Ahahaha true! Growing up my mom always made bland, steamed vegetables (with a few exceptions, for example her breaded and fried cauliflower is the best.) Then I learned how to cook and discovered all kinds of delicious vegetable soups!

Yes! He makes it clear that he's only writing down stuff he was told. He wrote down what he heard and didn't much bother with fact checking. As such, the books are an interesting melange of myth, history and traditions/cultures. I've listened to them as an audiobook, 10/10 background noise while doing chores haha

Agreed! However, long lasting doesn't necessarily mean happy. When one party is always understanding and forgiving and the other always requires understanding and forgiveness, it might not be worth it.

Aw it's a clumsy little Tumblebee

Am I the only one who imagines they make a very soft, high pitched scream?

Thank you Papa Franku

Ah, the rare Hissing fruit!

Yeah, it's called trying to suppress competition, duh!

I recently got a food dehydrator and started making my own. And man, it's a whole new world!

Ahahahahaha I WISH it worked so smoothly instead of always getting tangled and jammed for no apparent reason

The whole situation is so cuckoo. Wakefield performed colonoscopies on the kids, something you absolutely shouldn't do unless there's a very valid reason and all other options have been exhausted, because their bodies are small and the equipment could seriously hurt them, which if I remember correctly did happen to at least one of the kids. Most of the kids in his study, y'know about how MMR vaccines cause autism, didn't actually have autism (or bowel issues for that matter)! He was commissioned to make this lying study by some sketchy lawyer guy. So he lied and lied and lied to get rich and now idiots are regurgitating his talking points.

For a second i thought it was a weird moldy dorito

So I guess the Napoleon complex didn't originally relate to height but to other insecurities lol

Up to a point, yeah money definitely buys happiness. Life's a lot easier when you don't have to constantly worry about making rent or whether you'll be able to afford dinner for your family. There was a study I read a while back, I'll link it if I'll be able to find it again, that showed that very often poor people can't escape poverty because just the worry about money itself takes up so much of their mental space and drains their energy so they have none left to actually improve their lot in life. Not to mention all the other issues connected to poverty, like lack of health care including mental health, basic necessities, opportunities and so on. In essence, poverty perpetuates itself, and the phrase "money doesn't buy happiness" deflects a lot of people's real experiences.
But yeah once you're comfortably rich and have enough money to buy anything you need when you need it, then you realize all your problems can't be solved by throwing money at them I guess.

Vaguely cat shaped blobs of darkness

Handsome!