Nemo

Attending and supporting North America's oldest annual folk music festival, as I've done for the last twenty-plus years.

Edit: I had to remove the direct hyperlink, as lemmy is doing some kind of format to it that keeps breaking the address but it's the University of Chicago Folk Festival.

You gotta prioritize sleep, that's the only answer.

I just got to bed as soon as my kids do, me.

Has worked and understands the roles she is supervising.

Don't wanna make the frame too heavy during the commute

I can't say I've ever seen "save the whales" used pejoratively.

I don't think there's any food product from Europe that I regularly consume.

Now, Mexico and South America, on the other hand...

phones with curly cords

Si, en mi familia tenemos muchos amigos que hablan lakota; pero yo se solamente uno o dos canciones y oraciones.

They've been very openly talking about this for the last decade, it's not even sneaky. Technocracy and meritocracy and government-as-a-business have all been buzzwords and all been outed as bad ideas by the experts, but the buzz keeps growing among the money crowd.

I will confess that I personally thought they were too stupid and rivalrous to pull it off.

I've joined a car share coöp that was based in my city, but now I do an as-needed car share service.

The coöp had a (low) subscription cost, which meant I was penalized for not using it, but the cars were easy to find, reliable, and clean. I had a touchless membership card I swiped to unlock the cars. Insurance was included in membership, I paid gas and milage as well as a per-hour or cheaper per-day rate.

But I prefer getaround. The idea is people who in cars are letting others use them when they'd otherwise be idle, sorta like AirBnB. But like AirBnB, you've got units that are only being used for rentals.

That aside, there's occasionally problems with individual vehicles, but it's much cheaper, you can get a wide variety of vehicle types, and it's easy to select an electric or hybrid to make gas costs minimal. Insurance can be purchased though the app. Changing a booking is a breeze. I plan to keep using this option.

If all a candidate has to do to get elected is be less evil than the other, then there's no incentive to be good; instead candidates are free to be as evil as they want up to the limit of the opposition. If a candidate had to be less evil than the person they're succeeding, sure, we'd get less evil over time. But that's not the case, they're compared to their opponents not their predecessors. Every time we elect someone shitty we show them they don't have to be any better than that to get elected.

Not every candidate, but a general trend of "lesser evil" candidates. Obama wasn't a lesser evil candidate, he was a genuinely good one.