you’re insinuating urination?

sometimes, one thinks, any intelligence for government would be a good idea.

would it be about control? a fantasy about having access to a modernised version of a slave who is bound to do the protagonist’s oft-perverted bidding with reduced rights of their own?

you do know that you are technically dead-naming, right?

thanks to them for making my deredditification that much easier!

in this part of the world, we are blessed with stray dogs who are also protected by our supreme court. it’s quite literally against the law, for example, to prohibit the feeding of strays by animal lovers.

i once saw one of them shudder and whine at the sound of fireworks. its tail scrunched under and it pissed itself in fear and confusion. its plaintive moans were drowned out by the incessant blasts of the “mala” crackers (a literal garland of 10,000 or so crackers strung out in sequence that goes on bursting for an hour or so). the poor thing just did not know what was happening and it became a shivering ball of anxiety until the blasts stopped.

anyone who sees an innocent animal suffer like that will never, ever, want to light a firecracker again.

is this not just a manifestation of the law of large numbers?

I’m a mirror. if you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you. if not, well…

i am ashamed to say that i have driven when drunk. this was over a decade ago and i don’t remember the 13km trip taken late at night.

i am thankful that the car was found intact on inspection the next morning and i hadn’t hit anybody.

but that was the last time i drove drunk. i was a prize idiot to do so–as is anyone else who does so.

… and years and years more here. this app cannot be recommended enough.

it would deeply pain me that they’ve had to suffer staying in the closet for so long, but i would be happy that they are now free to be what they feel they need to be.

he kept trying to climb up not realising that he was getting deeper and deeper.

i put this question to my cat while parading naked in front of it.

i got no response other than a look of utter disdain.

the secret life of walter mitty is actually a short story written in the 1930s with its plot based on the captivating power of maladaptive daydreams.

stiller’s film, fine though it was, wasn’t even hollywood’s first adaptation of the story.

sorry, OP, but to call a walter mitty story one about travelling the world to find oneself is to call star wars a movie about an interstellar truck driver and his huge dog.

we need to change the parameters of success.

the current “world’s richest persons” list is actually the “world’s greediest persons” list. we need to all start calling it exactly that. we need to, as society, understand that having those levels of wealth is more a symptom of a sick and twisted mind rather than a consequence of “business acumen”.

the world’s richest persons list should be recalibrated to what percentage of one’s income has been given away in taxes and donations. think about it, if you can indulge in all your necessities, comforts, and luxuries on 10% of your income and still afford to give away the other 90%, are you not 9 times “richer” than you need to be?

separately, any company that turns an obscene profit has done so only by overcharging their customers. these companies should be vilified therefore, and not celebrated.

just an inquiry out of curiosity: why are more people not using Gimp? does PS really offer so much more?

(this is more an aside to the conversation in the OP, and as such is not meant to derail the query asked within. nor is it an attempt to pass judgement on anyone.)

i found it easier to quit smoking, frankly, than quit sugary soft drinks.

the journey was simple: i just refused to smoke the next cigarette. i kept the last half-open pack and the lighter within easy reach (i could have started again in 5 seconds, if i wanted) and did not throw any of my many backup stash packs away.

the first week was tough, and the smoking dreams persisted for about 15 months, but i no longer crave nicotine in any form.

as someone who’d smoked 8-12 cigs a day for over 20 years, it definitely wasn’t as hard to quit as people make it out to be (even though this was my fifth attempt to do so in a decade). seriously, quitting cola drinks has been the far tougher challenge for me.

sigh. why so many ios vs. windows posts?

and take care of your liver.

the iphone 5s was the best form factor for a smartphone for me. the mini is the closest thing we have to that.