So, based on Wikipedia, Cocola has ~15-20% stake in the company, but does not own them.

Which is to say that Coca Cola probably has the most say on anything that goes, but is not running the show.

Moving to Maine. Finally got the OK from work to relocate, now just need the moving allowance and the proper papers.

Ooh, I’ll wanna get your callsign and lisyen to your farm reports.

Oldschool rapper Flava Flav.

The author’s critical approach to what is ‘polite’ is all well and good, but I have reservations about what she considers the limit.

As for the ‘doing no harm to others’, she must recognize that the harm her children do may not be readily apparent. When I’ve got a massive migrane, I don’t want to hear her kids screaming in the next booth over, but I also don’t want to have to confront her about it and risk her screaming also. Better to sit and suffer until I can’t.

Damn. Must have misread that as fixed-wing. Or even powered.

Transatlantic flights by Montgolfier ballon - travel in style for the next six weeks.

Moving to Maine. Finally got the position I applied for internally.

Do we have any fun infographics to help educate those that aren’t autodidacts?

Do you make your cottage pies with minced beef?

For some reason I find the beef fat takes on an unpleasant flavor/texture when chilled and reheated. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

Pizza is one of my favorite ledtovers, though. Cheese is good warm or cold.

Yum! Definitely something to try. Might mix weirdly with crispy cabbage/soft mushroom, but oh well.

Damn, that’s a lotta cabbage. I’d guess this was more a harvesttime affair, with the goal of getting through all the crops before they spoiled?

Recently got one to help dicing onions for soups, definitely helps.

I won’t impose, but thought folks might like to share. At least give her a quick text to brighten her day, though.

That’s the impression I always come away with - similar to Montana or one of the Dakotas in the US. How was the language barrier?

Ah, but I have a surplus of time and a fiendish addiction to internet that I’m trying to wean myself off of. And I’m sure GamGam is gonna take her secret recipes to the grave unless you intervene with her on my behalf.

I’m thinking of moving to Mongolia one day. Vast open spaces and a bitter cold winter. It’s nice to be forgotten by the world.

Fair 'nuff. I hadn’t really considered an alt account.

It isn’t really that odd, considering you’ve only been here a couple of weeks. Mutual Aid is a foundational idea in most if not all anarchist projects and theory.

There may be many scammers, yes, but the goal remains the same - get help to those who need it from those in a position to give it.

As for being part of the problem, I must disagree. Scammers aren’t leeching just this, they’d be present in any system purporting to help others (in gov’t systems this is called fraud), the goal of these grassroots aid projects is to help those who fall through the cracks of more formalized systems and decentralize some aid in case the church/NGO/gov’t can’t or won’t help (see the Hurricane Helene/Katrina responses when FEMA is overwhelmed).

Means-testing recipients is kinda a dick move anyway: those who have demonstrable need will have a harder time getting aid and time/money that should be spent helping are now spent with verification.

Just so. The periphery of the parks may be visited- a shared border between worlds where the most intrepid of both may briefly meet, but just as bears and raccoons are driven out of suburbs, so too should people be driven from the deeper parks.

As for the sanctity of life, it’s more of a balancing in my eyes. No life should be valued so as to cause undue stress to survivors. But I suppose my rather callous attitude is anathema to most.

Absolutely not.

Alas, I am but a blue collar shmuck without the patience to slog through theory nor the oratory skills to convincingly pass on what theory others share.

Yes? I’m not so optimistic about humans becoming interplanetary, but if it were to happen, I’d make noise to try and limit any human settlement. I’d argue that if humans want so badly to be off this rock, they can make space arcologies designed around themselves rather than inserting themselves where they ought not be and fucking up wherever they land.

Lessee… I suppose my hottest take is that no lives are sacred. I believe that human expansion into more ‘wild’ domains is a mistake and that national and state parks’ availability should be limited (geographically - you may not venture into the Deep Parks). This probably borders on some vaguely eco-fascy beliefs, and I recognize human’s inexorable curiousity and desire to explore, but you will never find me mourning a human victim of a wild animal.

Not super on-topic, being more traditional radio than internet, but I hope to boost the mission anyway:

https://www.prometheusradio.org/

Do those who endorse the state capture by Musk count as part of the problem?

What would prevent the same happening in the next wave of rats jumping ship? They don’t know anything about the servers or their niches, so they pick whatever. Listing all the servers and their missions is a good start for those motivated to join, but for those more on the fence, how do we ease the transition?

Bet, i absolutely grow weary of sitting in the hot! Gotta go cool off by the river or something.

But your point stands.

I see a bunch of other Cool Zone Media shows, but not Molly Conger’s Weird Little Guys.

Her calm cadence and thorough exploration of specific American wingnuts is fun. And as far as I’ve seen, most of the stories end with the guy dead or in prison, so happy endings.

Discreetly open it and replace the contents with x-large.

If they open it, it’ll make them feel even littler.

Ehh, they have knock-on uncertainties. Especially if you are financially hurting.

While yeah, AR and AK patterns are everywhere, there’re still neat things to find. The Kriss Vector has their innovative approach to recoil control, the Boberg pistol reverses the usual way rounds are stripped drom the mag.

The magic is still out there, but it never was nor will it ever be common.

I believe getting rid of innate alignments was the right choice. The racism might have been why, but the issue I always took with it was the alignments being too broad and ill-defined.

Sphinxes or lamia. The cruel intelligence of man with the refined predatory abilities of felids/snakes. What a match!

On the other hand, a severe degradation of federal institutions would by necessity promote community-based cooperation. Like in any other disaster, natural or otherwise.

Nobody wants to see it happen this way, but it might be the catalyst we get.

I’d add to this: if I cannot phrase it succinctly and with the right words, it’s better off unsaid.

Enkidu. Dude was pivotal in providing companionship to the king that stopped, or at least slowed, his general rape and molestation of the lower classes.

As everyone already mentioned, all hitmen are just cops with a fake moustache.

So just skip the middleman, and start swatting your enemies. Same results, probably at a discount for you!

Bobcats and lynxes in particular.

Buddy, you’re gonna have to clarify. It’s a broad field.