And now you can take this reasoning and think about all the millions of innocent animals killed every day for meat, often in ways that could easily be considered torture if people didn’t pretend it wasn’t happening / justified for their taste buds.

I agree with your points and did the same thing binging on his work a few years back after never having read anything by him before.

I assume the dumb thing you’re referring to is

I’ve also thrown my bike in the trunk and then biked home. Easy option for those able to bike and live close enough. Also, lots of cities now have bike share stations all around.

Aunty Donna are Aussies.

The author recommends SteerMouse in the article

Therapy Gecko, Bad Friends, Podcast But Outside

The Talisman and along with it The Black House doesn’t get enough love

The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells is a collection of short books in the first perspective of a cyborg. You might enjoy that.

Try out Shokz bone conducting headphones. They are awesome, you can hear the world around you, and the app has a vocal booster mode that makes listening to podcasts much better. It works really well on my 1.5 hour bike commute in traffic with road noise, and I can still hear the cars passing by.

You could wear your Apple Vision Pro on the date and use Tinder AI to get live prompts like a modern Cyrano de Bergerac.

Some beer has honey and milk ingredients

Free passes to local museums too

There are times when the sound effects and other sounds are mixed with dialogue into the original audio, so the English dub doesn’t have it. This makes it feel empty and lifeless.

This is totally fine. If you really feel bad, you could explain to them you’d love to have them but your budget only allows inviting a small number of people.

Many people also have a brunch the day after the wedding. Maybe you could invite a handful of people who couldn’t make it to the wedding and do a casual brunch or small get together?

Maybe try converting the PDF to another file type, such as Mobi, first and then epub?

Not sure if that’d help but it’s worth a shot.

Press it once to add to Liked. Press it again to add to another playlist. Not great, not terrible.

I love British comedy. Peep Show, Spaced, and People Just Do Nothing are some of my favorites.

Yeah… Fruit salad, celery slice, curry served on the rice. This might taste good but doesn’t look very authentic.

OP do yourself a favor and try to find a place that does thali or Chaat nearby. It’ll change your life!

Is the name a Steven King Fairy Tale reference?

If you liked IT, have you read through King’s Dark Tower series? One of my favorites and what got me into King originally. The universe of DT is what’s behind his other works, which makes it all the more interesting.