It’s actually designed for rain, and adapted for the extreme rains expected with the torrents and downpours resulting from climate change. It looks nice upstream, and the work will continue downstream where there are currently porous drain planes and culverting.

The picture looks like it’s AI generated for a The Onion piece. 😂

At least they had compassionate nurses…

Painted into a corner, the Nusslocks were forced to drive to a nearby facility that was not bound by religious restriction — but not before a nurse at Providence handed them a bucket and some towels “in case something happens in the car.”

He was (likely) wrongfully imprisoned for a crime that occurred 26 years ago. So it’s both long imprisonment and the costs of trying to overturn the conviction, including fact seeking, labs, lawyers, prosecutors, judges etc.

Where?

The article was very well written. Unfortunately, 90% of the people I’d forward it to would be TLDR…

While your ö is weird, I can see where you were going with that.

A good start, yet still a long way to go.

Her story is so heartbreaking, and I am glad she found her voice to speak up. And through that help and support other women who might be facing similar circumstances.

I’d guess some Louisiana lawmakers would consider this consequence of the abortion ban as something that is “working as intended”.

Civil, civilian and civilized.

Fresh produce usually has bugs and larvae in it, and it can be hard to entirely get rid of when you serve huge amounts. I usually buy organic produce. Being disgusted with your food just because it might seem to have been from somewhere in nature… that is such a foreign concept to me. However , if they had maggots or larvae in food that shouldn’t have it naturally, that is seriously disgusting.

Don’t conflate all pigeons/doves with rock pigeons. Or Turd/Musk.

It’s simply photoshopped.

I am not a proponent of routine antibiotic use in any animals (including us humans), unless it’s called for as in actually saving someone’s life.

I was caught at one of these moments where I wasn’t sure whether it was sincerely meant or humour, and tried to be mildly sarcastic about it.

Edit: Double checked. Thumbs up now.

Cute. Hope it isn’t deadly.

I’m afraid your sarcasm and irony were unclear despite the words used. But please correct that or me.

Which part of Europe? Try that in the southern parts of Italy or in most of Romania, you’ll be amazed at the speed they blow past pedestrians crossing when it’s since long red for cara and green for the pedestrians…

To be fair, most of the Tesla buyers in Sweden are absolute douches on the streets. Not all though.

Read The Handmaids Tale in my very early teens (had scoured every inch of my library’s sci-fi and fantasy sections and it was under sci-fi) and re-read it as a young adult.

It horrified me both as a teen and an adult, even though I had a different perspective between those phases. Watching the series lately reconnected me with that horror, albeit from a more informed perspective and seeing way more parallels in the more recent development of our societies.

My kids (teens) have seen the TV series, and the book (a used copy) is in their shelf of books to read. Of course the series and the book are surrounded with discussions about ethics, respect and the values of life.

Edit: And yes, I’ve read pretty much everything Stephen King had written until recently. I was probably around 12 when I read It. I still think it is fucked up, but the main part that is, is how horribly people treat kids, animals and other humans. The scary non-humans are most often not the real monsters.

I have read The Kite Runner, and it contains situations involving manipulation and sexual abuse including rape. However hard it is to read in some parts (and especially if you’re grown and can read a lot into the obvious mental and physical abuse of children that perhaps isn’t always obvious to actual children), it is a damn good book showing life, love and hope from a non-western perspective.