I used to think this sucked.

My life has been chock full of switchbacks. But I think that’s ok now.

Running straight to the top is nearly impossible for anyone, and certainly will burn through all your energy super quick if you happen to manage it. Yes there’s a gondola for wealthy people, but there’s no personal gratification from taking the easy way, and everyone else thinks they suck for literally hanging over us and not helping any of us climb faster, instead throwing rocks at us to slow us down.

But the thing about taking the hike, even with all the switchbacks, is that… there’s a lot of really cool stuff on that hike, no matter which path you start from or which mountain you are climbing. Those amazing things are mostly nestled where your path whips you back around. You won’t experience any of those things if you go straight to the top. And where’s the satisfaction in that?

Besides that, it turns out the top isn’t always the best place to be anyway. You get sunburn up there, there’s not a lot of room, and the air is thin. Once you make it up there you spend all your time trying not to fall down or get hurt, and maybe even building a rickety tower to go even higher, making the problem even worse.

I’ve made it what appears to me to be about halfway up, a nice stable spot with big open inviting areas and a view of the rocky expanse I’ve already crossed, and I really like it here. It may only be 1/8 the way up in reality, but I think I’m done with my hike for a while. It’s not the goal I’m “supposed” to be aiming for but this place makes me happier than continuing to work toward someone else’s goal. Toward the top of a mountain I’ll never crest because I started too far away.

And this is why all my furniture has moisture-proof barrier layers. (Actually cat vomit, but same difference)

They are cheap and look fairly nice these days (or are fully hidden as the case with mattress covers), and they save so so much money on replacing or cleaning large soft objects.

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We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.

I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.

Honestly that’s basically all I ever wanted when I’d ask my ex to come cook with me…

I then started saying “can you just come hang out with me at least? You don’t have to do anything, just hang out. I don’t even like cooking and doing it by myself while you watch TV isn’t really fun to me…”

Ex for a reason, but that’s all I ever wanted as well. Cooking used to be a social activity. It still should be.

Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.

Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.

I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.

Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.

I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger… I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus???), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction…)

If you don’t get the magnet variety, there’s almost zero risk of failure. Even the magnet variety is only going to stop being magnetic (if it falls off or the magnetism wears out).

I have a mechanical egg timer I’ve had for probably 35 years (mom got it when I was a kid and I inherited it). Super basic. Only way I expect it to fail is if I drop it, because the plastic is almost certainly brittle by now.

They are freakin wonderful little things.

When I swapped to powder it was because I could buy a jug of All free and clear (cheapest brand for hypoallergenic that I could find) for $12. I don’t recall how many loads it did, but I could get the powder online, which was at least the same number of loads but probably way more, same brand same fragrance free formula, for $4.75. They don’t carry the powder in most stores around me, I assume because it’s so much cheaper nobody would buy the overpriced liquid. Same with cheap dish powder; just not available.

Have you ever had a renfaire-style roast turkey leg? That’s what I always assumed they are, and that’s easily one of my favorite things of all time, to the point that I keep turkey drumsticks in my freezer quite often.

Do you mean gild?

I’m not a huge fan of sales tax being used to pay for transit because that still disproportionately impacts poorer people, but it’s a good start, and maybe when they have solid public transit and people like and use it more, they can transition to a better funding source like taxing the rich more, or increasing property taxes on second+ homes or something.

Overall great progress. I would love to someday have public transit near me that’s good enough to get rid of my car. I don’t live in a big urban area tho so it’s gunna be a hot minute (even tho trains pass 4 blocks from me every hour of every day… we can’t ride those because reasons…)

I’m curious how you have it that you feel that way. Do you bake it, broil, steam? Do you cover? Uncover? How long for each? What bits do you have?

I mean breast skin is not great skin so if you like that cut I get your dislike but if you do legs and thighs, baked or fried or anything where it crisps and a lot of the fat cooks out, that’s not to your liking?

I’m sitting on a scarlet nexus run… turns out there’s some other media related to it so I’m debating re-starting it…

I love those super ultra long jrpgs… sometimes… but man they are wicked difficult to finish sometimes. I think it’s around when the interpersonal dialogue starts getting redundant (because you might not watch/play through all of them, and if you do it’s repetitive), and I just get bored with the relationship building so the story isn’t holding me anymore.

Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!

I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?

Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!

I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, along with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!

Maybe our simulation attendant finally came back from the bathroom and stepped in…

(Please please please let that be the case)

I still have ps2 games in my backlog (physical collection)… won’t even say how many ps3-5 games I’ve got sitting… but it’s a lot.

Replaying botw for the dozenth time tho, then probably horizon zero dawn, I only need to do the hardest mode on that and I’ll have done it on every difficulty to 100% at least once.