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Great Wolf Sif…

And now I’m crying, I hope you’re happy.

Main-lining high grade depression. It’s my go-to threat when someone tells me they think anime is ‘too silly’ to watch.

I really, really dislike social situations that don’t have formal structure to them. Professionally I can talk to strangers no problem, because roles and expectations are set, similarly I can go to a tabletop gaming convention and play games with people and it’s fine.

I struggle in situations where the rules are more nebulous, but I still manage it. It just takes practice. I definitely lean on my husband for that type of thing when I can though.

I’ve been using Garuda and I quite like it with the KDE Plasma 6 DE.

A couple of my ferals are friendly like this and I get them flea prevention when they climb in my lap.

I live in a major city

• To the nearest convenience store: 500m
• To the nearest chain supermarket: 2.7km
• To the bus stop: 400m
• To the nearest park: 1.4km
• To the nearest big supermarket: 2.7km (same one as above)
• To the nearest library: 3km
• To the nearest train station (light rail): 5.6km

Yeah, I’ve read the whisker fatigue thing, I’ve read that it’s probably not true also, but my cat bowls are wide anyway. The cat is just nuts. Like in general. Like she may actually have mental illness. The colony I got her from has produced a lot of cats with congenital issues. I have one with a vsd and another with testicular agenesis (which is apparently extremely rare).

I have a cat with a heart condition who sleeps in the middle of the floor with his eyes open. He is all black too so you can’t see if he’s breathing. It’s gotten me just so many times.

Another cat doesn’t eat directly from the bowl, instead she sits next to the bowl and spears food on her claws and licks it off like it’s a fork.

It’s just a plausible mechanism for immortality since it exists in nature and it lets you be young again. It would be nice not to have all the random pains and aches that come with age and get a reset on physical youth when needed.

It’s more like biotic reversal so no time travel, just suddenly de-aging until just before biological puberty in a similar fashion as turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish. Ideally, memory and personality remain intact. Afterwards, aging begins again normally so it’s effective biological immortality.

Hmm. Can I revert to preadolescence like an immortal jellyfish?

I don’t relish the idea of doing puberty again, but it’d probably be easier the second time.

Having spent time with people in this exact situation. I’d probably live my life like I normally do, because that increasingly fleeting sense of normalcy would mean everything. Sure, I’d spend more time with my loved ones and make arrangements and such, but I wouldn’t quit my job.

I don’t have any ethical issues with it, I just don’t find meat appetizing anymore. I’m all for having the option for people who want it though.

I only ever get push polls, very annoying.

I use the term folks to refer to my parents but that may be regional or generational.

Or his wife pegs him on his birthday.

Anything sour and sweet. Unfortunately these tend to be very acidic so they make my teeth hurt.

Second place is black licorice. I did try salt licorice and it was ok, but I prefer unsalted.

At the moment I am intensely bored at work. The job is not challenging and most of my stress comes from dealing with broken software, useless vendors or a few business units that vacillate on requirements. But:

• Most of my internal customers are very nice
• My team is eccentric but tolerable.
• I am compensated well.

But I’m still looking for a new position because I feel my brain is melting by staying here.

I used openAI/whisper to transcribe several thousand .wav files full of human speech (running locally). Much faster than trying to listen to them myself. It wasn’t perfect but the error rate was within acceptable levels.

As an individual the single most important thing you can do is vote for leaders who will make the necessary policy changes to make a difference, assuming you live in a country where this is possible. You can try to lower your own carbon footprint, and that is laudable, but the only way to change this is with strict regulation of fossil fuels and investment in renewable energy and that requires collective action.