cats: hate rain

dogs: hate rain

me: hates rain

all of us: have fucking jobs, who the hell is lounging around in bed all damn morning

Yeah I got back on FB after a 10-year absence for my nonprofit, and then Insta. Went as far as downloading the apps to my phone. Within 1 week my mood and productivity had completely collapsed. I was just sitting there slumped into my chair, like I was hooked up to an IV drug or something. I used to do the same with Reddit to an extent, and being banned there was actually good for me. Now I am - well that nonprofit, I started with all the time I wasn’t wasting on Reddit. Fuck all that dopamine-addicted noise. I’m quitting weed this Christmas break, I want all my neurotransmitters back.

But how would Iowa farmers suckle at the government’s tit then?

After watching “the man who invented christmas” or some such movie I also got the impression that it was elevated in the 1800s to being more than just being one of the feast days, observed by some.

1/5 kids is hungry in Arkansas.

Part of the hijacking of our bodies by processed food and sugar is that many of us literally cannot discern the subtle feeling of dehydration from the more intense feelings of “wanting to eat something high glycemic” plus all that sugar requires more water. So, I can see how today we’re struggling with hydration more than in the past, when bodies were more fit and adjusted to whole foods and healthier routines.

I am failing to connect the two time scales you mention.

If you want to test this, start up conversations with the combat vets around you. You might not like the answers. That’s the vast majority of killers I’ve known (that I’ve known).

It’s just an expression of the republican fantasy that a strong welfare state causes people to be lazy

When in reality they make it so you have to choose.

Narrator: his body was never found.

At the same time tho, our ability to shrink dies, to create displays of millions of pixels flipping perfectly day in, day out for decades - I recycled a Dell LCD monitor at work from 2003 yesterday, still working - to build cars that are more dependable than ever in history with actual moving parts - we take for granted the things that become dependable, even in ways that would have seemed miraculous a generation ago, because we’re always on the bleeding edge of tech where it isn’t working perfectly, because we’re shipping the minimum viable product, and now on a yearly schedule.

I think we could just chill with having smartphone wars for a few years, since there’s not a huge need to upgrade often, and people can’t afford to eat right now, but they’re releasing more and more foldable phones, making them standard as folks adopt. People will complain about how the hinges don’t work, how they fail a lot more. But that won’t stop them from buying them, from kids demanding them at Christmas, etc. And you know what? Aware of all this, and being chronically broke myself, I have still been subconsciously noting the intro prices for next year’s folding phones because part of me wants the cool little toy first.

I don’t get why people use the internet for fighting about stuff when you can just get updoots for nothing but being nice and showing your ass a little.

It’s called the baader-meinhoff effect, which you’ll be reading about elsewhere tomorrow.

Z should be vertical relevant to gravity and I think we can all agree without further discourse

Every company has a test environment. Some companies have production environments.

It’s missing the 5th and 6th panels where no one from the left talks to him at all and he just stands there, soaking it in.

I have had this conversation with docs before and it went surprisingly boringly. They’re like, well, do try to get sober, see you in 6 months or when you die.

(4 years clean this past October)

That gives me a headache thinking about it, I don’t want to engage that much of my brain when gaming.

I always make mental note of the companies with invasive and shitty advertising so I can avoid them… glad others do to.

Try to hijack my subconscious and see how pissed I get.

“Ding-dong-ditch once again ends in tragedy…”

Or my favorite of all time, when someone (often a teenager) who’s lost or scared comes up to a door and the occupant shoots them rather than help.