US South? I swear to calculus like 2/3 of Atlanta is covered in kudzu, it’s nuts.

NSAIDs worsen my asthma so I have no other choice besides staying in pain 🥲

Excellent points :) I do use Libby through my local library for reading e-books so it’s a great suggestion.

I do this because all too often book print is tiny whereas I can adjust font size on a digital page.

I love physical books, but accessibility is sometimes a problem.

I’m gonna sound like a boomer but cigarettes and not using PPE, including with recreational activities such as motorcycling and hobby crafts.

Becoming a meat crayon isn’t worth “looking cool.”

The 1980s version of Time Bandits is made by the Monty Python team for a family audience!

“Digital media” is a hell of a weird way of saying “capitalism”

Oonga boonga brain says “survive” in majority circumstances ¯\(ツ)/¯

If you’re starving and have a melon in front of you, brain probably says find a way to open and eat it.

If you’re starving, have a melon, and a person with better survival skills nearby, you’re probably going to want to befriend them.

To try to determine/posit the individual moral “nature” of a social species is silly. (◕‿◕✿)

I’ll admit I lurked a bit to see if you’re US- based and it looks like you are. Maybe instead of “Jesus Christ” you can use “Abraham Lincoln?”

Like “Abraham fucking Lincoln in a cabin made of shit logs” could be a satisfactory expression of frustration.

Any name you can remember easily could work; Billy Crystal, Woody Guthrie, Greta Thunberg, even your neighbors or pets’ names.

The others will be a bit tough since they’re so ingrained in our culture but depending how “non-religious” you intend to be you can switch to “curse/hex” and wean yourself off of that into something more secular ¯\(ツ)/¯

McCarthyism, Southern Strategy, three letter agencies spending decades actively targeting/murdering activists; yeah it’s been rough.

It starts with dissociation and eventually evolves into derealization and depersonalization before you know it ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

For me personally, anything times 5 can be reached by halving the number, then multiplying that number by 10.

Example: 66 x 5 = Y

• (66/2) x (5x2) = Y

  • cancel out the division by creating equal multiplication in the other number

  • 66/2 = 33

  • 5x2 = 10

• 33 x 10 = Y

• 33 x 10 = 330

• Y = 330

I’m going to hold onto the spark of your optimism until I can light my own; your perspective does help and I hadn’t considered it. Thank you /gen /pos

One can only hope, but knowing how fucking stupid my right-wing, sycophantic, fellow countrymen are I doubt much will change.

Pretty sure everyone who voted against him already hates him though.

Hyper-fixating on something keeps me away from the kitchen, for better or worse. Same with sleep ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“Gagged”: restrained from speaking; with a cloth or special device to block one’s mouth.

“Sub”: submissive person, used in a sexual context here.

Autistic people are stereotypically intensely invested in certain topics, called “special interests.” The “famous” one is trains but mine are cats, video game history, and Pixar movies to give broader examples.

Due to this intense investment/focus/etc. in the special interest, autistic people tend to know a lot of facts about them and care about factual correctness (stereotypically).

Someone spouting knowingly made up facts about an autistic person’s special interest, and the autistic person can’t respond/correct the other because they’re gagged would probably cause some pretty intense frustration.

Some find that frustration to elevate sexual arousal ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“I’m a prick but I also like to smoke weed”

The 2000s smelled like new tech plastic, the static from CRTs, microwave dinners, pump hand soap, and grass.

2010s smelled like hibiscus, then beach sand, then sickly sweet and rubbing alcohol.

ETA: Gas fumes were also part of the ‘00s

Lol nice one

Assuming the maze is a hedge maze (or, in the US, a corn maze instead) I’d plant a buttload of catnip along the paths and build in some feline-friendly sheltering.

Takes care of pest control and you get the pleasant surprise of kitties on your way in!

And set up a non-profit operation or co-op or something in the house.