I don’t know if I would call Clerks a slow-paced movie, like the plot barely advances at all throughout the entire movie, and I get that, but the movie is not really about the plot, it’s about a series of seemingly unconnected events that happen in an average, nondescript location in New Jersey, and getting to people watch as the weirdness erupts around the one seemingly normal person in the entire film.

The dude has been doing cocaine for like the last 55 years.

He probably hasn’t had a sober day in longer than most of us have been alive, And eventually, whatever dark magics it is that sustains him will fade. And we will never think of or hear about this guy ever again.

Call JG Wentworth! 877-CASH NOW!

I have a friend who went through something pretty similar, ended up spending ten years alone except for when people would come over to see him.

Eventually he pulled out of it and is married now, And if everything can work out for him, then it can work out for you too.

And also, like, don’t worry about your opinion of yourself and thinking that you’re gross, because it really doesn’t matter. Like, the things that you’re concerned about are never the things that other people are concerned about.

If you are clean and somewhat presentable, everything else can take care of itself. No matter what you look like or what you think you look like, there is going to be somebody out there who sees you as the most attractive, beautiful, desirable being on the planet if you give them the opportunity.

I’ll step up. I was raised in the south by… well, okay by the kind of racist white people that say they are not racist even though they don’t like people of other colors inside of their field of vision.

I am not white myself, and so I got preferential treatment. I was “one of the good ones”.

Plus, as a Native American, I kind of had like this weird, beneficent racism thing where they were like, oh, he can talk to horses, and he can hear it in the trees, and see it in the wind, all of that stupid shit.

Anyway, I didn’t really mind people of color, black people, I would talk to them and be friendly with them because I didn’t have any reason not to be, right?

But sometime around when I was 18 years old, I suddenly realized that I would change my way of speaking when I was around black people. I would say things like, “yo, dog, what’s up?” Instead of, “hey man, how’s it going?”

And I realized now that that is ingratiating behavior. I wanted the other people I was around to feel more comfortable with me, and so I was imitating what I assumed was their speech pattern.

But I also realized that I was pigeonholing them into acting a particular way. I was maintaining the concept that “Black people talk like black people” instead of “people just talk”.

Once I realized I was doing that, I dropped the act and started continuing to be myself when I was around people of different races.

And you know, I made better friends that way. People liked me more and they responded more favorably to me, which to me feels like justification that I made the right decision.

My ex often got frustrated with me because I spend so much time in the planning phase, like learning about things, researching the various options, and making sure that everything is fully prepped and laid out before I start on a project.

Despite all of that, I have yet to have a project go to plan, Except for the one that I came up with off the top of my head.

I was redoing my flooring, and I have like a half third story that’s open, and there’s a lot of exposed transition space between the straight drop-off and the end of the flooring.

It was gonna look really bad to just put L-shaped brackets down to cover over the transition, So, spur of the moment, I realized that I could put a longer flat piece that had a beveled edge on it, and then the L bracket on top of that, and it is probably one of the nicest features in my house.

It is rather banal to be anal about pronunciation like that.

There’s even a saying about it. “I would rather a thousand guilty men go free than one innocent man be murdered”.

Kinda sounds like me when seatbelt laws came out.

At first, I was against them, not because I myself didn’t wear a seatbelt because I did, but because I thought it was absurd that we would waste time and money trying to make stupidity illegal.

Like if you make stupidity illegal, then the people making stupidity illegal would be illegal because it’s stupid to try to make stupidity illegal.

My opinion was that if you are stupid enough to drive a two ton death machine without basic protection and it kills you, then that’s your own stupid fault, right?

But my mind got changed about it when somebody mentioned to me that seatbelts don’t just save lives, they also reduce injuries.

And, given that the kind of person that is dumb enough to drive without a seatbelt is also the kind of person that is dumb enough to drive without insurance, the real reason for pushing for seatbelts was to reduce the taxpayer burden of covering the health care financial deficit caused by these stupid idiots.

It was not a life-saving measure, although it does save lives, but rather, it is a money-saving measure.

Protecting taxpayer money from stupid people is a smart move.

Now I am fully behind seatbelt laws.

I was wrong thinking that having access to information would change the world for the better.

My childish self honestly had no idea that so many people would rebel against their fellow man and common sense rather than learn and accept that they had some wrong information about something.

My hopeful naivety kept me blind to the idea that people are fundamentally stupid, and will fight to the bitter end to die like the dogs they are rather than take one step as a human being that has the tiniest little flaw.

And that includes myself.

I remember pulling out new towels from my high school gym and them being already dirty.

Then why the hell were they always so fucking dirty looking?

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Yeah. I do cool shit all the time.

Wanna come over and have a fire in the backyard and do a barbecue, drink a few beers, play some games, watch some movies, play some music, record an album, build some shit in the garage, work on cars, write stories, play with electronics, do some computer shit, like, what’s your flavor, pick your poison, I’m down for fucking anything, and if I had another me to do it with, all the fucking better.

Because of this reply, I went and double checked myself, and it turns out I said the phrase backwards. I did not change the meaning, just the order.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Where+ignorance+is+bliss%2C+'tis+folly+to+be+wise

There’s this concept called circle of influence, which is basically what things can you actually do about the things that you know.

99.9% of politics are outside of any of our individual circles of influence, And news profits immensely off of sharing every single bit of misery inducing sad and dreadful knowledge they can peddle.

So if it’s outside of your circle of influence, then feel free to completely fucking ignore it, because you can’t do a goddamn thing about it, and knowing about it only makes you sad.

Like the saying goes, where it is folly to be wise, ignorance is bliss.

That being said, if there are things that are local to you, or things that you or your friends are passionate about, that are inside of your circle of influence, take the energy you would have spent being sad about the stuff you can’t do anything about, and direct it to the things that you can do anything about.

There is a chance, albeit somewhat small, that I will finally be able to pay off my student loans in the next six months.

Started at $60,000 and now they’re down to like 14. But I’m expecting a pretty large bonus coming up in the next few months, And if it does come through and no unexpected expenses pop up to take it away, then there’s a chance.

Chances are, since this is a 15 year old, that they’re going to stick with the default install of Windows. Not a lot of people start off with Linux.

That being said, I would also recommend the AMD processor over the Intel processor just because it’s a better processor and why not, Especially if it will make transitioning to Linux easier and the future should the kid choose to do so.

The problem is, is that they basically have everybody on the planet trained to use Microsoft Office.

Because of that, pretty much every company in the world uses it.

So no matter how much they fuck it up, people are going to keep using it because of the difficulty of switching over to an alternative like LibreOffice.

One thing that I hate about it is, if a notification pops up and you are on a different screen or in a different app, when you mouse over the notification to click it to go away, rather than sending the notification away, it sends it to the background and brings outlook to the front.

So you then have to minimize outlook or move it out of the way to get to the notification screen to close the notification screen.

Also it continuously disables extensions because it’s so fucking prioritized on minimizing boot-up time that it does not give a single fuck about how much extra time you have to waste re-enabling the goddamn extensions that you need in order to do your job.

We’re paying good money for these extensions.

We want them.

We don’t care about 1.3 fucking seconds of time it takes for Outlook to start up as long as we have the functionality, and Microsoft’s Outlook keeps disabling them.

If this were a single computer, it would be a hassle. But this is company-wide, having to constantly train and go over how to re-enable the extensions that we need to keep enabled in order for our employees to do their fucking job that we’re paying Microsoft $25 a month per person for.

or how about how Microsoft forces, Microsoft accounts to be created, but won’t allow Microsoft accounts to be created using organization credentials.

But then it goes behind your back and creates a Microsoft account for every single organization credential.

And then it hides that from you inside of Edge so that you first have to remove the organization credential from Edge and then do a search and then remove the organization credential from being inside of Edge just to stop Edge from having an organization credential that it uses to track every single user in your organization and every single thing that they do.

So yeah, fuck Microsoft.