Stephen Colbert was going to produce the series a couple years ago, but he seems to have moved on since then :(

I wonder if part of it is because food is less nutritious than it used to be. So we eat more to unconsciously fulfill our nutrition needs, inadvertently also eating enough to help increase weight. I’m not saying this is the answer, but it may be a contributing cause.

You vote for the person you want in office in the primaries, and you vote against the person you don’t want in office in the generals.

somewhere along the way, we turned roads into a political argument. We argue over “DEI bike lanes.” We argue over “equity.” We argue over ideology. […] The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics.

Once again, the right-wing echosphere applies identity-politics labels to something, and once again it’s the left’s fault that that label has been applied.

How about instead of lecturing the left over how to appeal to the right, you go after the right and tell them to stop automatically tuning out the moment they hear one of the phrases they’ve been programmed to react irrationally and emotionally to.

For people who don’t want to send traffic to the Washington Examiner - https://archive.ph/WPJe5

It’s worse having to dig through a bunch of garbage to find the cable you want

Eh. I coil them up in type-sorted ziplocs with labels, and put them in function-sorted drawers (audio, tv/media, PC interior, phone, etc). Doesn’t take long to find anything.

it seems pretty difficult to find ways to bracket dates on search engines

Are you searching on your phone? I haven’t used Google in a while, but it used to be that you could enter specific dates for custom search ranges on news articles - but only in desktop mode. If you’re searching on your phone, try switching to desktop mode, then entering your custom dates.

What happens when you need to replace your pacemaker?

I also rush to take a label for me that I am this, this and this, and get myself limited to that specific identity.

It sounds like you know what the basic problem is: you find something, and take it as a part of your actual identity, letting it define you.

Instead of focusing on just one thing and labeling yourself with it, do many things - and have them be things that you do.

And sit down and think about what you’re finding so attractive about these things, then work against that attraction. Is it because these groups offer a community? Then don’t link yourself to just one community. Is it because it gives you a pre-set list of approved behaviors and opinions? Explore beyond the approved. Is it because you’re not sure who you are and this makes you easier with yourself (something we all go through)? Go out and do a variety of things - do things by yourself, do them with others, go places and do things that you wouldn’t normally.

Don’t focus exclusively on one group or type of groups, look for a range of groups and activities. And if there’s something interesting that you can’t find a group for, go do it anyway, just because it interests you.

Good luck!

This is possibly a temporary solution, but if they’re restructuring, ask them if there’s a place in the new structure that you could fit into, even if it’s for a lower amount of pay. If applicable, emphasize your knowledge of the organization, procedures, processes, etc - all the nuanced institutional knowledge that you have. Even if the new job isn’t directly in your skill set, even if it’s a pay cut or part-time/less hours, it can buy you time to look for a new job.

Well, that’s an incredibly disappointing store … :(

The only one I feel bad for is the kid

Multiple kids and I assume a wife.

I’m also willing to feel sad for the guy who died. Because we don’t know what way he voted; and even if he did vote for the Orange Evil, I try to limit my “you died” schadenfreude to policy makers and policy influencers (billionaires, politicians, Fox “News” hosts, podcasters, etc).

Food processor. I have issues with my hands and the ability to slice, chop, and blend items with minimal hand use is just fantastic.

When I left reddit, I asked for accounts on both tildes and kbin. Except tildes was onboarding people in batches, so I’d been active on kbin for like a week before I could create my tildes account, and I just never got momentum over there because of it

Manosphere dudebros.

Lmao, isn’t that Zuckerberg’s motto - Move fast, break things.

I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I’m disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.

You don’t negotiate with terrorists, Nazis, or billionaires.

You can read about The Thermocline of Trust, which I found interesting.

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Just as the Earth rotates around the Sun, the Sun rotates around the center of the galaxy. […] this means we take around 230 million years […] to complete an orbit around the galactic center of the Milky Way. […] sharks, which evolved around 450 million years ago, have hitched a lift on our planet around the galaxy twice. To put it another more flattering way, they are around two galactic years old.

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