Makes me wonder why they even bothered to have 7 different notes instead of 6, with B# and E# as valid notation.

I hope broader international recognition of Palestine helps spur more recognition of Kurdistan.

Leave room for my detritus.

We put Kalashnikov on Sergey’s rowboat, Ukraine cowers before invincible Russian engineering!

I mean it could be better, though. Could do with fewer natural disasters, or perhaps another continent in the Pacific so it isn’t so empty. Or maybe burritos that grow on trees and a mild concentration of opium in the air. That’s the Earth I’d want to live on.

TBH I’d give earth a B or a C.

I feel like there must be a better planet out there somewhere.

Hard to compete when the government heavily subsidizes the local industry while simultaneously making it very difficult for foreign companies to operate.

Part of the reason why Boston transitioned from streetcars to the subway is how many people died each year after being hit by them. There is definitely no reason in the modern day why rail needs to share space with pedestrian traffic, and protections should be in place in any area where they intersect.

Makes me wonder why there is no barrier installed to block the path when a train is coming. That sort of thing is all over the place in countries with robust rail travel. It seems like a well-defined crossing so it’d be a no-brainer to install one there.

Exactly this. At first I was wondering why someone would try something so brazen in the middle of the day, but to me it seemed likeliest that the kidnapper is probably the kid’s dad and (I’m guessing) lost custody but tried to take the kid anyways.

I’d be curious to see if there’s a story somewhere about this and what the truth actually is.

Amazing progress. Hopefully the rest of Asia can follow suit in short order.

I met a number of LGBTQ+ folks in China who were wonderful, honest people, but most of them were afraid to publicly display or talk about their sexuality/gender identities due to the risk of social/legal reprisal, given the deteriorating state of policies towards LGBTQ+ rights in recent years.

While other countries in East/Southeast Asia have begun to open up to the idea of same-sex marriage like Taiwan in 2019 and now Thailand, a lot in China see this as a symptom of growing westernization to be opposed. Logic being that if the westernized countries who we don’t like start to embrace the idea, we should reject it. And unfortunately a lot of Asia follows China’s lead in particular.

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• Loose small produce like beans or cherries - keeps them all together.

• Moistened produce like kale or cilantro - keeps everything else in the bag from getting wet.

• Produce with flaky detritus like onions or garlic - keeps pieces of peel from getting everywhere.

• Raw meat prone to leakage - keeps other items in the bag from being exposed to potential pathogens.

They sell reusable mesh bags to help with the first scenario, but they aren’t really helpful for the other 3. I also try to be mindful of not buying more reusable bags I don’t need because most of those end up in landfills long before the 100/200/500/20,000 uses needed to offset the number of plastic bags you’d use otherwise.

Paper bags would help for the first and third scenarios as well, but not the other two. And single-use paper is nearly as bad.

It’s sad that this has basically become a standard. Subscribe to a service, but then you have to pay extra on top of that to not see ads. Are we now supposed to be grateful that products and services we already pay for aren’t trying to bleed us for every cent they can get?

Not pay the thugs?

Whaaat? The US willing to stop supporting Israel? That is simply too big an ask.

Next you’ll tell me that the capitalists will voluntarily surrender the means of production to the working class.

But what would the US be able to use as an incentive during negotiations if they have no interest in making Israel stop this conflict?

Give us the hostages and…?

Give us the hostages or else…?

This is funny to me.

Oh, it costs too much to educate kids? Just put them in schools at a younger age, rip off that bandaid sooner.

No, let’s not talk about the wound that bandaid is covering up in the first place, that’s completely unrelated.

I’ve heard that if this sort of thing happens to you, you can call local beekeepers who can help remove them for a low rate, or sometimes even for free. They’re usually happy just to get more bees.

You can’t do it at home because your neighbors will murder you if you are loud enough.

Doing that in a car though just makes it everyone else’s problem, though. You’d think living in a city would have desensitized me by now, but I still get woken up some nights by people playing music in their cars loud enough to shake my window screens as they drive by.

If you need that just to stay awake, I don’t think you should be driving to be perfectly honest.