This is incredible, you are very talented!!! I love so much about this, wow!

As many as they can as long as we keep giving them oxygen.

Thank you for your kind correction, internet stranger! I feel super silly making this error and it serves to prove I need to rewatch asap.

Their bank accounts and political ideology datapoints were, I guarantee it.

I wonder this exact thing, given that soil is a living organism full of beneficial bacteria and other organic materials. The food we eat consumes it, takes what it needs, and then we do the same.

I find it also interesting that while the article claims this is a cultural thing vs. being done for heath benefits, I’d argue it became cultural because of a universal understanding of health benefits.

Now I’m not saying this is some long lost concept that is the missing key to fix all our ills, however I can see how consuming soil was an integral part of maintaining gut health and boosting immunity way before we understood how those systems work.

The Secret of NIMH!!! This movie was intense when I was a kid, and one of my nostalgic faves as an adult.

Power is never given, it is taken.

I see a lot of discourse around this theory that when Democrats are in power they’ll reverse everything this regime has done. Yes this is a comforting thought but it’s way too much to expect from the Democratic Party as we know it now.

The Executive branch has been given (and has taken) an extreme amount of power to the point where the balance we once knew is now nonexistent. Does anyone think for one second the next president will just forfeit those gains? What incentive is there? And as we’ve seen and continue to see, who will hold them to account?

My bet is that we’ll see a few easy ‘gimme’ reversals that are enough to enable our slide back into the complacency we so desperately crave.

It all has ‘I hate drama’ energy, no?

That’s likely a freebie preroll, lots of dispensaries have sale specials that include them.

The weed is typically subpar, but if you don’t smoke a lot it does the job just fine.

I call that a come up!

I was a kid-tween during the ‘husky’ era and can tell you it never implied athleticism in the slightest.

It was a nice word for ‘chubby’, cos marketing.

They practically have already, without using the word ‘Democrat’. Read the EO from Sept 2025 where anyone who isn’t pro-Capitalism, pro-Christian, pro-nuclear family, pro-Fascist, and pro-American hegemony was declared an enemy of the State.

No really, read it and ask yourself who it describes and why. I know I recognized more than enough to know where I stand when I read it.

Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

Hmm. Turns out living your life fearing what you don’t understand, refusing to learn about anything new and double down on your own ignorance, and carrying a heart full of hatred that doubles in weight every time you step outside or turn to entertainment is a really unhealthy and even fatal way to live.

I can only imagine how chronically raised blood pressure and brain + body pickled by constant fear and anger (stress, really) wreaks havoc on the system and is a big factor in the exacerbation of health issues that become fatal much faster.

Fear is fatal, acceptance transcends. We’re all going to die, but if you’re going to ‘live’ your life in constant fear and anger you’re not going to make it very long.

It’s wild what leaves its mark on us, and how the subconscious speaks to our bodies before we’re even aware. I’m sorry you have to deal with this regardless.

Yeah I definitely didn’t think it through, because too small lol.

I too suffered the graphite mark and even had it transfer to my face via scratching an itch. Very embarrassing as a kid!

I also had a tough time with spiral notebooks, markers, and craft scissors.

I gladly receive any news of the expansion of class consciousness, and appreciate the data to prove it.

I experienced crushing grief as a teen during Spring, and for about a decade later my mental health and general perspective took a dark and negative turn as Winter gave way to Spring. Every bright sunny morning, every time I smelt wet earth being warmed by the sun, fresh cut grass and the sound of mowers, hell even the first bits of birdsong and the little extra bounce in everyone’s steps haunted and even mocked me as it all felt so incongruous to the dark hole of grief I’d been thrown into.

It got to the point where I knew Spring was coming by the sudden awareness of a growing pit of impending doom in my stomach. You know, that hollow, icy feeling like something really awful has happened but you can’t quite remember yet? Or like when you were a kid and you just knew you were about to be in big trouble but your parents haven’t come home yet? That’s the feeling. And it would grow with each sunny warm day that felt exactly like the ones that changed my life forever.

I once saw a documentary about Schizophrenia, and one of the people with Schizophrenia that was featured was riding in a car looking out the window and said the sun was laughing at him. I think I know how he felt.

Anyone still reading this: I’m fine now, this was a long time ago. I garden now and Spring has become my favorite season. I’m deeply grateful to have come full circle.

It absolutely is, and I’m loving the affirmation here!

Idk about smug, but I do see where you’re coming from.

It’s entirely pointless and definitely irritating to keep hearing ‘when I was in charge we did things differently’ when the bar is as low as it is right now. It does not help, and clearly serves the ego of the speaker. To say as a leader that you did things ‘better’ back then is low hanging fruit and an incredibly poor and patronizing attempt at continuing your role as a leader. Waxing nostalgic about your time as leader does absolutely fuck all to help us out of this, which you of all people have more power than any of us to do. Otherwise this is what it is: lip service and an easy ‘gimme’ he thinks we side with him on.

Don’t get me wrong: he alone cannot pull us out of this, and I agree he indeed contributed to the eventuality we now call reality.

Exactly this. Our oppressors seek to create as much distance between themselves and us, and middleman management-type positions have become incompatible with this model.

Imagine every business entity being ‘run’ by AI that will be sold to us as ‘separate entities’ of whom are actually owned and (barely) controlled by less than a handful of individuals masked behind LLCs. Added bonus that AI does not need to get paid and is a handy tool to absorb accountability. Just one more update, guys! Idk about that raise, because all I can do is ask the corporate chatbot. I didn’t get bereavement time approved either because the corporate chatbot counts it as sick time and apparently I’ve already used mine without being notified.

This is exactly what capitalism gives us: the illusion of choice and this fits right into it.