I might hate the AI companies and SpaceX (while enjoying AI-coding), but this is some bs.

What are USA numbers now? That’s the only way this is in context.

There’s no “might” here. It’s why high-end TVs are cheap.

Check out the Better Offline podcast. You’ll like it.

It’s funny how the chart correlates to stupid assholes saying stupid things. How’d that happen?

Usually meant to increase the degree to which I’m being absurd or facetious. It’s a manner of showing contempt for the thing I’m describing. I use it to joke more than with actual dialog.

But “kinda” probably happens in my daily vocabulary to such a degree that I’m unaware how much I use it. So, despite using this sort of word deliberately in certain situations, I’m also very guilty of using it everywhere else.

Fortunately, my male friendships were formed through shared experiences at difficult workplaces. I feel like only a percentage of workplaces are conducive to this type of bonding. Working front line tech support is one of the places where that can happen but also I’ve just been fortunate to have been adjacent to some great people when those situations arose.

I barely chat with my long ago male friends; we live in different regions and while we used to talk on the phone a lot, now it like once or twice a year. But I’ve got new long-haul friends from said workplaces and though we we only get together maybe every month or three, it’s in person and that goes a long way.

I hope you keep at looking. Loneliness is a terrible feeling. I was utterly lonely for a lot of my life and it’s very hard.I don’t wish that for anyone except for the hateful bigots that need to be shunned to tell them their views, words, and actions are not acceptable.

Go to therapy and work on yourself deliberately for years and years. It works. I was super messed up and hateful and angry and I would never have believed that I could love myself, but I do.

I know “cheat code” implies quick or easy or both and this isn’t either one, but it’s life changing if you do it.

On a first date, someone said I was so incredibly polite. I was like, all I do is say please and thank you because my mother taught me it’s the right thing to do. She was responding to my placing an order at a coffee shop.

I’m telling you, this works. Each day, pause to think of three things for which you are grateful. It can be big or small. Examples that I’ve used: that I got to spend the evening with a close friend who has a typically busy schedule, that I slept especially well the night before, that the book I was reading turned out to be a good one, etc.

Sometimes it’s something profound about how someone positively mentored me when I was younger. Or small stuff like knowing that there’s a piece of cheesecake waiting for me in the fridge. The point is to do it every day. It’s kinda awkward getting going, but then it becomes second nature and they come to mind effortlessly. I am convinced that it’s made me a calmer, nicer, more understanding person.

Ten year old me would have looked at that image every day.

Ellen?

Omg, I captured a pic of one of ours like this last week. They look so angry when they yawn or when they complain.

Why would I ever wish I didn’t care about integrity and caring for others?

They’ll be homeless in three years. Meanwhile, my apartment is pretty great.

Stupid people fear things that are literally impossible. I’m gonna run on banning people using lazer-eyes to kill your enemies. That shit should be illegal.

Wait. I’m not in one of the stupid states. Hang on, here I come Idaho. Dumbass ignorant fucks.

Good. They vote against the future. Let them die.

Seriously, we should cut off the right to vote when your life expectancy is shorter than most longterm decisions.

They took away Mary’s Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (what they taught us in eastern Tennessee) a decade ago. Nothing is sacred.

I dislike bike riders who are assholes. This isn’t that.

I know that when I’m super angry, my red face can be read as embarrassed by stupid assholes.