happybadger

Certified Anubis Moment. Straight to The Devourer with you.

Fuck off crypto demon. You'll be facing felonies when your scam crashes.

I love how free the bike lane is all the way down, even if a painted line isn't infrastructure. This hill would be so pleasant both ways on my ebike. Great view, urban forest, 5 minute access to what looks like downtown from the high density housing. The same density of commuters wouldn't need more than a two lane bike path to not feel congested.

Poors drink water. I need emotional support water that costs $10 per bottle. Prestige water.

Healthy slop

Start by sauteing a mirepoix. If you're doing meat or mushrooms, saute those until browned as well. Then anything healthy goes in the slow cooker with some stock until it's slop. If it's something that gets sweeter when roasted, it's roasted first. I season it with a bay leaf, mushroom powder, onion/garlic salt, black pepper, and whatever works for the protein. I like my soups/stews very earthy and comforting, with healthy slop ending up being like a non-acidic borscht or thicker chankonabe.

Yeah but it looks cool as hell when I do it.

I mean, the guy didn't know that water and ice are the same thing.

What was his logic here? I still believe that but I'm curious to hear a scientific reason why.

I wish I had been born into the era of science where I'm smart enough to discover things. I can't code. I can't do calculus. I would have thrived in the 19th century where I could invent washing my hands and be considered a world-class doctor.

A cargo ebike. No insurance (very cheap anti-theft insurance if you want), no registration fees, $20/year in electricity. I can get anywhere in the city as fast as driving but that's no longer stressful. Instead of being stuck in traffic and dealing with road raging drivers, I get to zoom along nature paths with the strength of an Olympic athlete. My commute feels liberating instead of like the first and final insult of my day. It's the first thing I've purchased since a smartphone that feels like it's a foundational 21st century technology. Most of my problems with 20th century development go out the window with it.

Give yourself time and space to distance yourself emotionally from it. Delve into something that lets you reestablish your identity and do independent personal growth, then use that regained confidence to find the kind of relationship you want. I just hike exhaustively until I no longer think about them or care what they're doing, becoming more of a naturalist which helps my self-worth. In that community I can find people with similar politics who make better partners. If you try to rush your recovery from that relationship or turn to self-destruction instead of growth, you just further entrap yourself in the patterns that resulted in the last one.

I mean the period of heat death beyond that. The black holes have to be fed and eventually that matter will dry up. The universe will keep expanding and chasing thermodynamic equilibrium until some maximum point of entropy where every particle is spread out over increasingly vast distances, with such a total loss of interactions between them that temperature across the universe is 0 K. We'd be doing the Alpha Centauri generation ship thing but to find the next electron.

As existentially bleak as living through climate change is, I'm glad my brain only has to deal with the crisis of watching one planet in one solar system die. The average schmuck in Warhammer 10^10^ will be chasing the last sparks of warmth in a blizzard that will only get worse. The last habitable planet, the last active star, the final energy source they can find that will keep the temperature above 0 K for their grandchildren. They'll have every beepboop gizmo the universe ever achieves to counter the crisis but there's nowhere they can go short of making a new one, the same kind of deus ex machina we hope for but representing a new kind of hyper-death instead of just clean energy. Maybe they'll still be able to grow crops if scientists manage to duplicate physics perfectly in some kind of thing outside of everything within the next 18 months according to the latest IPCC report. Individuals aren't built to manage whatever psychic damage that causes no matter how much we abstract what it means to exist.