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https://www.healthline.com/health/potential-health-benefits-of-pets#things-to-consider-before-getting-a-pet

I need to eat liver and detest the metallic taste. I want to try this but also not waste my money. I’ve heard buttermilk also reduces the metallic taste, have you tried it?

You are the Architect.

Very welcome. I saw an article this morning that said there was another X-class flare either yesterday or day before. It was scant on details and I’ve not looked for a decent article yet, but I’ll post it if I find it.

Apologies for double posting, this is an aside, but extremely interesting, from my limited understanding: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-sun-explosions-echo-earth-skies.html I thought you may find it interesting, as well.

ETA: this says M-class flares, too. https://www.space.com/solar-flares-effects-classification-formation

Thank you. I’ll check out “X-class solar flares” for my own edification.

Isn’t the sun doing CMEs and other funky stuff for the last several weeks, now? I wonder if that’s contributory.

Wow. If the fediverse is only operable by meta’s instance inside the USA, I’m really going to miss everyone, because I’m just not, with meta.

I don’t know. I can tell you about a quarter- century 17-18 years ago, I knew one Ukrainian and one Russian, personally. The young Ukrainian gentleman identified very firmly as Russian, the young Russian gentleman identified as Russian. Both were very well-mannered, kind, and integrated very well. I still think very fondly of both of them, and hope they have settled somewhere away from the current madness and are leading fulfilling lives. They are good people.

Ostensibly, Russians in Ukraine were being treated very badly. I don’t have access to the Intel in that region, so I can’t really say. Hence, “I’m not sure.” I feel very badly for everyone in the region, and looking at history, and USA meddling, destabilizing countries and regions to maintain economic hegemony, so which is more toxic is hard to say. That’s all I said. Anything else is reading a whole other narrative into it.

I never said any of that. I’m not sure at all Russia is less toxic than the US, especially right now. I think the US promised Russia no NATO creep toward their borders, and did exactly that. I think US toxicity and meddling has a lot to do with the position Ukraine finds itself in, currently.

Check profile. Fed/snitch/troll/general bad actor.

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Did I just hear your inbox explode? Let me hi check your profile rq before I apply!

You moved me to tears, and I’m not even out of bed, yet. Thank you so much for this genuine display of human compassion.

I have the incredible, uncontrollable urge to shout, “Gulf of Mexico!” suddenly.

This is how real troubles begin.

Echos of Ireland.

Yes, I was thinking a lot of us would be valuable in guerilla warfare. Which side would be taken by individuals depends on the individuals.

Except those of us stuck here with no means of escape.

iPhone is extremely overpriced and the workers who produce it aren’t compensated accordingly. I’m not going into why, because it would be extremely time consuming to find and properly document it, but I’m pretty sure we could boil it down to “Apple greed.”

Secondly, I believe most American consumers would prefer quality, as in “want it,” but the bulk of the companies offering it prefer artificial scarcity. It’s not that these companies couldn’t make a lucrative profit without artificial scarcity. It’s that they aim to “hook” as many people into continuously chasing it to keep wages low, and conformity/obedience high.