Thank you (and thanks to everyone else who replied). I’m going to give this a shot.

From my childhood they say. God I’m old.

Is this worth playing today?

I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for giving your cat a good life, and I hope they gave you memories to cherish too.

Just throw it on the pile.

God damned soup nazis

Knowing what I know, I’m not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.

In terms of cost, the cost of doing business likely rose due to inflation over the past few years. Those costs have supposedly plateaued but costs for consumption continue to rise. My two cents are markets will continue to increase prices until demand goes down. Eventually they will lower their prices out of necessity as they compete for those who can still afford their products and services.

I run. Once I get about a mile in, I can think about these kinds of interactions or generally anything stressful without emotion. It’s like thinking in the shower, but I’m channeling negativity toward a healthy activity. It helps a lot.

WhatwhatWHAT -Sheila Carol Broflovski

Every once in a while we get good leaders. They don’t live long.

From the comfort of my home in the States, Israel’s response to being attacked is disproportionate af and is galvanizing the world against it. Which isn’t great for a nation surrounded by enemies. They need friends and sooner or later even for the US this will be beyond the pale.

Break the cycle: get this man some bear armor. https://youtu.be/3cDDFIUhrPQ?si=7fb0kXzMdF9xRFbF

I visited NY in March. Our hotel was in Times Square. It sucked.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/nycs-disgusting-pot-stench-is-keeping-tourists-away/

I got on the train as soon as I could and went anywhere else. Every time I came home for the night it was so effing bad.

I can take social situations in private places like someone’s home, or even public places like parks. I expect people to enjoy themselves.

Me and a couple friends went to Texas Roadhouse and were seated in a section that had a ~1 foot partition between booths. A little later a couple of guys were seated opposite of the partition, in a booth running parallel to ours. We were nauseated by the smell and asked to be reseated. They ironically sat us in a corner booth decorated with Willie Nelson pictures on the walls and table, with a neon sign that read Willie’s Corner. We felt bad for the couple that were shortly seated in that same booth. We had a really good meal.

I fully support someone’s freedom to do what they want as long as they’re not bothering others. Reeking of weed while we spend upwards to 50 bucks for a meal (prices are nuts now) is unacceptable.

People aren’t walking around smelling like fish they ate 12 hours ago. I can’t smell someone’s cologne from two cars ahead of me.

I can stand smoke. It’s annoying, but it’s fine. Pot is smells like a No. 2 pencil eraser factory on fire. It’s nowhere close to the same.

God I would love it if pot smelled like the McDonalds quarter pounder with cheese. Maybe AI can figure it out.

That’s fine. Smoking is banned in most public places.

You need to eat. You don’t need to smoke. Weed stinks like nothing else. Try again.