Jesus Christ, yes, I am a comfort hunter. You think I get up at the ass crack of dawn every day for fun? You think I want to push buttons on a computer all day because I'm just weirdly into it?

No! I do this shit because I have to!

Fucking hell. I've already accepted that I have to make your company money if I want to live in a house. For the love of all that is good in this world, PLEASE do not make me pretend to like it. I'm already weirded out that you're so into it.

she says often that she hopes we get married and that she wants to marry me.

That seems like a green light to me.

Disorganized list b/c I can't be assed to format:

1. The follicles on your face will grow at different rates. Even if you're going for length, trimming your beard to let the slower hairs catch up can give you a fuller and thicker beard. I will sometimes take some electric clippers and just trim back the faster growing hairs to give my beard a more defined shape.

2. Trim the sides & mustache occasionally. Imagine a line starting a half inch or so away from your face, starting where your hair ends & sideburns begin and going straight down to the ground. Trim the sides of your beard following that line, and trim your mustache to stop the hairs from getting in your mouth. A santa-esque beard is longer than it is wide, so you'll probably need to shape it that way.

3. Your facial hair will probably wick moisture away from your skin. You're already out ahead of this with the beard oil, which is great. I personally prefer using a beard butter, but anything that keeps the skin underneath moisturized is important. One time I shaved & it almost looked like my cheeks had been sunburned.

4. This one is personal preference, but I keep my neck mostly shaved. I draw a line starting two fingers above my Adam's apple, and bring it up to the corners of my jaw. Everything below gets either shaved or at least hit with the clippers on the lowest guard. I also take my wife's eyebrow razor and clean up the top of my cheeks, to straighten out the top of my beard. Totally optional, but makes it look cleaner IMO.

TL;DR Growing a beard =/= not shaving. Trim it to give it shape, shave neck & the top of your cheeks to give it lines, continue to moisturize / oil it.

This one always makes me smile. "Shitty old bitch" is permanently embedded in my vocabulary.

At first I thought "vibe-coding" was just writing code that felt useful at the time without having like design documents or a formal plan. Literally just coding based on vibes. And I thought it was nice that they finally recognized the way I have been writing code for the past ten years when all my bosses and managers haven't.

Imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be what it actually is.

I don't know about you nerds but that skeleton is definitely part of me. I don't live in it: I AM it.

"Port" and "left" both have four letters. "Starboard" is the other one.

Learned that trick a few years ago and have not forgotten since.

The two are not in equal positions when it comes to keeping "cool heads". Pretty hard to keep cool when you've grown up being shot at and starved and driven from your home. It's easy to sit in a safe place and condemn someone else's reaction to having their home conquered and their people slaughtered, but it's another thing entirely to actually go through it.

Of course, targeting civilians and committing war crimes is bad. No contest. But people are going to fight like cornered animals when you try to genocide them. Let's not pretend like Hamas came out of nowhere.

People are a product of their environment, and people who grow up while being exterminated become radical and violent. The way to stop that from happening is not to keep dropping bombs and blocking humanitarian aid and sniping children.

"I spent $100,000 on this. Surely it can't be garbage!"

If the name "Jack Welch" does not ring a bell to anyone reading this, I highly recommend giving "Welchism" a search.

2017ish

Representatives “punched” and “body-slammed” the ICE agents, she added.

LMAO. Super soldier democratic elected officials, defeating heavily militarized police units using unarmed combat. I believe it!

As usual, Republicans accuse Democrats of being much cooler than they really are.

Love that podcast! That's how I learned about the corpse thing.

The obsession with animal corpses. The myriad bizarre diseases and conditions. The desperate attempt to bring back measles. The reckless disregard for public health. The unnerving face that dips into the uncanny valley.

Folks, I think RFK jr may be Pestilence.

Folks.

If you ever catch yourself describing how you want to torture someone to death, I want you to stop and take inventory of your priorities.

Look. I am not a pacifist. Some motherfuckers need to be removed from positions of power by any means necessary, up to and including violence.

That being said, should we not focus on restorative justice and rehabilitation? Why create unnecessary suffering in the process? The argument that things like the death penalty act as a deterrent doesn't seem to be borne out in the evidence. What good is served by torturing someone, even if they're the nastiest son of a bitch in existence?

It is important to make sure we don't let killing for sport seep into our ideology. Using violence against people is not something we should take pleasure in, let alone fantasize about. History has given us plenty of examples to draw from here; once you make a policy out of sadism, the group of people you use violence against only grows.

Also, porn is fine in moderation (like everything else) and can be made totally consensually, you terminally online freaks.

Yeah, see? I know none of these words anymore. Eigenvector! Good for you tho.

Hey folks, I've been asleep for the past few hundred years. Can't wait to see how the profit motive has universally overlapped with providing the most utility to society! Such a neat little hack.

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Uh oh. Uhhhh... Oh no...

Linear algebra. To be fair, I'm sure I learned a ton at the time. It's just super perishable & I haven't touched it in almost 10 years.

Short and too on the nose but I needed to get this out of my head. Thanks for reading!

I feel like a lot of progressive vocabulary words get used outside the contexts where they apply.

"It's not my job to educate you" is a fair and valid thing to say when someone demands you defend the validity of your identity while you're just trying to live your life. It's unreasonable to expect every trans person to explain the history and complexity of gender to every chud who gives them shit.

It is, however, the opposite of activism and super unhelpful for an activist to say while ostensibly trying to build a movement.

Similarly, "mansplaining" is not a blanket term for any man explaining anything, listening to a friend vent is not "emotional labor", and participating in cultures other than the one you grew up in is not "cultural appropriation". All real terms that point at real problems, all sometimes used outside the contexts in which they are helpful.