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This is so exciting! Congratulations, Jenny! I have all 3 of your books and love them. We only eat meat 2 or 3 times a week, just our normal lifestyle, out of practicality and preference. Plus our kids just don't like meat that much. Your books/blog have helped me so much in figuring out meat dishes! Broiler-roasted salmon has been a game-changer. The cafe chicken is the ONLY chicken my kids will eat.

It seems that your numbers are not entirely correct. Maybe ru has $150bln. war spending now, but it seems sources mention $120bln. (Khodorkovsky). That is $10bln. a month. UA received $85bln budgetary assistance and $95bln. military assistance during 30 months of war (UA gov sources + Rammstein quotes). That is $5.66bln per month, with 3.2bln (per month) of that is military assistance. Ru has income from top 10 exports, which are definitely fully controlled by their top officials, of around $300bln a year.

Ahh...I get a sense that Substack is concerned about the proliferation of covid critical Substacks like Alex Berenson's (and my own) and wants to set up a counternarrative. Well, how about you start with answering one simple question: WHY on earth does ANY doctor think it's a good idea to tell the body's own cells to produce an *antigen* that the body is then being trained to attack? How on earth is this safe for every man, woman, and child on the planet, especially when some people have overactive immune systems?

Thank you for this. It's one of my favorite Mary Oliver poems. I am here, now, doing what I love to do Writing about all the existential bits The jetsam, flotsam, and all the rest Because ‘I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.’ Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmion5rBqq%2FOrqulmaeoe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCglaN6pbHArZ9mm5%2BisrR5wHKcaJuforqmutOs

Clearly the use of ONLY digital channels is also a factor. Perhaps if you bought mailing lists from AARP or the NRA you might get some balance across a couple of dimensions. :-) In Japan, YouTube and LINE are the most popular social media platforms. (See: https://www.bigbeatinc.com/blog/japan_social_media_2022) Likewise, in the PROC (mainland China), WeChat and Weibo are the two most popular platforms (see: https://www.dragonsocial.net/blog/social-media-in-china/) And LINE is the most popular chat platform in the ROC (Taiwan).

At 5’8” I seemed to attract shorter men. One who I was particularly enthralled with actually jumped up in the air and clicked his heels together when I accepted a date. He later broke my heart when he decided I was too tall for him. So it works both ways. In my mid 20’s, I fell in love with a 6’2” “lean, mean, fighting machine”. He was an ex-marine; we met at the YMCA.

You know all this obsession with military equipage began after WWII when department stores began carrying planes and humvees, etc. I put some of this in my book. Some of it had to be cut because it was a bit too long--but it's one of the two things I regret cutting. The list of different department stores and the military equipment they carried. It did not include weapons, only vehicles.

I have been adding voiceovers for all my posts for several months now. Once when I was traveling in rural Vietnam, I had no good place to sit and record my audio, so I recorded while going for a walk down a country road. The sounds of nature barking dogs, passing motorbikes and trucks, as well as the occasional hellos yelled to me by children--and my replies, attempting to use my limited Vietnamese vocabulary--only added to the authenticity of that week's travel-themed post, How in the World, Part 2.

Hello fellow humans! This week marked the completion of my 27th rotation around the sun. In other words, I am 28-year-old and coming up on the unknown ventures known as my 30’s. Luckily, I live in LA, where 30 is the new 20, and if your a man that age is upped to 40. So I haven’t been inundated with the notion that I am withering away. Sure, getting older is a bit scary.