Caffeine And Rhyme And Nothing's Fine

While the focus is often on transportation and energy generation, about one third to one fourth of global carbon emissions come from our food systems. This means that making these systems more efficient, such as by reducing wasting energy on food that never makes it to market, is a big deal--as well as an important economic factors for farmers.

In regions where grid electricity is unreliable or inaccessibly expensive, the lack of access to reliable refrigeration greatly increases the risk that harvested food will spoil before it can reach market. Farmers also have less agency in when and where to sell their food when they have to rush to sell it before it spoils.

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

We know very little of the past of the fallen humans in Undertale. Even Frisk, the main character of the game, has only little confirmed information about them. 

Whilst no official answer has been given regarding their past, there are however a number of clues in the game that seem to point to a certain direction.

Frisk exists as their own individual outside of the player, and in those instances where Frisk acts or talks on their own free will, they leave hints concerning their own personality, likes, dislikes, fears, and what appears to be hints of their past.

Here is something that Frisk asks Gerson on their own after a true pacifist ending.

she didn't even unwrap the CD he gave her. this has been sticking out to me since i played the chapter. the game didn't have to specify that it was still sealed. if the game had just said there was a ska CD in the middle of all the punk rock then i'd think it was sweet that she had it and there'd be room for interpretation that like, hey maybe she tolerated the ska or even had a soft spot for it because she was attracted to him enough to overcome her distaste for it. but it specifies “still-sealed ska CD” which just feels so weirdly cold and dismissive for something that seems like it's supposed to be flagging "teen romance."

like, it seems ha ha funny at first and if they were clearly Just Friends then maybe it wouldn't be a big deal that she thought his music sucked, but as a couple... ska (assuming ska punk, maybe religious ska, the type asriel was implied to like) is like, happy feel-good music. it's dorky goodboy music. it represents asriel just as much as punk rock represents dess. he's a sensitive sweet normie geek who cried and snitched on kris in confessional for killing yoshi, something even alvin thinks is lame. and i get that we haven't even seen dess and asriel interact yet but surely the game could have given us SOMETHING to clearly suggest that she was actually into him for what he was. if the game had shown us all of dess's performative punkness and then said "hidden deep under the bed, there's a well-worn CD case. it seems to be... religious ska?" then i would be like oh obviously she was infatuated with him, she had a soft spot for his bad music even though it clearly didn't match her persona or tastes otherwise and she was a little embarrassed by it. it would tell me that she was actively attracted to HIM as a dorky normcore goodboy to the point that she was getting out of her comfort zone in order to engage with him. but it's just sealed. it's sterile. zero curiosity or interest.

and we have to keep in mind how important music was to dess especially, how much of her personality and passion was in music as an expression of her values. the game keeps telling us what she's attracted to and passionate about -- intellectual and emotional challenge, rebellion from the status quo, flirting with darkness and danger. if the ska music was intolerable then his whole thing just seems like it should be romantic anathema to her. close friends is one thing but what in the world could have been Sexy about him to her.

and the signs that they were trying to do a couple thing anyway just make me feel bad. every time he came over he had to see that CD still sealed. do you want a really heartbreaking read on this. the other CDs under his bed were described as classical and jazz, in a very general sense pretty standard and safe, and we've seen how dess treated all the more “classical” instruments she had, maybe ones her mom got her in an attempt to push her into a more respectable music career. the religious ska might have been the “edgiest” his taste in music got. he knew she wouldn't like his classical or jazz but maybe she would like ska punk. it's even called “punk.” and she didn't even open it! the coolest he could be was still cringe to her. dude

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