I wish, but history says they can keep sending bodies.

AI-assisted note-taking is already standard or close to it.

Welcome to life with narcolepsy.

For some reason, I always thought they were from the Pacific islands.

University administrators have also begun using academic performance as leverage in the recruitment campaign: students who are struggling academically are threatened with expulsion if they refuse to sign a special one-year contract with the military. If they do sign, however, they can have their academic debt written off and receive a custom learning plan upon return from the front. Human rights advocates warn that the promised “one-year contract” does not exist in Russian law, and that the document in question is legally no different from a standard open-ended military contract.

Camus’ The Stranger really spoke to me. It sort of felt like it described me in ways that I hadn’t known until I read the story.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn’t much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself–like a brother, really–I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

This is how I operate in general.

I prefer to browse all and block the communities that I really am just never interested in reading/seeing (it might be worth noting that I am a curious person who can find most subjects interesting to some degree, so I’m not going around blocking everything). Nothing against them necessarily, but I like how this gives me a very varied feed without too much content that is way outside of my field of interests bogging it down

I’ve done exactly that. Or bought multiple copies to gift to people who may or may not ever play them.

I hope all the people who keep signing up for stuff, sincerely believing my email address to be theirs, will take advantage of this opportunity.

I hated being cuddled or hugged. But I had high functioning autism, so…

I’m so happy for you for knowing what you want and going for it. I wouldn’t recommend becoming a parent that young in general, but if you’re ready for it, the youthfulness will allow you to do so much more as far as keeping up with the energy of a little kid goes.

And a few months later, I was comforting my gay friend my talking about how little direct power the president actually has. Ah, naivete.

I loved that book. No one seems to talk about that one, despite Stephenson having so many fans. I guess it is a bit dense, but so interesting and fun.

It was a good time in my life. I had a great and active social group (hard to find in adulthood!), and we would regularly get together to play boardgames, video games, go out for other activities occasionally, I’d cook for them… And my health issues were present but super minor.

Now we have all scattered to different places and I’m disabled. I’m still friends with one of the people from that group, at least.

Potential conflict?

Can probably just stick it off to the side and chew it like any other cud.

Everything burns.

The DHS funding bill would strip Democrats of any leverage they have in regards to implementing safeguards around immigration enforcement.

Really got into? The Strokes three or four years ago.

This isn’t about White House press briefings.