You just have to push through! Willpower!

Just kidding, I hate that shit. Sorry to hear it, I can’t imagine how difficult that must be. I’ve never tried meth. It sounds like it’d be too much of what already works for me.

It could be ADHD too. It, other neurodevelopmental disorders, and affective disorders can affect how one feels about just about anything.

I have ADHD and I derive nearly no pleasure from “a job well done” unless the outcome is directly and fairly immediately beneficial.

Project completed at work? At most I’ll be relieved it’s done unless it shows off my skills, which I like - dopamine!

Baked a cake? For myself, fuck yeah - dopamine! For someone else and I don’t get any? The forecast shows a light chance of a low pressure dopamine system entering the region this afternoon, depending on how much I like the person.

It’s likely multifactorial. Transit time is going to affect microbial composition at different stages of digestion due to resource limiting and nutrient transformation effects. The digestive system also directly affects microbial composition via the immune system and modulating nutrient degradation.

I.e., two people with the identical diet and living identical lives could still have significantly different gut microbiomes.

They have a microbial oligoculture, maybe even a monoculture.

Wash yourself in the soothing glow of Mint’s DE and be born again!

Same! I saw that characteristic lighting in the preview thumbnail and got so excited.

I’ve having a week and this is exactly what I needed. I’m now getting all my news from BBC Pidgin.

English headline: Trump wants to pause migration from ‘third-world countries’

Pidgin headline: Who be di ‘third world countries’ Trump say im go permanently pause dia migration to US?

He’s the US ambassador to Malaysia and another Trump cultist grifter. Obviously.

Same with “the customer is always right” having “in matters of taste” added to it as the alleged full version around the same period.

Not only is it wrong, it ignores the entire narrative that led up to the original saying. Retailers asked their front-line staff to tolerate customers’s unreasonable behavior to increase sales. That’s it. The revision shifts the blame to the customers, who should be civil regardless, but would be more likely to be so if acting otherwise didn’t have few consequences and the possibility of greater material gain.

/rant

I can’t fault you. At least we should organize into groups of 150 or less, the theorized maximum number of people that your average hairless ape can comprehend compassionately.

I propose a cell-based or council-network system that uses directly overlapping membership via 25 member subgroups, with each person a member of two groups. It maximizes empathic reach as members would better empathize with members of their two groups while increasing the likelihood members would empathize with members of a different group through the connection of another group member.

excel as an relational database

That reminds me of a story. I used to do IT consulting, years ago. One client was running their 5 person real estate office off a low quality, consumer grade, box store HP desktop repurposed as a server. All collaboration was through their U drive, plus every profile had their desktop folder redirected there.

The complaint was the classic “everything is slow”, which turned out to be “opening my spreadsheet takes 10 minutes then it’s slow”. Yeah, because that poor little “server” had a single 100 Mb jack and the owner had a 1.5 GB excel spreadsheet project where he was trying to build a relational database and property valuation tool. Six fucking heavily cross referenced tabs, some with thousands of entries. He was so proud when I asked him to explain what was going on there. He fired me when I couldn’t fix his issue without massive changes to either his excel abomination or hardware.

If you got two up votes, I’d wager at least twenty people also viewed your content without down voting. That’s a big win.

This is smart. My partner has changed their name three times in three states due to two marriages. They’ve had to substantiate the entire paper trail each time they’ve done anything relating to official identification, security clearance, or background checks. It’s an additional layer of complexity that can and has caused additional complications.

~2002 through 2007. I was a student at the U of I.

Hey, me too! I also lived in Moscow for a time and during that time went all around northern Idaho. I encountered plenty of your standard issue Idahoan dipshits but never any overt neo-nazis.

Trump is a horrible disease.

QED

I thought they were used for ass, not mouth. Clearly she went ass to mouth and paid the ultimate price.

Humans do something weird, journalist claims people who study ancient humans are surprised.

I’m not an archie, but I’ve known enough to safely say they are not mystified. Humans do weird shit.

For example: “vampire” child burial

We’re all Buddha as we’re all born with Buddha-Nature. Even Donkey.

Even Farquaad.

I had a serious love/hate relationship with that game.