Ooh, what a nice feature to help dislodge rusty screws!

Trump blatantly abolished the rule of law. It’s not like rich people payed for their crimes before he was elected, they just don’t have to do all the PR work to cover it up anymore.

Don’t think too hard about how much further you have left to go; road hypnosis is your friend. I’ll often finish up several hours of a long drive without even really noticing it, so long as I’m not constantly checking the ETA. If you’re not driving in the middle of the day, getting tired can be an issue - I like to make sure I get a lot of sleep before a long drive, and sometimes even change my sleep schedule for a couple days beforehand if I’m going to be driving while I’d usually be asleep. If I’m really worried, I might buy an energy drink or two, but I usually only do that for 10+ hour drives.

I got a bench and all the weights and bars I could ever need for a couple hundred bucks on Craigslist after looking for deals for about a week. They even came with little bars so I can use the smaller plates as dumbbells. Obviously it’d be harder for someone in a more rural area, but exercise equipment is usually pretty easy to find relatively cheap second-hand. Way better than a gym membership so long as you’ve got a bit of space in your home for a bench. Paired with basic body-weight maneuvers and some running shoes, you can get all the exercise you need without all the fancy stuff at a gym.

Those aren’t mutually exclusive, though. Even if 99.9% of a species fits in perfectly with the environment, if that last little sliver destroys everything, and the rest of the species is unable and/or unwilling to stop them, then we destroy everything anyway. Sure, it may not be ALL humans, but it’s still humans.

Whether or not people care enough to do something is the first and most important factor in determining whether it works or not.

Did the slugs just use the sides of the door frame to skip over the edges of the maze?

Huh? I bought my first house in 2020. Fixing my garage door when it broke was $250. Repairing my AC and Furnace each time they broke was $300-500. Stuff that was bigger than that was covered by insurance. The money I got for selling the house in 2023 was enough to cover pretty much all expenses and mortgage payments for the 3 years I lived there, giving me enough money to afford the down payment on the next place.

My dad is adamant that fish don’t feel pain. He just heard it from someone when he was young, and accepted it as fact because it made him feel better as a fishing enthusiast.

If a person drinks 3 liters of water a day for their whole life, that’ll be about 100k liters total. Assuming it takes about a minute of actual drinking time to finish a liter, that’s only 100k minutes, or 1,667 hours of drinking time, so it’s no wonder we’re not experts.