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I appreciate that information. However, flounders themselves are not bilaterally symmetrical. I have caught many dozens of them and it’s pretty easy to tell that they are not.

Flounders are not bilaterally symmetrical.

My migraines are actually usually without headache, just a lot of aura. That might sound not so bad, but it’s pretty bad.

They tend to start a bit insidiously, with a little bit of sensitivity to light and sound and, even more so, frequently changing or bright light and fast sound.

That’s when things start to feel overwhelming in my head, so if I’m not being obtuse, I recognize that it’s time to take medication. Sometimes my partner realizes it before I do because I’ll start covering my eyes and just mildly complaining about things being too bright or too much.

Anyway, at that point I take sumatriptan. It requires a prescription, but it’s not expensive. It works like magic for me.

Before I found sumatriptan, I would have to be in a dark, silent room with my head in a pillow.

I just deal with it unless it’s a migraine.

Probably the one where some strange artifact showed up and turned out to be highly radioactive, causing my skin to slough off.

Dude. Sentences are useful.

Trump has been deliberately framing himself as a protector of Israel who supports them doing whatever they want to.

Yeah, you’re misreading that.

They believe that taking a moral stand against the Democrats, who are supporting Israeli genocide, is worth it even if that means that Trump, who even more fervently supports Israeli genocide, becomes president.

As a child, I was told that I was shy. I was always upset about this because I knew that I wasn’t.

and the fail is on the American public schooling system

I’m going to have to disagree with you there. This is something that should be common sense or taught by parents. Public schools should not be touching subjects such as “should I light explosives on my body”.

Every single year, at least one dumbass horrifically burns their ass by doing this on the 4th of July.

Well yeah, that’s why he moved to Texas.

Also, for what it’s worth, my experience is that Amazon does not have worse work/life balance than your average tech company. Some of the managers even push you to take your time off. You might work longer hours some days or weeks when a big thing is coming due or a big problem erupts, but that’s true everywhere.

This could be used for good to help speed up outreach efforts, but I think we all know how this is going to be used.

They’ll find tons of companies with better work from home policies but which don’t pay as well.

And the whole thing about being a dev at Amazon being awful is largely untrue. I live in Seattle. I work in tech. My spouse and friend group work in tech. Some have worked at Amazon or still do.

Amazon largely treats their devs pretty well, but it depends on whether or not you have a good manager, just like any other company.

It’s just popular to shit on Amazon.

Similarly, I enjoyed cheap sake until I had expensive sake. I was better off before!

Sure, buddy. Whatever you say.

Bird-watching is very relaxing and surprisingly engaging. You get to know your local birds as individuals with personalities. It’s pretty neat.

Slightly more active, but not by much, raising native bees is low effort and it can be enjoyable to watch the bees go about their business in your garden or yard, assuming you have flowers. In fact, once you get the bees, you might become more interested in gardening because you need to get some nice flowers for the bees, naturally.

You could do like I’ve done–raise native bees. I don’t know where you are, but in my area, mason bees and leafcutter bees are both native, solitary species. This means that they don’t create hives but rather nest in holes/tubes. There’s no queen. No honey. Very little work compared to keeping honeybees and better for the environment (assuming honeybees are not native to your area).

As a bonus, if you grow any plants, they make great pollinators. And when you first get the bees and they emerge from their cocoons, they are tiny and adorable and a joy to watch. They’re also very passive and almost never sting.