Two of my favorite are from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Also attributed as a Native American proverb)

Pretty awesome & rare occurrence! I’ll add it to my bucket list; but realistically I’ll never see this in person :P

I prefer to cook the egg omelette style so there’s no difference in consistency with the yolk; but your looks delicious too!

Basically an Indian Dal, but with whatever beans you want instead of just lentils?

Black eyed peas I love “Texas Caviar” style. There’s a few variations, but basically saute peppers & onions plus whatever other aromatics you like (celery, carrots, garlic, etc…). Add beans, southwest-type spices, some oil and water / stock. Bake until tender.

One example: https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a10902/hoppin-john/

Eat more chili? It looks delicious!

That is … a lot of butter per slice of bread!

One of my favorite board games! I also highly recommend the marine expansion.

Let me just conveniently have a grandparent who’s about to pass away… I know there’s one around here somewhere…

Hey grannie. I know you lived a long and full life, but I can save a couple thousands in tax. You don’t mind having a cold-hearted shell of a human for a grandchild. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, right?

If quantity is the measure instead of quality: AI wins!

Repurposed joke: It’s able to make more mistakes faster than any other invention… with the possible exception of tequila and handguns.

See also: recent deals between India & Russia. Also China & Russia.

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“great” /s

Good news: there’s a third option!

Just another regular collapse Wednesday.

Remember the same are having record flooding last year too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Pakistan_floods

Abiotic Factor

Similar experience for me! I joined the co-ed service “fraternity” Alpha Phi Omega… they coordinated many different volunteering efforts and projects; but also had some social events for the members. Great way to meet kind-hearted people!

I bet like “free to play” games they’ll find a few “whale” users who will spend inappropriate amounts of money. There’s a long history of people paying for companionship… Now it’s even more fake :(

The question is when, not if. But it’s an expensive question to guess the “when” wrong. I believe the famous idiom is: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Best of luck!

Artificial Stupidity

Is there any domestically produced competition in Canada? The only one a search returns is still a concept (not yet commercially available). Everything else looks to be imported from elsewhere?