I like that it’s not a realistic human foot. Sometimes art should capture the idea of a thing rather than just the superficial image of the thing, you know? It has character.

Also some plastics are made renewably and/or are biodegradable. It’s a broad range of materials.

If I need to write certain single capital letters for labeling purposes there’s like a 30% chance I need to look up which way the letter faces because both ways feel correct to me.

It wants to play a video which has DRM protection, so it wants to know stuff about you in case the DRM should block your access to the video.

Also give eye protection to literally everyone else who might be standing anywhere in the reflective range of the cover, lens, mirrors, and any shiny metallic objects. These lasers can do damage before you even blink.

e: This includes non-human animals as well. If you’re okay with potentially blinding a bunch of innocent corvids I guess that’s on you.

The fact that the Uncrustable is getting soggy is deeply upsetting.

Better get rid of that source link, OP.

Apparently they can also set dark objects on fire and melt plastic, which has a lot of potential for unintended consequences.

They ask you seemingly-innocent questions like, “May I have your name?” when you’re alone in the woods.

Why would a website need to know my screen resolution? That’s private.

She wasn’t making a statement; she was being a normal human being.

A trimmed look can be very tidy while avoiding ingrown hairs and skin irritation.

She’s a wonderful author and handles the material in a very appropriate way. It’s just that Tehanu has intense subject matter that’s easily triggering for many people. I think kids probably ought to have an adult read it first and then with them so that it’s a proper learning experience.

The deal with the series is that Le Guin did an internalized misogyny in the first one, so the rest is written with more feminist intentionality on top of the cool magic world-building adventure stuff.

If you get editions of her fiction books with any notes in the beginning, I recommend saving them for after you’ve read the book.

If you liked the Avatar cartoon series you might like the Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas. It’s about a fantasy universe wherein young demigods compete in a sporting event to win honor and carry out a ritual to renew the sun’s protection against the forces of darkness.

I don’t love the Bobiverse books by Dennis Taylor, but the first one was mostly a series of funny little happenings to a nice man who takes everything in stride and makes lots of nerd jokes, and I’m led to believe the rest of the series is much the same. He travels around space just kind of getting up to this and that. I think the fact that it bored me makes it a good recommendation for you because I mostly like intense stuff rather than pleasantness.

Books I remember loving as a kid but can only recommend tentatively because I can’t remember them well:

• Alanna and Wild Magic series by Tamora Pierce
• Witch Week and other Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones
• Dragon’s Milk by Susan Fletcher
• Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams
• The Wild Road by Gabriel King
• Kingdoms of Light by Alan Dean Foster

No, Watership Down is full of disturbing events. It’s a great book, but not cozy.

The Girl With All the Gifts was cozy for me, but in a “death is beautiful” kind of way, like the story of Hel, for example. It’s a zombie apocalypse in which the child zombies are mysteriously sentient, but still crave living flesh and will attack uninfected humans. The bulk of the book is action scenes along the road to solving the mystery of why. It’s not what I would typically think to recommend as cozy to someone, but I can’t recall any especially intense scenes.

Tehanu (one of the Earthsea books) is absolutely NOT cozy. It focuses heavily on abuse, rape, and misogyny in general, and really ought to have trigger warnings especially since it’s in the children’s section. It’s a fantastic series, but one of Le Guin’s main strengths as a writer is in portraying injustice and bigotry and inspiring alternative ways to be.

You can use non-metallic substances also, so that metal detectors don’t pick them up.

Spiking also won’t save the tree. The idea is that it will still be chopped down, but the device in its body will destroy expensive mill equipment.

Is it not??

That’s so pedantic, but yes, they’re a treatment for an uncontrollable appetite. Do you mean to suggest that you’re against medical treatments which are not cures?

Yeah, they’d never put an unsafe vehicle into production. It would help boost confidence if someone explained what the backup plan is.

Toilet?