Start or join a local cooperative that does something you’re passionate about. Give members of your community stable and meaningful employment with real ownership, autonomy and decision-making.

What about a salmon on a bicycle?

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It’s a Linux phone on Debian that uses Android drivers, so all the normal functions (calls, SMS, etc.) work perfectly. Battery life is a full day.

I avoid meat/dairy to help the environment, prevent animal cruelty, and improve my health (specifically cholesterol).

I suspect lab-grown meat helps the environment and prevents animal cruelty, but it’s still really dangerous for me to eat, so I still wouldn’t touch it. Seems like a net positive for the world, though.

It should be a lot higher, honestly. Encourage building Canadian services and using European services instead of relying on predatory American monopolies.

Farmer’s market tomatoes. I went through my whole life thinking I hated tomatoes. Turns out, I hate grainy tomatoes that taste like nothing, and real tomatoes grown nearby and picked ripe are wonderful.

Costco sells real Canadian maple syrup at a fair price (cost plus a few percent).

I would so much rather buy games from GOG but their Linux integration is just so much worse than Steam Big Picture, and I only play games using Linux from a couch with a controller.

Yes, it works, and I can and have done it for some titles, but it’s nowhere near ideal.

I just want to ride a bike without constant fear of death. LA is statistically one of the most dangerous cities to ride a bike. I don’t care if it’s far—10 miles of sunshine and exercise and not dealing with bumper to bumper traffic sounds great to me, if I’m likely to arrive with my skull still in tact.

Also the Tesla charging infrastructure!

Seemingly every video still includes sponsor segments. I use ublock origin with sponsorblock and actually see zero ads.

I feel seen.

This doesn’t even make the top-10 list of evil shit Chiquita has done. Some examples:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre
• https://partnersinjustice.org/resources/stories/crimes-against-humanity-and-chiquita-bananas/

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Another good expression, “forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”

It also aligns with Stoicism. You can’t control what others do, you can only control your reaction to it.

I prefer carbon steel. You get the same seasoning of cast iron and easy care, but it’s lighter so it heats more quickly and evenly. It’s a bit more expensive than cast iron but much cheaper than an All-Clad stainless pan.

I only use stainless for acidic foods, like tomato sauces.

Ya, they absolutely could/should. A good example today is how a judge is present in a trial to explain the process, law, what’s required for jurors. You could have a similar advisory body which provides recommendations based on their expertise.

Athens had sortition, which was interesting. Everyone participated in the government via a lottery and the average person’s issues would be likely (statistically speaking) to be focused on and addressed.

We still use it today to select jurors. But it was originally for everything. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

It’s been tried a few other times much later in history, but they always limited who could be chosen in the lottery (generally, only rich people). The original system which worked well selected among everyone.

There’s not enough booze in the world to make me rawdog an onion like this.