and if its like how me and my friends make our coffee…more sugar than coffee. A mug of sugar keeps the depression away?

O.O Ooh.

intresting. was looking and asking around, it seem, (agian as a person who lives in a west coast area where we get about 0 snow). “Wintry mox” seems like it might be used to mean a combo of rain/sleet/snow, so while the “ice pellets” are still called “sleet” you might say its “wintry mix” bcs there might be sleet/snow/rain on the ground or around.

If someone told me about ice pellets id persume they meant the fancy lil ice cubes, but also y’all say “pass me the fairy liquid” and be talking about soap.

As someone from the U.S. I have never heard of “wintry mix”. I currently live on the west coast, but I always grew up that wet mix of snow/rain/water on the ground as “slush”. Each country has its own regional dialects

I don’t particularly know much about owls in general. I enjoy seeing all the owls you post and any all fun facts! Thank you!

Reminds me of that manga where this guy f*cked his house to upgrade it, more floors, etc.

Oooh, dessert! /j

What was that movie with the gentic id stuff, gattaca? Yeah, shouldn’t give them too many “good” ideas…

Trump has always and will continue to be a straw man…an easy puppet to do others bidding. Rember even with BS republicans where pushing he lost the popular agianst Hillary…even with so many people I have come across that voted agianst her because shes a women. It was those that abstained combined with those that followed party lines from the decades of work dems and reps have done to destroy democracy.

A friend of mine says it proves JFK wasn’t a CIA conspiracy, bcs if it was…what about now?

A U.S. veteran I know had a joint training in the 90’s with isreali soldiers. They talked, alot in common as junior enlisted. This kid (20 or so) had a crisis, he grew up being told all this (propaganda) but during a patrol they where interrogating (or arresting, I forget granular details) someone, his OIC was demanding information and threatened to shot the mans kid if he didn’t. The man aqueciced but this soldier became disillusioned, he questioned if he would have been orderd to shoot a child had the man not aqueciced. He realized more reality of the situation…

It has been this way for some decades. Wars have been fought over it, it was never a secret, just propaganda pushed to the public to distract from the truth. Many, if not most Americans drank the kool aid, and still do, accepting propaganda agianst truth.

yeah. There are people complaining about preschools having lockdown drills. But do you know what its like being a preschool teacher getting coaching and drills for a scenario you are responsible for some 19 toddlers with an armed shooter in the building AND you make $10 less than a panda express wok cook? Like no shade to them. and yeah shits going to hell in a hand basket but I still got my 7-4

Most calls I get are spam, fruad or potentially dangerous so I do record a voicemail but I mirror my carrier default, just "You have reached the voice mail of phone # . I am unable to answer your call right now, please leave your message.

maybe not an act of war, maybe Maduro isn’t a POW. It’s an act of terror, he is being held hostage by state backed terrorists.

I just used online calculators, seems it was off. So russia got a rhode island.

about 250 acres, or 1/3 of central park?

yes. I have this botepad on the fridge whenever I notice something is needed I write it down and when I go to the store I just grab that list, anything I didn’t/couldn’t get I try to write back down. I tend to forget to get the list so I half wing usually to poor results

I dont know of any easy fixes, unfortunately. Noise canceling headphones, and friend(s) to hangout with can help reduce stress of fireworks and manage an obligatory party. At the very least trying to find the quietest corner and finding something to zone into, music, a game etc. For me even without noise canceling headphones, listening to music I enjoy on my headphones even in semi chaotic places helps a little.

Obligatory family gathering might not have any of those options though. Best of luck.

I think it depends on what parts of “getting into a new year” your having challenges with. For me, a new year just mean changing what year I date things, need to rember to write 2026 now instead of 2025. But so is remembering the change of month, or day.

Of course a new year can bring different challenges to everyone.