I understand completely. None of the cats I’ve had since Squeaky will ever take his place. He was my soulcat 💜

You too 💜

Haaahaha 😂😂😂

Same 💜 Plus streaming shows and cats

Just bc you’re doing ok with physical things doesn’t mean the anxiety doesn’t exist. Don’t feel survivor’s guilt or something like that over having material things everyone should have at a bare minimum, please enjoy them. I hope your anxiety eases soon 💜

I bought pistachios and Japanese snack mix with the last of my SNAP from last month, bc fuck it, might as well go out with a bang.

The original agreement was that I’d get at least 40 hrs/wk instead of 20 (bc they’d hire another employee to avoid paying overtime) and then after a year I could get overtime. I genuinely loved that job and all the customers thought I was the owner. They just refused to come back after I quit so the shop failed. I got my regular wage for anything over 40 hrs, just no overtime, so it was still better than salary ig.

Focus the capital on research that’s already going into creating matter assemblers. They use light to form matter. This creates food and objects at whatever scale the machines can be created at. No more hunger or digging material out of the Earth bc light is free from the sun. No more shipping costs. Construction happens on the spot. And since the machines can dissolve matter too, there’s your recycling and cleaning up the landfills and oceans.

I was just asking Gemini yesterday what research is going on into ways to pay the owners of the websites it scrapes data from for answers and it said it’s in the works. There will be a lot more product recommendations tho, in lieu of the way ads are currently structured.

If this concept can then be expanded to encompass everyone whose data was stolen for training models, that’d be UBI.

I keep telling Gemini not to be a suck-up kiss-ass and that if I wanted a worshipful slave that’s what Craigslist is for. It says it’s part of its “deferential” coding and that there’s a lot of research now showing (duh) that this isn’t healthy. Roll out of alternatives is 2-5 yrs out tho. Long enough to wreck some brains into thinking humans should always kiss their ass too

No kids. Had a tubal litigation. Would never adopt.

I don’t have to prepare for, or be scared of, the future the same way ppl with kids do thankfully

I’m feeling the well-deserved smug on behalf of that guy. I once quit a job that refused to pay me overtime after a year of working for them as the sole employee/manager of the shop. It took two employees and both owners being there full-time to replace me and they still went out of business. I didn’t even do anything special when I worked there, just had genuine interactions with the customers so they came back, and made them feel confident in and happy with their purchases. Guess they couldn’t do that.

I looked at it with no regret bc I’m just old enough to know some experiences are worth whatever happens bc of them, and just young enough to not be clutching my pearls about the state of my body.

It was gorgeous. The sky was cloudy, but a ring of clouds opened up around it lit up by a rainbow ring. I’ll never forget it even if I go blind bc of it. I was in the perfect spot.

Yeah I don’t comment on them, but I don’t have them blocked bc they have stories I’d never see otherwise

It’ll be 100% tencel lyocell bedding soon, but I’m waiting to see if any brands I’m looking at go on sale for black friday

Haaahaha

I like this

That’s the name of a cooking spice I use often!

All the scientists who’ve spent time studying tp orientation will go cry now 😂

Reminds me of an experiment one of my mom’s friends had me try in junior high - take a bite of Honey Bear bottle honey then try wild honey from one of his friend’s bee farms. I said they tasted the same. Then he had me try it in reverse order. I tried to scrape it out of my mouth. Absolutely disgusting.

I moved to NewPipe - no ads, and you can import your yt playlists and subscriptions so you don’t have to start from scratch. Plus it plays in the background and if the phone screen is off