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Dharma Curious (he/him)
Dharma Curious (he/him) @ dharmacurious @slrpnk.net
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  • Like with most shows brought over from the UK, the us version lost a lot of it's soul, but it builds it back up over the course of the first season. It can be a little silly sometimes, and it's definitely it's own little creature by now, but it's actually pretty good. My mom loved it before she passed, and I quite like it.

  • You have no downvote on this comment (that I can see, anyway) and the urge to downvote it just for the hahas was quite strong. I won't, because people apparently care about that stuff, but I just wanted to share that I used will power this night

  • i broke

    Jump
  • "being aware of, and able to accurately diagnose the type of mental illness you're dealing with is not the same thing as actually working to fix it"

    And

    "That's bullshit. Honestly. That's bullshit. Just because you can articulately attempt to justify it doesn't mean it's justified"

    Also

    "Sometimes things just suck and you have to deal with that for a long time"

  • Once told a boss "with all due respect, and I do mean all the respect you're actually due in this moment, I won't be doing that"

  • This is the only correct form. Until this very moment I have almost always fallen on the descriptivist side of things, but this is now the prescriptivist hill I will die on.

  • My first instinct was to hate you for this.

    Then I realized I could send it to so many people, and I became the monster I feared most.

  • Had to Google that. In my day we would have called it the Masturbatorium

  • Neither a programmer nor from California. I'm a rare southern red

  • Do they deposit the cecal pellets in the litterboxes, or do they just do them any where they please and immediately munch on em?

  • I've always wondered if the people who keep pet rabbits and teach them to use litter boxes are hurting the bunnies by preventing them from doing this. Or will the rabbits just eat clay-covered cecotropes?

  • As cold as the other people in the house will let me. I have rarely lived anywhere with functioning central heat and air (and have never liked it when I did), so generally I use window units and a cunningly devised system of curtains. I don't care if a hallway or the bathroom gets hot, so long as the bedroom and kitchen stay cool, y'know?

    In the winter I almost never use heating, except for a small space heater I just take room to room with me, and one that I run while in the shower.

  • It's the same thing in that both cutting sugar from your diet and living inside a 90°F/32°C box both take all possibility of joy out of your life

  • If you can afford them (they can be shockingly expensive here in the states!), actual wooden shutters are very attractive and work quite well at cooling a home.

    But, if you'd like to keep your view and stay cool, awnings are another option. They keep the window in shade and prevent heat from entering the home nearly as well as just blocking the window, while allowing the window to, y'know, keep on windowing.

    If you're somewhere without a ton of regulation or nosy neighbors, awnings can be made super easily with just some poles and tarps, or even a sheet of plywood depending on how much you care about appearance.

  • Same boat. I'm not vegan, and I'll probably never be. I could genuinely see myself going lacto ovo, but honestly, that wouldn't be so hard for me if I only cook for myself. But, like, it is clearly the correct moral decision, and anyone arguing that is either misinformed or lying to themselves

  • Yeah, that's the level when you keep telling people "I'm really thinking about going vegan. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do it"

  • My answer would be something along the lines of: I think astrology is vague enough to apply pretty generally, but the interesting thing about it is seeing people's reactions. It's a social placebo, and we can see how different people read into the same thing. "A new experience awaits you, Aries" and we see one person anticipating a raise a work, and thus behaving more confidently and getting it, while another is expecting divorce papers, and their behavior is helping them to reach that goal, too.