Caffeine in moderate quantities is alright. Coffee and tea are antiinflammatory as well, without the loads of sugar and cream they’re healthy drinks.

I highly recommend Harvard’s Nutrition Source for science-based nutrition info that’s easy to read.

I have two friends born to parents of similar ages as that. Both have had very happy families. One was an only child. The other had a similar age gap with his half siblings, they didn’t interact much while he was growing up, but now that he’s an adult they hang out all the time. It seems like both friends have had to deal with more challenging losses of parents earlier in their lives than typical, but there’s no guarantee about tomorrow anyway.

Undecided with Matt Ferrell - new energy tech developments Technology Connections - how contemporary and retro tech works City Nerd with Ray Delahanty - public transit, city planning, housing affordability, city walk throughs

I believe they’re on Nebula as well

Not strictly about boundaries, but I think you’d like the Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It goes a lot into how to consider your priorities in life and what you want to spend your time on

Tl:Dr: Phthalates are endocrine disrupters

I’m out of the loop, what happened with Snoop?

Director of National Intelligence? Does Nobody Inquire? Do Not Ingratiate?

You’re welcome!

On the fulfilling community aspect, I found that at my Unitarian Universalist (UU) church. UU’s don’t believe in a shared religious text, instead they have a core set of shared values. My church has people who identify as atheist, Christian, several types of pagan, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, etc. We celebrate religious holidays from all of them as well as secular holidays like Trans Day of Visibility and Earth day. The focus is on being together and trying to make the world a better place. I also really like the music program. There’s a handy website to find a congregation near you, many stream services on Zoom so you can test them out before going in person.

The Expanse does a good job delving into somewhat realistic internal solar system travel/physics in the not too distant future and politics of Earth vs Mars vs asteroid “Belters” factions

Agreed. There’s plenty of suffering that happens in life just because. Purposeful suffering doesn’t seem like a good thing in most cases.

But there’s also the issue of the definition of suffering. Minor suffering like tolerating a colder thermostat setting in the winter, it saves money and energy, seems rather subjective on where the line could be drawn on bad vs good.

Check out your local recycling center, they often do tours!

There is a board game! There’s also a virtual version of Mapmaker on Board Game Arena

It is quite fun despite the depressing context.

One of the suggestions should have been “venmo donations”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/venmo-americans-us-government-debt

Of course not, it was made with vacuums duh

Would you prefer less effort and readability in my comments?

Did not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!

Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:

• Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
• Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
• Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
• Untreated human sewage
• Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
• Runoff from abandoned mines