This looks really cool, but it’s way outside my price range.

I’ll have to keep an eye out when I’m hiking

Dang it, this is why I can’t have nice things

They’re coming to get you, Barbara!

I once got to do a tour of a historic fort, and when we visited the magazine the guide told us that garrisoned soldiers were issued wooden button fly trousers. They couldn’t use a zipper because a spark might set off the gunpowder, and also they hadn’t been invented yet.

I’m sure it probably varies geographically, but when the plastic ban came first came into effect for us you’d see a lot of reusable shopping bags that were made from plastic.

I remember reading a study that suggested the typical reusable plastic bag used as much plastic as two-thousand disposable bags. So if you had one of those bags, you’d have to use it once a week for forty years to offset your plastic karma burden.

But anyway, as they say, you should bring your own bag because otherwise they’ll make more disposable bags. It has to be legislated, otherwise corpos are going to corpo and we’ll continue drowning in plastic.

These shopping bag bans don’t go far enough imo. The amount of plastic in packaging, shipping, medicine, fishing, whatever industry you choose - it’s just mind boggling.

Here’s a funny plastic quibble I have: a store near me sells bread which comes in a plastic bag, but the little clip/tag to tie off the bag they recently switched to cardboard. A token gesture, but hey, it’s still nice to see. Now if you want to buy in bulk, you can buy a bag of bread with two bags of bread in it. The outer bag is tied off with a plastic tag.

I’m gonna keep it real with you, chief. I don’t like what you said and I wouldn’t love you anymore. Your girlfriend is probably a better person than me.

She needs compassionate care. Not to be threatened with eternal torture. You can’t fix suffering with the promise of more suffering, that’s just pouring gas on the fire.

I started a new job recently that’s much more physically demanding than I’m used to. Unpacking stock, lots of lifting.

Normally I’d expect it would be my back giving me grief, but it seems it’s my elbow. Seems like Tennis Elbow, it only hurts when I move, but even small things like my phone cause me pain.

It’s mostly gone away, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it rears up again. I’m playing it as safe as I can and doing lots of stretches and stuff.

On the bright side, when I finally get used to it I expect to be in the best shape of my life

Pluto is and will always be Hot Shit.

Actually, it’s very cold on Pluto. Which makes Pluto cooler than Fonzie

What doesn’t kill you might succeed on a second attempt.

Quack

My mouth hurts so that my heart doesn’t

I don’t disagree with the message (we should all eat less meat) but I have a couple of nitpicks with the data / presentation.

In a couple places there’s mention of billions of aquatic animals being on the block. It’s too broad of a descriptor - a billion whales looks different from a billion krill. A whale probably eats a billion krill on its own (note: I have no idea, I just know whales are big and krill are tiny)

Pie charts should almost always include percentage labels because people are in general bad at making visual comparisons within a circle. That may not be overly necessary here where the intended message seems to be that chicken vastly outnumber all combined livestock, but it’s always something to keep in mind.

However, the most egregious issue: the final point says that 5,313 million (5.3B) additional humans could be fed, which is equated to every region/country on earth. So the global population. Which is fairly easily verifiable to be about 8 billion people - which means the quoted figure is only approximately 65% of the global population. This calls into question every other data point in the infographic.

While typing this up, I did give the last point a more charitable read and thought maybe the message was that if everyone switched to vegan diets, we could feed that many more people which means nobody in any nation would have to go hungry. But even if that’s the interpretation, it doesn’t seem to be in line with the other points being made, and it makes me question if I’m interpreting the rest of the graph incorrectly. So even with a charitable view it’s still a confusing point.

Anyway, again, I like the overall message because it’s clear to me that we should strive to eat less meat and this graphic outlines the myriad positive impacts that might have. But the goal is to educate people, and if there’s a whiff of misinformation surrounding something that people feel most passionately about, it calls into question what other things people are misinformed about

See, that’s exactly what I liked about the ability.

It’s an attack that even if you walk away from it, you have a story to tell about it

It’s a tough pill to swallow

Swallow Whole used to be my favorite mechanic with large creatures like dragons, hydras, or what have you.

I mean, it’s both narratively and mechanically a powerful ability. Usually the creature gets a bite attack with Improved Grab, so they get a free grapple if they hit. Then the next turn if they have a grappled creature in their mouth, they swallow them. From there it’s usually continuous acid / bludgeoning damage, but the swallowed creature gets a chance to fight their way out or get rescued.

Being grappled was already somewhat debilitating, but you could usually ignore it. But when you get swallowed it immediately raises the stakes. It also means you can’t ignore getting grappled because it can become so much worse so quickly.

Then one day one of my players noticed I was using the ability a lot and accused me of having a vore fetish. Now I don’t really use Swallow Whole at all

If your organization is such a clusterfuck that you can’t figure out how to open a PDF, then I’m going to consider that a bullet dodged.

I once had my employer perform a wellness check when I was having a mental health episode.

I was working remotely, but my mental health was in the toilet. I had a candid conversation with my supervisor where I told him I needed some time off because I had been feeling suicidal. He was an absolute bro, told me I was doing a good job, and that I earned some time off. He agreed that our conditions and the demands from management were absurd. He tells me to just take some time, and he’ll clear the way with HR.

Well, I’m logging off my computer when I get a call from his boss. He’s asking why I’m suddenly taking some time off. I tell him that I haven’t been feeling well, but he keeps badgering me for a specific reason. I tell him that I’m very vulnerable and don’t want to disclose a reason. That’s between me and my doctor.

Well he keeps pressing and he tells me that, “sharing our vulnerabilities is what fosters trust.” So I’m like fine, you really want to know, this job and your management style are making me suicidal.

Tone immediately shifts. He’s going into full damage control cover-your-ass mode. He tells me that I should consider a different career if I’m not up to the task. I’m already having like the worst day of my life (so far) and I start to have a panic attack.

I tell him you know what, it’s not his business and I’m going to call my doctor. Before I can get on the phone with my doctor, HR is calling me. They tell me they have to get hold of my emergency contact to make sure I’m not currently killing myself. I tell them my emergency contact is out of town (unrelated), so they say they have to call the police. I ask her not to, there’s no risk to myself and things have been taken out of context. HR insists that it’s company policy.

So while I’m hyperventilating because my boss pressed me for more details than I was comfortable sharing about my health, they sent a man with a gun to my house to check on me.

I understand that the company is protecting its liability or whatever. But I really felt that my rights had been violated somehow. The police are not suitable to intervene in a mental health episode. I had a new fear that I wouldn’t be able to calm down when the police arrived and I’d end up shot or something.

TLDR - I know this post is fake, but companies really do feel like they own their employees. A wellness check from your employer is absolutely bullshit, but that won’t stop them from trying.

So if the average nap is four seconds, the average period of wakefulness is five seconds.

What a life.

I will not eat green eggs for fun,

If you try, I’ll feed you gun.

The warning shots you have ignored,

Time to send you to your lord

I had a D&D character who used a Lucerne Hammer, which I’m seeing is essentially a bec de corbin.

The flail seems fun, I mean who doesn’t like moving parts and swingy things? I hear they were useful for reaching around shields. With my luck, I’d probably kill myself trying to use it.

The caveman in me calls out for rock though. It’s the ultimate finishing move.