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Trader Joe's is one of those other companies that is party to this. Trader Joe's doesn't believe in the rights of its workers either. I have stopped shopping at Trader Joe's and I encourage others to do the same.

Sounds like it could be interesting to try snow biking. Doesn't often snow here, and when it does it rarely sticks. Maybe 1-3 actual accumulations per year, so my gravel bike is suitable practically all the time. It's just the cold that makes it unpleasant to me - layering when it's 50F is fine, in the 40s F is doable if it's sunny. Anything below that is just miserably uncomfortable to me because of cold wind to the face and the need to adjust layers as I warm up and cool down.

Got hired at the same time as another guy. Don't recall why, but I was in my boss's office when he decided it was time to assign us offices despite us being in training and not needing them for another few weeks, so he grabs his admin assistant and off we go to verify which offices were open / available. I got the one with a window.

What bullocks technicality kept his social media posts from being shown in court?!

I definitely feel better overall when I ride my bike regularly. My mood is better, I have more energy, and I sleep better. I got into it around the time I separated from my ex-wife, and I think it's a significant part of what kept me from falling into a serious depression when I got divorced.

I hate running. I hate swimming. I hate lifting weights, or anything in a gym. Hiking is nice, with the right company. But I enjoy biking around my neighborhood and along the city greenways. I was wanting to be more active, healthier, etc. but couldn't find anything I actually would stick with until I found an activity I actually enjoyed. Lately I've been feeling pretty down, getting uncomfortably close to a major depressive episode, but riding my bike for a while always makes me feel a bit better, at least while I'm doing it. I think not biking, due to it being winter, is indirectly part of why I've been down - I just haven't been doing much that is enjoyable while dealing with a lot of stress including some major life changes.

Fwiw, I'm a psychiatric nurse. I've read the science news articles that say exercise is better than anything and the ones that say it doesn't do much. I've also read some of the actual research/journal articles. The reality is that we're not really certain how much difference it actually makes, but it probably depends on a variety of factors that vary from person to person and based on the type of exercise. We do know that people who are physically healthier also tend to feel better mentally. What I have seen personally, and experienced myself, is that exercise helps with mood, but it's not a cure-all, and it's not instant, and it makes a difference if it's something you enjoy doing independently of it's health benefits. Exercising outdoors, particularly in green spaces, probably also helps.

Where can I buy a pair? ... No, seriously, I'd wear these.

I'm not optimistic about her winning - this is Tennessee, after all. Outside of Nashville and Memphis, it's a sea of painful ignorance and R voters. Even relatively purple places like Knoxville can't seem to elect anyone other than R's who are hellbent on destroying civil society for no particular reason - the pro-wrestler mayor dismantled the county health department in the middle of the pandemic, for crying out loud. And people applauded him for it!

I'll donate to her campaign and cross my fingers, but I'm not holding my breath.

Depends on district policy and state/local law. E.g., in my kid's district a parent can request for their child to attend any school of the same grade within the district if space is available, but parents have to provide transportation if it's not the zoned school. For the district where we lived previously, a family moving out of zone could request that students be allowed to keep attending their current school through the end of the year.

Per the article, both state and federal law allows these kids to continue attending the same school in such situations. It's the school's fault because, even if their district has no such policies, the clear and obvious course would be to seek an exception until policy could be addressed to align with the law. Instead, they simply refused to meet with the mother.

Eh? I see propaganda accusations all the time, with widely varying degrees of veracity or baselessness, but I don't think I've ever actually seen the left accused specifically of hate speech. I will admit that I don't tend to frequent right-leaning opinion outlets, and so may be simply ignorant, but can you provide an example?

Yeah, they'd take the plane straight back to a gate and pass you off to EMS. And then leave without you.

As an aside, and having nothing to do with your thoughts or arguments, I'd like to take a moment to communicate that the common talking points of "it's a plant" and "it's natural" regarding marijuana should come with massive asterisks, for a variety of reasons. Not least of which is that cocaine and heroin come from plants too. And that there are synthetic THC-related products which aren't generally distinguished from the actual plant products in such discussions. There are also highly concentrated THC products, such as oils, which are pretty inarguably incomparable to using the plant as it occurs in nature.

So, we can nitpick about maybe banning concentrates and delta-8 and whatnot and maybe only legalize the plant in it's natural form, right? Well, that brings us to another point: modern marijuana strains have been bred to have a THC content dozens of times higher than what occurs in nature, as well as a dramatically lower relative ratio of CBD (CBD counteracts some of the bad of the THC, by my limited understanding, but that's outside the scope of this discussion), so calling it "natural" now is more than a bit misleading. It IS a plant, but so are poppies (from which we derive opium/heroin), coca (doesn't even need processing to get the cocaine), and belladonna (deadly nightshade, from which we derive digoxin), and, well, nobody here is arguing that those are safe to consume on the basis of their being or deriving from plants.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

The people who are that severely damaged by drugs* are a small percentage. I've only seen a handful who got that bad because of drugs (I'm a professional in the field). Most addicts can benefit from appropriate care and could become functional members of society again if they had proper support - which our system grossly lacks.

*Most cases of persistent psychosis aren't drug-induced; most of those throwing feces have psychosis from some other cause, which can also be treated with varying levels of success. Drug-induced psychosis is most of the time transient, and subsides as the drug wears off.

What are your thoughts on maintenance therapy and medical detox, i.e. with Suboxone?

Something something Life Guns, liberty, and the pursuit of (trigger) happiness?

I think they're alluding to the fact that domestic abusers are grossly overrepresented among cops? And thereby suggesting that such a law, if feasible to enforce against all such offenders, would amount to disarming cops wholesale.

Starsiege: Tribes (and Tribes 2)

Knights of the Old Republic (why not more mentions of this?!)

And Valheim or Minecraft. Both have offered countless hours of entertainment in the company of friends and family.

Thanks for sharing this, mildly surprised I hadn't heard of it! I'm glad that someone has picked up the Starsiege/Tribes intellectual property, whatever form it's taking.

There's Midair 2 Community Edition, or something like that, which you can find on Steam. Join their Discord channel and you can probably get a playtest key. It looks like it's just going to be little more than the LT mod with cosmetic micro transactions though, which are the opposite of anything I liked about Tribes... But jet packs and skiing are there, so I'll play it at least a little.

Private browser mode in many browsers disables plugins by default, and also doesn't do anything to stop trackers or data collection. All private mode does is keep your activity private from others who also have access to your device (e.g. family members, roommates), by not saving browser history/cookies/etc.

Also, VPN's can be helpful, but there are ways to "fingerprint" individual users behind VPN's by how they move their mouse and click speed and what websites they visit etc.. I imagine plugins like AdNauseum could help with that. It's a clever idea, I'll have to check it out - thanks!

I contend that it's chaotic good.

I hear what you're saying, and were it a college or professional team I probably would agree, but for high schoolers that's harder. At that age, their very identity and self-worth are dependent on peer acceptance. Not to mention any shy kids who might have felt powerless to speak up. We also don't know that they didn't try; one or some may have tried and been shut down by peer pressure. My guess is one idiot thought it'd be funny, convinced a few more, and pressured the rest. "It's just a prank bro" or somesuch.

That the coach didn't put an immediate stop to it is definitely an issue.