Ha, interestingly enough I was just talking about this with my dad while watching some sci-fi movie. It's amazing how humans can learn to use tools/machines with such precision that it becomes second nature, and even quickly adjust to tools with slightly different settings. Take driving for instance, a seasoned driver's brain will make such precise calculations that the driver will know to turn the wheel by fractions of a degree while going over 200 km/h to straighten the car's course. It's pretty mind-blowing.

I have been wanting to do this for years but I'm afraid the neighbors will be pissed :(

For the longest time I thought I was an extreme introvert, and I mean I still am introverted, but it also turns out I was just surrounded by crappy people. Going out with the right people is the best.

Pantheism... approves?

Brb gotta buy this for my boyfriend

Great advice. It sucks that so often leadership roles are chosen by confidence. On the one hand I get it, confidence inspires people, but some of the most confident people I've ever met were actually the most useless idiots when push came to shove.

Coming to work 15 minutes early. I worked as a receptionist in a language school and I found that coming in 15 minutes before the first lesson as was company policy wasn't enough time to get everything ready, so I came 30 minutes early so that the clients wouldn't arrive to me running around and still preparing stuff. Teachers and a few clients actually praised me for always having everything ready and neat unlike the other receptionists. Still, I was scolded because I dared log those 15 minutes into my work hours (note: I was a part timer and paid basically peanuts, also I only had an early morning shift once a week). And yes I had tried telling them that 15 minutes wasn't enough but they didn't care.

Yeah I live in a big city and honestly I can't wait to get the fuck out of here. Crowds, noise, trash and graffiti everywhere, expensive bad quality housing, no privacy, bad air, everytime I use public transport there's a drunk/junkie being loud and potentially dangerous... and the benefits don't outweigh the negatives anymore, these days everything I want I can have shipped, and transport between cities is so good that it wouldn't take me more than an extra 15-20 minutes to get to work as opposed to now.
I think I wouldn't go fully rural though, maybe like a smaller city or town.

Man, that book is so well written, as a series of journals and articles and diary entries and such, with each character writing slightly differently but all of them embodying the quaintness of old English.

This is genuinely a good idea for a.mindfulness exercise though... whew, I needed that one today. Thank you!

To be fair, it's impressive he made it to 103 with that diet.

Muscles, like... in general? Am I supposed to be an atrophied skeleton?
Those pesky beauty standards amirite

And milk! Don't forget the milk.

Also one of the pilots in Dr. Strangelove!

The crackheads of the animal kingdom.

I agree. Look, if you wanna drink and loosen up, that's alright. But forcing other people to do it is just inappropriate.
My friends and I can have "laugh until you're crying and your stomach hurts" amounts of fun without it, if you can't, you might not be in good company.

AND you're still to this day claiming that the job was actually "stolen" from you... riiiiight, tell me more... *repeatedly pushes the Security button under the table*