Any reason for the unnecessary outlining and underlining instead of just cropping the picture decently? Ffs

Absolutely! I also do it when feeding a baby, they match your breathing instinctively and it’ll settle them down really well.

I have some tips that could help, if you’re interested. I’ve been meditating pretty much my whole life since I learned it this way. Took a little effort at first but everything fell into place real quickly, and since then it’s just been an internal habit to do throughout my day.

Step 1: Find a comfortable place to sit or recline, preferably facing a blank wall. You don’t need to be in any fancy position or focus on anything in your field of view. Find a position where your entire body is able to comfortably and completely relax, no stabilizing needed.

Step 2: While gazing at the wall comfortably, become mindful of your breath. Don’t worry about like taking super deep regular breaths or anything like that, just breathe normally - but have your focus on that breathing, internally.

Step 3: Other thoughts will compete for your attention. Our brains are super busy, that’s why we’re here. Don’t force them away - that’s a muscle you haven’t really got yet, it would be very difficult. Just acknowledge each thought, decide not to continue with it at that moment, and allow it to drift away by returning your attention to your breath. This can take a while, or a couple tries to get used to doing. Don’t be upset at yourself if it’s hard at first.

Step 4: Once you’re able to acknowledge and release intrusive thoughts, start counting your breath. Try not to do so with “audible” thoughts, but just by being aware that “this is my first breath, this is the second,” etc. When other thoughts derail you and internal speech resumes, repeat Step 3 and restart the count.

If you can do that and make it to ten, you will be meditating.

Yeah tbh I’ve never really seen anyone successfully quit through vaping. Nicotine pouches or lozenges are much more effective imo.

I’m sure there are plenty of exceptions, but like you said, the vast majority of people vaping are just maintaining.

Maybe they’re more like skeletons than zombies, who’s to say they’re infectious?

If we were talking about the normal version where one perspective does see 4 sides and the other 3, then I’d agree. But right wingers often completely ignore science and facts for what they feel is right - despite loudly claiming the opposite. They’re simply wrong about any number of things, from economics to gender studies to climate change, but they insist on their positions because of how they feel on a fundamental level - that all the common-sense folks around them think this way, their preacher thinks this way, and they don’t trust anyone they haven’t personally encountered long enough to understand. Time and time again, science has disproven explicitly conservative viewpoints, from race biology to Social Darwinism to climate change and so on. But they double down because to change their perspectives risks alienating their peers, or even worse, possibly damning them to Hell.

That’s why I said what I did. Liberals are a pain in the ass and generally incapable of accomplishing much of value, but at least they typically welcome new data that may contradict a previously-held position.

For when I want to riot and Rancid doesn’t do it, I go for RATM - “Maggie’s Farm”.

If I really need to bang my head menacingly, Melvins - “A History of Bad Men”

When I wanna feel like an immortal skeleton beast stalking a Mad Max world, KMFDM - “Hyena”

What it feels like having a conversation with conservatives

I went digging, I know I have one somewhere of a panel schedule that was downright incomprehensible. If it turns up I’ll follow up :)

As an electrician in the South, I’ve seen spelling you people wouldn’t believe.

Group chats >>>>> social media

#10 with an aging laptop that unfortunately pretty much needs to be Windows to make any sense - like, I basically just use Excel. And Word. That’s it. And afaik nothing really does Excel like Excel, which seems silly to use with Wine…

But I may build a home server type setup soonish using Linux because it sounds fun

So I’m an introverted millennial who started working for himself a couple months back. It is SO HARD to answer calls from unknown numbers with no warning. I’m just chilling and BOOM stranger on the phone.

I’m adjusting, but I live in terror of the day the spam calls start back up and I can no longer just ignore them.

They actually have really great flavor underneath the heat. I did a beer infusion years ago with jalapeño and IPA that wasn’t spicy at all but had a delicious peppery taste.

Horror

I suspected but you never know

My bad

“They would have made it woke” is the dumbest fuckin attitude to take

I have been mistaken in this case

"Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them .”

“Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.

“Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises."

That’s exactly it. They don’t fuel his narcissism anymore so he doesn’t want to bother.

“A Cure for the Itch” is always disc 3 of FFVII for me, now and forever