Australian here. Financially things are okay for me and most the people I know, but the general stress is getting to us all. I always feel so worn down. A weekend is enough time to not want to die but not enough time to get actually rested.
I had to get a mouthguard because I’m grinding my teeth at night and the dentist said they’ve seen a spike in the number of people with the same problem. The stress is real and measurable.
Do they not know the joke is that you will definitely regret it?
God I hate corporations.
Haha, absolutely! That is why I said “sparked”. The Reformatory forces had been brewing for ages! It’s a super interesting period of history!!!
I’m pretty sure people in the wild already call him “That Orange Man” or equivalent.
We don’t have a common parlance word for those two bits of the palm in English. Do not say “heel” though, that is very wrong.
The medical term in English is “thenar” and “hypothenar”, but if you had just said “based on the palm" that would have been sufficient explanation for another speaker to get it.
You have encountered Gnostic thought (and related heresies!) The Gnostics believed that the God of the Christian Old Testament was actually Satan all along. It is an interesting rabbit hole to fall down into.
The 95 Thesen by Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation. That’s an impact that cannot be understated.
They… are?
Well, I once had chemical induced insomnia from a Pepsi I drank too late and even God himself couldn’t have fixed that one, it was annoying as heck. But what I did is I lay in bed and I thought about stuff all night. Currently I’m worldbuilding a space fic so it was mostly about space. And I started imagining what the scenes would look like, what dialogue I would write. I usually do that anyway to fall asleep but the damn chemicals did keep me up. I do not recommend the chemicals.
So I guess, for real you actually do have to quit caffeine and alcohol. Also don’t give up and look at the internet. That shit is wakeful asf. I actually use it to banish grogginess in the morning, it is better than coffee. Also! Don’t ever look at the time. If you perceive the time going by it just stresses you out which slows down sleep. Time is an illusion. Even 1 hour of sleep will improve on how you currently feel.
I guess you can try breathing and counting and stuff, I always find that I get bored doing that. That’s why I like to imagine things. But it has to specifically be unrelated to anything stressful. Godspeed my brothers.
H₁n̥gʷn̥éh₂ h₁érteti! H₁n̥gʷn̥éh₂ h₁érteti!!!
Dogs are cool but people are the best people because they can talk and invent jokes.
Hate to break it to ya bruv, but if that was the reaction, maybe the difference was in the comparative quality of the output ;)
The whole internet is scraped and they’ll never properly paid us for the words they stole.
But you could try make your own website, and including some kind of “I’m not a bot” tick thingo and then just link from here instead?
Unfortunately every second I spend not at work when I should be at work causes BIG STRESS which eclipses the regular stress that work creates.
Sometimes I have to go back to cooking on a ceramic or gas at someone else’s house and it always annoys me how long boiling water takes.
Whilst true that not everyone can practice their way into mastery of painting, I usually find people don’t even try.
I definitely prefer honest garbage to polished inauthenticity, but, based on AI usage, it seems the ordinary person disagrees. It’s sad, don’t you think?
Brother I have never once been “with it”, as the kids say, and the rock I live under gets comfier every year so I probably won’t try to change that.
I think it was mostly an excuse to post jokes, but some people do believe being repressed is a sign of a stronger person. Or that “self care” is bad in some way - most of that comes from the lingering religious shame many were brought up with.
Sorry champ, that only works on poor people. You gotta be way smarter to take down the rich.
Sure… but I’d like for them to make some sort of amends for stealing all the content on the internet to make it?
And I’d like content made by AI to have that declared so consumers can support human artists and avoid grifters.