Nope! Keep them separated!

In San Francisco?

All of my jobs have been 9-5, lunch included. I think the key is whether you’re paid hourly or by salary. I’ve almost exclusively worked at tech startups as a salaried employee.

I love this:

try to realize that life is happening to you right now, not something you’re preparing for.

That’s an idea that I fight with all of the time, as I have a tendency to live for the future rather than the present.

This video goes over some things that are illegal to say

It’s just 50 servings of the 15 bean soup!

Well, how do you cope with moth memes?

That sucks about your friend. Did you ever ask that girl out on a date or anything? Two years is a long time, I hope you had made a move at some point.

Have you felt this way before? Are you stressed or tired? The short of it is you probably want to mention it to your doctor. You might be starting to show signs of a couple issues, including schizophrenia.

Here’s the google ai answer about possible causes, so take this with a grain of salt: “Feeling a presence in the room” is commonly referred to as a “felt presence” in psychology, which means experiencing the sensation that someone else is in the room with you, even though there is no physical evidence of another person being present; it’s essentially a psychological phenomenon where you feel like someone is there without seeing or hearing them.

Key points about felt presence:

• Not a hallucination:

  While it might feel like a hallucination, a felt presence isn’t considered one because it’s not experienced through the five senses, but rather as a general feeling.

• Possible causes:

  • Stress or anxiety: Extreme stress or anxiety can trigger the feeling of a presence.
  • Grief or bereavement: People often report feeling a presence of a deceased loved one.
  • Sleep deprivation: When falling asleep or waking up, the brain can sometimes create this sensation.
  • Neurological conditions: Certain neurological conditions like Parkinson’s disease or epilepsy can also lead to felt presence experiences.
  • Mental health conditions: Individuals with psychosis or schizophrenia may experience frequent felt presences.

What to do if you experience a felt presence:

• Assess your mental state:

  Consider if you are under significant stress, experiencing grief, or having sleep disturbances which could be contributing to the feeling.

• Relaxation techniques:

  Try relaxation techniques like deep breathing or meditation to manage anxiety.

• Seek professional help:

  If the feeling is persistent, distressing, or accompanied by other symptoms, consult a mental health professional to explore potential underlying causes.

Also, you may find a local store or boutique that sells quirky items. One popular brand that they’ll often carry is Fred, they make lots of ridiculous items. Other brands that I’ve found over the years are Larissa Loden, and Blue Q

Ah, thank you! I don’t know how I missed that meme!

Depending on the audience, there are cute little plush things, Giant Microbes, which have a line of sexual transmitted diseases. If you get one for an SO, they can say, “13esq gave me chlamydia for Christmas…”

Other good joke gifts can come from any inside joke that you may have with your SO, so these are very situational. At one point, I had joked that my SO was a sugar mama because she was paying for something expensive for us. I later got her a t-shirt for a candy called Sugar Mama.

On one date, we were the only ones dining at an outside patio at a nicer Italian restaurant. We had ordered wood fire pizzas. Anyway, a very large rat came to visit the patio, and we had joked about it at the time, even naming the rat. I later gave her an ornament of a felt rat holding a pizza slice (which is apparently a thing).

I can’t think of any others right now, but I love giving little joke gifts to people along with real ones.

Thank you for posting this! I immediately thought of this public announcement of sorts when I read the question.

I’d also be interesting in knowing if people have in-unit laundry. Being in an apartment complex where there’s 3 washers for around 50 people, it’s not feasible to wash towels after every use. That also sounds very wasteful!

I shower every other day, and change the towels after a couple of weeks. The schedule is based on when they can get washed (laundry gets done every two weeks for clothes, and so it’s based on the availability of doing extra loads), or at the first sign of a smell or stain.

Bedding gets changed on a monthly basis for the same reasons, again, unless there’s a smell or stain.

Noting a correction is part of a larger scope of annotating something. From Wikipedia:

There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ※, which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is known to have also used the asteriskos to mark missing Hebrew lines from his Hexapla. The asterisk evolved in shape over time, but its meaning as a symbol used to correct defects remained.

In the Middle Ages, the asterisk was used to emphasize a particular part of text, often linking those parts of the text to a marginal comment. However, an asterisk was not always used.

Aristarchus of Samothrace was from c. 220 – c. 143 BC, so it’s been used for notation since at least then!

Would its impact create a solar flare? And if that flare was hurtling towards Earth, would it be more devastating than other solar storms we normally see?