ivanafterall

I would like it to criticize me for needing to do it, at all.

Same! Sometimes I type the email in Notepad/Wordpad first.

Are you drinking your kin’s blood and tears?

Unless the changes in anatomy require more kidney activity. Consider how horses pee.

Maybe start a charity and raise money that way?

There’s no way an 80 year old woman has the life experience to compare to a 300-1,000 year old elf. There’s an inherent power discrepancy.

Also immortal. And hypersexual.

You’d think these guys would know how to open a private Firefox tab.

We don’t know their mind. We don’t know their kind. Dark necessities are part of their design.

He exposes people to chemical sludge every time he enters a room.

More like, “I’m sorry you’re stuck in the dryer. Just ignore the 830 stepbros lining up behind you, it’s unrelated.”

He’s pasty white, but one of his personalities is black.

Also, hair stylists really should be more specific. You said you style hair, suddenly there’s a difference!?

The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data to some extent by modifying its algorithm.

Because that’s what people are worried about: THE LOST DATA.

But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.

Nice explanation. I could still get behind that. I know there are woo-ey versions of it, but I find the fundamental idea of “visualization” to be pretty solid, regardless of whether the mechanism is internal, external, or purely imagined.

I think there’s a semi-reasonable way to engage with the idea. If you have some specific goal and you continually think about it/focus on it, of COURSE that will make it more likely/make you better at it. At that level, it’s sort of just tricking yourself into actually getting shit done. Like faking it until you make it–act confident and soon you’re actually confident, etc.

But I understand that most people take it further than that. I just think it’s harmless at its most basic, even as I also think it’s Oprahesque bullshit.

In fact, the odds are you will never hear the song you’d like best.

This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

*Ostensibly Tigris

For every you, there’s a woman who feels compelled to pet me because of my beard. I’ll take that trade-off.