How dare you remind me of how poorly I eat 😡

It tastes like it smells 😉

Focusing on things you hate leads to noticing more of the thing you hate. Sounds miserable.

When my enemy does good, it’s because they’re self-centered. When my friend does good, it’s because they’re good and generous.

US has societal learned helplessness

The working class

My library has free access, as do any number of local business and location. And I once lived in a building that bundled internet/TV service for every resident.

Your former company is having a very bad week, indeed.

Costa Rica’s doing OK. They figured the US keeps starting military coups in the Americas, may as well remove that attack vector. Nobody’s calling them a superpower though.

OK, hear me out, let’s start a patent troll corp. and file for all the enshittification ideas ahead of the studio owners.

Well-read atheists have more credibility

Why should we give government or politicians a free pass just because they’re “on our team”? If you can’t find something they’re not doing well, you haven’t looked. Also, a single-axis political spread is passé.

That movie was more about the AMOC collapsing (which is projected to happen between now and ~50 years), but uncharacteristically (/s), Hollywood got the science wrong.

Wait, are you telling me deregulation didn’t help the citizens, only the capital interests?

At least the people are nice

I also learned I meet hEDS criteria, hypermobile joints needed more care than I was giving them, was having too much dopamine from chasing weight numbers. Hopefully I can at least be a cautionary tale.

Some of my biggest back pains are from going to the gym! 😉

My newly set expectations are once again subverted!

I’d guess, in this case, imagining a wrongfully imprisoned grandma is thought to be more immoral than “just” a 50 year old. It also causes readers to imagine their own grandma in the same situation, instead of a stranger.

I thought Station Eleven was pretty good about it, small vehicles / motorcycles for a while, then bicycles and horses + wagons, plus a lot of walking. That was a wildly different scenario though (99.9% of the population poofed in a few day period), so there were a ton of abandoned resources for any survivors.