To me, to even qualify as an apocalypse, it has to take out 99.9%+ of the population, and make extendedly staying alive stupidly difficult (and maybe even impossible) for anyone who “lucked into” surviving whatever it was that killed almost everyone else.
So it’s one of those things that is going to be hard to prep for with months and months of notice, let alone three measly days.
Sure. Briefly.
Some people can’t use a urinal. Medical issues.
That being said, they should still be cleaning up after themselves. Leaving the seat a mess for other people is horrendous.
I always thought that if God exists, then God must be practically indistinguishable from science, as far as we’re concerned.
Because you can’t tell me that any practically omnipotent being with a 50,000 IQ would deliberately choose to personally micromanage every cubic nanometer of the entire universe for every single Planck time of the duration of the entire universe that they’re creating.
There’s no way that they would!
As the old saying goes: Work smarter, not harder. This entity is going to create a series of clockwork laws for the universe to run by (physics), and then they’re going to let set laws do their thing, and then they’re going to stay out of the way.
Ergo, to me God and science would be (for all practical purposes) indistinguishable from each other if God exists, just based on how the universe would be started in the first place.
Additionally… no one currently knows specifically what’s going on with him, he’s been MIA for three weeks now.
His spokespeople keep saying that he’s recovering from a medical incident but no one knows which hospital or in general where he is.
I’ve seen some conspiracy theories that he’s actually dead and they’re hiding it to prevent Kentucky’s Democratic governor from sending a Democrat to Washington to replace him, but that doesn’t even make sense, as Kentucky is one of the few states where the governor doesn’t appoint remainder-of-term Congressional replacements… it’d be a special election instead.
The whole thing is super-weird.
If you’re single, you can more easily downsize your life as much as you need to in order to save money.
I’m in my 40s and not single, but if I were, I’d be minimizing rent and expenses as much as I possibly could to get more money saved and invested.
Hell, people do crazy creative things to avoid rent, like intentional vehicle dwelling, or stealth-staying in storage units due to that being way cheaper than rent. You don’t necessarily have to go that extreme, but most single people have more going out than they realize they do and have some areas they can trim.
We need a true populist party in the US, but every mechanism that’s currently anchored in place would always work as hard as possible to destroy it. Ngl, it feels kind of bleak.
Been summoned once, but I no longer lived in the state / county of summoning at the time it happened. Luckily a family member gave me a heads up regarding the summons and I was able to call and explain before I got to whatever penalty you get for being MIA for a jury duty summon.
we couldn’t reach a verdict because some people couldn’t believe a guard would just do bad things.
That’s wild.
Was the guard human? Yes? Then they are capable. Look at the evidence!
There are plenty of bullet trains in the US, shootings happen on them… like, all the time.
Oh, wait. You meant… nevermind.
Increasingly, portion sizes are starting to come down a bit. The one-two punch of shrinkflation causing the restaurants to serve less, and the spread of GLP-1 drugs starting to help people eat less, are slowly whittling away the issue over time.
The only life hack that I use on a regular basis is covering toilet flush sensors with TP. It works pretty reliably to keep them from flushing until you’re actually ready to leave.
Figured that out earlier in life when a certain office toilet would wait until I was exactly 50% done peeing, so that I couldn’t stop or dodge, and then it would power flush and send up a nice germ-ridden uriney mist. Blocking the sensor until I was done totally fixed it.
Pretty much any other life hack that looked interesting to me has been effectively pointless and did not see continued use. I don’t think I’ve ever tried one that was detrimental though… just useless.
I’m thinking about finishing out my career with that kind of transition.
I’ve always done various office work and have been good at it, but I know I’m on borrowed time.
At some point in the next 1-3 years, they’ll automate 90%+ of what I’m doing, and I’ll be out the door. And being late 40s, with the job market being what it is, and admittedly me not skilling up much most of the last decade or so… I have I just don’t have what’s needed to get back to work in favorable conditions once that inevitable canning happens.
Fortunately, I have a friend of the family who’s a long time HVAC guy, and the company he works for has been short handed for quite a while. I figure if I start training up in the very near future, I’ll be able to transition over without too many issues, and If I’m careful, I won’t have to beat myself up too much in the decade or so before I retire.
I think the powers that be have an ultimate goal of combining AI and robotics to automate the trades too, but they are much further away on that… it should be a safe space for long enough.
Seriously, this is the definition of a “work there for 15 minutes until you find literally anything else” bridge job.
Also, fully gas up your car (or make sure you’re at the top of your safe charging range if you have an EV). If you need to use your car briefly as a heat island, you’ll want to have the ability to do that for as long as possible.
If you’re doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.
He’s the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.
They said OP post was TLDR, so they didn’t see that part 🤣
Hook it up to your living room TV, and make it your entertainment station? With a good set up, you can stream on it, play retro games and emulation, miscellaneous media… I could see it being much more useful than a standard Roku / Fire / et cetera USB stick.
Some hypothetical impressionable youngster: “Why would anyone need to shake their eggs up?”
OPENS THREAD
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Hetero cis male here. I’ve always personally felt that the stereotypical male macho reaction to homosexuality is pretty odd. But I have a lot of gay people in my friends and family, and was around homosexuality a little more than some people were growing up.
If I had to infuse anything into the mind of someone scared or worried about gay people, it would just be that outside of that one detail, and their own small subculture they’ve embraced, they’re just people, the same as anyone else.
To me it feels similar to fear-driven bigotry based on racism. Outside of a little melanin (or lack thereof) and a slightly different subculture, other “races” are people, just the same as you. But rather than get to know other, some folks find it easier to be scared and ignorant and shield themselves behind hate.