When people say, “I don’t use drugs”, almost never do they include alcohol in that. Alcohol, which is a drug, is always referred to separately, in large part because it’s a beverage. Most people, if asked, will agree that alcohol is a drug, but it’s not really categorized as one in their mind on a day-to-day basis. No one has a glass of wine at lunch and thinks, “I’m doing drugs now.” But, if alcohol as a liquid simply didn’t exist, but exactly the same effect could be had in pill form, I don’t think people would be taking a pill with their dinner, and washing it down with water.

Every 100 years, I guess. We gotta go through all the shit every 100 years.

Piano.

Most of us know what two liters of carbonated sugar water looks like.

It’s such a relief to not need to go to a job I stopped liking many years ago, to work with people, half of whom I did not get along with. My job was a job, I did it for money to put food on the table, and keep a roof over my head. I liked it very much for about 10 years, then for the next ten years… not so much. The tasks never “defined” me. I traded my most precious thing, my time, for money–and never nearly enough.

I’m happy to be done with that, and have been for over five years now. I don’t miss it at all.

I’m happier, more relaxed, and healthier than I’ve been in 30 years.

Y’all in here doing your best to defend the shitty education you got.

Why?

No one wants to hear it, I suspect, but eating very low carb is how this is done.

No sugar and no grains for one month and the cravings are gone. You can easily go 48 hours on water alone, if you need or want to.

What nearly everyone calls hunger is actually cravings for carbs. True hunger is painful and consumes every thought. Likely no one you’ve ever met has been truly hungry.

The child’s solution was best: move the one man to the other side and run them all over. Leave. No. Witnesses.

Yep.

Everyone in my life was done hearing about my divorce LONG before I was ready to stop talking about it. But, I just had to shut up and carry on, or risk driving them away.

Good.

Lee’s more strict expectations and harsher punishments of the slaves on Arlington plantation nearly led to a revolt, since many of the enslaved people had been given to understand that they were to be made free as soon as Custis died, and protested angrily at the delay.

That one freeway on-ramp that puts you on a divided highway with no place to turn around for the next 20 miles.

MS-DOS 3 on 5 1/4" floppies.

That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

More like he knows his audience. Snake oil salesmen know they’re selling garbage.

It’s also a-panting.

Not the fucking Onion.

This is for an overcoat, something with thick layers of fabric. You can skip the raising and wrapping the thread around underneath for a shirt.

What do you call fifty multi-millionaire CEOs at the bottom of the ocean?

Prevents confusion between the four and the six: III, IV, V, VI, when the watch is not held perfectly vertically for viewing.

I never fell for it. I hope none of my siblings did, either.

I would have thought that data would be worth more. Maybe the AI guys will just steal it, instead?