Malt o meal in general is better than what it is imitating.

Lol, yeah. I had to pay for most of my M.S. though so I made negative money.

TBF it only started because Letterman got fucked over and CBS wanted to compete with the Tonight Show. It’s been around for a long time but not nearly as long as – okay I’m old.

10 hours of rain in the forest is my jam.

Eugenia?

It suits you but I think you would look fine either way.

I moved to Minnesota in the early 2000s and was blown away by all of the fireflies. It was magical. I’ll never forget snuggling up with someone and watching the fireflies during a thunder storm.

The decline was unbelievably rapid. The last 6 years I was there I’d maybe see one or two the whole summer. If that.

It’s so sad because they’re truly wondrous creatures.

I’ve only ever seen it as blue and black. I can’t force it the other way like I could with Laurel and Yani. Y’all seeing white and gold astound me.

Finally!! This movie NEVER comes up but I absolutely love Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). Fucking classic and he’s great in it.

Okay he’s not the lead but he’s like the main co-star.

Love love love this movie

I grew up on well water that smelled like sulfur and was sometimes unsafe to drink.

The water fountains at school were HEAVILY chlorinated.

Water just wasn’t really an option growing up or if it was you had to mask the taste with Koolaid or something.

I don’t crave it. I’m not in the habit of drinking plain water. I have a zero water system now and I drink it a lot more but some people either have an access issue or never developed the habit due to similar factors as me.

People dressing up as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale are typically dressed that way as a form of protest against the conditions that would lead to Handmaid’s Tale becoming a reality. Which is typically anti-Christian nationalism but can also include anti-MAGA/Trump which …the lines there are blurry at best.

The “No Kings” protest was anti-Trump. Do with that what you will.

You underestimate how much of a couch potato I am. Not moving is normal lol.

ITT: no cult scholars. I am not one either.

I watch a lot of Knitting Cult Lady’s content and I’ve read her book. From that I have a pretty good idea of what a cult is, which is an extreme form of group.

So I guess the opposite of a cult would be a solitary individual.

One point I keep seeing in these comments is religion. Religion isn’t a cult, it’s an idea. That ideology can be used by cults, but the idea itself isn’t a cult. You can believe the idea all by yourself you don’t HAVE to be part of the group.

Yes [insert religious group you’re thinking of] is probably a cult. But it isn’t one because of the idea, it’s one because of controlling behavior and exploited labor and a bunch of other reasons.

Game on the right but that’s because my right monitor is the good monitor. The left one is a glorified TV.

Sorry. I laughed from your comment. Doctors tell women blacking out from menstrual pain is perfectly normal.

Didn’t mean to distract from your message, you’re absolutely right.

Connect. I just like it. I tried all of the other apps available during the API exodus and settled on Connect. Functions most similarly to how I had Reddit is Fun set up.

Not OP. Former NPS employee. Cairns are NOT used to mark trails in national parks. Stacking cairns in a national park is considered vandalism and you should not be doing it the same way you should not be scratching your name into goddamn rocks.

The practice of stacking cairns is so out of control I do not recommend you ever follow one on state or other lands. It is a good way to get lost following some influencer’s a.e.s.t.h.e.t.i.c pile.

The only acceptable location for a cairn is a high energy beach environment so that the sea can wipe it away in a couple of hours.

National parks are intended to be enjoyed as close to natural as possible. Leave. No. Trace.

I think it is kinda neat but I wouldn’t live there. Also those rocks are all huge heat sinks and it is probably super cold in the winter.

Yes! The hit-or-miss flavor was terrible.