This is good advice. Ignore your reptilian hind brain and act like the person you want to be.

Yeah, sometimes you’ll need to stop and think about your options before making a decision, but you’ll be better for it.

Office Space was the first thing I thought of.

That’s a fine cat, my dude. He sounds like a treasure.

This is a well written call to action: bullet points, concise headings, simple language, links to examples and reasoning.

It beats the usual manifestos that get posted.

Canadaland mentioned it in an episode a while back. I think it’s this one: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1059-substacks-founder-on-news-money-and-musk/

I thought we were all bots.

I get what you’re saying, but exports to the US are close to 20% of Canada’s GDP, so it’d be more like chopping off an arm or two.

Yes, but what about second PTO?

welcome to hell

I find existential horror just doesn’t fill me up. If anything, it makes me want to eat more.

That is a lot of text. But the bit that jumped out at me was:

But if you need a tool to communicate privately with your friends and family–even if your chats are boring, mundane, and totally legal–Signal is the best damn choice I can recommend.

And I trust them, because they bedazzled their essay with lots of furry art. Like an excessive amount. So they either know what they’re talking about or it’s a mid-effort psyop.

I hit up ebook sellers. They give you like 10% of the book as a free trial. That’s more than enough for me to decide if I’m interested.

Existential despair is best enjoyed on a full stomach.

I’m not even a Trekker/Trekkie/Yar worshipper (that last one is a lie), I’ve just been habituated to it.

According to the Telegraph, “Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty, later whittled down at the London Conference in 1921, and by the Dawes Plan in 1924.” At the same time, Trump plans to entirely let Russia off the hook for its invasion of Ukraine three years ago that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in both countries

To be paid in Apple gift cards…

I’m sorry that’s happening to you.

Here’s a picture of a ramming trireme to cleanse your palette:

Holy shit! This Lemmite is one of them! The death magic guys!

Yeah, I think that’s what made the political violence of the 1960s so gross - it seemed to be random acts of violence against commuters and low ranking functionaries.

Luigi’s attack on someone who was directly responsible for horrible stuff is much easier to understand.