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Nah, I'm pretty skeptical. The authors website has like 150-200 book titles. Either someone using AI to pump them out, or several authors publishing under the same name.

And people say AI generated books are awful slop. This is pure artistry!

https://www.ibtimes.com/40000-ordered-evacuate-chemical-tank-threatens-explosion-southern-california-3803236

They've got a plastics manufacturing site leaking with an evac order for 40,000 people as well.

Most days it's an Areopress, sometimes V60. Very rarely, moka or phin. I can and do skip coffee. I do 3 days in a row "dry" every month or so to keep an eye on caffeine addiction. If I get headaches, I take a longer break and dial back usage.

I backcountry backpack and have started carrying caffeine pills in my first aid kit. Not for myself, but for people I run into who are suffering from withdrawal headaches. I've met a couple people who drink several cups per day in their normal life, then cut to one while backpacking or none at all, not realizing they'll go through withdrawal.

My sister had to come out to my parents for like the sixth time. They just pretend they don't hear it. So operation Not-Subtle Propaganda commences. I was visiting for the long weekend and put on movies with LGBT characters to get them desensitized (sensitized?) to the idea of gay people existing.

Ok, so maybe Forbidden Fruits wasn't one to include in this first wave. TBF, I don't think either parent clocked the gayness. They are so stubbornly blind to it.

Now accepting suggestions for next visit I take in ~June or July. They are Hallmark movie people so it can't be too outrageous, FF was really pushing it even without The Gay Agenda™.

Several of my great aunts and uncles did this. And yeah, after they moved away they would have small boxes of dirt shipped to them from family that stayed behind.

White, Volga German descended farmer people, moved from the Midwest to the West Coast US.

I would think it's not just people avoiding his movies because he's a sexual assaulter, but the studios too. If I've got a several hundred million dollar project, I'm not going to make a known serial assaulter the face of it. I'm not going to want to be in any way liable if he assaults his female coworkers, I don't want to roll the dice that the public won't turn against him when more allegations start coming out. Not when there are other perfectly bankable stars who aren't confirmed sexual assaulters.

He's a proven liability and one would think studios would want to avoid him and keep their investment safe.

Eeeeh. Not in the tier of Jared Leto, but definitely in the tier of "why does he keep getting jobs, plenty other actors with skills equal to or greater than his who won't sexually assault their colleagues".

On the edge of my seat hoping a "canal pusher" is an animal of similar species to the drop bear in Australia or the snipe in US.

Edit: oh, drunk people. So yes, kinda related to drop bears and snipes.

Sus fingers

I don't see why. I'm employed. My employer cared that I had a college degree ten years ago, but now I have years of doing the job to point to.

So my high school diploma would have to be pulled, then two colleges would somehow have to say that made my two diplomas invalid, then my employer would have to decide they gave a shit about that more than nearly a decade of demonstrated competency.

At most, I would take a GED test for shits and giggles. I would guess math is the most difficult section for most people. I'm an engineer and use math more and more diverse applications for math frequently, so I expect it would be easy.

I gave up trying to sit for 15+ minute sessions. I have a standing desk and two barstool-height chairs of very different designs, cycling between the three options throughout my workday.

Great that I can work from home. In the office I would look like a fidgety child.