To be fair, it’s not the water. For Gen X & early-ish millennials it was actually leaded automotive fuel that was the bigger issue.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/generation-x-bullseye-lead-exposure-harms-mental-health

https://scitechdaily.com/born-before-1996-according-to-scientists-leaded-gas-may-have-permanently-altered-your-personality/

Paul Tuttle, When a chair was thrown.

I don’t know anything specific, but I did work customer service for a major airline at one time. I can think of one routine-ish situation that could look like this.

It wasn’t uncommon that if we suspected fraud in the booking we would leave it to be canceled at the last minute so the fraudsters didn’t suspect anything until they were at the airport, where they could be caught. It could have thrown a fraud flag somehow or someone malicious flagged it similarly.

Just as an aside “World of the White Rat” is kind of the overarching term for the interconnected books. The series are Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy, but works as a standalone), and the Saint of Steel (the paladins I mentioned) series.

I finished Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wistwell and really enjoyed it. It was very cozy and won a Hugo go so I’ve got some options for where to put it for Bingo, now I’m moving to a House of Frank by Kay Synclaire I think (alternatively The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill, both have orange aspects of the cover).

How to be Perfect is great.

I’d start with the World of the White Rat. There are a couple connected books that all exist in the larger world but while they are internally referential occasionally, they aren’t all sequels. My first was Paladin’s Grace, and I find that to be a great start. I don’t know if I’d call it romantasy, but it is definitely a fantasy with a romance sub plot that is important to the whole story. The big picture for that particular series is: “What do you do if you’re Paladin for a god that dies and how do you cope?”

If you want to try something that’s a one off, Nettle & Bone is good.

If you want a short story, A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking

My reading of it was that, while yes she was talking about moderation policy, it was specifically with regards to a different issue within the larger window of their policy. So someone replying in regards to a different policy under the same window was a distraction from the specific topic she was trying to discuss.

Ah, I think you’re thing of Elron Hubbard of Battlefield Middle Earth fame.

I have no knowledge or experience of that, but that’s not me denying your experience, just explaining why I didn’t say anything about it.

Background:

Jay (Graber) is the CEO of Bluesky. Lately it has been “a thing” for a certain cohort to reply to every one of her posts (along with other heads of like dev and moderation) for a while now calling for the banning or bemoaning the lack of banning of a particular user that has a reputation of an anti-trans media pundit, Jesse Singal. A big foundation of one of the early cohorts of users on Bluesky were a large section of trans users and allies.

Bluesky is getting to the size as well where it’s starting to develop some of the early Twitter environment where someone posting “I love pancakes” immediately gets a bunch of replies (on accounts with large enough reach) of “WHY DO YOU HATE WAFFLES‽” types.

Jay posted both (same day or very close) about trying to navigate a solution for this effect, and how harassing the moderators isn’t a way to get people to share your vision. She then replied to someone hijacking a reply thread to call for Singal’s ban again with “WAFFLES!” And that escalated the situation with the cohort that is bothered by Singal’s continued presence.

Well, I meant cake!

Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry…

I haven’t kink shamed anybody in the past and I’m sure not starting now.

Oil would be more likely to break down the silicone it’s made of and would make it have a shorter useful life.

Oh, I am familiar with those, I had one in black-and-white. The laminator has just superseded that; it is still my second favorite piece of office equipment.

Ha ha, I’m already ahead of you losers, I’ve been proudly pronouncing the K in Salmon this whole time.

“…In Church of England, you can’t say, “You must have tea and cake with the Vicar, or you die!” You can’t have extreme points of view, you know. The Spanish Inquisition wouldn’t have worked with Church of England.”

I love my laminator. Favorite office tool, evar.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised. I know quite a few people, including my wife who actively do not want to hear any information about politics for their mental health. It’s enough in my family that I keep up-to-date on it to be aware of what’s going on and can notify her of anything super important to our health and safety, but if my wife was as terminally online as I am, she would spiral into a mental health chasm relatively quickly.

She’s a physician and she already deals with enough BS out of health and human services and her patients dealing with the barrage of information that anything additional is just overwhelming.