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There’s an entire generation of people now alive that won’t have any understanding of this meme… or Miss Cleo or a lot of other “part of how my brain structure works now” shit

Yep there are only a few “brands” I buy, because I liked them when I was younger, basically - but if you pay attention to the tags, you might see “vendor ID numbers” or something like that, showing where the brand itself bought the item from, commissioned with their brand or tags added. Sometimes I’ve looked for specific numbers if I’m trying to find a shirt that fit really well, or was really well made, and I want others like it.

I’m talking brands like GAP, Vans, Aero, American Eagle, etc.

Folks who work in social justice will know the acronym “POC” but “p. of c.” I don’t usually encounter.

Are we sure it’s not “prince of caspian?”

a “processed meat slab” according to the article, which is clearly off and beginning to rot. Never eat meat that looks like an oil slick, it’s a telltale sign… god I’d hate to be on bathroom duty there.

This stuff used to bother me but then I observed nature and its cruel rules for long enough, and I realized that suffering is one of the few constants in life, one of the guarantees. Wasps that paralyze spiders for months so they can be eaten alive by their offspring, bird species where most chicks are left to stave to death, etc… yeah nature is just as cruel as humans can be, but at a much larger scale in perpetuity, and we’re a lot more efficient at turning that suffering into greater good that lessens the suffering of others in perpetuity. So, while I don’t condone or even like to think about baby monkey experiments, I will not bat an eye at lab mice being given Parkinson’s so we can observe and seek answers and cures.

I did it all for the lulz (come on) the lulz (come on) so you can take that lol and stick it in your ahaha

Sometimes I think I’ve accepted the finality of the future we have in store, and then sometimes I get really irate and want to go scream at the deniers I know. It’s a weird balance. How do you mourn the future? Real question, my therapist is struggling with it too.

I’ve already started production on a line of (still in stealth mode). I think I can do enough in sales - both direct to consumer and wholesale to shops - to patent it and then cover my mortgage and other bills. And hey, if AI doesn’t take my job, maybe I’ll finally get out of debt. Of course it could fail and I’ll be out the seed money, but I’ll also have hundreds of (product) to remind me of my shame, so, whatever.

Can you imagine how furious the shareholders would be if we built hospitals and water treatment facilities with their money?!

You don’t want to discover you wanted to layer the queef track AFTER the artist has left the studio.

Joke’s on you, holy water fart bubbles are my kink

You can certainly compile and run your own apps, you need to pay the developer fee if you want to distribute the software to other people’s Macs or iOS, or use advanced features like iCloud integration or push messages.

I shared an office with Frank Meeink for a week while he was in town giving lectures and speeches. Which only furthered my belief that redemption is always possible. Although since then Trump has been president twice, so I am revising that to “in most cases.”

Also there’s an issue with soil microbes and soil exhaustion. It’s been a minute since I heard about it, but I had a friend at a government lab who was testing soil in various areas, and found a shockingly low number of crop cycles before the soil is depleted into a dead substance. So that’ll be neat because we sure won’t reckon with it in advance.

Eyes his french press suspiciously

And just try reading it over the phone to someone, especially a non-native-english speaker.

My personal email is first initial with last name, which I can simply tell them without having to try to spell anything out.

I have a state job tho, and there it’s first initial and middle initial and last name, why the hell… now I can’t email a colleague without looking at a sheet to find their middle initial. Stupid.

My inlaws do a big 4th of July fireworks show, for many years a drone would come hover 100ft above us, recording it. We never found out who it was. Fairly creepy actually.

I have a drone and played with it a fair amount, drove it around my neighborhood, well beyond the “line of sight” requirement. I managed to hit trees several times because it doesn’t have fancy avoidance features. Hard to tell from the single camera when you’re rising up or backing into a tree branch.

Eventually I got bored tho. I did learn how to file flight plans, do all the things right. I live near an air force base, so there are entire sections of the city including parks where I cannot fly it.

Eventually it gets a little boring. I can’t wait for my toddler to get a bit older and then he will think it’s fun. For a week, and then he’ll get bored.

I got a hotdog at a food truck that appeared near my house a few years ago. I asked for just ketchup on the dog. She laughed and said “You’re a little boy! That’s OK, little boys get hotdogs too.” I’m like, lady I am giving you money right now, is there a version of this encounter where you’re not judging me?

Developmental psychology (Erik Erickson’s theory) teaches us that adults tend to go one of two ways as they approach and hit mid-life - generativity and stagnation. People who have a purpose, who are considering leaving some sort of mark or legacy, to contributing to society tend to fare better. They are happier and more satisfied as time goes on. Folks who become self-absorbed and preoccupied with their own comfort and convenience will then stagnate, which you can imagine is the cranky old person stereotype.

I do subscribe to this theory which is why at 43 I am running a non-profit I started, working to empower other leaders in my community, working on changing legislation for my community, working on building the community itself. I want to be the kind of person who is generous and kind and open-hearted, and be fulfilled. I don’t want to be the person who is counting the ways life did them wrong, using that as a justification to lick wounds and retreat from life, jaded and alone.

My boss claims it has “no effect” to choose where to spend your money.

I remind him, voting with our wallets is literally the only mechanism Capitalism provides for consumer ethics.

It’s Prisoner’s dilemma. When we think 5m people are going to take the action either way, we don’t think our singular efforts matter. But as there are 5m of us taking the action, there are 5m singular efforts that DO matter. If people just don’t give up on the idea.

Says the guy who still has an Amazon account :/