Thankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states. Maine and Alaska have already adopted ranked choice voting via ballot initiatives.

Two of the more racist characters.

You shouldn’t have to lock your doors to feel safe but in both cases, bad actors ruin it for everyone.

Burnout is a symptom of exploitation but not all burnout comes from exploitation. You can burn out from non-work activities like caregiving. You can burn out as a business owner or a member of a worker-owned co-op. You can burn out at a job that only expects healthy hours because you’re an overachiever who refuses to take time off.

It’s pretty common not to have heard of his works, Astro Boy is the only one that made it over to the West but it’s never gotten a ton of attention. I remember the 2003 series got some play on Saturday mornings and Toonami but it was really short-lived.

Pluto which came out on Netflix late last year is a reinterpretation of an Astro boy arc that’s done fairly well.

MAPPA also made a great anime adaptation of Dororo a few years ago but it mostly flew under the radar.

That’s pretty fitting with Gen-X’s reputation of being the generation that gave up on having influence on the state of the world. As a millennial constantly stressing about the impact I’m having on things, that sometimes sounds like a really sensible choice.

I had forgotten until I saw this comment but now I distinctly remember a game where you were supposed to make a cake for a pig by following steps like putting the correct ingredients into the mixer. My sister and I used to repeatedly mess up the cake on purpose because the pig would eat it no matter what and we found it hilarious to feed him awful cakes made entirely of burnt eggshells.

She’s not normally like this

If there’s no situational cause for this change in behavior, there’s a chance she’s experiencing paranoia from an undiagnosed mental health condition. Look up the signs of mania (bipolar disorder), borderline personality disorder, and schizophrenia. If it looks like it might be one of those then you need consult professionals and family because it’s not something you’re going to be able to help her with on your own with advice from Internet strangers.

Take care of yourself, of she continues to behave abusively you need to get away whether this behavior comes from untreated illness or not.

It will make the air behind your fridge warmer in exchange for making the air around your body cooler. There’s usually not great airflow behind the fridge so it won’t affect the rest of your house much.

If you’ve got an open kitchen or something you can still freeze the bottles at night and use them during the day.

In the case of the bear discourse, most comments self-identified either explicitly or implicitly.

You can’t moderate women’s perspectives getting constantly downvoted while men’s get upvoted. I doubt any of the comments OP mentioned actually violate any rules but getting ten comments ignorantly telling you you’re wrong whenever you share your perspective tends to make one feel unwelcome even if the comments are all technically civil.

Five guys is a $15 burger with no sides place not a $20 burger with no sides place.

When my face gets sweaty, my glasses will sometimes slip off without me feeling it which usually means I don’t catch them before they hit the floor. I could see someone pulling something out of the oven in a rush and not noticing that their glasses came off. Particularly if there was a bunch of steam or smoke and they closed their eyes.

There aren’t any third party Presidential candidates in America who deserve 20% of the popular vote. None of them put any effort into winning congressional seats or pushing alternative voting to make themselves viable. They’re just a bunch of grifters and fools who only show up every four years to beg for donations instead of doing anything useful to fix our political system.

I chalk those up to nerdy kids attempting youthful mischief.

If your dentist is in it for the money and not because they want to help people you should find a new dentist.

That message doesn’t mean your prompt was bad (there’s a different error for that), it means it thinks the image it generated had banned content. False alarms are pretty common IME but usually you can try again with the same prompt and it will work as long as the prompt isn’t too likely to create something that looks like violence/sexual content/etc. for whatever reason.

There is no freedom without the freedom to be cringe

This is a disaster waiting to happen, especially when reputable mushroom books look like this