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It always meant “hallucinate”, that’s why it was funny.

I conceive of myself as a decision-making process. I’m not my body and I’m not my mind and I’m not my feelings, but at the same time I am not myself without those things; they are the filters that give the (imperfect) inputs to my decisions and execute the (imperfect) outputs of those decisions, and with different filters I would make different decisions.

The above is a very Stoic way of viewing the situation, and you’re welcome to read more.

To address your own situation, you seem to be concerned with with what I’ll call “authenticity”: are these my real feelings, is this how I really think. Don’t be. Authenticity is a trap. Human nature is kinda shitty. You can be better than it. That’s not an act or a fake; that’s ethics.

Whether you feel depressed because the world sucks or the world seems to suck because you’re medically depressed, the answers are the same: Make the world better, make yourself better (by medication if necessary). It’s okay to have something wrong with you; we all do. But you gotta try to make it better. If I don’t wear my glasses to correct my nearsightedness, that doesn’t make me noble, just impaired. But at the same time, it may seem that the world outside my window is blurry not because I forgot my glasses, but because I need to wash the window. Sometimes one or another is enough, sometimes you need to do both.

Chellenging: Getting their attention that long.

Rewarding: Getting their attention that long.

I joke a little, but seriously, homes are distracting. It’s where all the videogames, food, siblings and windows are.

But at the same time, it’s rewarding to spend that time with them; and to provide for them education on things that the public school can’t or won’t teach them, like civics, advanced mathematics, Native American history, and extra art.

It’s sad I have to include this caveat, but I want to make clear that I’m not advocating for homeschooling as a replacement for public school, but as an addition or complement to it.

It’s already plural, like pants.

cold water

No, I rinse them after hand-washing them.

“Do you have any sugar?”

I offered you sugar and cream when you ordered the coffee, and you just said “cream”. This is on you.

Have you tried complaining? It’s amazing. One of my favorite activities.

I haven’t found anything better than Jerboa. To me, the only flaw is that it will never, ever support piefed.

It’s the closest to the RIF experience.

I don’t know who a lot of celebrities are. Ariana Grande I know, but Gary Sinese? No clue what that dude is famous for or what he looks like.

it’s an image of a slowpoke

depends on how much debt they’re servicing

There’s a variant of the card game War called Spoils of War, or Sow, that adds some strategy:

There can be up to five cards max in a player’s reserves. These cards can be pulled out in any battle and added to the player’s fighting card. Opponants have to option to do the same, and the original player can respond. This continues until all players can’t or won’t add any more and the highest total wins.

Aces beat all face cards but lose to all number cards. In a reserve battle, aces count for eleven.

In any regular battle, any player can choose to sacrifice two facedown cards to place the fighting card into her reserves. The sacrificed cards go to the winner of that battle. If all players do this, the sacrificed cards are claimed by the winner of the next battle.

If the two highest fighting cards in are tied (a “war” in the original game), or there’s a three-way circle of Ace beats Face beats Number beats Ace, or the totals in a reserve battle are tied, those players must place five face-down cards for the winner of the next battle to claim. Only those involved in the stand-off play the next battle.

The winning player of each battle may place all cards taken in that battle at the bottom of her deck in whatever order she chooses.

Overall, it adds a bit of strategic depth while still keeping a small footprint in tablespace and setup time.

I’m American, we don’t have those anymore.

But formerly, people like John Kasich, Tom Daschle, John McCain

I would not want to have to open the camera every time I got on the bus, for example.

Be twice as annoying back.

fourteen states void the votes of faithless elector and replace the elector

a larger number bar faithless electors but don’t have any enforcement mechanismor one only have one that affects the elector (but not the vote), making faithless electors illegal if not impossible in a majority of states

aand I’ll just point out right now that faithless elector laws don’t do anything to preserve the power of the state that passed them, only to preserve the power of the two dominant political parties

It doesn’t work at all if electors are barred from being “faithless” by law.

Look, as long as he’s not banging my mom it’s probably okay, right?

The theory of general relativity. Honestly, I understand it better now, and it’s still pretty crazy.