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People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.

Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.

And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.

I’d never noticed that in this order, it’s almost π!

Off by 0.001 and some change; that coincidence is going to haunt me.

🧐: 0 is the origin of time, the big bang (if you believe in that kind if thing)

The problem then is figuring out when earth (and then human) time starts, but we can just add some arbitrary offsets that feel right and everyone agrees on.

Xenu makes a dollar

Don’t trust the birds or limes

Thats why I shit

In liminal spaces and times

Gotta love how everyone forgot about Newton in all this. Enjoy your instantly well-cooked hand, which is also made of meat.

Giant butterflies that hypnotize people and suck out their souls are a major element of China Mieville’s “Perdido Street Station.” Highly reccomended if you like fantasy.

Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we’re dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can’t say that looming war in the middle east doesn’t give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.

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MAKE AN ASSESSMENT

This is a good idea, but also working remote frees up time to meet new affinity groups.

Not to dump on people’s relaxation strategies, but even the most introverted person can’t survive on video games and gooning alone.

If you don’t want or like hanging with coworkers, find a local bar to hang out at and meet some folks, go to a community board game night, join a choir, attend an anime viewing night, just do something to take initiative and meet some folks that like what you like.

You never know how many of those comments now aren’t bits and ai also. The malleable human mind sees “people” expressing opinions and wants to take a side, have an opinion. How convenient that all the options, all the feelings and responses you should have, are already laid out for you. Just “Like and Subscribe” to the persons whose opinions most align to your own.

“Pencil Break” was the hot shit for about a year in middle school. This was right on the edge of when mechanical pencils started to replace wooden ones in school (not completely, I’m sure kids still use wooden #2s.)

It was stupid, but so many people would take turns slapping pencils together to see which ones would break. Obviously brand new pencils out of the box snap the easiest, while worn down nubs are impossible to break. The school eventually banned it and briefly flirted with banning wooden pencils after parents and teachers complained that all the really dedicated students had no writing instruments left.

Nation of geniuses over here.

This is entirely apocryphal, but my friends who are very into blind items and celebrity gossip tell me about “yacht girls.” Famous (but not too famous) women are often invited to rich guy’s yachts as soft escorts. Sometimes there’s sex, often they’re just there to be pretty and flattering. Apparently Zach Effron is frequently a yacht “girl.”

So yes, I think a fairly significant portion of minor celebrity income is from private appearances (of one kind or another). Speaking engagements for businesses or clubs are another big (legitimate) arm of this trade.

Thank you for creating alchemical programming content!

Try this fun prank next time a coworker wanders off and leaves their PC unlocked!

OK but, hear me out: fuck the Democrats. When are we getting behind a new party; a real, actual, authentic, left-wing, coalition party? Where is the national movement to unify and overthrow the duopoly?

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Fercris-Hart-1/Boss-Made-a-Dollar-I-Made-a-Dime

Boss made a dollar, I made a dime

That was a rhyme from a simpler time

Now boss makes a thousand and gives me a cent

When I′m an employee who can’t pay my rent

When the boss makes a million and us workers make jack

That′s when I protest and take my life back

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime

That’s why I shit on company time

Boss makes a billion, my prospects are grim

Next company party, I’m gonna eat him

When the boss makes a million and us workers make jack

That′s when we riot and take our lives back

We make a penny, the boss makes fifteen

Guess who′s in line for the guillotine

Boss made a dollar, we made a dime

Til’ we went to his mansion and burned him alive

A timeless classic on any system! Even though the remake is… 20 years(!!!) old, its still an excellent way to play the game. They updated the graphic and interface, but kept all the core gameplay the same. There’s never been a pirate rpg\sim as comprehensive as Pirates!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3920/Sid_Meiers_Pirates/

Here lies a corpse decorated for the comfort of the living. The former owner is no longer present, regardless of their beliefs.