Mobile gaming ads on YouTube are like softcore animations of a compilation of really specific niche fetishes.

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I’ve worked in an office and as a waiter. I was regularly working for less than a quarter of the day in the office job (and I ended up getting the fastest promotion in the history of the department), whereas I would be scolded if I looked at my phone for less than a minute in the back of the restaurant, even if I didn’t have any tables.

The first time I told my boss in the office that I was going to the bathroom he asked if I needed help finding it, then got really uncomfortable when he realized that I was essentially asking permission.

I worked for an insurance company in latent bodily injury claims (asbestos, lead paint, etc), and the symptoms of lead paint poisoning include lowered IQ, reduced emotional control, impaired risk assessment, and increased aggression.

There was a black man killed by cops for the crime of impoliteness in response to racial profiling several years ago, who had been one of our claimants. I didn’t find a reference to lead paint on the Wikipedia page, so I don’t think it’s public information and I won’t say who, but it’s unfortunately not a unique story.

Lead paint is nearly exclusively still present in awful apartments rented by slumlords to the poorest people in the US.

There’s also ambient exposure from leaded gasoline, but that’s not really an ongoing problem anymore (for now, I could see this regime fully legalizing leaded gas again). Even though lead hasn’t been legal in house paint since 1978, shitty landlords just painted over it instead of remediating it, so kids get exposed to sweet tasting paint flakes, as well as the dust released when it flakes off ending up in their homes or in the soil surrounding their buildings.

They should just call it a maize.

Your comment is appreciated, and I love the vocabulary of vivagenic and vivalytic. It’s absolutely true that I’m less social in my free time than I used to be, and I could see that as a concern among the people who love me, (and I would take that more seriously - I was talking more about societal views) but I have a much more social work life than I used to, so it’s not as appealing to socialize in my free time now, plus I’m married now and living in a tiny apartment, so much of my home time is still not alone (I’ve used varieties of “social” way too much in this comment, but I can’t think of a better way to put it).

I’m going to think about your comment though, I think especially the new vocab will help me more clearly conceptualize the benefits and drawbacks of coping mechanisms.

Just stand still (if there aren’t people behind you). They’ll figure it out and you don’t run the risk of losing your balance by a stray hip check while midstep. Plus it’s mildly annoying

Colcannon is GOAT.

People really just got annoyed about you missing the context of a comment (science fiction and cultural depictions of the future) and asking clarifying questions until you got it.

I’m from northern Connecticut and live in (southern, nowhere near any fished lakes) Germany. I tried seafood here a couple times when I first got here, but it’s just intolerably fishy for me, even in a taco bell sense.

Though I guess frying it does mask a lot of fishiness. And LJSs doesn’t try for the cachet of “never-frozen,” so it’s possible it’s actually fresher than what you get in a fancy inland restaurant…

I didn’t agree with you at first, but you might be on to something

How do you fick up that badly and not notice it? [emphasis mine]

lol

Having socially valued coping skills is honestly a trip though. I used to do community dance, and even though I was overdoing it to combat my adhd (14 hours of hard cardio a week), other people were so impressed by my “commitment.” Now that I just smoke a lot of weed, even though I do it for the exact same reasons, somehow it’s trashy/childish. Playing way too much pokemon go was a half step, where it was considered child_like_, but ultimately treated as a harmless quirk, like adult Disney fans.

I guess it’s like being a morning person (or lots of other factors that are clearly bigotry), where basically it’s just the luck of the draw and some people are assumed to be more/less capable because of random chance.

This has really been a revelatory comment chain.

I just started teaching German, which is so freeing because I finally feel like my bizarro grammar obsession is not only useful, but also welcome. The other aspects of my audhd are not as great while teaching, but you can’t win them all.

That’s actually fair. I had effective coping skills for my shit which the pandemic removed, and which I have as yet been unable to replace with equally societally accepted alternatives, is a better way to put it. Damn, I wasn’t expecting to develop empathy for myself and others through a post on c/memes, but there it is

I had my shit together for almost a full year, but then the pandemic hit. I used to think nobody had their shit together, so I didn’t feel as bad about it

That is JFK.

Did they have bribery in the form of mobile Fast Food trucks?

Basically, but not for the emperors

Holesome?

Something calling itself The Holy Roman Empire was around until the 1800s. My grandmother knew people who were contemporaries, and I’m in my thirties.

To be clear, I don’t think it’s really the same as Rome, but they seemed to.

When was that translated? Having a very large cock has meant something else for a very long time. Not as long as the story is old, mind, but I do wonder if the translator had a little fun with it.