a horse with two legs cut off becomes a man

Please don’t give Diogenes any ideas

I have no words for how much I hate this

Ask me this a couple months ago and I’d have opted for freezing me, no question. But I lost my person, and I’ve realized it’s not that I was afraid to die or that I wanted life to go on forever. I wanted the life I had to go on forever. That’s gone now. I’ll opt for the end date on the tin.

Whenever I’m talking to someone in person or over voice chat/on the phone that I know has a strong opinion on the pronunciation of GNOME or GIF, I pronounce it with an initial glottal stop or a sort of “zh” sound (like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s name) and insist that’s how I always pronounce it and it’s the natural pronunciation of it.

Oh my God I completely forgot about those cam house videos I used to download from limewire

Iirc, they address both the knee thing and the clothes in the books. Skin tight clothing morphs with you, and I distinctly remember one conversation about the knees thing, but I couldn’t tell you which book it was (though, my buddy Goom probably can)

If Mario ever drops into the public domain, you could make a fortune on this.

Write the movie now and wait. The day it hits public domain you’ll be ready.

“being aware of, and able to accurately diagnose the type of mental illness you’re dealing with is not the same thing as actually working to fix it”

And

“That’s bullshit. Honestly. That’s bullshit. Just because you can articulately attempt to justify it doesn’t mean it’s justified”

Also

“Sometimes things just suck and you have to deal with that for a long time”

This is the only correct form. Until this very moment I have almost always fallen on the descriptivist side of things, but this is now the prescriptivist hill I will die on.

My first instinct was to hate you for this.

Then I realized I could send it to so many people, and I became the monster I feared most.

Neither a programmer nor from California. I’m a rare southern red

Write, travel

That sounds fun!

As cold as the other people in the house will let me. I have rarely lived anywhere with functioning central heat and air (and have never liked it when I did), so generally I use window units and a cunningly devised system of curtains. I don’t care if a hallway or the bathroom gets hot, so long as the bedroom and kitchen stay cool, y’know?

In the winter I almost never use heating, except for a small space heater I just take room to room with me, and one that I run while in the shower.

It’s the same thing in that both cutting sugar from your diet and living inside a 90°F/32°C box both take all possibility of joy out of your life

If you can afford them (they can be shockingly expensive here in the states!), actual wooden shutters are very attractive and work quite well at cooling a home.

But, if you’d like to keep your view and stay cool, awnings are another option. They keep the window in shade and prevent heat from entering the home nearly as well as just blocking the window, while allowing the window to, y’know, keep on windowing.

If you’re somewhere without a ton of regulation or nosy neighbors, awnings can be made super easily with just some poles and tarps, or even a sheet of plywood depending on how much you care about appearance.

Same boat. I’m not vegan, and I’ll probably never be. I could genuinely see myself going lacto ovo, but honestly, that wouldn’t be so hard for me if I only cook for myself. But, like, it is clearly the correct moral decision, and anyone arguing that is either misinformed or lying to themselves

Yeah, that’s the level when you keep telling people “I’m really thinking about going vegan. I’m pretty sure I’m gonna do it”

I’ve never played, what do I need to know?

My answer would be something along the lines of: I think astrology is vague enough to apply pretty generally, but the interesting thing about it is seeing people’s reactions. It’s a social placebo, and we can see how different people read into the same thing. “A new experience awaits you, Aries” and we see one person anticipating a raise a work, and thus behaving more confidently and getting it, while another is expecting divorce papers, and their behavior is helping them to reach that goal, too.