Typically, people aren’t always bored, because otherwise, you are basically emotionally flat and depressed and soon will be suicidal. Have you seen kids that say they are bored? It just means they are not doing anything that interest them.

To get “unbored”, you most likely need to be doing something that is fun, and/or meaningful, and/or enjoyable, and/or worthy, and/or essential to survival (in a way, people who are bored may be having it too easy). It may be better to be doing something productive, personally or socially, than doing something just addictive.

Even being still meditating is doing something (like actively paying attention to the breath).

Eat them before you eat anything else. When you are hungry, foods tend to taste better, and your body is not trying to tell you to stop eating yet.

Concentrate just at the tip of your nose where the breath touches the tip leaving the body, when your breath in, think “in”, when you breath out, think “out”. Determine to keep you mind at that, but be relaxed while doing it. Works well when you are already tired, i.e. at the time that you usually go to sleep.

This is like, thought replacement. It’s a “Buddhist” technique.

I am always paranoid about having unknown wounds on my skin. Almost always chase it away, unless I really need to concentrate.

Despite the Capitol’s riot, a survey showed 1/3 of Americans thought Biden’s presidency was illegitimate. The conservatives see the lawsuits as political prosecutions.

I’d say unless the non-trump voters come out to vote in a historical number like the last election, he stands a good chance of becoming a president again. And a number of states have passed laws that would make it harder for some subsets of voters to vote.

And still wondering if he might actually come back.

The governments probably stop functioning. Apocalypse ensues.

Often, although I suspect that I just feel bad, and need to make up stories to justify the bad feelings. So, it doesn’t have to be existential.

Grease. Cheese. Meat. It’s like, the food for the Gods, if I remember my childhood correctly.

I have a hard time going to sleep. If I have any issues, I try to deal with it before going to sleep. Otherwise it doesn’t work.

Also, it appears that sometimes, the deletion fails, and the request doesn’t get federated, leaving the comment/post orphaned.

Yap, hang in there. There are good moments too. Maybe we should concentrate on those.

You know of a good read on the Swiss? They have elements of direct democracies. I wonder how that does.

I don’t think it does, having a flair in a particular sub lends more weight for that sub. I believe some individuals with high karma points tend to be more obnoxious because they don’t care that people will downvote them, but I personally experienced only one (which could be just that specific individual.) There are other who wish for tools that’ll screen out both low-karma users (spams, etc) and really-high-karma (100K+) users, presumably because of reasons along this line.

Humans often behave differently when they have coveted labels associated with them. Think celebrity, blue-birds, royalties, etc.

Well, not that I believe in it. Representative democracy. It’s like, we have the right to elect representatives, who seem to more often than not represent corporate/money interests, not really the interest of the majority.

Suspiciously specific.

Put sneakers in the fridge.