I like powerbar electrolyte Tablets. They’ve got sucralose in them which many know as Splenda. They are cheap though and sugar free. I find the blackcurrant ones to taste the best. Raspberry -pomegranate is also good.

Whipping boy - we don’t need nobody else

Eat chifrijo. Eat patacones. Try some of the Caribbean food. Stop shouting, all of the Americans seem to be shouting there, it was the only annoying bit of the whole trip, such a tranquil place, then bam here comes a big loud American stomping through the jungle shouting. Same in the hotels etc. I’m sure there were nice normal Americans but you know, nobody got to meet them because you are put off by the big loud toolbags who are shouting a lot. They are everywhere.

it’s good you are staying with a host family. Costa Ricans are cool, friendly people. If you are going out at night in San Jose ask your host family where to go out, specifically where not to go, you can get robbed at gunpoint pretty easily there if your aren’t aware.

Philip Pullman of his dark materials fame?

What is this? I wanna read more!

Damn. I used 2% and one of those swing top lids which is self burping. What I will say is that this time, and maybe the last time my weights weren’t under liquid.

It’s tomatoes, does it look like chicken somehow?

Why wouldn’t they trust him? It’s a bit like that Maya Angelou quote: when people show you who they are believe them first time.

Thing is his supporters believe him because it’s what they want. They trust him. Staunch critics believe him because it’s what they fear, they trust he’ll do terrible things. Those that don’t yet believe him are naive or deluded thinking it’s just as bad to vote for Biden. I don’t understand these people.

America is a very individualist country to my eyes. People see taxes as paying for someone else’s healthcare or homeless shelter rather than paying for the things that everyone needs. There are only 2 sides in the election. Most people can’t ever see themselves switching sides, it’s a big change in thinking for a lot of topics. Hell the vote is usually decided by the turnout rather than people being convinced to switch sides. Trumps followers want him to hurt who they perceive as “their enemy”, i.e. Democrats (and non whites ssshhhh). And in fairness he does and they are happy that he does. They don’t envisage themselves ever in the group that he is attacking so whatever he’s gonna do to them is fine. They do sometimes end up in that group though:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida

A lot of the original versions of the brothers Grimm stories. For example Cinderella, one of the sisters chops off bits of her feet so that she can try and get into the shoe Cinderella dropped. I think the Prince only figured it out because she’s dripping in blood.