The hands of fate are kind today.

If I got an old kindle; how easy is it to jailbrake it and install a better system?

Notification history is off by default in GrapheneOS…so that is nice.

I guess next year I’ll have to post a joke just after midnight. I’ll wake to find confusion and chaos.

Often we are not even included on maps.

Agreed, thinking is hard we should let machines do that.

Tariffs…its tariffs right?
Wars?
Hatred?
Billionaires?
Pedo-kings?

Ok, I’m all out of ideas.

Well he did bankrupt 4 casinos…that place where, you know statistically, the “house always wins”.

Optimistic Nihilism, is quite a good philosophical framework.

But I would recommend a mixture of optimistic nihilism and stoicism.

If nothing has any inherent meaning, the things you chose to be meaningful are as valid as any other choice.

It’s not just a metaphor, when people say things like “picture yourself in X”, or “just imagine the audience naked”.

Others can actually see things in their mind.

Which was very quickly followed by, “getting a song stick in your head” means you can actually hear a song over and over in your mind. How annoying.

This seems like some king of super power. I was 40…

You don’t ration Discworld, you reread it every 5 years.

And maybe revisit a favourite or six every other year.

It would be for just a couple minutes.

Narrator: that couple of minutes turned into many hours in the hospital.

Sometimes men don’t fell comfortable expressing themselves with women around.

If a space is toxic, men don’t express themselves there either.

Space where men can properly express their feelings are extremely rare. Between the toxic masculinity and men feeling judged by women and other men.

Even if you are completely correct and this person conspired against you; holding onto this is not great for your mental health.

The best thing for you is to acknowledge that you were hurt by this and accept that. Then move on, what they did was about them and not you.

From your text, it could be that they were just selfish and you were collateral damage. My advice stands, give yourself the freedom to move on.

As a father of three boys. This is enforced far more by the mother’s of girls than anyone else.

My oldest made friends almost exclusively with girls before he was five. Without fail mother’s would move their girls away and toward other girls. This happened in a few situations, both structured and unstructured environments.

When it was dad’s with daughters, it was only about 1/4 of the time, and mums or dad’s with sons never did.

I have seen it the other way also, where boys were steered to other boys, but it was far less often.

I used to go to a men’s only yoga class, I was far more comfortable there than in a mixed class. The class was discontinued, not because of lack of interest… but because the instructor got pregnant, it never restarted. She was a great instructor very professional and targeted the exercises to men’s problem areas.

Men’s only spaces are important, as much as women’s spaces. Men’s mental health is often overlooked, and men’s spaces are an easy way for men to vent about shit that is bothering them.

Also “our current time” is a little strange, history it’s full of segregated spaces, even of just by social convention. Our current time is far more accepting of mixing than a lot of history.

Can’t tell of sarcasm or serious, damn Poe’s law.

Rough…but fair!

No I program with a magnetised needle and a steady hand.

Yes Minister, and Yes Prime Minster.

Great stuff

I’ve had the 3x spicy ones, they are very hot that isn’t to much of an issue for me. The problem is that they don’t actually taste any good.

I like spicy foods, but I also like flavour, I find a lot of the super spicy foods only really taste of spice.

I wouldn’t get them again, they are too hot to be enjoyable and don’t have great flavour to compensate for what I would class as a “challenging” level of spice. If they tasted awesome, it would be a different story.

I don’t tend to sweat from spicy foods. So maybe there is some genetic component. Two of my three boys like spicy foods.