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I’m pleased that she’s experiencing the fallout from all this, but whatever logic she used to calculate that political risk is baffling.

Four John Wick movies have grossed over a billion dollars on the conceit that harming a dog is a legitimate emotional catalyst for someone to kill 450 people.

Dopes to Infinity and Spine of God are stoner metal bangers, JIC anyone here isn’t familiar with their stuff from before Powertrip.

I’ve also liked that their later stuff walks a line between glam & sludge metal.

I’m a light sleeper with a loud mind, as well, so this kind of thing has always been a problem for me. The two main things I find helpful may not do the trick for you, but here goes:

First, trying to force myself back to sleep always just ramps my brain up worse and makes it more difficult than it already was to fall back asleep. I stopped trying to force the issue, which has counterintuitively sped up the time it takes me to fall back asleep. I don’t get up or engage my mind with anything significant, but if I’m awake, I’ll put soft music on my earbuds or scroll on my phone set to the dimmest setting. I may not fall back to sleep immediately, but I’ve found that lowering the pressure on myself to fall back asleep makes it happen more readily than when I spend 2 hours and 45 minutes being like “if I fall asleep right now, I can still get another 3 hours. go to sleep. fall asleep. sleep will happen… now!”

Second, I’ve increased my oversell magnesium intake. I know you said no substances, but I feel like this is different. There have been a few studies–popular science type stuff, nothing peer reviewed that I know of–indicating that magnesium improves sleep quality and the ability to return to sleep if woken up. Might be the placebo effect, but I don’t care because I’ve noticed an improvement.

Sorry you have to deal with this flavor of insomnia, too. Super sucks.

You’re fun.

I wish I would have thought of it first this time 😔

When I’m really stressed out, I’ll put on repetitive beep boop music and draw floor plans on graph paper.

Jokes aside, I would murder a coworker with my bare hands on the third instance of this.

I love their recipe for no bake cookies, though! Just 12-15 minutes at 375°, and you’re good to go.

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I was kinda hoping that in the current era, political scandals would get a new suffix. Watergate happened 50 years ago, so popular first-hand memory of it is waning.

There was a moment when I thought we could transition to [scandal]-a-lago, but it never happened.

You more of a tart apple or sweet apple person?

Cheese apples sound bomb.

Christie electric chair drops Ramaswamy, transitions to a leg-trap camel clutch: ‘Biggest jabroni in America’

Our friends and family can listen and respond to questions, practice empathy, humanize the other side of the debate, tell personal stories that are likely to intersect with our own lives, and see us as individuals with nuanced views and value outside of our political opinions.

How many people is this this the case for? My experience and the experience of my friend group might be anomalous, but empathy, humanity, and nuance are not present in my family when it comes to political conversations.

Decent quality automatic cat feeders.

We have 3 cats, and I resisted getting autofeeders for 5 years because it felt silly to buy what amounts to three $75 food bowls.

They paid for themselves the first weekend I didn’t have 3 razor sharp dickheads screaming at me to feed them at 5:15 AM. I should have bought them years ago.

I don’t think the various stakeholders will allow it to happen in any significant way (see the article), but I’ve been hoping for an office rent crunch for a while.

I’ve always wanted a dedicated home theater that’s just big enough for me and maybe 1 or 2 others. Upsizing my current living situation isn’t feasible, but I could make a wee little 150 or 200 sq. ft. office space work!

I’m a shamanic practitioner irl and this guy’s nickname pisses me off. The guy pisses me off, too. His ancestors think he’s a cunt, I bet.

I wonder how much difference one Stinger SAM would have made at Blair Mountain in 1921.

I could really go for a barrel of pizza right now.

Bureaucracy is one of those things that people like to bash, but don’t really spend much time considering what it is or what it’s meant for.

“Bureaucracy is when stupid form” is a superficial understanding of an organizational structure intended to:

• mirror the dominant governing structure, so everyone has a shared frame of reference for how decisions get made
• help keep authority is tied to a position/role rather than to an individual to reduce instances of nepotism and favoritism
• standardize oversight structures so there’s a clear accountability chain
• champion expertise so there are people who comprehend important peripheral aspects of a discipline/profession/industry that can cause compounding downstream issues

There are certainly poorly run, poorly organized, and intentionally misused bureaucracies. And we all have nightmare stories of getting bound up in procedural hell. But organizational alternatives for large, complex organizations usually end up being less efficient and more convoluted while also being less effective.