot-Healer

I’m sure I’ll play Haunted Chocolatier but I’m spending zero time thinking about or reading about it right now.

None, literally none. Not that I think they won’t be good! It’s just that there’s so many great ones to play already, why waste time pining for something out of reach?

US, English and Spanish. But we had the option, schedule permitting, to go to one of the other highschools in town to take Latin, German, French, or ASL. One friend took ASL, the rest of us took Spanish. I still speak it every day.

Middle Eastern cuisine has a lot of meat dishes but not nearly so much dairy, and the vegetarian dishes tend to also be vegan: falafel, hummus, Jerusalem salad, Persian salad, maklouba, baba ghannoush.

South Asian cuisine tends to be vegetarian and the dairy is usually ghee (sub in olive oil or another liquid vegetable fat). 90% of the recipes are already vegan-friendly: Chana masala, tarka dal, aloo gobi are my favorites. And if you do come across a meat dish, sub in green jackfruit and you’ll have a good time.

You don’t need a vegan cookbook, you just need Middle Eastern and South Asian cookbooks.

Depends on how good the AI was, surely? An LLM would be shocking, but something actually designed for policy work might be worthwhile.

anything else invites ruin

It’s a velco strap you can wear on your wrist or ankle, it’s got a mesh pocket where you insert a little tab of gauze soaked in citronella.

I wear strap with a pad of citronella in it, that’s all. Never sprays.

I do vote, I would consider voting for Social Democrat candidates, I’m probably not to the left of them and I’m not anti-capitalist (though I am anticorporatist).

I’ve never heard of PSL.

I would never vote for someone like our current President, for any office; accelerationism I find ethically repugnant.

Please vote. Even submitting an empty ballot is better than not voting.

The Greens are not anti-capitalist, no. I vote Green for all the offices they run for in my local elections.

Thanks. I mean, look at this guy.

Yeah I just used it last night.

Well, he’s dead, so I doubt I’m bothering him. Plus he worked hard and got a lot done and his profile picture is sort of paternal and approving and I guess that helps me feel better about the list.