Otter🏳️‍🌈Distraction

Wow, what an ordeal. Glad things are better!

I was 5 when I comprehended a priests saying "believe in god, and you will never die" and I knew deep down I didn't believe. So I had my first existential crisis AND panic attack that day, too! Bonus!
Took over a decade of weekly before-church arguments before my parents stopped making me go.

feel better

ah, yes, in my single days there were a lot of plot twists and subverted expectations, too.

Mornin' 👋

From last summer....

Black and white profile portrait. White bald man looking left. Light beard and black glasses. Ripping lake behind him

#MCM

Criticism is NOT an attack. That was entirely my point. You are acting in bad faith, and there's no reason for anyone to listen to you.

IIRC, they ended the draft because, funny thing, people who do not want to be soldiers tend to be really really bad at the job.

Bear2Bear sales look great.

You're misunderstanding the distraction.

The volume of bad things, the MASS of Terrible Things is meant to be distracting by overwhelming us.

No individual bad thing is a distraction by itself, and each one is in some way part of their goals. It's all part of their attempt to consolidate power.

GenX also had some parents who were terrified we would be kidnapped at any moment.
They were just fine with us staying in the house all the time. As long as we did quiet things like read.
Kids with allergies. Or hated sports and outdoor stuff.
They had to know where we are most of the time.

I was in the Forgotten Indoor Nerds of GenX.

We grew up with Stranger Danger and a big Child Kidnapping Scare, too. Some parents did NOT shove us out the door. Latchkey, but NOT allowed to roam. Very little hosewater.

We played inside. We read comics, played Nintendo/Atari/Commodore 64 games.

Yep, they tend to default to a view of children as property anyway.

I keep telling people, that was load-bearing woke.

Poor dogs. I bet fillers taste terrible.

I saw earlier that Ben Stiller supposedly responded like, "take it down, we did not give permission we don't support you... Etc"

don't those different shades of blue represent DEPTH of the water??

I feel seen.

I feel really sad for anyone claiming that AI loves them. Honey, you got fooled by Mad Libs.

Sure, your password generator on steroids is totally conscious. Totally. Consciousness is so easy to accidentally create! Sure, why not!

IIRC, bulleted lists (like recipes often have) do not "count" as content the same way that paragraphs do. So yes, the story about Grandma's Bread is for search purposes, not to bore you.

If he wanted a redemption arc, it should have started years ago, not just now when he wants to be elected. Do we normally reward people for waiting to do the right thing until it's basically mandatory?

He didn't make one mistake.
He made a series of bad choices that were entirely avoidable.

Despite common wisdom: Got a tattoo, while drunk, at a sketchy place, and didn't know what it meant. He found out later, but didn't have it removed. Then pretended to not know when the public found out.

Happy Birthday, May your tits break walls and hearts in equal measure.

The main reason there are ice makers in every hotel is so that when things get weird or awkward in your hotel room, you can escape by saying, "I'm going to the ice machine"

Yep. The first time I bottomed, I wasn't even hard and I came, hands free, I was so shocked, didn't know either of those things was possible.

same thing.

Oh yeah, those people who are WAAAY nicer to you when the boss or clients are around.

I thought I had arms, but no, THOSE are arms.