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the rest of the book is actually quite (overly) optimistic, so it balances out

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That's dumb, sorry about that. If you want to smooth over the office politics, you could bring in an identical bag of chips (or equivalent item) and offer to share with coworkers. Obviously maybe cost prohibitive but might make your narc coworker relax a bit.

Yes, this is why spay and neuter and trap, neuter, release programs are so important. We need to also be actively reducing the population of pets while caring for the ones that currently exist as best we can. And sometimes the "best" option is to euthanize, but it is definitely not a decision taken lightly.

I encourage you to read up more on the killing animals thing. They essentially do it out of compassion, because most of the animals that end up at PETA are cases shelters are not equipped to handle and thus require a higher rate of euthanization. Even our local humane society has a relatively high euthanization rate, but it's because most of the other local shelters are no-kill and so their worst cases get sent there. I am friends with serious animal activists and they critically support PETA, though are part of different orgs themselves. Like I said, they have made mistakes like any other large org, but I think they have been a net good for animal rights.

https://www.peta.org/features/peta-kills-animals-truth/

I think they make mistakes, but are overall effective at bringing animal rights issues to the masses. Interested in hearing why you have that opinion.

jasmine green tea if i had to pick. prefer the pearls

adagio? that stuff is amazing

It definitely seems like she's trying to will being an astronaut into fruition (PADI, skydiving, pursuing PhD, etc.). Idk how successful that will be for her, but she's years from even being eligible to apply. I know some people that have had their references checked for astronaut applications, and they have all of that stuff and several years of experience in the engineering industry.

2 months. we refused to throw out non-vegan items in the fridge. it was like a switch slowly flipped and we (partner and I) realized we needed to stop immediately.

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almost caused a panic attack for myself by breathing manually this week

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I can say for a fact that some of them do, but it's definitely a lower percentage of the total when compared to average working class folk that support socialism.

I try not to be that guy, but I have a lot of friends like this (will literally venmo charge you in the moment). It just makes the relationship feel transactional.

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Interesting. I'll have to give it a try!

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I thought it was solid. I agree with some of the criticisms about the acting and lack of mystery/intrigue, but you can blame the book for that. I think the characters had to be split up because IIRC there is a lot of internal thinking and strategy that happens in the book that works better as dialogue in a TV show. Overall, the more interesting ideas and scenes come the further off the rails the trilogy goes, so I'm glad they got through a lot of the early wallfacer stuff in this first season.