I use Ubuntu, btw.

Mehdi is the GOAT.

I knew it.

I do not know that one but adding it to my pile. :) I lean more ecology and systems, so I am sure there are some other good recs out there.

Where to find: https://annas-archive.org/ - DM me if you want the audiobook or cannot find it (that goes for anyone).

• Anything by Robin Wall Kimmerer, notably Braiding Sweetgrass (most popular) and Gathering Moss (my fav)
• Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon (Love this one; it is a classic)
• Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back by Sophie Yeo (She refs people I know and like irl; just published - I have not gotten to it but my boss has and says it's good. I trust his instincts more than mine!)
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
• Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday

Also, check out Crime Pays, But Botany Doesn't, a great podcast. I believe he has a book.

Sorry, better late than never. Will dm you. Others are welcome too.

One of us.

Si.

Are you asking for suggestions? :)

We don't need to compensate for dick size.

Embrace the void.

No, it's not supposed to work like that. The biggest advice to give to foreigners is to not to talk to cops in America. I'm not afraid of asking for directions in Europe from them, but I wouldn't do the same at home. They forgot they are civil servants and are being trained on a warrior mentality. It will not end well, however it does. The other social services are there, but underfunded. It's often about catching the right ear of someone that knows the system and it's contradictions which takes time. Naturally wealthier areas and cities have more options. Ohio isn't the best place to find help, that whole state is suffering. I grew up next door in the Rust Belt.

Unfortunately, calling police in America may put you in danger. It's one of the many, many reasons I've left. I don't think people quite understand what it does until they've lived in other, safer places.