It is incredibly expensive. I only buy the ones I need for academic reasons… And you can imagine the artwork on those 😂

There’s plenty of second hand libraries here that make deals like buy 3 for 5€. That plus public libraries is what keeps me reading to be honest!

Ping just to see if you found something relevant/interesting! :)

Wow! That’s one thing I miss when reading on e-books. It’s extremely convenient, but I miss those treats and the whole experience of holding a beautiful volume!

You’re welcome! I hope you find something you like :)

Fair point lol I don’t find the “discover” feature attractive, so I’ve been using the Openreads app just to keep track of what I’ve read year to year (a great app, by the way!)

Edited to add that maybe different instances of bookwyrm have different ways to review your books? I may be wrong about this, but I think it is worth checking if you really want to try an open alternative.

https://bookwyrm.social/ is what I’ve been using. I’m not an avid tracker though.

I tried thestorygraph, liked the idea but I don’t like my readings to be guided by an algorithm and also I don’t feel like paying for a platform, especially if I’m not using the main feature (the recommendations)

You could read Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson. It’s an essay(ish) book about taste in music, funny to read and not too long (~200pg I’d say).

About the comfort zone, you could try and read something about contemporary problems and predicaments. A poison like no other talks about plastics in our everyday life (not fun), or something really old like Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (~100pg)

Probably, because only two of them decimated a whole plant here. They’re hungry little buddies, so much so that I actually captured them and keep feeding them with veggies leftovers lol

That’s so cool! I’ve taken care of cabbage loopers three times now, and it’s so cool to see them do their thing. My fiancée is not a fan though since both her and the caterpillars love our Swedish ivies lol

Yes it does!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10700824/

That’s so unfortunate. I hope she’s ok

That is great. I guess since the virus has different effects on people the ways out of it (or at least long COVID) are also multiple. Take care!

That’s what makes it so scary. I didn’t have long COVID and I was feeling alright about the “cold” but it took a month for me to feel like I had the same amount of energy I had before catching it.

About the younger ones… I don’t want to think about it but I can’t help thinking about my nephews. Some of them got COVID two or even three times.

The studies I’ve read aren’t too optimistic about their future health. I hope they’re wrong.

Glad to read that! I know some folks that got long COVID and they are yet to make a comeback. I’ll share your comment, it gives some hope 🫂

Is there anything you can think of that made a difference or it’s been just a matter of patience?

“At the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1·5°C fair-shares in the process. To meet their 1·5°C fair-shares alongside continued economic growth, decoupling rates would on average need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025.”

So the findings are what we all thought they would be: not even close.

Thanks for sharing.

It’s so much easier for common folks to read this articles (written by the actual researchers of course) than the actual papers.

When I learned about tipping points and collapse of ecosystems I instantly thought about the time when I was into fish tanks and helped other people on the hobby. If you let that thing go sideways in any way for too long, you were facing catastrophic consequences, be it plagues of snails, algae, etc. At some point it just goes downhill, and most of the time the buildup is unnoticeable and when you do notice that something is off, it’s already almost impossible to save the ecosystem.

Definitely one of my favorites! My fiancé doesn’t play games and at some point she didn’t want to continue playing, because that would be the end of the game for her, since she only wanted one story (I mean no second runs).

I encourage you to play it in autumn/winter 💪🏼

We visited NY last year for the first time and it’s so sad to see the pictures. I hope the people is taking care of themselves and masking up despite whatever bs fox news and others say.

This is not only unhealthy but, life threatening in the short term for some people.