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They can! They look identical to the old blinds, just without the string. I had to ask if the installers forgot the strings when we got new ones a few years ago!

Bird is the word irritates me in ways I cannot describe

Not that hot a take if you look up the original lyrics though

Even ranked choice voting couldn’t save NYC from picking the most bonkers mayors you can imagine

This Cuisinart is my daily driver for the past ~7 years and it’s still going strong (though the stainless steel could probably use a good scrub). Super easy to use for coffee, tea, oatmeal, broth from bouillon, etc. It’s not goose-necked for fancy pour overs but it’s pretty easy to use and clean.

Just curious, but why is your description of an entirely different incident than the headline?

You could look at it another way- a solar power screen on a phone won’t charge it all the way, but as a secondary source of power that is essentially always on when the sun is up or other light sources are on, it reduces the battery drain over the day, meaning less charging needed at night.

One of the good things about renewable energy projects is that largely they don’t require a ton of labor to maintain, but they do need a fair bit of spin up to get planned and permitted and installed. Wind tends to require more specialized installation, so you may have a traveling install crew there, but solar often relies on local labor pools. So there are a few years of community jobs generated but it’s very small for the life of the project.

Some project developers (the good ones at least) are working to invest in local communities like other member businesses- sponsoring little league teams, creating community gardens, funding science education, etc. Is that enough? Hard to say, but I think the idea that projects can bring value to communities should be decoupled from the amount of local jobs they bring at least. Ideally that’s through some means of UBI, but more likely some form of tax on profits going to community reinvestment (that’s broad enough to cover Walmarts and more too).

[Paul Robalino voice] It wouldn’t be a problem because it would feel really good, actually

Sonori is completely right here, and it feels in bad faith to critique the semantics of their comment rather than the substance of them.

One of the things that is difficult about solarpunk is that there is a huge divide between where we currently are and where we want/need to be. Smaller turbines for a more distributed power grid is a part of a great future to look towards! But it’s not the reality of our power demands now, which necessitate larger turbines and more steel production to meet any of our climate goals. Speaking coherently through that divide can really lead to mismatched expectations and miscommunications.

I think they have a little bit of both, which is important! One of the best Brennan quotes was “people think I’m nice, but I just conform to the genre”

Kinda rude to just comment on her body like that- she’s been open about being diabetic since Community was originally filming. She’s been working on her health way before ozempic was on the market.

*Her rights, the deceased doctor was a woman, her husband is the one suing

Not to dissect the frog on the complaining-about-dissecting-the-frog post, but my interpretation was that those sorts of responses are less on the admonishing OP or their friends for having fun shenanigans, and more of as a heads-up to other players reading it why their DM might not allow the same shenanigans if they were to do similarly in their game. Plenty of folks on here are not 100% versed on every D&D rule out there, and I think it’s okay to make informative comments that help people learn the game better.

It sounds like they’ve broken up, so unfortunately couples therapy isn’t likely to be on the table, you can’t realistically ask that of an ex.

There’s a lot of dog whistles in these TERF/fascist-lite spaces, but one of the early items JKR advocated for was sending trans women to men’s prisons. You should be able to look this up, it’s well known. Would you not agree that that is wishing harm and/or death on trans women?

I’m sure there are plenty more dog whistles that have happened after that one that I’m not versed in, but hopefully that gives you a jumping off point in your fact checking. I’d recommend videos by Shaun, Jesse Gender, and ContraPoints if you are interested in more compilations and perspectives.

Yeah, but are they paying any of their own money to take care of those kids for two decades?

Yes. Taxes. People without kids still pay taxes for things like education, meal programs, etc. People with kids get a tax break to compensate for the cost of raising kids. You’re asking for something already built into how we support parents and children in America.

Oh, I completely understand you’re correct here, I’m just, so, so tired of fighting to keep all the sociopolitical gains of the past 10-50 years, y’know? I know they have a lot going on, it just feels shitty considering the rest of the political climate.

Correct, I should clarify, you are likely safe brewing sun tea at those ambient temperatures because the glass of the brewing vessel will trap the sun and heat the tea higher than that, like a car traps heat on a hot day. You’ll likely hit 130F+ easily and be out of the danger zone!

And for those of you who only know temperatures based on brewing tea or coffee:

123F: Probably insufficient for even fairly delicate teas. You could probably make “sun tea” at this temperature by leaving tea in room temperature water to be heated by the sun, but this is not recommended as anything below ~130F is considered the danger zone for bacterial growth.

170F: This is the appropriate temperature for delicate or green teas to preserve flavor, antioxidants, and prevent bitterness.

200F: An acceptable temperature below boiling (212F) for black teas and coffee where overextraction is minimal.

109F: Unacceptable for tea brewing, barely above body temperature.