I once got to do a tour of a historic fort, and when we visited the magazine the guide told us that garrisoned soldiers were issued wooden button fly trousers. They couldn't use a zipper because a spark might set off the gunpowder, and also they hadn't been invented yet.
I'm sure it probably varies geographically, but when the plastic ban came first came into effect for us you'd see a lot of reusable shopping bags that were made from plastic.
I remember reading a study that suggested the typical reusable plastic bag used as much plastic as two-thousand disposable bags. So if you had one of those bags, you'd have to use it once a week for forty years to offset your plastic karma burden.
But anyway, as they say, you should bring your own bag because otherwise they'll make more disposable bags. It has to be legislated, otherwise corpos are going to corpo and we'll continue drowning in plastic.
These shopping bag bans don't go far enough imo. The amount of plastic in packaging, shipping, medicine, fishing, whatever industry you choose - it's just mind boggling.
Here's a funny plastic quibble I have: a store near me sells bread which comes in a plastic bag, but the little clip/tag to tie off the bag they recently switched to cardboard. A token gesture, but hey, it's still nice to see. Now if you want to buy in bulk, you can buy a bag of bread with two bags of bread in it. The outer bag is tied off with a plastic tag.
I'm gonna keep it real with you, chief. I don't like what you said and I wouldn't love you anymore. Your girlfriend is probably a better person than me.
She needs compassionate care. Not to be threatened with eternal torture. You can't fix suffering with the promise of more suffering, that's just pouring gas on the fire.
I started a new job recently that's much more physically demanding than I'm used to. Unpacking stock, lots of lifting.
Normally I'd expect it would be my back giving me grief, but it seems it's my elbow. Seems like Tennis Elbow, it only hurts when I move, but even small things like my phone cause me pain.
It's mostly gone away, but I wouldn't be surprised if it rears up again. I'm playing it as safe as I can and doing lots of stretches and stuff.
On the bright side, when I finally get used to it I expect to be in the best shape of my life
When you consider that a lot of their customers are pretty entrenched in Amazon's services, "Boycott Amazon for a week" is more achievable than, "Boycott Amazon forever."
Now don't get me wrong, I'd love to see people give up on Amazon forever. But sometimes taking a week off is long enough for people to change their shopping habits.
Although I suppose the insidious thing about Amazon is that they only offer an annual subscription so I doubt people are cancelling their service for a week.
The prologue has some fantasy violence / gore, and the main side plot is lesbian romance. Some sexual tension, and I think a fade to black, but I don't remember anything explicit.
I don't know if this would bother you, but the language was like fantasy blue-collar. The protaganist is an orc and curses a lot, but I feel they were fantasy swear words and I don't remember seeing any F-bombs
The book's main appeal is this wholesome, cozy vibe though. Even if some of the elements are for adults, it's got good morals and a heartwarming message
I can't find anything concrete online, but my assumption is that it has to do with the adventure / module design.
Consider a scenario where the party is going to go kill a lich, but first must delve into the lich's lair before they may fight.
"Prophet" being that the party is forearmed with the knowledge of what the final encounter will be - and perhaps some intelligence on the dungeon.
"Squeeze" where the party has encounters that drain their resources. Those grenades / fireballs are going to be handy for fighting the lich, but they're also useful for dealing with the lich's zombie army.
"Monster" where the party finally encounters the prophesied monster and fights the lich.
I've never heard this trope named this way, but it's how so many dungeons and adventures are designed. The party knows they have a particular fight coming up, and must carefully manage their resources because they won't be having that fight at full strength.
When I was a teenager I felt this way. I didn't ask to be here, and so far life has sucked pretty hard.
My stance has softened as I've aged. I still wish I'd never been born, mind you, but I don't blame my parents for having kids. They just did what came naturally for them.
You can't consent to being born, and that upset me a lot. But it's not like they could have asked my permission anyway. Might as well make the most of the situation.
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This looks really cool, but it's way outside my price range.
I'll have to keep an eye out when I'm hiking