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At least it's something. I had multiple friends in college 15 years ago that were homeless and lived out of their cars. They went to classes every day, did tutoring, hung out with other people in the student centers, and whatnot like everyone else. Pretty sure it's common for all colleges. People just don't talk about it so a lot of people have no idea.

Outside of the US, stuff is at least not as bleak. It's a bit harder to destroy things that have been established for so long. Like in New Orleans, things had been established for a long time and it took a natural disaster (Katrina) to destroy the independent venues. But there are no protections against late stage capitalism in the US. Often, taxes alone will destroy independent venues. And yeah, I don't have any hope in the US government doing anything to help. It would sooner call all music a form of terrorism and make it illegal.

Do you live outside of the United States or something? Or just not go to concerts? Live Nation owns almost all of the small venues too. They've bought nearly everything out, and the few remaining independent venues are on life support. And if you're a local band, good luck. 20 years ago, venues would pay you to play. But now you have to pay them like $200 just for the privilege of playing at a small venue with a 350 person capacity. In my city less than 20 years ago, I remember being able to walk downtown in the music district on any day of the week, and there would be over a dozen venues right next to each other all playing something different. It could be a Tuesday night. Music was everywhere, and tickets were $6-20. But there was also tons of free stuff. But after the venues all got bought out, that all stopped. There's not enough big money in music 7 days every week. A lot of venues now only have shows as little as twice a month. And then they'll want to charge $70+.

Why shouldn't we be outraged? Music culture is being destroyed. Your "stop going to shows" solution isn't a solution. Nobody is going to concerts several times in a week anymore. What there once was has been destroyed. Live Nation needs to die.

Don't forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World's Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.

But if you're vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.

He's not even necessarily doing it because he's old. He just doesn't care. His handlers will tell him what to sign anyway. Why would he want to waste time listening to people talk? There's not as much power in the presidency as he had hoped for. He can't even get alone in a room with small children anymore now that the secret service is always present. All he's really got left to live for is waiting for whenever he can give more orders to kill brown people.

To say he was a generally great guy really overlooks how awful he was to women. He was no doubt brilliant, but he had some very serious character flaws. And unfortunately, he had an echo chamber of peers and a rockstar celebrity status that only worked to reinforce his shitty behavior and backwards views. It's not super uncommon for brilliant people to be absolutely nightmares on a personal level. Imagine being an absolutely brilliant scientist that gets married only to be completely forbidden from science and the things you love, and then reduced to being a maid for a madman with tons of insanely particular demands.

It keeps eroding away. I've had skilled jobs where the expectation was 8-5 without any breaks at all. "If you need to eat, you can do it at your desk while you're working."

OP, the pic said an unsettling fact about you, not your neighbor. You need to follow it up with something like, "While he did it, I held my hand over his so he could teach me his techniques." If true, that it would make it an unsettling fact about you. If you don't have anything, though, it happens. I'm not coming up with much at the moment either. And just saying something like "I poop a lot" would do this thread an injustice.

I spent 5 days backpacking to Berg Lake, and Snowbird Pass in 2018, and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Kinney Lake is beautiful, but what came after Whitehorse was absolutely insane. I can't imagine how it's changed since the flood, especially Emperor Falls. Definitely go back when you can do the whole thing. Snowbird Pass is a challenge (probably best to start early from the Robson Pass campground), but even if you don't make the whole trail, whatever you can make is incredible (and if you can make the entire thing, it keeps getting better).

QuickTime 3.14. it's a really old media player from 1998. Unfortunately, I don't think version 3.14 specifically ever actually came out. We'll never really know what it would have been able to do because 4.0 came out instead. So I can see the appeal for him. Trying to use a 27 year old outdated media player that doesn't actually exist is a lot like repeatedly shooting yourself in the leg.

In Asia, there's what's called Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai okra, but those are actually in a completely different plant family than actual okra and closely related to squash. If picked while immature, they're said to taste similar to actual okra. You can find them in Asian markets. They're in the luffa genius and if fully grown, they're used like sponges for scrubbing.

No. You'd be surprised. Old growth specifically means forests where the trees are older than 200 years on average. If you include mature forests, which are defined as 80-200 years old on average, the amount of forest becomes much larger. But also consider how much there used to be, and how much disappeared. The US was the first place in the world to really add forest protections. Theodore Roosevelt alone set aside over 150 million acres as national forests at the turn of the 20th century. We're insanely lucky that happened. I've been lucky enough to have traveled to and seen national forests in almost every US state. It makes me die inside knowing they might get cut down now.