This reminds me of a joke…

A new monk arrives at the monastery and is assiged to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. When he looks closer, however, he notices that they are copying copies, not the original books. The new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out to the head monk that should there be an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. “We have been copying from the copies for centuries,” says the head monk, “however, I must admit you make a very good point, my son.” The head monk then goes down to the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours pass and no one sees him, so one of the monks decides to go downstairs to look for him. When he arrives he hears loud sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old head monk leaning over one of the original books crying. “What’s wrong,” he asks the old monk. “The word is CELEBRATE!” sobs the old monk.

You know what? You’re right, reader—I deserve a little treat.

You do deserve it damnit! I know everything is 100%, but it will never be. Just because other people made bad decisions doesn’t mean you didn’t do what you were supposed to do. It doesn’t mean you aren’t living you best life. So fuck it and treat yo self. Everybody talking shit probably sucks anyway.

You’re totally correct. Everyone does have something they refused to put down. I remember reading that one poem about the ‘time has come to put away childish things’ when I was growing up and I thought ‘I’m not going to give up comics. I love X-Men.’

Well now that I’m in my 40s, my mom was going through my old toys and she found a bunch of old action figures. I took a few and put them up around my desk. I get a lot more people stopping and asking questions about them now. They might not know Shatterstar or Omega Red, but they recognize the message. Find what makes you happy. Fuck everyone trying to make you feel bad for liking something for ‘kids’. It’s all distractions anyway and I like watching an anime about the world getting turned to stone and some dude helping earth rediscover science. What else am I supposed to be doing?

I wanted to disagree with you or come up with an example of when having self worth would be better than the concept not existing, but I can’t think of anything. Maybe I had too many shrooms on my last trip, but I get what you are saying.

Medicine. A lot of plants are used in medicine as well. Asprin came from tree bark.

I used to care about pineapple on pizza till I remembered I’m not eating other people’s pizza. I tried it before. I just think warm pineapple is odd.

I did notice some pizza that Japan made. All that mayonnaise and corn made me realize pineapples on pizza aren’t that crazy.

Nice. I feel the cycle is complete.

Quick vent. My job introduced OneDrive and cloud shit through Microsoft. Yeah. I still have to tell my computer to save on itself. I’m not using OneDrive.

I hear my coworkers bitch about it all the time. It’s not syncing. I can’t save or change this or that. I can’t find it when I’m trying to open it. Why is this green or yellow? What’s up with this check? They always ask me for help because I’m the younger one that knows more about computers. I respond that I don’t do cloud shit. I want to know where my info is, but they keep on wanting me to figure it out for them.

I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.

Is there an xkcd comic for when people find an xkcd comic for everything?

Yes. A couple nerds invented a way to process and manufacture steel quickly and Carnegie bought the patent and made all the steel.

Way to not add anything of real value Carnegie. Anyone in his position would have said, oh let me buy that and then produce my steel faster than anyone else in the world. The only reason he had wealth to do that was luck. Someone took him under his wing as a kid and raised in up in the business/manufacturing/world. Carnegie worked hard, but he had a lot of luck.

Not to completely shit on Carnegie. He started donating some of his wealth away and tried to convince his peers to do the same. He could have been paying his workers more the whole time instead, but waiting to the end helps some workers that might have still been alive, at least.

They found $4.7 bill last year in back taxes. They will find a lot less than that going after the lower income brackets.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-12-13/irs-recovers-4-7-billion-in-back-taxes-and-braces-for-cuts-with-trump-and-gop-in-power

It was really just the first one he saw that they won. There were more timelines, Strange just got tired and picked this one.

Interesting enough, that’s how the Berlin wall got taken down. It was announced in the news that it was happening immediately. The actual order was going to be the next day, but when people in the crowd started taking down the wall, no one stopped them. The soldiers were told to just stand down.

This hit a little too close for me. I felt this way when I was in the military. It’s important to remember to slow down for your own sake. Civilization is getting faster but I think the individuals need to take pauses to regroup and gather their thoughts.

I tend to go on walks in the woods or beach or some other nature backdrop. Find out what works for you, but sometimes just taking time to pause and look around is enough for your brain to workout problems behind the scenes.

Sorry you feel empty sometimes. I do too. I think that feeling is a natural response to the world we are living in. That’s why I need time to slow down.

Depends on the reason, but yeah I would question this. I knew a couple separated with no plans on divorce, but only because they were too poor to afford it. They just separated and lived in different cities, so idk. And no they don’t plan on getting back together. It’s been years.

You can find discounts sometimes like that with dairy. A farm might produce a lot of milk and before it goes bad they have to turn it into to something. Some companies can make the product in bulk and then sell it at a discount because supply and demand.

I’ve seen crazy deals with shredded cheese. Like buy 2 bags get 3 free at my grocery store. That’s sooo much cheese, but they would get more profit selling it at a discount then letting the dairy expire.

As other have mentioned, you need to rest and make sure you eat proper nutrition. Protein helps repair/grow muscle along with sleeping. Your muscle needs rest days.

Look up some gymnastics arm workouts, if you want to switch up some moves. Doing bicep curls while keeping your arm straight is a good arm workout. You don’t need much weight for it either so it’s easier on joints.

It might be a state by state, country by country thing. I know in Virginia it is the day before your 21at birthday based off some court case explaining the 365 days = a year thing.

https://www.abc.virginia.gov/licenses/retail-resources/preventing-underage-sales

When does a person reach their 21st birthday? The attorney general’s office has opined that a person attains his/her next year of age on the day prior to his/her birthday. (1963 Va. AG LEXIS 215; 1962-1963 Op. Atty Gen. Va. 87)