I usually just let it pass. Though often it’s in the context of a group meal, or planning a group order, or something, so my not eating meat will come up.

And sometimes people will then ask what I miss or why I’m vegan, which is an opening to say without being abrasive that it’s ethical + environment and sounds kind of gross at this point but ‘you do you,’ and usually prefer good vegetables to meat imposters.

My assumption is that people change their minds out of exposure to personal experiences and not often from judgement, so given that I don’t have control over them I’m just going to provide thoughts/information.

all federalized National Guard troops

So, ICE is still slashing and burning. A little progress though.

Yeah, as soon as there’s dramatic climate action, representative just government, and universal healthcare + pre-K!

Trailer link for others. Thanks for the recommendation.

Sure!

Played a little. I enjoy the photos. A lot of them are pretty hard to place, if they don’t have human-made structures especially, so I feel like I’m often guessing.

Are you tracking the distribution of guess accuracy per photo?

I think your link markdown is backwards — I see a full URL with schema but can’t click it.

Her father later told authorities he had been showing her a Glock handgun he kept in his bedside drawer. He claimed he did not realize the gun was loaded and said he did not know whether his finger was on the trigger when it discharged.

A US grand jury later reviewed the case and declined to indict her father, saying there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges. The decision came despite the fact that Lucy and her father were alone in the room when the fatal shot was fired.

Research published in JAMA Health Forum earlier this year found that AI-enabled medical devices have a shockingly high recall rate: 43% have had issues bad enough to take them off the market less than one year after their initial approval—about twice the rate of non-AI devices.

A quarter of normal medical devices are recalled within a year?

Does anyone know how the 2019 NLRB probe for basically this (firing folks raising ethical concerns) has progressed/concluded?

If you haven’t already tried biking your commute, keep a close eye on the bike lane as you’re driving. How many delivery trucks or other motor vehicles are driving or stopped in it? Is it clear if gravel, sand, trash, and snow? How would a cyclist make a left turn, and would they have to wait through an extra light cycle? Any potholes, runners, folks with grocery carts collecting aluminum?

Also, typically the laws support taking the lane based on your safety assessment.

Chatbots are terrible at anything but casual chatter, humanity finds.

And a lot of teachers, as if they weren’t doing enough on a shoestring already.

Great to see more avenues of resistance, and reminders that we’ve done this and won before.

As a non-knitter: looks like this effort is around patterns/crafting, not buying completed hats, right?

Cool, having a local browser implementation seems like a nice way to make this accessible to anyone.

If they’re checking resumes for this position as closely as they’re checking them for the armed bullies, maybe I could get the job with 0 legal experience and lose a lot of cases.

What other bug has cool matching stripes on all 55 of its flesh-creep-inducing legs? I both like and shiver at them.

Over and over. Time to report & block.

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/headdesk

I wonder how many of those people are significantly reducing their carbon footprint & voting for environmental policies. It’s going to be a lot easier for everyone to find not-disaster-prone locations to move to if we reduce the trajectory towards apocalypse even a little.