I am a human man. I like to do human man things. The activities I participate in most frequently are sleeping and eating. Unfortunately this inevitably also leads to pooping, but we all do what we must, right?

What else can I write about??.. I love gaming. I also love my family, but slightly less than gaming. Oh, also memes, love memes; these would probably come in second place actually.

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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Not quite in the spirit of what you’ve asked, but I think this still applies:

    Cold food. I have no problem with it. I get distracted by kids and my wife gets worked up about how I could come back to cold food and not heat it up. Doesn’t bother me.

    Same food every day. I’ve spent years eating tuna sandwich and an apple for lunch every day of the working week. “Don’t you want variety?” Nope. I also used to bulk cook food. So even my dinner was the same every day. Didn’t bother me.









  • There’s no accounting for taste and there’s no explaination for strong taste preferences.

    Disgust is a strange thing though. It varies a lot between people. There’s an overwhelming psychological component along with your past experience. My wife remembers seeing cow parts hanging in a butchers as a teenager and the smell of raw meat, and it has snowballed from there. She reacts really badly to the smell of red meat now. Will never touch red meat. Eats some chicken, but is going off that as well. She then became health obsessed as an adult and has slowly developed an aversion to seeing oil (whether from deep frying or naturally released from food). She also hates the smell of eggs and will only eat them if imperceptibly cooked into something. Interestingly she will still binge on sugar and salt. There’s a strong body type preference on top of that. She’s not anorexic, but I can see the steps a person might go through to get to anorexia.

    I’m the opposite. I’ll try anything. Cooked insects. Horse/camel/ostrich meat. Exotic fruit. I’ll give anything a shot. I actually try to sample as many things as possible.

    The human brain is a strange thing 🤷‍♂️







  • Are you ready for a super unpopular opinion? No holds barred? You asked for it:

    Dogs suck. I don’t like them. Glad if you do, please enjoy. But they slobber, shed, smell and are generally mostly a nuisence. They can be fun for brief periods, but they’re way more work and hassle than they’re worth. My brother is thinking of getting a big dog and I hope he doesn’t because it would make me reluctant to spend a weekend at his place. I can’t believe the number of people who seriously admit to loving their dogs more than their kids. I can’t believe people consider themselves their pet’s “parent”. I can’t believe how forcefully the online community backlashes to the idea of kids or judgemental of “ill-mannered” and neurodiverse kids, yet will happily say “it is never a dog’s” fault, no matter how “bad” the dog is.

    Cats can sometimes be ok, if they’re not noisy and don’t shed too much. But generally having animals in the house isn’t great at all.

    Thank you for your attention. Future Lemmings will look back at my comment history from unrelated threads and judge me for this, even though I’ve posted in the context of the current thread.


  • This is the way. Write a basic bullet points or headings only. Write a very basic skeleton. Then just start writing the body. Write any shit that comes to your mind. Don’t worry too much about it not being perfect, or about formatting or anything. Get a rough draft started. The important part is to just start writing something. If you can’t think or something good to write, then write some approximate shit and highlight it to know to come back later. Absolute shit on a page is much better than paralysis and procrastination.




  • My employer is forcing me to use it for documentation. I’m using it. I refuse to go through it line by line and correct the shit it outputs. I take out what’s inaccurate. But the output is a wall of text. Poor quality, poorly worded, sounds robotic, constant repetition of the same point. It’s not inaccurate but it is poor quality and the next person reading it is going to spend twice the time going through it. Forcing this AI on us is what my employer wants to spend money on, so I’m not going to spend loads of my time improving the output. I just submit. Employer doesn’t care.


  • I use the example in the meme a lot. As adults we’re in a post-scarcity mindset. If you tell a kid you can eat chocolate ice cream for 3 meals a day and don’t do it because you don’t want to (because you know you shouldn’t), it would blow their minds. You’re growing up when you get access to things and stop thinking “if you can” and start thinking “if you should”.