Yay, and then the savings will make it down to the consumer!

As a UX designer I totally believe all of that. I’ve seen that in other industries.

Read until I fall asleep again

I do that too, like wiping my whole whiteboard/brain completely clean. It takes a few tries often.

Of course I’d rather take a quick 2 hour flight to Greece instead of going to California. Way closer

That would be a nice change

A bunch of the Murderbot Diaries books. They are short, but fun.

That bear sighting news story one got me. Thank you.

They try to upsell every little thing. I’m surprised that isn’t an option - “don’t sell my data to ICE: $100”

Do you like living in the woods and not enjoy technology (or can live perfectly happily without it)?

Futurama, Rick and Morty, and archer

Maybe something like a headband would be soft and stretchy.

Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don’t want to have to try them all.

(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)

Why would conservatives do that? How can they generate outrage?

They were probably out golfing at the time

You can do better than Caesar cipher

He’d probably be happier

I’m not a samurai or a ninja and it would be fairly weird to see a white man in Japan at that time especially in those roles. I don’t need to see myself.

Also have these people never read a book where they aren’t represented by the main character? ( pre-edit: true, they probably don’t/can’t read)

I’m not discounting that kids are kids and are still learning impulse control, but I’m trying to teach them good spending habits or at least consider the value of what they are spending money on before they buy. When I was a kid I didn’t have much money so I did carefully consider purchases ( to an annoying degree sometimes my wife says still). I haven’t forbidden them from buying anything, within reason, but they mostly have my frugality. I’m sure this is a journey lots of parents are on.

Thank you. This was the answer I was looking for.