I pretend (in a non-grotesque sort of way) that the other person is “dead” to me and that I could “summon” them with a “seance” (text) but it’d be terribly unnatural and there’d be an awful price to pay.

Basically if I make my breakup Practical Magic, it helps somehow heh

When do we get to the part where a bunch of UNIX logs get projected, backward, on someone’s face

Correct. I have had this problem again and again - I like top energy but I want to, you know, top them.

First one, we were sexually incompatible (both tops) which only got worse over time. We opened the relationship which doomed it.

Second one, in progress: we’re both addicts, I got sober, he’s still struggling, but I think he won’t get clean until I am actually good and gone. Enablement is sometimes not something you can avoid doing once the systems are built… resentments the same.

Nationalization is the opposite of privatization, it’s how the US’s bureaucratic state was really built, we should absolutely do this and right now is the time

I once read that humans pick by nature because the sinuses are a filter, and then the tonsils can sample that filter for germs to strengthen itself without getting fully sick.

I am not a nosepicking scientist tho so idk, take it with a grain of booger

Japan introduced brake lights that increase intensity based on how hard the driver was braking. 20+ years ago. They tested it in the US and drivers found it to be “confusing.”

Hello fellow human, can I have that address then

Actually several of them made statements along the lines of “it’s cheaper to go along with it vs the business we’d lose from the media fallout”

So they actually went the wrong way on purpose not understanding public sentiment would change

Grocery shopping yesterday we really noticed it for the first time. Things have been higher and higher for a while but now there an extra 10-30% on some goods, overnight. Gonna be a brutal year. I’ve never seen stagflation in the flesh. No one my age has.

Fabric softener isn’t soap tho, it’s like the opposite, a bunch of greasy conditioners and relaxants and fragrances designed to cling to your clothes even after rinsing.

That sounds like an average Tuesday in Texas