don't die wondering

Sleep deprivation increases your risk for a myriad of serious illnesses like heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and stroke.

And that's just to name a few.

Some of the most important cellular work we do all day happens while we're sleeping. When we don't get enough quality sleep and rest, our cells literally can't effectively repair themselves.

It literally damages every system in our bodies.

Capitalism lies.

The Calamity finale:

Bonuses:

Lou — "[Brennan:] Zerxus, you pull the true heart of the Lord of the Hells into Exandria."

Marisha — "[Brennan:] This will be our final roll of this campaign."

Luis — Sam begins to describe Loquatius cycling through the faces of those he wronged or failed as he loses consciousness.

Sam — Marisha rolls two 10s on her Counterspell against Power Word Kill.

Aabria — "[Aabria:] Is this a spell effect?" // "[Travis:] No, this is physics."

Travis — "[Elias:] I don't know why I didn't send it. I don't know why I didn't—" // [Zerxus:] You don't need to explain yourself. I know why, and it's okay."

Bonuses:

Aabria — "[Luis:] I pull him." // "[Aabria:] Does the Time Stop stop?"

Marisha — "[Asmodeus:] Let's get ourselves cleaned up."

I know you're not the only one wondering this so: Nope! We don't mind! High circ stats - aka, people checking out things - is how we prove we're useful and worthy of funding.

people in the comments will be like "okay but we could at least get rid of ticks and mosquitos because those spread disease."

we actually CANNOT get rid of ticks and mosquitos. not only do we plain lack the technology to lead a pointed extermination effort against them specifically without taking a score of other species down with them, but if we developed that technology and did eradicate mosquitos and ticks, it would be the catalyst of utter ecological collapse the likes of which i think people are not quite comprehending.

the problem is not the existence of bugs. the problem is that our current global systems ensure that specific Peoples in specific places are disproportionately impacted by zoonoses (illness spread between animals and humans).

those same populations also disproportionately lack access to preventative tools & PPE (down to things many of us take for granted so simply as effective bug spray), and crucially access to medical treatment.

the goal should not be an eradicating effort against bugs which would quite literally collapse entire ecosystems, but equitable access to healthcare, investment in medical research to improve preventative and acute treatment for zoonoses, and the destruction of systems which are currently rapidly increasing the threat of zoonoses worldwide (climate change!)

i am not defending the existence of bugs because i think they're cute and because i don't care about the devastating suffering zoonoses cause millions and millions of people.