I'm regularly reminded of something I wonce heard that was something to the effect of "most people seem to want to want to be fit more than they want to be fit".

The people I envy the least are the passionless and driveless, the ones who seem to want little more than simple material pleasure, or the satiation of basic biological urges and impulses, the ones who look down on us for daring to dream.

I'd probably double the size of Climate Crisis

I laughed at the implication that only other people who do this are authoritarians.

Yes. What you're asking for isn't completely terrible and we're apparently only allowed to have completely terrible candidates.

If it's intriguing, you might really enjoy hiking somewhere a bit quieter. Similar places, only without the bustle of cars and throngs of strangers speaks to some in a way that a convention overlook never will. A good question for a ranger could be what they'd recommend to visiting family of about your fitness level who wanted a quiet hike where they could see animals, rivers, waterfalls, mountains, or whatever you're most drawn to.

Bitcoiners love talking up certain aesthetics and architectural styles, but I can't picture them being too happy about actually paying for them. And I can already hear people conflating architectural style and build quality 😁

Life was so confusing back when adults were assumed to be infallible, and yet so often so clearly have no idea what they were talking about.

That's how you know it's bad for you.

While I think I've seen it on many friends' / neighbors' shelves (let's be honest, most climbing relating books have basically the same cover 😁), I've never read it. I did however like Espresso Lessons.

I remember being a kid, thinking that bubble gum ice cream was about as good as it got, and that broccoli was about as bad as it got. At this point in, life I find bubble gum ice cream to be off-putting to say the least, and I honestly like broccoli.

It doesn't get much better than some simple, quiet, uncluttered nature.

I sometimes like to push the buttons of my foodie friends by pointing out that their favourite burger places charge 5x as much for some sort of reimagined bullshit that's ruined with stuff that doesn't belong on a hamburger. And it tends to only gets worse from there.

Reminds me of shitcoins vs. Bitcoin, the simple, straightforward, well executed version is clearly the best, but it's hard to get rich quick off things like "simple" and "straightforward" 😂

Future generations will wish for hard times so they can have good memes.

Other than the-powers-that-be who are working on her coronation, does anyone actually want Harris? Some people do seem to actually like Trump.

Also, while I largely agree with your point, I definitely do remember lots of conversations following each of the previously mentioned elections about how unfair it was and how outdated the electoral system is.

If your hobby doesn't make your wife roll her eyes at you, is it even real?

She preaches Christianity because she wants her daughter's vagina to look like a bland, dry sandwich? That seems weird to me. Her and I have very different priorities and values.

I've used a similar analogy to describe chunks of academia. "I have no fucking clue whats going on or how it works, but I'm the expert so do this stuff that'll likely make things worse. Respect me."

I can't honestly tell if the nostr ecosystem is maturing, or if it's more like a bunch 6-year-olds with ADHD, running as fast as possible from thing to thing, abandoning each almost as fast as they got excited about it, leaving a trail of mental and emotional exhaustion behind themselves, and never really going or getting anywhere.

Yes, sexism is why exactly one competitor scored zero points.

I wonder what it'd take to get vim bindings working in SolidWorks.

I like how, at about the 12-second mark, someone's gambling so hard they have to switch up their gambling hand.

I've never nostred so hard that I had to switch nostring hands, and I'm not sure how I'd feel about a "the mind is willing but the flesh is weak" sort of moment regarding social media 😂