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Oh and as for raingear goes, I'll wear it in colder seasons, but my favorite is summer rain. Just put on some wicking material and treat it as free sweat.

It varies. IME you can't combine them with something like a respro mask in winter, you have to choose whether to expose your lungs or your eyes. In some weather you might feel like you need wipers, at that point you kinda just gotta use your fingers.

(I used to wear a respro in winter here in Oslo, but between replacing diesels with EVs, some route changes and generally mild auto traffic here, I haven't bothered this winter. Used to develop this kind of mild, sporadic but chronic cough, but now I think I'm free, apart from when I actually get close to a diesel with their rancid winter fumes.)

Seconding the use of protective glasses as a sort of windshield. I use clear ones in the winter and tinted ones in the summer.

Here in the sub-arctic we get some heavy showers but likely nothing like what you get if you have monsoon seasons or the like. But snow and sleet and the like can be surprisingly unpleasant to get on the eyes anyway.

Idunno, might just have ended up as an even more terrifying variant of cassowary.

I wonder how deep in my bubble I am as I'm reminded that 3 Fonteinen and Cantillon actually aren't the best known Belgian breweries

It's ultimately up to oneself to decide these things for oneself, but there is literature on the topic. Part of it you can just frame like the stories themselves: Is it worthwhile to read or watch a story unfold, rather than just read a summary? Is there any point to anything that ends? You know a good meal with your loved ones is going to end before you sit down—but you still choose the meal over going hungry and alone. Because the experience has value even if it ends. Some experiences are even valuable because they only existed a brief moment in time.

There are, ultimately, some stories that are so mired in despair and suffering that anyone would close the book early, but most of the stories are kind of trudging along, with their own motivations, hopes, fears and joys.

To quote another work on the topic: One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Lots of food has been getting more expensive. The response seems to be largely electing climate deniers.

If reporting critically on what the government and its members are up to is now "feeding the trolls", then the phrase has lost all meaning.

It's one thing to not engage with online bullies and leave them bored. It's another thing entirely to start anew with first they came for the illegal immigrants, and I didn't say anything, for I wasn't an illegal immigrant.

Translating a comment by a Norwegian author:

as someone who once put in a lot of effort to excuse the far right etc when they maybe cross the line a little bit but probably don't really mean it so let's all calm down a bit, I've learned one thing:

the only reward you get for doing this is that they the next day bombastically step over that same line to show that they don't feel bound by your wimpy sense of decency

because the fight is against what they perceive as a wimpy, castrated centrist decency is one of the central driving forces in such groups

More people who have tried to explain away the nazi salute could probably stand to learn the same lesson ASAP. The only thing they're really communicating is that the rich & powerful can do what they want and the excusers will stay their loyal lapdogs.

As I read it, it seems they want people to report if some place pretended to end DEI practices after the election but actually just reworded it so it wouldn't be directly impacted by a literal anti-DEI mandate by Trump.

The actual mail phrasing came from another government agency, the “Chief Human Capital Officers Council” (chcoc.gov); this is likely sent out far more places than just NASA.

The email content is the content of the template email in this "Chief Human Capital Officers Council".gov document on "Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders".

So while it's signed Janet Petro, she's ~*~ just following orders ~*~, and it's clear that's what the white house wants as well with that vague threat of "adverse consequences"

I imagine the German response here is to be annoyed that they've worked very hard to be able to do this without telefax, indeed without paper at all, and it's still not considered good enough by the peanut gallery.