BurgerBaron

Two of my friends have insomnia because of racing thoughts, which is just a totally alien concept to me. One mitigates it somewhat with meditation, but the way he describes it seems like my natural state of being lol.

Wow, I too can silence my mind

It’s nice to meet another who can!

or just plain empty, experiencing the akwardness.

Yeah it’s a fucking awful feeling, can relate. I loathe traditional dates especially.

Yes and I’d live my life no other way. I’d rather go mad than to grow internally dishonest, and as a consequence externally as well.

Unfortunately they’re right in some cases. I can’t really handle it.

It’s a meaningful difference for me personally.

My mind works by talking to itself, but it’s more like I’m the wordless overseer of that voice. There is a lesser maybe faux alter ego’s voice that’s employed to bounce ideas off of or used for introspection, to humble myself, conceptualization, etcetera, but it can only talk to myself even out loud. If there’s another person present they’re only talking to primary.

Where I differ from many minds like other self talkers here it seems is that I have full control over the two voices employed by my ego, and if I stop talking it’s silent in my skull. Since I also have Total Aphantasia it’s a true void in here besides my emotions and hind brain/instincts unless I’m using the voice(s). No real distinction between thinking in my head and speaking out loud.

The unconscious mind passes stuff it processes to the voices to think about. More nuance is far more paragraphs than worth, so I’ll leave it there.

I feel like it’d erode my abilities over time like others say, but primarily I just find autocorrect worse than useless for efficiency. I keep disabling it every time I try on new devices.

They all shed at least a little but it’s a brand thing. I buy whatever 2+ ply is on sale with no loyalty (I have bidets too) and some are definitely worse than others for debris when torn off the roll.

They’re activists using Satan as a cover to do activist work pushing back on religious people and government from trampling their rights in the name of gods they don’t believe in. More of a US thing really. I wish they were more active in Canada, I’d join in on the fun.

Religious freedom is the mirror they hold up to those forcing biblical law on the rest of us.

They don’t actually worship Satan and I’m sure it’s majority atheist or atheistic religious members like some Buddhists.

Edit: a recent example is opening abortion clinics with clinic names that are insulting to specific anti choice politicians. They do a 'lil trolling.

Church of Satan are dickheads. Different group.

Given how Microsoft handled the Conker’s Bad Furday remake I think you’re not far off accusing them like that here.

The winters still get wicked cold, it’s just wildly unstable now in the most northern major city in Canada here. Getting rain in December still makes me blue screen even if that’s just a thing that happens now for a few years in a row. Like how every summer the horizon is smokey now.

I work a flat 40 with paid breaks. Canada too, but it’s a union plant.

I’ve always been pretty careful by nature, even as a child. There’s some close calls since I was outdoors a lot in the 90’s hanging out in the forests and river valley, but nothing really bad happened. So I only have one standout story aside from boring scrapes and knocks from that time.

I made it to twelve years of age before I stepped on a log at a survival camp heading back from canoeing in a pond with a lady friend I met at camp. The log turned out to be hollow and full of bees suddenly very angry with me. Got about ~20 stings on the leg that went through the log since I was wearing shorts. A few up my shirt as I fled screaming profanity.

They were on me instantly, but didn’t chase me very far thankfully. I don’t react to stings much so it wasn’t sore for very long. Or I don’t remember the pain well because I was still swooning from getting my first smooch on said pond canoe ride…which might explain why I stepped on said log without looking too close. I’m sure there would’ve been bees around it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This is more intended for real time usage, but might work for you:

https://github.com/Artikash/Textractor

https://github.com/Crivella/ocr_translate

I watch Macaw45 play full fledged Japanese retro RPG games using Textractor it’d probably be good for books too.

I’m not really all that bothered. Unlike movies, new start ups for making games happen a lot. When the greedy giants topple, like a forest something grows in the new patch of sunlight.

I’ve never noticed grape being default. Maybe it’s regional? Restaurants here still have the carousels with a variety of jams if you order toast.

But yeah you’re right. I think Raspberry is also top tier, and my own Evan’s Cherry tree jam I make.

Maybe weird but since I worried about my old dryer I just partially filled a bathtub and added detergent. Agitated with a broom stick for awhile, then rinsed.

Air dried outside.

Dismay.

That’s my baseline experience to some extent just existing here in this reality, and that it’s briefly. Always felt like that.

My cat(s) managed to snap one of those thick slat blinds, but they’re easy to glue back together at least.

I’m not relaxing unil it’s 1.5 million.

I’d like to help everyone homeless in my city so the LRT train stations aren’t drug dens smelling of body fluids and excrement. I’d like to walk the river valley in the spring without finding thawing corpses.

Same. I think the revolt is a second peaceful protest and then bending over for centuries.