Cooling is rarely as energy intensive as heating is, but we never get articles bemoaning the fact that people in the north need heat.

People on keto diets to restrict blood sugar. People who have problems with certain FODMAPs, so they can’t have beans, soy, or other legumes. People with food allergies. People taking medicines that have food interactions.

I’ll give you an example. One of my relatives, one of her children has the following food…

This is may sound pretty far fetched, but I have a theory that Star Wars, The Emprise Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi and Solo are, in fact, all part of the same cinematic universe.

Does anyone else here find Brad Bird’s Objectivist leanings especially icky right now in the wake of MeToo and particularly in relation to Pixar founder John Lasseter’s history of questionable behaviour as an employer?

Did anybody else have a big WTF when Maul appeared? The way he is presented seems to clash with his established canon in Rebels. They show he’s got the saber he used in the Rebels era, but by then he was a crazed old man on the run if I recall. It’s like they wanted the Maul from Clone Wars but didn’t want to use…

A lot of non-lgbtq+ see inclusion as “forced”because they live in a cultural bubble than continues to keep our queer lives invisible. “How to you know if a characters’s gay?” The same way you learn they are straight. In the moment, not as a footnote in a press release or Tweet five years later.

Oh man, don’t make sex workers deal with incels. They already face high rates of violence, and I have to think that would only be increased by dealing with these violent, entitled dickwads.

Some background: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/08/04/a-bourbon-heiress-says-she-was-fired-from-the-family-business-because-shes-a-lesbian/

The whole profile in which this appears is insanely poignant. That this isn’t the most compelling point is a testament to that piece.

I think Lauren covered this:

Ummm... Right. (If she doesn’t think the characters could possibly be gay—and frankly I never thought her reaction was homophobic—why would she kill them off for being gay?)

I guess that would also be one explanation for her homophobia.

TO DO: INVENT ‘BONE DETECTOR’