Bad habit, your brain needs a lack of talking heads when you sleep.

If silence doesn’t work for you, try something with steady noise. Some use white noise generators, for me it’s the whir from an air purifier.

Testes, check, check, testes. One, two…three??

Torontonians need not limit themselves in potential; they simply require belief and steely resolve

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Certain movie scenes. When I was a kid I watched Back to the Future a lot, and the scenes with the DeLorean always did it.

Also certain memories when they come at opportune times.

And rarely when I pee…usually when I’m too hot after exerting in the summer heat.

The exploding cigarette is hilarious! These days adult me thinks damn, that’s dangerous, but the kid is still in there laughing.

Was your brother ok, and did you get to watch it blow up?!

I decided to have a trial run with one of those in the sixth grade cafeteria. It certainly did the job, and I had some time with the vice principal.

Itch powder also works.

You stressed the shit out of stress, careful or you’ll rupture something!

Spain can’t give them justice any more than FIFA can for unfairly influencing those games through various means.

Given every advantage, including England down to 10 players, I’m glad the crowd of ~70,000 Mexico fans went away disappointed. They were having tantrums over every little thing and booing the opposition every second of possession, so it was good to have them silenced.

In shorts, unless you’re kicking a ball, high socks make you look like a dork

The same companies who know firsthand that early adoption is most often foolish based on what they tend to put users through. What a huge, expensive race for a half-baked product with no guarantee of value.

I find the sign condescending, shaming, and presumptuous (40%). If I owned the place that’s not how I’d want it represented when people come in.

Restaurants are already expensive before factoring in tips. If the place gets a reputation that our staff are accustomed to 40% gratuity the business may struggle.

The US restaurant system is broken. Pressuring the customers you rely on, who face the same economic hardships as you, is not going to fix it.

It always makes me think of black folks telling funny stories, like:

“Everybody was minding their business, ain’t nobody said shit. This fool walks in with a whole ass baked potato in his mouth like it’s normal…”

So I enjoy the memes from that angle, even if they’re not coming from the original intent.

That said, even that angle doesn’t make this one work.

I was mid-late teens when the internet started to become widespread. I didn’t like the idea, had a bad feeling about it. Then I relaxed a bit and the more I used it, became comfortable with it.

Social media is what I was initially worried about, though I wouldn’t have been able to know it back then. I"d want the pre-internet world back if I had one wish.

People were generally more respectful and forgiving to one another. There was a sense of we’re in this together that has steadily eroded. We had our problems mind you, but I was sure my generation and I would make things better. By and large the only people saying everything’s fucked were the “end is nigh” crazies in the streets.

Maybe my perspective was just more idealistic back then (excluding the internet), and the world was just as grim as it seems today.

But having college graduates reject AI–that gives me a little hope.

Rather than Eaton you may have been thinking of Schneider Electric /Square D, which is French. I prefer their stuff over Eaton.

Maybe she was saying we’re near-constantly full of shit. And that’s a big collective touché, honestly

Some of us know but keep the damn things off anyway

An in-law of mine got a smart toaster and loves it. Her elderly mom was so excited about that she got one too. I couldn’t get either of them to express an advantage over a regular toaster, they each just like having it.

I didn’t bother mentioning possible privacy concerns, more power to them if it makes them happy.

Dungeon Crawler Carl vibes