Don’t worry, once the camps are up and running there will be plenty of “free” labor to make up the shortfall.

Most tea shops that have a web store sell some version of the paper ones. The shop I usually order my green tea from has the fold-over type for $5.50-$6.50 per 100, but if you google “plastic free drawstring tea bags for loose tea” tons of options come up.

You can get drawstring tea bags that are made to be filled with your own looseleaf tea. I used to buy some of the single use paper ones before I found a steel tea ball that I liked, but I’ve also seen reusable ones made out of muslin. Either way it’s pretty easy to find plastic-free versions.

One of features I really like about Summit is that it shows the age of new accounts next to the user name on comments by default. It’s not a feature I knew I wanted, but I love it now that I have it.

My Brother My Brother and Me probably fits the bill.

The Box of Oddities is really good. Husband and wife team talking about spooky and Fortean topics.

No Such Thing as a Fish, a podcast spinoff of the UK TV show QI. Four hosts each show up with an interesting bit of trivia to discuss.

The Bugle. Comedians doing political satire. Is UK-centric but ends up being about US politics a lot of the time.

If Books Could Kill. A couple guys tear apart popular self help books as well as pop-sci books like Freakonomics

Boy, you sure don’t hear the words “deeply researched” used in reference to the Daily Mail very often.

Ironically us plebs who work with our hands are the people with the skill set necessary to build those things.

Nice. Love a spalted top.

Windows 11 feels like Microsoft is actively punishing me for being foolish enough to keep using their products. Adding some janky AI bullshit machine to this garbage fire feels now they’re just taking the piss.

I think if you’re going to go through the trouble to return your cart to the cart area then yeah, slot that bad boy into the stack the way it’s supposed to go. Otherwise it’s like those people who pick up their dog’s poop and just hang the bag on a tree branch for someone else to put in the trash. Either do the thing, or don’t do the thing. Doing it halfway just makes a different kind of mess.

I found out a new (new to me at least) bit of cart-return etiquette last year when I was using the handicap parking spaces for a couple months following ankle surgery. Grocery carts double as walking aids for a lot of people with mobility issues while they’re at the store. Many people with those issues will purposely leave their carts in the handicap area as a courtesy for the next person with mobility issues so they can have it right away and not have to struggle all the way to the cart area. So there’s at least one instance where not returning your cart doesn’t make you a horrible person.

It’s just a regular ol’ smoke grenade like the military uses for signaling. At least so say some people on the ground in Minneapolis who recovered one of the canisters.

I 100% read that as “carnitas,” and now I’m thinking that whatever the solution is, it should definitely include tacos.

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Any negatives?

Yeah. You can kill people.

When that stuff dislodges on the highway it’s not like your car getting hit by a snowball. It’s like having an entire wheelbarrow full of snow hit your car all at once at 50+ mph. Just the weight of it can KO your entire windshield. It’s a super effective way to make someone crash.

Also, it’s not always just snow. If the snow on your vehicle sat there through a couple of freeze/thaw cycles, there can be a big sheet of ice underneath. If that goes through someone’s windshield it can kill them directly. If you live in a snowy place, pretty much everyone you know has a story about the time they almost died because some asshole was too lazy to clean off the roof of their SUV, or because a huge sheet of ice flew off the top of a semi-trailer.

Andor.

I feel like I listened to this one like three or four years ago, but I listen to a lot of podcasts and unfortunately I don’t remember which one it was. It might have been Science Vs, or RadioLab, or Sawbones, or This Podcast Will Kill You, or even Box of Oddities. But it also might have been none of those.

I’m trying to remember this from a podcast I listened to a few years ago that covered this topic, so I might not have the details exactly right, but if I’m remembering correctly there is at least one evolutionary advantage in that there’s a virus (part of the herpes family of viruses, I think) that is asymptomatic and for the most part harmless, except when a woman contracts it for the first time while pregnant, in which case it can be pretty devastating to fetal development. But if the woman gets gradually exposed to the virus before becoming pregnant then her immune system learns to deal with it and it won’t harm the fetus. Of course that doesn’t explain why humans started kissing in the first place, but it could mean that humans who did engage in kissing may have had a significant breeding advantage.

That’s how it goes sometimes. The Mines Act of 1842 in the UK didn’t get passed because a bunch of children (some as young as 8 years old) died in a horrific mining accident. It was passed because during the investigation of that accident it became known that the women working in the mine were wearing trousers, and due to the excessive heat in the mines, were working topless in the presence of men. Victorian England wasn’t scandalized by a pile of children’s corpses, but goddamn it, something had to be done about those bare tiddies.

I can only see a Vogon.

Edit: I lied, I can also see Rygel from Farscape.

Is Strawberry Shortcake still a thing? If you’d have asked me to bet money I would not have guessed that anyone under the age of 40 would have recognized that character.