The “ghouls” you speak of are just people who were able to afford shit back in the day.

Healthcare, a house, a few vacations abroad per year, kids and their education, all on (for the most part) just 1 job.

If you had all these things, yes, you’d probably be more FISCALLY conservative to preserve whatever amount of money you had saved and use it for retirement

Nowadays that reality has changed and was twisted into something that doesn’t reflect what it was, but the saying remained the same.

Basically shit doesn’t mean what it used to mean and people forgot that language and concepts evolve or erode over time.

Or if we want to make it more visual, on a scale from 0-100 where 0 is full liberal and 100 is full conservative, the needle was moved so far to the right that the “you’ll grow more conservative as you grow older” is now on the left side of the current status quo.

9 year old you was right.

Same with printers.

Pawn shops or jewelry stores that buy stuff might be options

Odd jobs like washing dishes at short staffed restaurants might also get you a day’s wage if you’re lucky to know some people in the business

Put one in the toilet tank.

Might not get found for a long while but going to be a really fun discovery down the line.

That line of thought is precisely why people engage with it and wait for that next hit.

Best suggestion I can offer is: don’t.

That’s kinda the point.

You’ll spent a disproportionate amount of energy trying to create content to hit that same dopamine hit it just gave you, it won’t push your content, after a bit you might get better numbers but overall nothing close to the initial one, you’d feel okay with that plateau, then another spike on a random video, and then back to the shallow waters with you so you can continue chasing shadows.

It’s an engagement trap distilled to a science, and I recommend avoiding it like the… something worse than a plague because that analogy apparently didn’t go all that well.

It’s called a hook.

And yes it’s intentional by the algorithm to keep you engaged.

So long as it stays on topic, I don’t much give a fuck about politeness or how blunt you want to be with your message.

Also not talking about religion, politics, sex and related items is precisely what makes a human ignorant and disrespectful, not many things are worse than willful ignorance and the consequences thereof.

“Stealership”

Ima be… uhh… leasing that. Thanks.

Seems physiologically unlikely since the process to orgasm should cause a rise in heart rate.

I’m no doctor tho.

I have occasional episodes of low blood sugar which cause bradycardia. I don’t know if it’s quite the same for others but for me it’s basically as follows

My body goes into panic mode and I’m borderline dizzy and having a rough time trying to focus on anything

Trying to sit down to do breathing exercises or staring at the phone makes the thoughts race while not being able to latch on to any specific thought in particular

This can last up to 2 hours at times

Takes a while before I manage to put 2 and 2 together and balance my sugar (which in short order gets rid of the bradycardia after about 15 minutes)

Similar experience here. Good panel, solid colours, good angles and handles sunny rooms well. However, TV OS’s are one of the most asinine things to exist though. Never connect that thing to the internet if you can help it and it’ll work great.

Agreeing to disagree is only applicable to matters of taste.

Example would be a preference of maple or agave syrup with your choice of cooked dough.

One cannot agree to disagree when one of the parties is factually wrong.

If you want to get pedantic the tomato is a berry.

Teaching babies how to snort powder for breakfast must be exhausting.

No. Mil-spec is an actual certified standard

Military grade is basically just “we made this shit to look like it’d be good as a prop in a movie” no actual standards, just good enough to sorta kinda sometimes work and is made as cheap as possible.

Edit; interesting comment by the other fella in the same reply chain, maybe “military grade” also encompasses stuff that’s made for specific purposes but doesn’t need to withstand rigorous standards, just be good enough for this one thing this one time and not much else

Granted, YMMV depending on country and region.

Mucha lucha

Wicked!

Monster by mistake

Paper is cheap. Recyclable. And doesn’t have the somebody “forgot to wash their hands” or “spilled some shit on these” factor that reusable ones would be subjected to

Tipping

Started this one last year, highly recommend.

One piece of advice though: Do take an occasional day or two off, especially if you notice it’s continuously taxing or hurts.

The body sometimes needs a few days to actually heal and recover before being able to climb to the next step