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I used to work at a summer academic program. I don't know how expensive it was, but some of the students were quite wealthy.

One 13 year old international student was homesick, and to try to get them to agree to stick it out, their parents promised to buy them a new car if they stayed.

The food was generally good enough to pass for restaurant food or a corporate cafeteria. It was on a college campus, so I think it may have been the same staff and repertoire as the school year. Sometimes there would be something more interesting like fried plantains. The staff would flock to it and the kids would ignore it.

Kids by and large didn't care. Some still stuck to their beige diets aggressively; only eating hot dogs, plain chicken, white bread, vanilla ice cream, etc.

One year before the kids showed up there was a chilled strawberry and mint soup that I'll still occasionally try to find a recipe for. I don't even care for mint.

I had a similar experience with broodje haring in the Netherlands.

Why remove Nova before you've got things set up? Get a feel for whether or not your new launcher works for you for probably at least a month before removing the old.

If you don't find any issues you can't live with within a month, you should be fine.

I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone who has primarily hiked in the northeastern US, but I expect a lot of other places can also have surprise rainstorms or sudden temperature drops in the middle of summer.

Jeans don't handle wet well. They aren't very good at insulating while wet, dry slowly, and will be very heavy while wet. These problems aren't unique to jeans, but jeans are much more popular than other garments with the same issues.

It's not unreasonable to turn away folks who show up in jeans. Especially if they gave advance notice.

Even if it were unreasonable, it's their club. You can find others to hike with if you'd like to wear jeans.

Lawnchair seems to do a good chunk of what Nova does. I haven't taken the time to fully recreate my setup, but most things I've tried have worked so far.

With Nova I have a setup that more or less fits everything on my home page without looking too busy. Lawnchair is letting me change the number of rows and columns, shrink icon size, choose a monochrome theme as a default, make folders, etc.

Same here, it seems to be the most common in tech circles online. I've never once said it and have someone understand. Not the meaning, nor the words.

Regarding milk as a name: plant milks are not new. Whitish liquids just get called milk. Even the real weird ones like pigeon milk.

Do you happen to know the brand of mycelium bacon you had? I'd be interested to try it

Playing Worms at a friend's house around that age is one of the fondest memories I have of any game.

I don't use any of the emoji that could have a skin tone. I will occasionally use emoji, but don't find that the faces or hands are useful.

Oh yeah, being turned into a book is unlikely to be worth the headache for anyone involved. The tree burials that are legal in some spots is a reasonable option. Or just donation to science.

Whatever is cheapest/lowest fuss is fine. If that means I get reused or recycled great! If not, just don't let me be a bother.

Sky burial is also awesome. Hopefully there are enough vultures to keep that up in at least some places. There's a 99% Invisible episode that talks about collapsing vulture populations resulting in issues with doing it in India.

Same for human parts for me.

Weirdly enough, I still think my preferred way to dispose of my eventual cadaver is being made into a book.

I wouldn't want to own book me, but I love the idea of being a book. Not like a gruesome one where someone could tell right off, something more boring than that.