Speciesism is rampant in this world, and the fewer of us that are able to recognize on occasion the behaviors we share with other successful creatures with which we share this glorious domain, the more the general notion of (generally a specific subset of) our species being rightfully and certainly more separate from our ancestors and absurdly twisted histories than we may choose to feel can become. We all so desperately want to hold a complete picture in our minds, perhaps just so that we may be able to better share our perceptions with others and connect on a more fundamental level, having some steady image of our cosmic or metaphysical landscape to reference, over which we may form deeper bonds than through any other mode of communication.

For every respect we must all carry our responsibilities… One’s responsibility for respect might depend on their own respect for such a responsibility, or rather, the respect that they may hold towards their own responsibilities which they may begin to recognize the existence thereof, but still lack the general appreciation for either the responsibilities themselves or the respect required to truly carry properly any such responsibilities which may come with such certain levels of respect that may be required in order to respect the responsibility of respecting the responsibility to show such a respect to others, responsibly.

“I don’t even know any words longer than 4 letters starting with “An”. my mind glazes over like some form of asslexic stroke of bad fuck I mean luck”

“mcdonald’s-and-cheese-dollar-value-plus free-best.” “Ad skip confirmed.”

Thanks Sony… for not acting on the ownership of this patent… (yet…)

We need the citizens ticket (I tried to look up who was suggesting this idea because I heard of it in a comedy sketch recently but I lowkey have become a stan after going through a couple of the logical/ethical/practical hangups to myself after hearing him out once [ it was towards the end of some routine I have no idea what about (I cannot remember if it was Josh Johnson or not, but it could have been) but anyway here’s the idea:

Every licensed (thank you spell check) driver would have the legal opportunity (neigh obligation, I say) to give out a ticket to another driver once per year. We could all have a state provided, or (less desirable, for security reasons) built-in, dash cams to all our cars, and could give out just a single traffic violation per year by reporting the plates and submitting a video (maybe make the dash cam able to bluetooth to one’s phone or something simple, so grannies could figure it out).

Another side benefit from the widespread opportunities for real daily “street” (lol) justice to be recognized and delivered to your fingertips while driving would be that there would be some appreciable portion of people who would inevitably hold onto their tickets throughout the year (you only get the one!), and driving during the winter (northern hemisphere logic, represent…) might become a lot safer (after a few years/decades go by, and people start to adapt to the concept) as roughly a quarter of all “citizen enforcers” (people who usually use their 1 ticket power) would probably begin to recognize the big opportunity for the end-of-year violations, especially if violations were worth some type of small reward for reporting, that still varied marginally based on the severity of the infraction similar to the penalty structures they (da Po Po) employ against the “perpetrators” of various “illegal” actions while driving.

I wrote this like a lawyer, this is horrible [must delete it ….]

The effort is in learning how to do it the first time. Though arguably that may be one of the greatest culinary achievements/contributions from the US food industry that comes to mind is the hardly canny ability for these food manufacturers to come up with a food that can not only be served in little plastic packet shaped packs, but have those packets reheat in “Approx. 60 seconds” in 8/9ths of all the microwaves in around and in use at that time, after I have taken the time to consider / have to learn the hard way [1] , how tough (another unintended pun this time) reheating meat or breads could be in high power models with numerous modes, which are suggested to be used in order to heat certain types/shapes/consistencies of some common food object types. (shoutout to the models without the popcorn button, but with a “Potato” setting, with no other words aside from the weight input selection).

[1] I once microwaved a pop-tart for 2 minutes when the toaster wasn’t working as a kid, for reference of where I had been starting from. Worst looking pop-tart ever afterwards, completely unrecoverable smoking hole in the middle of the thing after I came back into the kitchen blissfully unaware that I had blasted it waay too much (in retrospect, at least I knew/had been taught to remove the foil wrapper…)

9 inch snails

Hot brot you got, Scott

I’ve multiple times ended up as clueless as that when setting out to find recipes online, so I have learned that especially for desserts soups, and pasta recipes I really should just outsource that part of the process to my partner with pickier but also more discerning taste than me. I miss out on some onions or mushrooms here or there in savory dishes occasionally, but the couple of cookie recipes I now have saved always remind me that having a second set of eyes on that area of planning never hurts for me.

The time and effort economy is what gets a lot of us even more than the financial or attention economies on this one. Cooking is hard, but CHOOSING what to cook is even harder. And having to cover all bases and try to have multiple recipes finish somewhat around the same timeframe, I could hardly imagine pulling that off without some backup on the team to pull some punches for me in the late game

IIRC is my most reliable source of 2026

“ate the Exotic Rainbow!”

Probably just a side effect of how convoluted the statement is, despite how it describes the reality of that situation fairly accurately.

All they needed was the word “that” after “afraid”. Now I have read this 10 times and it still doesn’t read correctly to me without inserting said word.

This is the most generated-looking image I have ever seen of this guy

“Every venn diagram must eventually become a circle” -Confucius

Sure thing, but it’ll cost ya… get the first one free if you share your address with us 🤑

Been eating at Chik-fil-A exclusively for the past decade or what?

Banality == Idiocy; Evil might not exist, yet mere stupidity and concessions to fear are found in every place where we determine that evil must surely have been. One could try limiting one’s search to persons exhibiting some semblance of wisdom or courage which such person may use to aid their understanding/confrontation of their personal adversities and the environments of their past/upbringing.

Bet it all on black and maybe you can win some sort of prize, but you will still be spending the houses money until we all start to agree that liquid cash is not a stabilizing mechanism for mediating our intermittent desire to hold various kinds of power over one another in different situations typically encountered throughout our lives, and that more complex and mindful methods/systems of resource allocation + public investment strategies can be developed as well as successfully popularized in a way that can be intrinsically understood and widely accepted by most new or developing (younger) people who will be steering the general trajectory of our worldwide “society”.