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Rocks and minerals! Collecting them, observing them, and learning about them.

Looks cool! Wishlisted

Interstellar is pretty nice

Gotta keep that booty flexin’, you know?

Strengthening the pelvic floor muscles can also help with this. Air squats, kegels, and other exercises can help. One such exercise is: lie on the floor with hands by your side and knees bent so the feet are flat. Lift the hips off the floor while maintaining contact with the floor with your back. Hold for 30 seconds, then release. Repeat 3-5 times per round.

Yes, and what is the average person expected to do about broad systemic issues in food production, ecological depletion, and environmental contamination? Not doomerism, but a legitimate question. There are so many things collapsing all around the average American, and the endless questions of “Why aren’t you doing anything about this?” really don’t gain anyone anything except feeling defeated. A lot of people are more concerned about being able to afford enough food in the first place without then stressing about the fact that the food they can afford isn’t the quality it should be. But asking why people aren’t combating decades upon decades of systemic issues that are the fault of corporate greed, political impotency, and flat out maliciousness is shifting the overall blame onto the average person, whether that’s the intent of this post or not. It’s akin to asking someone, “Hey, have you noticed the giant festering boil on your face that’s been there for ages?” Of course we have, but good luck having the time, energy, and money to get proper treatment for it when you’re getting crushed in the giant, rusting trash compactor you live in.

I have astigmatism in both eyes. I can confirm that it doesn’t matter which fluid I’m in, because everything is always blurry without my glasses.

I don’t know if this fits the category, but Warehouse 13 was pretty solid in my opinion. It’s cheesy/campy and some of the characters start off pretty much unlikeable, but when it hits its stride the relationships and character growth that are explored are deep on a human level. It has some fun quirky, hand-wavey technobabble to explain things, but the series finale left me emotional and honestly in a state of with wonder and curiosity that I hadn’t felt in a long time. Worth watching through the show at least once.

I like Sayonara

https://mk48.io/ is a top down naval warfare game.

And also their penis!

Elephants have a prehensile penis that they sometimes use for a fifth leg.

Not a hair person (curse you, male pattern baldness!), but picaridin based bug spray is effective, safe for skin and clothes, and non-greasy. Sawyer’s version works really well!

Strongest butt cheeks east of the Mississippi!

In reality, I’m simply a geologist

Big rocks into little rocks

Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor) is a digital magazine focused on science fiction and fantasy (SFF). It has essays, listicles, book and movie reviews, original short fiction, upcoming SFF book releases, and more. I’ve been subscribed for years, and it’s totally free!

Ooh, it hasn’t dropped below $2 here in the last decade, as far as I can remember.

Today (March 8), US Midwest, $3.49/gal

It really depends on the location within the US. Each state really operates like their own country, connected through the federal government, so standards of living, and what constitutes poverty can widely vary. However, the broad trend is: minimal to no labor protections, employer or self-funded health insurance are the only way to begin to afford medical care (dental insurance is a rarer offer), and there are a lot of trade-offs in determining how to survive. There is very much a different reality for people with money compared to how a lot of others are forced to live. The reasons are historic and systemic, and there’s too much to fully unpack in a response to a post. However, it can be simplified to: rampant, virtually unchecked capitalism is used to extract all of the labor and wealth from the general populous. The “American Dream” is propaganda shoved down everyone’s throat to make people think that they, too, can work hard to become wealthy enough to not have to scrape together enough money to survive. Except that it’s all a lie built on generational wealth, servitude, and violence.

Tipped wages originated from business owners refusing to pay freed slaves a fair wage after the US Civil War. The US still openly practices economic slavery. The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution allows slavery as punishment for a crime, which is why prison populations in the US are enormous. Private companies operate prisons here. This country was built and is maintained by slaves. The wealthy segregate themselves so they don’t have to see or think about it, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

Rocks and minerals, whether they are refined or not: roads and building materials; ore processed into elemental metals; soils (biologically, chemically, and physically weathered rock); quartz is used for glass (melted and shaped) and timepieces (piezoelectric application of quartz); micas: (windows made of thin leaves, Muscovite), used as reflective additives in road paint and makeup; gypsum is used as fertilizer, sidewalk chalk, plaster, drywall, etc. The list goes on and on, but my point is, geology provides many things in our world that are considered mundane or often overlooked.