By themselves I assume you mean each other.

Where I have been an informed voter, I have always voted for the greater good, for the policies and politicians that at least claim to be focused on the well-being of the individual, vetted to the best of my abilities.

I would be against it if that person is not someone that would be lifting my child up.

I don’t know, the society I’m in, the woman gets to choose her own partner and her own future, so even if I’m against it, she can still do whatever the hell she wants to do.

But if I think she’s making a poor choice, then I will say, I don’t think this person is right for you. But no matter what happens, I love you, and if worse comes to worse, you’ll have me there to help pick up the pieces.

And if best comes to best, I’ll be cheering you the entire way.

Multiple things can be true at the same time, the trick is being capable of understanding that and acknowledging that without distracting from the primary objective.

Unfortunately, broad-mindedness of that nature requires a minimum of room temperature IQ to handle and far too many people simply do not make the grade.

If you’re gonna eat a whale, you gotta do it one bite at a time.

It would help if you are curious about the subject matter. Curiosity is an amazing motivator for reading.

What secrets does the book contain? What is it going to teach you about the universe? What parts of this book do you already understand?

What’s the chance there’s something in that book that will help you reframe something else in your life with new information?

What information in the book is going to be on the test?

If you want to know the answers to those questions, or the other questions that you might have floating around in your head, the only way to get them is to read the book.

Don’t read it because you’re being forced to read it. Read it because you want to know more. You want to be the kind of person who knows things. And the only way to actually know things, to have crystalline knowledge, is to read the books that contain the information that the people that have come before you have sorted out and assembled for you to absorb.

Surely you have a goal in life. You wouldn’t be forcing yourself to study in college if you weren’t trying to reach a goal. Reading these books are parts of the path that you’re taking to reach your goal.

If you can internalize this concept and apply it to those books, reading those books is not going to be a chore. It will become fun. It will become exciting. You will read faster and flip through pages faster and train yourself on how to absorb information quickly.

People achieve what they believe they are supposed to achieve. They go in the direction that seems most right to them.

Seems like reading these books are the right direction for you, and once you make it through, your mental muscle will be much more defined and impressive for the effort.

All my shit is locked down. Nobody else knows the passwords or codes for it. When I die, it goes with me.

I’m not falling for it, I’m making them up.

I have a stupid conspiracy theory.

I believe they were trying to groom him to be the next Trump, and they wanted to duplicate the (also probably fake) assassination attempt and accidentally merc’d him.

So now they’re just trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

If I’m right that means that once the next big election cycle goes through we shouldn’t hear much more about him.

It’s probably easier to get UPS to pay than it is to get USPS to pay.

I recently shipped a $3,500 laptop across country through USPS and they just fucking lost it.

I had actually paid the extra for the insurance, so I filed a loss package claim, and they tried to offer me $50, and demanded that I show proof that the package that I sent to them that they lost was actually worth $3,500. They wanted receipts, they wanted pictures, they wanted everything to prove that that’s what it was.

Like, I paid them. I want to say $35 for the insurance (out of the company budget, it wasn’t my personal cash), and they wanted to put me through the ringer to actually live up to their side of the agreement.

Fortunately, after I filed the claim, they magically found the $3,500 laptop and then sent it on its way, but i- we literally paid for next day shipping, and it was not even next month when it finally arrived.

So needless to say, anytime we are shipping packages, we are using UPS because it’s going to be a hell of a lot easier to deal with them. And so far, they’ve never let us down.

And knowing that is specifically why I chose the phrase “something like aerosolized chloroform” rather than saying “chloroform can do this!”

Yeah, and it’s kind of fortunate that at least as far as we know nothing like that exists because otherwise militaries would use it as an anti-personnel weapon.

There are many medicines and chemicals that can incapacitate somebody.

Something like aerosolized chloroform, for instance, if you had enough of it could possibly cause many people to pass out, and as long as there was a prevailing wind to clear it out before it reached whatever the toxic level of chloroform is, then people affected by it would be fine after it wore off.

Most of their subscribers are pre-teen kids and kids in their early teens who don’t really have a strong enough sense of self to differentiate what they’re being visually presented with with the external realities of that presentation. Combine that with parents that are too tired and too distracted with their own, quite possibly terrible media fixations and you have a perfect storm of negligence and predation.

I mean, Mr. Beast, as a whole, is a terrible thing, but his individual videos show people having fun doing interesting things, and you get to parasocially enjoy them. It’s entertainment media geared towards kids, and it presents itself as being family-friendly, so the people who cannot look past the presentation believe it to be family-friendly.

My ex gf never had to shave anything because she had alopecia. Looked completely normal from the neck up but from the neck down the only place she grew hair was in the crotch, and even that was thin and faint.

Her legs and pits were naturally hairless.

I was going to turn face down when she showed up but she took a minute getting into the room so I was just waiting.

The real happy ending is being murdered on the spot and having your organs sold on the black market to make other people happy.

I get a non-happy ending massage about once every three to six months, just depending on whenever the tension has built up enough.

I tried out a new place that was just called Thai Massage that I literally pass by every day on my way home from work and when I walked in I had sketch vibes right from the beginning.

I figured, what the heck? I don’t know. The place does look a little rundown, but it was $60 for an hour, and they required that I pay in cash, and that should have been my clue to turn around and leave.

But I said fuck it, I actually had the cash on hand, so I paid the $60 up front and stripped down to my undies and laid there on the bed and the lady walked in and she was a relatively attractive 50-ish year old Thai lady and she just laid her hands directly on my genitals and said, “You like?”

I quickly told her, no thank you, I just wanted a regular massage.

She gave me a very lackluster regular massage that only took like 35 minutes.

Disappointing all the way around probably should have taken the hand job instead, honestly.

I don’t know, that kinda looks like bird poop to me. Are you sure a bird didn’t poop on them?

I’m not a scientist or qualified with any reliable technical knowledge about this, but I am aware that there’s a lot of plants that have chemicals in them that are identical to or closely related to the chemicals that are found in the human body.

I want to say that this is because we share some common chemistry with plants and that the mechanisms by which these hormones are created are some of the easier mechanisms for earth compatible biology to pull off.

After all, it does make sense that living creatures would adapt to eat foods that work with their bodies.

You would either start your own life over with all the knowledge you currently have and a status screen,

or,

you would begin an entirely brand new life in a world of magic, remembering and knowing everything that you know, and having the status screen

If you take the magic route, you are guaranteed magical ability of at least C tier rank, and since you have the status window, you will be able to upgrade that through patient and dedicated practice.