Good on her for turning out to be what seems like a very reasonable human being, must be hard coming from someone like him, but I presume he had no part in raising her so maybe it makes sense.

Website for pirating books. A godsend for me during university, where I saved 100s of dollars per semester, while getting the books in a digital format which I prefer.

Thanks, I'll give it a try

How did you get an invite key? I would love to get one to try it out.

Foot-pound is not a unit of pressure, ignoring the fact that it's a stupid non-metric unit.

Pretty sure it's Ice Cream Sandwich for I.

Just pay people to be your shoppers and buy as much as they can for you. And give them a good salary for it. Hiring people is not giving it away, and they are buying the stuff for you. Or hire like a private concert with someone. So many things to spend money on.

If you think world governments and corporations care about climate change…. Haha

A lot actually do, that's why progress is happening, although not nearly fast enough.

We all need to commute 45 minutes to 1.5 hours to work every day here in the USA.

You don't need to. A lot of people have much shorter commutes. But yes I agree with you, the US is way too suburbanised, and people need to push for more urbanization, 15 minute cities, etc.

But damn if I’m going to use a plastic straw

There are hundreds of things that we need to change in the fight to be sustainable. This is one of them. Just because it's not everything doesn't make it not worthwhile.

However, it is not required

The sex, not the consent, I hope.

No she isn't? Macron is president until the next French presidential election in 2027.

To explain it in American terms:

Pennsylvania has just voted in an election for US Congress on the federal level, and voted in the Republicans with huge gains. The Democratic Pennsylvania Governor then calls for an election for the state legislature of Pennsylvania (this can't be done in the US, but let's pretend it can) so that the people can elect a new state legislature that more closely aligns with their current position.