SirSamuel

Man I really feel this

I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer

There's more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I'm spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass

Arschgeweih is my favorite, my second favorite is from Dungeons and Daddies (Not a BDSM Podcast), where they called them Women's Empowerment tattoos

The English word "devil", in reference to highly seasoned food, was in use in the 18th century, with the first known print reference appearing in 1786.[2] In the 19th century, the adjective "deviled" came to be used most often with spicy or zesty food, including eggs prepared with mustard, pepper, or other ingredients stuffed in the yolk cavity.[

I have wondered why they were called deviled eggs for a while. Now I have a greater understanding of why some of my WASP and Appalachian family think anything with more than salt and black pepper is "too spicy".

Apparently I'm from the family branch that not only buys Anal Prolapser Hot Sauce from Ace Hardware, but also makes and sells it

Dude is a wordsmith.

Time is not a mirror
It's some distorted view
Of the way you thought you was
And what you thought they thought of you

And how Donald Trump started his career as a senator in order to manipulate global politics and create a proxy war so that he could consolidate power.

Inversely, this picture could only be accurate if Sheev were a useful idiot put in place by Tarkin to facilitate keeping the Empire Party in power long enough for the banking klan to gain complete regulatory capture, with assistance from the owners of the holonet

right hand rule

Neat!

My L/R confusion is specifically spacial, and includes East/West. Clockwise doesn't seem to be influenced in the same way for me. Probably something about the way my brain processes spacial direction. Anything other than top down is a struggle though. Bolts/screws behind or under something totally mess me up too.

So judge all you like, and you do seem to like it

Oh, sorry, my tone is difficult to read over text. I forget that sometimes. I was, in fact, speaking against condemning people for their dietary decisions. Processed food is engineered to be addictive and not provide long term benefit, and obesity is like the one sin people can still condemn others for indiscriminately. But yeah, easy to read my post as the opposite of that, my bad

And man, yeah, weight fluctuating despite consistent caloric intake because of stress? Oh yes! Add to that the fact that a person has less mental bandwidth to give to dietary needs and it can become a negative feedback loop. I'm living that reality right now. Plus changes in metabolism from middle age. It sucks

I've never liked right and left as labels for turning round things, because they have no top or bottom, and thus right and left are subjective. (And yes, i know that it's relative to the "top" of the screw relative to myself, but I suffer from left-right confusion and it's just not intuitive for me)

I prefer clockwise and counterclockwise. However, if pressed, i could be convinced to use Turnwise and Widdershins

tl;dr: I 100% agree with you

As quality of life declines, addictions will rise. Anything to stave off the cortisol and get a little more dopamine. Anything to make life a little less miserable. And the most socially acceptable addiction, the one they engineer daily to be more effective?

Food

And it's totally fine to eat what you like, to have a big dinner with friends, to treat yourself. Until it isn't. Until you cross an abstract threshold from socially acceptable to being a glutton. You wake up one morning and you're a fat piece of shit draining resources and injuring nurses with your giant obese ass. Why didn't you exercise a little self control? Why didn't you go for a jog? Just exert a little willpower you lazy bastard. You deserve this. Actions have consequences.

You deserve to die on the factory floor before you can collect a pension, you selfish asshole

There are two stories here. One is that a middle aged man in poor health unexpectedly died right after finishing his shift. That's the story you read. The other is that there is a systemic abuse of power by management to overwork higher seniority workers until they quit or are in too poor health to work. That's the story I read.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtScpL5o7cg

Well, it's your own damn fault you're so damn fat
Shame, shame, shame
All the food on the shelf
Was engineered for your health
So, you're gonna have to take the blame

Not OP, but yes. My hearing is 20/20 and I can't be having with subtitles

We are the same. I compulsively read any text on screen, and miss key visual details because of it. I only want subtitles on non-english speech and Christopher Nolan films