Some kind of dementia. It's a cancer of the soul which arbitrarily removes parts of you that you can't even perceive the loss of. I had an MS patient whose vocal processing was reduced to the point that he could only say variations of "you fucking bitch". He was totally bed-bound and dependent on a mostly female nursing staff for every single need. Most of those employees were burned out and he could only communicate to them using a wildly misogynistic slur. I've seen it reduce a famous AIDS researcher and a WW2 pilot to toddlers, others to cornered raccoons, for some it's a nightmare they can never wake up from and they just spend all day/night reliving their worst memories. For a good 10% on the ward it just takes away their executive function and they can no longer control their worst impulses or recognise that they should.
Cancer and strokes are a close second for more or less the same reason, but dementia is so existentially terrifying to me.
I like beets for the same reason, but cabbage is underrated in its versatility. I'm making Romanian sarmale tomorrow with pork/beef/rice cabbage rolls: https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/sarmale/ . Much better than dolmas and the cabbage adds so much body and flavour to the dish.
I like that other Dante line that TS Eliot uses in The Waste Land: Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina / he embraced the fire that refines him. It's a good absurdist maxim for when you're trying to explain to someone that it's fun that you're caught in an alpine hail storm 10 miles from the trailhead.
I'd immediately go for the minimalist apartment. A floor bed that I can roll up, a table and chairs I can stash, just a big open space with dozens more plants and my gun.
Municipal fibre is the only good ISP I've ever had. Communities around Colorado are rolling it out. I pay like $70/mo for 1gb/s, consistently get 300-600mb/s download speeds, haven't had any downtime in a year, and zero piracy warnings using public trackers without a VPN.
Roblox is industrial-scale child labour to sell microtransactions to children, normalising the idea at the earliest stage of their ๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐๐๐.
Boot camp for the US Navy is 10 weeks and that's before any kind of professional training. Marines have 12 weeks followed by another 8 weeks of combat training just to be an infantryman.
What could you possibly learn in 5 weeks? Even my horticultural entomology class is 8 weeks and I don't think that's long enough to learn about bugs impacting a single crop.
That 15 vote crucifixion last time was so funny/humiliating. I wish this was even more drawn out. Like it's 40k years into the future and they're still voting out the God House Speaker of Mankind but can't get enough moderate republicans to do it.
I wouldn't have gotten it if not for a libertarian roommate who didn't believe it existed. They tested positive, said it was a false positive, took no precautions whatsoever at home, and then went back to work at their nursing home a day later.
Don't mind me. I'm just vaping so much that I get vape tongue, the mysterious symptom which makes me lose my entire senses of taste and smell in late 2019.
Skyscrapers are grooming my children to be lawyers. They see this skyscraper flaunting itself in public and they want to work there. They think "I'll be so free if I can just look out over the entire city", that "I can be an individual who defines the skyline". Well kids, 9/11 happens if we let this continue. It's a war on our traditional ideas of buildings and the bible says we shouldn't build tall towers.
I live in a house and I've never been hit by a Boeing 767. I don't get why the World Trade Centre didn't just follow the zoning laws and make itself small around planes. It knew planes were there and it CHOSE to antagonise them.
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