always helpful to remember that life is coming from you not at you

i've taken a different approach to my man cave basements are not the way

grok ai doesn't know what a merlot steak is a quick google search got me the answer: it's from the hind legs, between the round and the shank. only two per animal.

i don't know which podcaster needs to hear this but i'm not buying an eight sleep gm

coworker: "you're not worried about your 401k?" me: no, i moved that into bitcoin years ago. coworker: "wait are you joking?" me:

i'm trying to catch a possum using a (humane, relax) trap baited with marshmallows so the neighbor's cat doesn't get caught. any tips would be appreciated. so far all i have to show for it is fewer marshmallows.

i am ghibli'd out gm

optimization-focused influencers who spent their careers optimizing are still struggling on the dating scene and can't seem to optimize their way into a long-term relationship i won't name names but more than a few i've listened to have been noticeably despondent and frustrated in recent years as you watch them grapple with uncertainty about what exactly they have been optimizing towards

one of my colleagues just came back from a ski trip "with a nasty case of Covid" the year is 2025. people are quatruple vaccinated or somesuch, boosting themselves through the seasons like good pharmaceutical respecters. the argument for this warp-speeded moneymaker evolved from protection to prevention to mere symptom mitigation. and yet, here we are. people asked how she was feeling 2 days later and she said "like i'm on death's door, ha ha" at what point does a person like this pause and reflect? ever?

"It's the slavery of attachment that is hell, not the things themselves that we are attached to. It's a grave error to imagine that by giving up the object of our attachment we become free from the force of attachment itself." —from 'Money and the Meaning of Life,' by Jacob Needleman