rhythmisaprancer

Lot of bicycle stories! One time I was riding a bike with coaster brakes, and managed to get both shoelaces wrapped at the same time. I was hoping to make it to a parked car or tree or anything really, but just slowly wound down until I toppled.

Working as a delivery driver in A Wrinkle in Time?

I don’t do the kind of writing that would require any formal format, but a teacher in college seemed to feel that MLA was meant to be used strictly in an academic setting. I’m not sure what I was told to use in high school, but in college all the writing classes wanted us to use a format relevant to our major. I believe I used APA but it has been awhile. Could have been MLA.

Thank you, and @Zworf for the info!
I guess yay for public-private action 🙃but I guess I would prefer proper communal administration.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see in the article the reason why the stockpile I’d being sold. This I want to know.

It goes back, I don’t know, 30 years? With both agricultural US and union areas (sometimes the same places) the Democratic party consistently expected those votes without actually delivering anything. Bill Clinton and the party get blamed for things like NAFTA and jobs moving to other countries, etc. So eventually these folks drift to the Republican party. Many of these people were broadly conservative anyways. Later, the religious aspects and toxicity of what started with Newt manifested to what we see now.

I don’t know if an evangelical Democrat would fly now. It’s a really bad situation with very entrenched beliefs.

As discussed in the article, of was never really about religion. It was about rhetoric. The bar for Democrats to keep states like Iowa blue was so incredibly low, requiring only action. But none could be taken, and it will now be incredibly difficult to overcome this loss.

I’m not sure I have much to add here other then a little experience. I’ve had a date tell me “there’s nothing there” and realized later that they wanted more than a friend. I am fairly old and have realized that I may not have much to give, romantically. That’s fine! But you have to find someone who wants that, also. Myself, I am not really a dater. But if you can see that some people want something more than a friend, more than a friend and sex, you may find where you fit in. I am still working on that. Not easy, but I am also pretty happy on my own. It is good, and healthy, to work on you, and this post is part of that I think. Be well!

enthusiastic toilet collector

@remotelove is R. Mutt?

As another US-based mail order tea drinker, you’re likely going to have to stop using Amazon. There are some domestic sources, and some international that ship here. Will it be cheaper? No. And you may have to try a somewhat different brew. But you shouldn’t face these problems and there are some great teas to be had 😋

There are a few tea forums on different instances but they’re pretty dead. One or two have sourcing options, tho! I’ve used stash for a long time, but I drink loose leaf. Not sure about their bagged. I’ve heard Arbor is good, too, but haven’t tried them.

I would argue that in some ways, coopting these words and the nonreligious traditions would be excellent because it removes power from “them.”

For every religious holiday, there is an equal and opposite secular holiday.

I am assuming you are dealing with 1099 income. As someone who had that 15+ years ago and didn’t understand some things, I really hope you understood while earning that you have to pay both your portion of Social Security, and your “employer” would pay since you are your employer (even tho it’s BS in this case). I didn’t and owed a huge amount of money. Over US$3k. And I was making $10/hr so that was a lot. I had to get another job to pay it. I hope you’ll be ok and are happy with what you do!

I always thought he was basically living it up, happy to still be a Prince. I assumed fewer responsibilities, but perhaps the pay was terrible haha.

Did they ever find that guy’s body? Maybe he is in one of these places.

That makes sense. Sorry to hear there is an issue with discrimination. Also sorry to conflate them with sov cits.

travelers

I’m curious what this means. I am guessing not tourists, and I also think of folks in the US who are sovereign citizens. Is that a thing in parts or Europe?

Trying to be positive - I just read an article about diseases being eradicated in multiple countries. That is great, and I hope that trend will continue. We are seeing some interesting work done with disease treatment. So, on that front, I think some of the research that has been ongoing in a number of illnesses will result in something tangible that can be published. Cancer vaccine? Dimentia prevention? New way to manage a surprise respiratory virus?

Yes to all.

Xmas was yesterday now for me, but I never went outside the house. I made baklava ice cream and a green chile cheese ball, petted the dog and the cat, wished it wasn’t raining so I could take a walk, and my mother bought some sugar that we needed at a pharmacy.

Be well 🙂