Yeah, I look back and think about how I kinda got lucky that they were just the things I was looking for versus some scary shit, but there was a good decade where I got plenty for free. And I’m a dude.

Shit, I’ll throw an edit in here. I saw Rusko in Philly (RIP EFactory) and got kicked in the face by a crowd surfer, and I can’t stand crowd surfers to begin with. And this girl who was a friend of a friend comes, wipes the blood off my face onto the shirt I have on, and goes in her purse, grabs something, pops it into my mouth, and gives me water. Like some sort of medicine woman. Lemme tell you though, all my ails went away, believe it or not.

Sweet. Great gift for my buddy’s bday right here.

Imagine if she was just setting a trap.

Yeah, the first computer I remember in our house, I was 4, it was MSDOS, and my mom knew how to run everything, so she obviously had an understanding of command and all that. To this day, she’s still incredibly tech illiterate. Her current improved status is emailing me shit that looks phishy so I can figure things out for her. I still get the calls that “something is wrong,” and I need to go unfuck things a little. It’s funny.

Artists are anal. Artisanal.

I mean, I use one evaporator to condition the air on the first floor of my home. I get what you’re saying, but a one bedroom apartment could be served by two PTACs.

Perhaps I’ve lost the thread of this conversation though.

You can do PTAC or mini splits to avoid ducts.

Can’t go wrong with WoT. Doing a listen at the moment, on book 14a.

And for people who sometimes need to feel really sad.

Came to rec RotE myself, it’s a series I wish I could read again for the first time more than any other. I’m doing a listen of WoT with a friend, and I’m going to convince him hey, you did 14* books, why not do it again, but a lot sadder.

Additional love for first law. Actually modeling a DND character after Logan for the next campaign. Finishing up the expanse myself, but wanted to go back to Joe Abercrombie after, just loved his style.

I immediately thought of the cereal, which I haven’t seen in ages.

Apparently not because it happened twice!!!

(The exclamation points denote satire).

I was banned recently, my second ban (in 15 years), for saying that I wouldn’t mind if Iran wiped Staten Island off the map. I’m not sure I need to include context, Staten Island is terrible.

My previous ban, probably a year ago, was because I said it should be okay to crash your car into people with obnoxious mods (bright lights, pop tunes, etc.).

Both bans were for calling for violence, which maybe the first ban you could argue was, but the second one definitely wasn’t. And so the part that bothers me most, and the point of the story, is that they offer a route to dispute your ban, which I did, and never hear anything back either way. I want my due process.

Yeah, I think we are certainly learning it, albeit slowly. When we set up our suburbia world, it was fine, because there were just fewer people, and we had the room to do it. It’s now chaos, you take your life in your hands driving to work, it costs an arm and a leg. Unfortunately, we designed ourselves into a corner, and (at least where I live) trying to fix it feels insurmountable. And I live in a place with some of the best trains outside of Manhattan. And they’re terrible.

No solutions here. Just observations.

And just for clarity’s sake, I have contracts with local governments, and in the process of initially getting and subsequently renewing them, I fill out a bunch of forms about whether or not I have relationships (paraphrasing) with numerous countries, Iran, Belarus, Russia. Oddly enough, no China.

This being said, I don’t know for sure, but I’m curious if not only was it a lie by omission, but she knowingly submitted false statements via these forms or similar.

Some of the smartest people I know have massive gaps in their intellect. I like to say I know a lot about a little but a little about a lot. Some people know a lot about a lot, but nothing about a little, and it shows.

It’s that little bit of vanilla crunchy. Didn’t think you could improve on the Reese, but I’d eat a couple for sure.

Must suck to have the burden of such a complex palate that you can’t enjoy things.

Costco makes these 24-packs of chocolate chip cookies that I straight up have to avoid, because I lack the self-control to not eat like three or four at a clip, and when they’re 200 to calories each, it’s not good.

And I’m not fat, but I work hard to not be fat, and those cookies can undo an hour plus of real hard work in like five minutes. I love them, but I just can’t have them in my house anymore.