Peasley

I am extremely lucky to live in a place with a long growing season and no frost most years. I live in an apartment, and most of my 5ft by 10ft balcony is occupied by garden plants.

In the spring and fall, i can almost completely feed myself and my partner off what i grow. in the summer and winter i lose lots of crops, probably mostly from inexperience.

We still need the grocery store year-round, but it's very nice when we get to skip a visit because we've been harvesting from the balcony. Turns out if you pick the right crops and get good, you can do a lot with very little

https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/s/res/2397-%282017%29

I was curious so i looked it up. Doesn't exactly say that

It's going to alienate some religious minorities in my country. There are certain groups of Amish and Mennonite that currently do not participate in the Social Security System. They are citizens, but do not have SSNs.

A system where digital IDs are assigned from birth wont apply to them (if they have any say), but will significantly disadvantage them in the workplace.

Also, the technical implementation will either be very poor if set up by lawmakers, or give undue and unfair influence to specific tech companies if the Industry is allowed to figure out implementation. Numbers must be verified by Google, Apple, and Microsoft for example, and God help anyone who tries to exist outside that space

And for what? What benefit does society reap from digital IDs? I cant see anything.

my wife has a Kobo reader and it's a great alternative, from Canada. The reader works great with Calibre on desktop for books you already own, and the Kobo store is more or less equivalent to the Kindle store.

I have no suggestion for getting files off an iPhone, but presumably an app exists to arbitrarily send files to desktop, and from there Calibre works.

Kobo build quality is better than other e-readers, and it supports color and markups. Overall it's pretty good for PDFs/textbooks and novels, but manga/comics can be a little goofy.

I cant speak on the syncing since she has only the one device.

Good luck!

Edit: seems like you edited (or i misunderstood) the OP. Kobo (the device) works great with US library lending, but ymmv if you are in another country. If you use the kobo app on your phone it will sync your position with the device, but the app is pretty flawed on mobile and doesnt have a desktop version i'm aware of.

I wouldnt mind using the app to read fiction, but it's not great for reference material. I use a standalone pdf reader for that kind of thing on my phone, which obviously doesnt sync.

My grandpa taught me firearm safety and had the same lesson: "Dont point it at anything you dont intend to kill."

He also added a second point: “If you shoot it, you kill it, clean it, and eat it. No shooting animals for fun"

It was kind of a joke but still is a good lesson. Taking a life (of an animal) should never be a trivial act, even if it is sometimes necessary or worthwhile. He was vocally very anti-poaching so if I'd actually killed an animal without the right tags he would have never let me hear the end of it.

The idea that killing humans is wrong didn't need to be stated explicitly.

Thanks haha, i guess i'm an idiot, i took it the polar opposite.

We should disarm the police and dismantle the army though