havartia

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

Anyway, the recipe is here:

This is infinitely adjustable. Increase or change the electrolyte to your needs. Don't want stevia? Use sugar, honey, allulose, whatever. Easy to add certain powdered supplements like vitamin c powder(I recommend low doses! Do the math!)

Change the flavor to whatever you want. My current jar is just mango but earlier I had caramel vanilla, and coffee chocolate butterscotch lemonade is startlingly good for someone who likes coffee but can't handle the real thing. Having a bunch of unsweetened natural flavors around to liven things up is a godsend.

Anyway, this is like, what I drink 95% of the time. It doesn't dry my mouth out like plain water. I drink it easily.

We're having our turn in the heat wave and reports from the National Mall are brutal already this week. That screenshot is today's forecast (courtesy of the Capital Weather Gang) and tomorrow and Saturday are confidently going to be worse than this is.

The national Mall has no shade on the grass and you will be exposed to the sun constantly while also experiencing extremely high humidity. You will not be allowed a bag over a certain size to enter the mall and it has to be clear. You cannot have an insulated water bottle, it has to be clear. Reports are that there are two entrances to the area so you'll have to wait in line to even get in. I cannot find a number on how many cooling stations there are, except that it's "few" to "none" depending on what accounts I read online. Vendors are allegedly charging more than the posted prices and seem to be unprepared for actual crowds - these are the official vendors not the scam food trucks that park all around the edges of the mall. And that's the extent of the planning done because it was not a priority to make sure attendees don't pass out.

My local friends and I have reached a consensus that tourists are going to get extremely sick and none of us know what the EMT response or planning is on the mall this year. People are going to die.

it took me asking three more times before she finally told me she wanted me to leave the fans where they are instead of moving them to my room or something. and I said oh! I had no intention of doing so but thank you for letting me know what the expectation is.

like, believe it or not immigration is actually good because it's generally preferable for people to have freedom of movement (and generally preferable to avoid wasting resources on restricting freedom of movement when those resources could be better spent elsewhere) not because business owners can benefit from exploiting immigrant labor-which does not help immigrants (who believe it or not also want to be paid a living wage) and does not help domestic born workers.

and frankly, when people make critiques of immigration that focus on how it might affect wages and employment, you should be countering that by offering methods to protect wages and employment that are more effective than anti-immigration policy (for example job guarantees, minimukm wage, better labor protection overall, etc) not dismissing those concerns as unimportant or, worse, framing low-paid labor as some kind of benefit.

But your words also gave me the impression that maybe you think domestic born workers do not benefit from immigration? And although I find it disgusting how the biggest debates on immigration are on how it affects non-immigrants, but facts are important.

Statistics show that immigration has an overall positive impact on the US economy and domestic born workers do benefit from immigrant labor. Domestic born workers would benefit even more if non-citizens had better labor rights.

So one doesn't need to frame immigrant labor as a benefit; the reality happens to be that immigrant labor is a benefit to U.S. citizens.

I don't agree with the centrist liberal politics of the sources but they have relevant information:

immigration to the United States has contributed greatly to growing the economy, and foreign-born workers have been complementary to U.S. workers and expanded opportunities for them. From an economic and labor force perspective, continuing or increasing immigration levels is not something to be feared if the right polices are in place and governance is improved. The challenges and potential pitfalls that must be addressed are mainly the result of workers lacking equal rights in the workplace due to their immigration status.

if anything I've said gives that impression then there's clearly a miscommunication occurring because I absolutely do think domestic born workers benefit from immigration on the whole

my point rather is that when people express anxieties about how immigration might affect employment or wages, it's better to point to studies like the ones you posted to demonstrate that immigration generally isn't detrimental to employment and wages, and is on the whole a net positive for workers,and also to push for job guarantees and labor rights, since if everyone is guaranteed a job and a good wage, that gives less power to scare tactics about how employment or wages might be affected by immigration.

not because business owners can benefit from exploiting immigrant labor-which does not help immigrants (who believe it or not also want to be paid a living wage) and does not help domestic born workers.

I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond. 

Do you gender trans people correctly even when they're being absolutely terrible people? Do you refuse to use the r-slur against someone who suicide baited you but is neurodivergent? Do you refuse to snark at a mentally ill person who is being genuinely unpleasant, "go take your meds!"

Do you allow members of marginalized groups to be terrible people without judging their entire demographic for it? One of the most invisible yet vital forms of privilege is the right to be terrible people as an individual rather than as a group. Do you acknowledge that there are bad people in every group, that it doesn't make their group less worth fighting for? Or do you shake your head if you happen to get mistreated by some who belong to a group and insist the entire group is awful and not worth your allyship?

Good parents forgive this debt. Bad parents expect it to be repaid, one way or another. The accepted currencies are varied and cryptic and might be mostly innocuous or they might be horrifically criminal.

Many families don’t realize that there is a debt until the child defaults on it somehow. That could be for any reason—the child simply fails to deliver on the parental investment by not adequately being the child they paid for.