LoamImprovement

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

To be honest, I'm surprised they still did after 2016.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don't really have much of a sense of self at this point.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You know, the fucked up thing about it all is I was always told that the kind of delayed gratification that came from major accomplishments like a college degree, a steady career, a comfortable savings account, would all outweigh the fleeting pleasure of parties and stupid little trinkets and other such fun. I wish I had taken so much more time for myself because I burned out so hard achieving some of these things and failing to achieve others that I struggle deeply to imagine a future with me in it.

I hope whatever youth is left in the world spends their time having fun. I hope their lives are worth living now, and that mine will be someday too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The botanicals orchid set that was at Costco alongside the lucky bamboo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ketamine/Stimulant abuse. Elmo's probably not doing so hot since he's realized coups are actual work and not just shitposting thirty tweets and hour.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd like to point out that "do what you can" doesn't even necessarily mean trying to prevent or impede climate change directly. It can also mean building community and providing comfort and protection from the worst effects of climate change to the people you care about.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

God if someone could get in and wipe out student loans, I would be so happy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People could avoid paying $70 for bad games by not preordering. Like seriously, it takes maybe two hours after release for the criticism to start pouring in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually still have a copy of "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain" that came as a preorder bonus for the game for the DS. The books was miles better, ironically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, the major issue there is "toilet equipped with an automatic cleaning and recovery module." That is gonna be a huge expenditure for even one toilet in-home, and you're not always at home when nature calls.

I think it'd be more feasible for the health tracking device to embed itself in your stomach or intestines somewhere so that it just doesn't pass through, notwithstanding all the sanitation issues that arise from trying to implant something internally where all your food/waste passes through.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm 32 years old and at about a 5 on the Norwood scale and I started taking minoxidil and finasteride, and reaching out to Planned Parenthood to talk about getting on E, all because I saw pictures of people who were older and balder than me when they started transitioning and they're beautiful.

There is still time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus fuck the mold. There's so much in there, that slumlord might start trying to charge it rent.

 

I was talking with a friend today about Hallmark movies because we all seem to have at least one grandma who loves them around this time of year, and we're hashing out the tropes they all share because they're so formulaic that you could probably boil it down to a mad libs prompt, and something dawned on me because of one particular similarity, not in every film, but a lot of them - the Heroine quitting her high-stress executive job to move to a quaint little town and settle down with Mr. Right. It struck me as deeply misogynistic that the movies imply she can't have both and that her career goals aren't worth it compared to getting some dick.

The other side of that coin is, in almost every single one of these movies, the guy is a Prince who needs to marry, or secretly loaded, or otherwise financially stable unless the plot revolves around his family whatever on the brink of closure that the Heroine steps in to help save the day, and he's shown to be a good-if-distant dad to his kids, if he has any, but needs help raising them because work keeps him busy, or his nanny's retiring. It's never implied that he should be the one giving up his lifestyle to be a better partner for her; The only thing Mr. Right is ever doing wrong in these movies, if anything, is just not already being with her, and I get that these films are basically wish fulfillment fics, but she is always the one who has to make a change for him, to basically be a stay at home mom, or step closer to it than she was at the beginning of the film. Does anybody else see that? Am I wrong in thinking that's absolutely fucking greasy?

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