As a former soapmaker, I’ll suggest looking for someone in your area making quality soap that you like. Find some great handmade soap and you’ll never go back to the commercial crap.

Just assume this kind of sloppy copy is AI.

Thanks! Just subscribed. See they have a couple Metasequoia episodes -a favorite of mine .

Find it more efficient to scoop the entirety of the halved avo out with a spoon, then slice it.

Yeah. I’ve made my own salad dressings forever because I don’t like a lot of the store-bought ingredients. Considering I don’t want my salads to be super calorie-dense, I only use like 10 -15% oil.

Kentucky Route Zero.

My dream is to be sent a monkey and a plywood violin…and then practice every night until I’m ready.

I don’t know…Ask Mr. Owl.

Would also recommend Jesse Welles and Carsie Blanton.

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy.

Agreed.

Yes! Lots of folks with chronic illness find themselves in a limbo where they can’t get decent treatment or often precise diagnosis. Crowdsourcing relief has mixed results, but in such circumstances reports of rigorous trial and error with various approaches is sometimes helpful in the absence of the sort of care a lot of Americans now can’t even hope for. I know this because I’ve been there. CIDP here since 2010.

I got really sick and debilitated. Got a grim prognosis that I’d just get worse. Got me to really take my health seriously and do all I personally could through a lot of trial and error to see what might make for a better quality of life. Lost massive weight, kept it off long-term, defied all expectations for over 2 decades, did some extraordinary stuff I’d probably not have attempted if not faced with the end of my life as I’ve known it.

Are you me?

There’s that possibly apocryphal story in The Fly reboot with Jeff Goldblum about how Einstein had like seven identical sets of clothes so he didn’t have to waste effort on deciding what to wear.

Ask Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.

The Orville sorta confused me about their focus. Having not read anything about it, at first I thought it was a show solely to poke fun at Star Trek tropes. Then it appeared to try to actually emulate ST.

Seem to recall Blood Music had a pretty ok outcome. Though maybe it was overly optimistic.

I WILL APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR ALBERT

I have a neuromuscular demyelinating disorder called CIDP. And some other health complications including getting COVID induced pulmonary embolisms and being on a blood thinner that has interfered with my normal regimen of managing CIDP.

I’m chronically ill. My ability waxes and wanes. When folks see me out doing something challenging, they tend to assume I’m just fine and must be some shiftless malingerer. Rather than understanding I’ve sunk a lot of time and preparation into trying to be ok for that occasion.

Late to the party but I’d say something about this. Sure looks like folks are plenty aware we’ve been on a downward track for many decades and now it’s plain enough that folks are naming it “polycrisis” or “metacrisis”. Baked into the material conditions of life how such as it is, I don’t reckon folks want to see an END but rather see no brakes on this express elevator of combined existential threats. There is now a concentration of power such that it is so much toothpaste impossible to get back in the tube -failing awful violence or catastrophe. A divided, hopelessly propagandized culture that can never get on the same page for collective action. I hear friends talking about lifeboats and doing what one can as communities. Maybe that’s all we have left now.