Did you eat it? Because they’re delicious.

My thoughts exactly. I can’t wait to see the controlled opposition “accidentally” fumble a guaranteed win.

I thought so! I remember setting up all the computers in the labs to start playing the musical All Your Base animation at the same time at full volume. That was definitely 2000 or early 2001.

Awww shit, Pudding’s owner made me cry.

I assume the spiders would have died, and now you have delicious, brined cooking bananas!

Same, though mine wasn’t always like that.

I’m allergic to cats but live with three without issues. I took one cetirizine a day for years and I’m now asymptomatic. I can love all the cats now!

Same, it’s just running an unresponsive prime95 24/7 and Windows 95 won’t let me kill the process.

I see the point being made; however, how the fuck else might I jam several clauses into one compound megasentence - overwrought and peppered with purple prose - if not with multiple types of punctuation? Should I summarize, streamline? Clearly not: all thoughts should be expressed in full, replete with all irrelevant details. Perhaps remove unneeded, intra-sentence explanations and asides (like this one, which I’m quite fond of) of details obvious to the reader?! Never!

No AI could write with matching convolution — especially when, unlike me, it cannot do so on the toilet.

Seriously! BoF 1-3 with modern graphics and controls would be great .

You just have to push through! Willpower!

Just kidding, I hate that shit. Sorry to hear it, I can’t imagine how difficult that must be. I’ve never tried meth. It sounds like it’d be too much of what already works for me.

It could be ADHD too. It, other neurodevelopmental disorders, and affective disorders can affect how one feels about just about anything.

I have ADHD and I derive nearly no pleasure from “a job well done” unless the outcome is directly and fairly immediately beneficial.

Project completed at work? At most I’ll be relieved it’s done unless it shows off my skills, which I like - dopamine!

Baked a cake? For myself, fuck yeah - dopamine! For someone else and I don’t get any? The forecast shows a light chance of a low pressure dopamine system entering the region this afternoon, depending on how much I like the person.

It’s likely multifactorial. Transit time is going to affect microbial composition at different stages of digestion due to resource limiting and nutrient transformation effects. The digestive system also directly affects microbial composition via the immune system and modulating nutrient degradation.

I.e., two people with the identical diet and living identical lives could still have significantly different gut microbiomes.

They have a microbial oligoculture, maybe even a monoculture.

Wash yourself in the soothing glow of Mint’s DE and be born again!

Same! I saw that characteristic lighting in the preview thumbnail and got so excited.

I’ve having a week and this is exactly what I needed. I’m now getting all my news from BBC Pidgin.

English headline: Trump wants to pause migration from ‘third-world countries’

Pidgin headline: Who be di ‘third world countries’ Trump say im go permanently pause dia migration to US?

Same with “the customer is always right” having “in matters of taste” added to it as the alleged full version around the same period.

Not only is it wrong, it ignores the entire narrative that led up to the original saying. Retailers asked their front-line staff to tolerate customers’s unreasonable behavior to increase sales. That’s it. The revision shifts the blame to the customers, who should be civil regardless, but would be more likely to be so if acting otherwise didn’t have few consequences and the possibility of greater material gain.

/rant

I can’t fault you. At least we should organize into groups of 150 or less, the theorized maximum number of people that your average hairless ape can comprehend compassionately.

I propose a cell-based or council-network system that uses directly overlapping membership via 25 member subgroups, with each person a member of two groups. It maximizes empathic reach as members would better empathize with members of their two groups while increasing the likelihood members would empathize with members of a different group through the connection of another group member.

excel as an relational database

That reminds me of a story. I used to do IT consulting, years ago. One client was running their 5 person real estate office off a low quality, consumer grade, box store HP desktop repurposed as a server. All collaboration was through their U drive, plus every profile had their desktop folder redirected there.

The complaint was the classic “everything is slow”, which turned out to be “opening my spreadsheet takes 10 minutes then it’s slow”. Yeah, because that poor little “server” had a single 100 Mb jack and the owner had a 1.5 GB excel spreadsheet project where he was trying to build a relational database and property valuation tool. Six fucking heavily cross referenced tabs, some with thousands of entries. He was so proud when I asked him to explain what was going on there. He fired me when I couldn’t fix his issue without massive changes to either his excel abomination or hardware.