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There was an option to not feel tired everyday???

On lemmy, you don’t even need to pretend to be be someone else.

This is not something I use a website for.

Shape mostly, but also texture, softness, and smell.

almond milk

waiting for a bus

absolutely, I’m a fucking delight. Eudaemonia, baby!

trufe

“Eat an entire loaf of raisin bread.”

I’ve never even seen a Whataburger

When I was homeless I slept the kind of places homeless people sleep: Libraries, park benches, unused buildings, moving busses, the subway.

When I was in the Scouts I slept the kind of places adventurous campers sleep: an igloo I helped build, on top of and under picnic tables, brush lean-tos, under the stars on a mountaintop. The weirdest was probably one time the weather turned dangerous during a jamboree and we all decamped to the nearest YMCA and I slept on the hallway floor with a towel over my face because we couldn’t turn the lights off.

There was also the time I got locked out and could wake my wife up by phone or banging or yelling. It was one in the morning the closest night if the year so I hopped the last train downtown and crashed in the break room at work on a massage chair.

I’ve crossed a six lane highway on foot twice this year. That had little to do with my suggestion to consider cycling if OP lives in a denser area.

Your suggestions on reducing car costs are good ones and I’m upvoting your comment because of them. But chill out, dude. We’re here to offer OP advice, not take potshots at each other.

Do you drive? If you live, work, and buy groceries within five miles distance, consider ditching your car and cycling instead. If you’re nervous about how feasible this is, you can save on gas by keeping the car while you get used to riding. But the full savings come when you’re not paying for insurance, parking, and maintenance of the vehicle.

So you’re also struggling with the apathy part, huh? For me, waiting tables, I just don’t think of the guests as fully human. They come in hungry and I make sure they leave happy. Giving them a sense of assurance is a part of that, but as soon as they’re out the door they cease to exist.

As to resentment, you shouldn’t be resentful of something you choose to do, or to put it another way, you shouldn’t choose things to do that harm your own well-being.

I like twizzlers

Okay, so you take a blueberry bagel and slice it and gently toast it. A little Japanese kewpie mayo, a good amount of Polish beer mustard, mix 'em together and spread on both pieces. Layer thin sliced Black Forest ham, then slices of one-year aged white cheddar. Dill pickles next but pickled red onions work in a pinch. Then a heaping handful of greens, spring mix by preference. Slap the top half of the bagel on and enjoy.

You don’t want a poker face! You want to be very expressive. But voice is even more important. Pitch voice soft and a little low, and always decreasing at the end of a sentence, the opposite of asking a question. Like a kind parent talking to a tired toddler or particularly stupid dog.

You’re trying to slip information into the person at a subconscious level, and the information you want to slip in is that you, the speaker, are trustworthy and will take care of them. It’s much easier to do this than to actually figure out and fix whatever bullshit problem they’ve created for themselves.

Note that this is not effective on people you see everyday, as they will eventually realize you didn’t do anything to actually help them. But for one-offs, work associates-of-associates, clients you’re not the sole contact for, and the more distant sort of relative, it works pretty well.

Which half are you having trouble with? The apathy, or the pretense?

It’s literally how I make all my money.

I love Dennis Hopper as Bowser in the Super Mario Brothers

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