She voted for Rick Caruso so I was assuming she had already gone that direction.

We're not trying to. We're sending you people who will fit in well.

Aren't the gaps in dialogue way too long though? Or did MASH do okay with that

doughnuts

How do Welsh folks feel about independence?

Good explanation for a layman like me with only a beginner's understanding of electricity. Really makes me want to learn more.

Yep, you definitely also made the right call.

Hitting your physical max isn't fun. Eleven years ago was my first and only trip where I didn't have enough food, and that has engrained into my brain a particular understanding of scarcity that I never would have otherwise (having not grown up in poverty, of course).

I can't in good faith recommend that kind of extreme to anyone, but once you've at least approached your limits, you have a much better sense of when to stop and rest, how much food you need, or how long that last litre of water is going to last you.

Get into hiking, but consider getting into backpacking or overnight backcountry camping in general. I'm a long time canoe camper and did an ambitious hike last year.

The more you do this the more you learn:

• how to prepare and preserve food
• how to acquire water safely
• how far you can get in a day under your own power, on water or land
• how much direct sunlight can actually drain you
• which kinds of weather are too dangerous to go out in
• your own physical and mental limits
• how to help others who don't share your skillsut or abilities
• plants that can be useful
• flora and fauna to avoid

And if the acting wasn't dogshit lol

Might even lose Mike Morrice too.

This is a really, really disappointing election and is only going to lead to shitty policy and probably a conservative majority next time. But of course the only national conversation is, "we stood up to Drumpf!"

You can tell from his voice that his humours are very imbalanced - likely a severe lack of phlegm and an excess of black bile.

I'd make The Da Vinci Code canon.

You got this!

I think the future is very unpredictable and I find some hope in that when things seem inexplicably bleak.

I'm sure analogous dark periods in history also felt all-consuming to those that lived through them, and they were to those that died in them. I'm currently staying in the house of a brother of a member of the Dutch resistance who died in a concentration camp two days before it was liberated. He didn't make it but his life story is humbling to me, and some of the people he helped escape did make it.

I'm not quite ready to give up just yet.

My armchair analysis is that it's a common theme in futuristic space media to show that the Earth is much more united now that there are other worlds with which to fight, form tenuous alliances, etc. China is the biggest, most distant Other, so merging them into the American melting pot in your lore is the strongest way to make that point.

If two political bodies that were once very distinct in the past are now just provinces in a single nation, the cheapest way to extend that pattern into the future is to do what they did. It's a bit cliché but I wouldn't consider it the worst writing sin in the world if they had just made the characters and casting reflect that.

Side note: across Firefly and Dollhouse, there aren't that many black characters either, and a uncomfortably large proportion of them are villains.

Four, they all speak Mandarin because of some historic cultural amalgamation, but there's not a single Asian person on the crew (or in the show that I can remember)

I'm stuck on step 8.

I literally lasted two years. I'll probably have to dive back into tech soon but I can't imagine lasting more than another two when I do 😅

Yeah I'm gonna buy one of these (I want it for camping trips too) but I expect it'll take a bit of getting used to and may not be as easy to use over a composting toilet where you want to avoid getting liquids in the solids chamber as much as possible.