ColonelKataffy

congrats, that is great news and it's really affirming to see positive feedback from one's actions.

i'm on day 6 of a two-week thc break and i don't have a morning cough and the irritability has subsided a lot. i'm starting to have dreams again and i'm getting more sleep (cuz i'm not enjoying late night high gaming) and it's nice to not have to smell stanky weed smoke residue. we'll see if i want to resume daily use after the break; so far, i'm not craving it. it eventually just becomes routine.

absolutely helped get me through the default suburban convservative christianity that infested every aspect of growing up in usa. shout out to comedy central for playing this a couple times a week for five years or so. also shout out to salma hayek

aka the painting goblin

thank you for sharing this article.

kind of related - i mulched a 3x8' plot of my front yard this last year, from november-may. yard waste, fall leaves, grass clippings, etc. last week, i spread the mulch out to use as planting soil for some pumpkins. the mulch was so alive with decomposers, especially pillbugs. it felt good to provide them with habitat for a few months. i hope they're nice to my pumpkins

Edit: basically avoid credit cards and financing as much as humanly possibly

if you're budget constrained, yeah. as goodguywithacat says below, treat a CC like a debit card and pay it off every month. I've never made an interest payment on a CC in my life. I put almost all my monthly expenses on a credit card that has 1-5% cashback rewards. I get ~$100 a month in reward points that I regularly spend on shit i need. at this point, i've spent over $1k in money i never worked for. one of life's little perks.

law'n order

13+12 = 31?

cookie monster is stalin and cookies are private property

liquid sandwich. edit - corn, beans, roasted peppers

here you go - a sandwich using tamales as bread

fair point, especially about being served up sexual content in spaces otherwise not meant for it (like instagram). again, capitalism preys on humanity's basest desires and floods our markets with sexual content.

and as an old, i just want to say that the "sex positivity" era of the early 2010s ran cover for throngs of abusers to get easy access to people who were exploring their sexual liberation and caused lots of harm to lots of good people, so it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth now.

i grew up in a shithole american suburb, one of those housing developments with no sidewalks, no streetlights, just an enclave of cheap houses 4 miles up a 55mph canyon road with no shoulders. it was literally impossible to walk to any type of shop for the first 22 years of my life. i hated it so much i put all of my life's energies into getting the fuck out and living somewhere urban. after getting priced out of one metro area, we were able to relocate somewhere cheaper and buy a home. now, i measure how good my weekend was by how little i needed to drive. i've got bars, shops, and restaurants within 1 mile in every direction. it really is a blessed existence. i work with suburboids who are too scared to go on walks. if it isn't a walk from the parking lot to the store, or up the driveway, to their house, they won't do it. i desperately want to visit one of those european cities that was developed before the existence of the automobile so i can experience life how it was meant to be lived - locally, on two feet.

america is a deeply sick place.