Agreed. There’s plenty of suffering that happens in life just because. Purposeful suffering doesn’t seem like a good thing in most cases.

But there’s also the issue of the definition of suffering. Minor suffering like tolerating a colder thermostat setting in the winter, it saves money and energy, seems rather subjective on where the line could be drawn on bad vs good.

Check out your local recycling center, they often do tours!

My utility company chipped in $1,600, so it ended up being the cheapest option anyway. The federal tax credit is 30% of the project cost up to $2,000, and it is still good if you install before the end of the year.

This 65gal Rheem heat pump water heater goes for $2,150 plus shipping and install.

This 55gal Rheem resistance water heater goes for $820 plus about equivalent shipping and install as a heat pump water heater

The utility company for me. They chipped in $1,600!

There is a board game! There’s also a virtual version of Mapmaker on Board Game Arena

It is quite fun despite the depressing context.

Maybe CBS could get better value for on-demand streaming if they improved the shitty Paramount+ UI

One of the suggestions should have been “venmo donations”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/venmo-americans-us-government-debt

I’m just a simple prospector digging up some old dank memes

They don’t think it be like it is, but it do

Of course not, it was made with vacuums duh

Would you prefer less effort and readability in my comments?

Did not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!

Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:

• Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
• Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
• Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
• Untreated human sewage
• Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
• Runoff from abandoned mines

It currently is the same schedule as heroin (schedule 1)… “Rescheduling” is the name of the regulatory process that was ongoing, but could not conclude in time. These things take time to do properly and hold up in court and make them stick, it wasn’t from lack of desire.

The Biden administration was in the process of federally legalizing cannabis through the proper regulatory channels, but couldn’t finish in time before his term ended.

This is known to cause cancer and reproductive harm in the state of California

There’s two subreddits I really miss: AskScience and AskHistorians. I was a regular and flaired contributor to AskScience, but its super helpful to generate a response when there’s a good question. It would feel weird opining on a random science topic that I come up with. And I loved the well sourced AskHistorians posts. When I do see a c/AskHistorian post on Lemmy the responses are very low effort

For those who need it 1-800-QUIT-NOW has free resources to support quitting smoking, it’s the #1 thing you can do to improve your health. The American Lung Association has a great website as well.