Crumpler, Australian company that’s a little more expensive but I’ve been really impressed with the quality, I’ve had a bag go through a lot over around 20 years too and no signs of it stopping, stitches are all still holding fine and if I replaced a couple Velcro spots it’d be good as new.

If it’s a nice pen, sunglasses, umbrella, etc you tend to pay more attention to where it’s at and less likely to lose it or let someone walk off with it. Disposables from the utility closet who cares but that pen your grandpa gave you or lighter with a scrimshaw design you end up being a little more alert about.

I’m more pens than pencils but I’ve had luck with both fountain and roller pens from lamy for 15+ years, and their mech pencils start at around 20 usd

https://www.lamy.com/en-us/writing-tools/mechanical-pencils?sortKey=COLLECTION_DEFAULT&limit=12&reverse=false

I like to keep it simple; a load of linens and undergarments on hot and a load of everything else on cold, repeat as needed.

First verse of mad Tom o bedlam:

From the hag and hungry goblin.
That into rags would rend ye,
The spirit that stands by the naked man.
In the Book of Moons defend ye,
That of your five sound senses. You never be forsaken,
Nor wander from your selves with Tom.
Abroad to beg your bacon,
While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

Artisinal napping

Bespoke meandering

Daydream stylist

X-Men pinball machine, there’s a spot under magneto with a magnet that holds the ball in place for a sec

Or smaller/microscopic

AI can’t be responsible because it doesn’t make decisions or think like the slop propaganda anthropomorphizing it would trick you into believing. It’s a guessing machine, predicting the next tokens. Whoever made the call to pull the trigger or hand that control to an autonomous device holds the blame.

The myths don’t even make sense as coherent stories once you go from most powerful god that gives us a justification to steal your land to all powerful, all good, all knowing god.

https://tane.us/

Ask questions that shows tracking and curiosity.

I’m not big on inventory management or resource management systems in general but I’ll put up with them if the game is otherwise really engaging like RPGs mostly, and I really get into the music and exploration and unlocking new skills and abilities in progress systems. And if there’s no challenge I’ll lose interest pretty quickly.

Neither do Puerto Ricans, Guamanians, American Samoans, or Virgin Islanders. Congressional representation is a bad joke, and the house hasn’t expanded seats since 1910 which greatly privileges representation for smaller population states.

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, Bob, Doofenmeister, and ‘your name here’.

I’d prefer the seedless rye

Ffrf, doctors without borders, local food banks and libraries mostly