Hopefully you're not in a time zone where it's too late!
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joined 1 year ago
Well, that was a little detour
Yeah the pizza isn't great, either
Yup. Most therapists keep progress notes as plain as possible
Hydro Man. Saw the covers in some book as a kid, created a bunch of adventures based on the concept
Is this real or photoshop?
Their comment stands. Too many Americans remain too comfortable, at least for now. The standard of living in some ways might be declining, but it's happening at a sufficiently slow pace that it is tolerated. And, so far, the bread and circus is compensating
I was thinking "spuddling along"
Prepare to be amazed at the attention and reading comprehension levels of people around you
And the whatever-they-were-called issue with their parents was known to boomers. Hence the whole 60s and 70s attempted rebellion
Each generation is successively subsumed by this paradigm we've been living in. It happened to millennials, it's probably going to happen to gen alpha who btw already show the same disregard for millennials that they in turn do for boomers.
Why is that? Because that's part of the manipulation: twisting and deepening the perennial divide of age against us.
I'm frankly in a phase of life where I am seeing with ever fresh clarity all the mistakes I've made that have led me to the rather solitary life I lead. And many days I'm just keeping my interactions with others to a minimum so that I don't create any opportunities to feel shit about my interpersonal skills. But, and so, nonetheless, I manage to find self-pride in very little things.
Like how this week I learned all these keyboard shortcuts to make my editing of a text document faster. Or today, some kid was lingering by the basketball court awkwardly — like heartbreakingly awkward in his own skin. I asked him if he wanted to shoot a few before I headed home and made him a deal that I wasn't allowed to go home 'til he shot a 3-pointer. I let him have as many tries as he needed until he get one.