Taking care of our less fortunate is one of the best uses of taxes there is, would you rather them go toward bailing out more corporations or more tax cuts for the rich?

Welp, that about sums it up.

it's time to make some

Probably, I don't know much about Temu but its ads are all over instagram, it just sells stuff ridiculously cheap which is enough to make me highly suspect of whatever they're doing. Shein is an online clothes store that uses essentially slave labor to make very cheap made to order clothes. It's just basic capitalism race to the bottom stuff.

I could be totally wrong here since I don't have a great understanding of how these processes worked. So downvote if you will but I'd like to be corrected.

Does this even really matter when in a lot of cases the 'experts' were often paid to say whatever corporations wanted anyhow? See the current climate crisis and all the 'experts' that guided policy and enabled it.

Obviously letting the courts just go by whatever their guts tell them isn't the answer, but some sort of a best guess based on a large enough scientific consensus?

does Pepper Jack count?

I got into sewing so I do use an iron, but even then half the time I'm lazy and don't even press my seams. I'm not very good at sewing as a result, but I have a good time all the same.

you can do both if you just choose not to care about wrinkled clothes.

Who cares who can afford them, I never buy them and am somehow still vegan.

Like I don't think that prison is necessarily gonna reform anyone but I hate this idea that the church will, when (not sure on this specific one) it has a history of covering up abuse. Maaaaybe this guy has reformed but it doesn't sound like he's made things right by his victim, who due to a legal technicality cannot press charges against him, even though he's admitted to the crime. The system is broken, the church is broken.

I think the thing I love most about crown shyness is the name. It paints such a lovely picture of these silly trees, growing for decades side by side but too shy to encroach on their neighbours space.

The scallywags, that's unfortunate

I loved Elden Ring, I don't play many games these days but it really hooked me. But also it really needs to get over itself and add difficulty options.

I do think the difficulty is part of the fun but I almost didn't finish it because it was so all over the place, toward the end it just got grindy, bosses just turned into long roll fests until you got your one chance per minute to knock off 2% of its health bar. They feel more like endurance matches that test your patience more than skill.

Sometimes I'm dying a lot and having fun because the challenge is good, but sometimes it's just tedious and I want to move on to the next area. I would love to be able to drop the difficulty for a bit just for those spots, hell make it an in game item called cry baby bottle for losers and wimps for all I care.

Maybe grow some stuff they like to eat around the perimeter.

I would argue that there's also lots of professionals who don't use or need those features. Not everyone is using photoshop for print work, which that link seems to mostly discuss. It is still true, though, and every time I try to switch away from photoshop I run into some niche missing feature I need that most people wouldn't care about.

You may be surprised. I use Photoshop in my profession and I am desperately trying to move away from it. Not just because of the obvious Adobe is the worst, but it has been getting progressively worse to use for me. I don't speak for everyone of course but at least for me there's really only a few very small things that would make me switch instantly.

Photoshop just infuriates me lately, you'd think with all their employees they'd figure out how not to lose my hotkeys every automatic update, or that I've been using it for over a decade and don't need annoying tutorial popups for every tool.

The priorities of a large company can often be opposed to making their software better, like adding AI into everything or adding new features nobody really needs so they can have a flashy presentation at some conference, or deprecating features in order to move people to their latest acquisitions program instead.

Blender is a great example of open source being totally viable for replacing commercial software. I use it professionally and it's never been a limiting factor for me.

This is very common for a lot of these programs, I'm not actually sure about Gimp, but Photoshop, Krita and Affinity Photo all let you. Same with a lot of the other digital art programs I use for work.

Don't be such a pessimist. There are plenty of people who want climate action and are prepared to sacrifice for it. We can also demand more from our governments without blaming individuals. My government keeps approving new coal and gas plants with reckless abandon even though they could easily be wind or solar. We're allowed to demand more action from them.

To be fair it's not the sort of thing you think you'd have to make a law about. Should be kind of expected that companies do the bare minimum to keep their staff alive.

I like this approach. I wish more people would be honest about the limits of their arguments instead of just saying whatever they think will help them 'win'.