Alcohol. It’s easy to get and I know how I behave and what my limits are. Usually comes in a tasty package too

They all sound similar. Some, though, get really blurry. Led Zeppelin comes to mind; when I was listening through their albums they’d get pretty blurry. Seconding also AC/DC.

Well, he has a point, genitals don’t like being crushed.

But the seat design he loves causes incontinence and ED in men so I rather suspect he’s not qualified in any way.

This fucking book is like a Reddit wiki, only somehow worse than most I’ve come across. Nearly 1000 pages gatekeeping cycling.

Also he’s arguably responsible for thousands of deaths, including one in my family and I’m amazed I haven’t heard of this guy before. He’s just about as effective as Thomas Midgely!

Less than 3 min in and he’s nailed the answer to OP and the reason cycling in USA sucks. The idiots who think they can keep up with and survive a bit from a 200 horsepower 2 ton block of steel.

I’ve seen $250 preauth, I’ve seen $500+ fills too.

But there’s different ways to pre auth. The normal way I see it is that you authorize up to $XX and the CC company approves/denies it, and then you pump what you need up to that amount. That it’s got a hold on the card afterwards is I think an older way back from when they’d have signatures on everything and it’s anachronistic with tap. I remember that would show up back in the ‘00s sometimes in the USA.

There is scarcity - resources aren’t evenly distributed. You can’t have a fruit farm on the tundra, and you can’t mine uranium on Hawai‘i. It’s not possible to locally sustain a city in Arizona (ie food and water). A significant adjustment of the lifestyle to which we’ve become accustomed would be required.

More locally, I live on some prime farmland, with (usually) ample water and some pretty decent climate for a wide variety of crops. Our country is busy converting this into poorly built housing and warehouse space. There are also large portions of the country wholly inhospitable to farming, which are disdained. A similar concept is the ongoing market gardening of vegetables in the California desert. Some people are big on urban gardening and that’s fantastic, but it’s not going to supply the caloric needs even if it’s all potatoes. Vertical farms conveniently leave out the massive energy inputs (not just light and heat and water, but fertilizer and pest control too).

If we continue to abuse the resources which we have available, humanity is doomed.

What is the thread without Dragostea din tei.

Also 99 Luftballons

You need a comprehensive detox. Both those substances are depressants. When you’re off the drugs, you’re not so much sober as hung over. It takes a while for the effects to wear off. The hangover is a bad time but it takes a lot longer than a day for your body to fully recover.

“Dissociative drugs make me happy.” Perhaps you have anxiety, depression, etc. Yeah, life sucks right now too. But always being high isn’t really a solution. Therapy, antidepressants, friends, and family can help but I can’t begin to guess what your situation is.

Another person who hates getting high. I feel severely depressed for days!

Hey, that’s what I did!

I had people trying to look out for me in a way but I was an idiot and you can only tell an adult what to do so many times.

In his work The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt talks a bit about this. In my interpretation of the points he makes, humans aren’t more or less collectivist, but rather there’s points that some care for more than others. For example, left leaning individuals care more for the fairness across the group, while right-leaning individuals value conformity. From an evolutionary perspective, there’s a good reason to have increased conformity, though some would argue that in a modern world our differences are what make humanity stronger. I found this discussed it a bit, if you can’t get the book. https://www.highexistence.com/how-jonathan-haidts-6-moral-tastebuds-can-heal-a-divided-world/

He also makes a point that a shared mythology is vital to maintaining a group for a long term - communes seldom last through the second generation, while religious sects last centuries.

I’ve butchered the concepts (it is a several hundred page book), so if you’re able to get it from your library I think it’s worth reading it even if the concepts are somewhat tangential to the question you posed. It promotes a theory, which is simply one many ways to interpret a part of humanity.

In short, no, I don’t think that there’s a difference in the amount to which left or right are more communal; it’s the inclusion criteria of that community.

The entire design would need to change to meet safety standards. I don’t know that the ease of assembly and cheap low cost would survive the safety requirements.

A lot of the complexity of modern vehicles encompassing not just drivetrain but also exterior design is to squeeze fuel economy from a stone. The shape of the Willy’s isn’t aerodynamic and that’s putting it mildly. Modern standards for body panel tolerances raise component costs. Full time 4x4 is awful on paved roads and terrible for fuel consumption, so we would now use a transfer case or a AWD system, which add cost and complexity. The simplicity of the suspension design made it a death trap at speed - good for off road, no good at 70mph.

My point is that as much as I want a repairable, simple thing (car, computer, etc.) we’ve developed so much technology that even when a thing is designed for repairability, it’s going to need specialized skills to some extent - can’t fix everything with a hammer anymore. Might need a torque wrench.

The current wrangler is an idea of what a modern Willy’s would be like. It’s going to be a $40k vehicle.

ETA - Ineos Grenadier is a modern take on the classic Land Rover. Similar concept, similar departure from simple an cheap.

Took 6 days vacation instead of 5 I had “accrued”. I didn’t get paid for vacation in any case. I was working in construction. Company folded a year later; I can’t think why.

The other reason was “insubordination”. Can’t get into that with out sharing too much, but Texans are a special type of ignorant.

A family member was a mechanic and spent all their time in the garage working on barely functioning cars. In retrospect, it’s probably their autism hyper fixation.

My second car was pretty nice, but it was murderously expensive to have services done, and the internet community around it was fairly firm about doing specific preventative maintenance. So I did that.

I’m not really a car guy anymore, because I don’t have the time to work on the cars like I want to, and I don’t have the space either. There’s too many other cars on the roads, which makes spirited driving dangerous. Now, I live vicariously through YouTube channels and mainly drive a toaster EV.

They just worked harder than the rest of us and had good ideas at the right time.

Erm, no, that still doesn’t make their labour worth thousands of times more than the next person.

People I talk to know millionaire workaholics and think that but for some timing that person would be a billionaire because they don’t understand how orders of magnitude work. 100k in the bank vs 1 million is a much smaller barrier than 1 million vs 1 billion never mind 100 billion

Absolutely.

You’re sensitive to caffeine because you never consume it. Your body may be a bit more sensitive than average.

When you drink one, besides the effects you perceive, the caffeine will interrupt your sleep. Particularly if you drink it later in the day, because it’s hotter in the afternoon than morning. The half life of caffeine is the half life. A massive dose of caffeine takes time to get out of your system, and while the decline is exponential, it’s still going to be meaningfully present for 12+ hrs, which is definitely going to interrupt your sleep.

Add on a lot of cortisol and probably some extra activity, which could be physical or psychological, and you got a recipe for exhaustion.

You’ve got to be absolutely positive that your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are set up correctly and working. The , you need to monitor it like a hawk to make sure that you’re not blacklisted, but beyond that, should be OK. Your email domain could get you into the junk folder depending on the curmudgeonliness of the company’s admin etc.

FWIW water grows less mould than water with sugar/flavor/etc.

Assuming USA, kleen kanteen, with a simple screw-off cap. Or yeti with those slider caps. Personally as a desk worker my water jug has no cap.

For cleaning, soaking for 20 min or so with hot water and something like unscented oxyclean, powder brewery wash, or a bit of dishwasher powder works very well at removing organic matter - for stainless and glass.

Game of thrones.

I just remember that when I go to the office, I spend 4-5 hrs fucking around doing office things. Because of distance, refilling my water is 5 min, not 1 min. Washroom is 10 min, not 2 min. If I run into someone along the way, it’s 20 min. Recognize that you’re more effective because you’re focused and at home, not stressed from and about the commute.

If you’re ahead of your work and chores - and work in an industry that makes it possible - consider over-employment as an option. Personally, I don’t need the stress, don’t have the time management, and my industry doesn’t support it.