@cybourgeoisie There was the good ol’ meat raffle when I lived in WI. Now I’m in a place so urban it would take me two hours to drive some place to go pumpkin picking.
I am relatively lucky compared to many others feeling the effects of wildfires, but going outside and exercising was the best way I found to cope with the stress and isolation of the safer at home orders and now that also seems like a bad option.
Is an hour outside 12x worse than 5 min outside? How much worse for you is exercising in poor quality air than doing non-strenuous activity? If the air quality is “unhealthy for sensitive groups”, why wouldn’t it be unhealthy for all of us?
For not the first time this year, I feel like I lack the ability to evaluate risks to my health. How “bad” is “unhealthy” air quality? Is the risk linear with exposure time? @nytimes@WSJ Would love to see some reporting on this
@alicegoldfuss This happened to me the other day! It started out as an intro call and then the guy asked me if he could ask me a technical question. It was just one question and it wasn’t too hard, but it was definitely unexpected and I felt like it would have been really weird if I declined.
Cat throws up numerous times on furniture and carpet-> expensive vet visit to find out cat is constipated -> cat immediately poops upon getting home
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