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@nvpkp
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7 years
Consider this your daily reminder to reject nihilism, you never know when you're going to need to believe in beauty.
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@nvpkp
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2 years
life hack work in a restaurant bw the ages of 18 and 24 not a joke
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1 year
no workplace will ever list the position of "doesn't do much but keeps morale high cos they're fun and/or interesting" but it absolutely exists
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2 years
"the world is all scripted and regimented. there is no spontaneity left to be had, nor joy, nor surprise" go work in a restaurant
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2 years
"i didn't get the typical college experience" go work in a restaurant
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2 years
"i don't know how to talk to people" go work in a restaurant
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2 years
"i'm new to a city and can't find any friends" go work in a restaurant
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2 years
"i was all alone as a child" go work in a restaurant
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2 years
"housework is gross" go work in a restaurant
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@nvpkp
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1 year
i've seen mediocre people accomplish great things by sticking around and putting in the work
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@nvpkp
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1 year
something i've done recently that i wish i had started sooner is asking my (girl)friends specifics about how their relationships actually are, like, what fights are like, how they feel about them, what is their content, how and who resolves them, how long they take
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@nvpkp
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2 months
@tallsnail if child is his occupation you better put reason for travel as business, young lady
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@nvpkp
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1 year
the jeans that fit in the store will, with wear, increase at least one pant size. the jeans that are one size down in the store will be too uncomfortable to wear enough to get to the point of being the right fit. so, too, with love
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@nvpkp
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3 years
airbnb host in 🇺🇸: the key is in a lockbox, wifi password is on the fridge, please don't contact me, have a nice trip!! airbnb host in 🇬🇷: *knocks on bed frame* yes, sturdy bed, look. you will conceive your children in my home.
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2 years
after flirtatious texting for a few months, finally went on a date with a guy who was handsome, sweet, interesting. i was open to liking him but by the end of the date i never wanted to spend another minute with him why? he was sarcastic and sad and cynical ab life
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@nvpkp
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3 years
being nice as a display of dominance
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@nvpkp
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2 years
at some point in our life, after our journey from which we've returned a champion, after we've collected our brass trophies after we buy the house in the country and win the jealousy of everyone we know we will have to face that even here, there will be dishes
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@nvpkp
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11 months
the worst thing about becoming a better person is that people think the pain must not have been that great, if you overcame it. idk.
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9 months
@mechanical_monk so my idea about why this is doing numbers 1) it’s sensorily (?) active. the emoticon is somehow making my face feel tingly 2) it gives people the opportunity to opine in a way that gives several positive signals, for instance how they are *def* familiar w physical intimacy
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@nvpkp
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2 years
they way I read this is that nobody hands you an invitation to your future. if you're not looking, years can slip by, nothing changes, and you wonder where it all went. wasn't i supposed to be somewhere by now?
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the future is not guaranteed to happen, only the passing of time
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@nvpkp
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3 years
saying "what do you mean" really is an intelligence cheat code. instantly 3x smarter.
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9 months
men, threateningly: speak now or i'm gonna start making decisions! without your input! me: oh thank god
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1 year
singing - or, any musical ability, rly - is such a competitive advantage in romance. the occasions where i've caught someone's attention by hitting the right note, or having a good voice, is uhh yeah, fascinating. you can see how their regard for you changes instantly
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@nvpkp
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1 month
@tallsnail noo are they going to take away my trees??
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@nvpkp
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1 year
sure *** is great but have you ever slowly motivated your inner circle to change their lifestyles in order to noncoercively become the healthier, happier versions of themselves, and you did it all without uttering a single word of persuasion
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1 year
we need more words for things the sadness that you can't take someone you love to a past you knew before you met them, that they would have loved, that you could have enjoyed together. the happiness that you were sure you were waiting for someone, and you were right.
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1 year
i'd like to crowd source some ideas what's a meal that you cook on autopilot just to get some food in? i'm not looking for your most desperate of meals, but something you can feel good about having eaten and that doesn't take much effort
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@nvpkp
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2 years
thinking about how it’s rare to get feedback while dating so here, a generality of all my failed flirtationshops, even some relationships, this is consistent: negativity ab life, even if the narrative is that the relationship is a happiness oasis, eventually destroys everything
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@nvpkp
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3 years
sure sex is great, but have you experienced someone putting in the effort to develop a friendship with you
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2 years
therapy started working for me when i realized this person was basically a philosopher i was hiring to talk to me regularly
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2 years
one of the weirdest things i'm still learning is that you can 100% ask people follow-up questions to whatever they just said.
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9 months
i recommend becoming an expert in a domain that seems aesthetically discordant from what you're known for
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2 years
@edgevillebank you have every freedom in the world. it only gets harder as you get more responsibilities and get deeper into your career. but this isn't advice cos i don't know yr life. trust yourself.
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2 years
part of the reason people aren’t able to fulfill their dreams, or even acknowledge them, is that to do so you kind of have to be a massive dork about it
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3 years
this is now a topic that has come up enough i want to ask here - how important is intellectual and conversational compatibility to falling in love? is it your primary draw?
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10 months
sickened that i can't bypass practice w thinking. absolutely atrocious.
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1 year
it's been 6 months and i'm still stunned by american grocery stores. someone said food is no longer a basic good but a luxury, and we're going to charge for it that way while wiping out local supply chains so there is no affordable alternative
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1 year
but conflict in relationship is the material that matters, in the thick of it, isn't it? if i put myself into society to understand myself, why in this important thing am i trying to invent everything anew, while isolated it's not a good time
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@nvpkp
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2 years
ᴀɴʏ ꜱᴜꜰꜰɪᴄɪᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴀᴅᴠᴀɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇᴏʀʏ ᴏꜰ ʜᴏᴜꜱᴇᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪꜱ ɪɴᴅɪꜱᴛɪɴɢᴜɪꜱʜᴀʙʟᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʀᴇʟɪɢɪᴏɴ
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2 years
if i am charming it is because once, i was lonely
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1 year
somehow this isn't the substance that comes up in generic "so, how are things going" conversation starters and idk maybe i felt too shy to probe there before.
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10 months
i know it's cheesy to still be into xkcd or whatever but of all his contributions to my thinking, one of the most useful has been changing "omg what you don't know about X yet" to "wow i get to be the one to share this with you"
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2 years
*googling* bible verses that go hard
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1 year
i don’t have a dream to report, but, i did just start one of those sleep tracking apps. among its many features it records sleep talking, which i’ve been told i do. wake up in the am, ok i spoke a bit, cool, but .. wh … why is there a (loud and clear) recording of footsteps
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2 years
considering that maybe “luck” was an old word for intelligence. to describe the kind of person who knows how to swim with the currents of serendipity
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2 years
what’s the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to or about you?
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2 years
noticing someone wanting to love them inventing an image loving the image spending time with them learning who they are loving them replacing the image with "them" loving them more wanting to continue to love them continuing to see them continuing to grow the love
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11 months
when i see new lines appear on my face, and my skin sag a little more than it used to, most of what i think about is wanting there to be someone who sees this change as much as i do. i think that's what love is to me. see that, honey? i made this wrinkle with you
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2 years
— i see people are taking this opportunity to preach ab the ills of toxic positivity there is a difference bw a) understanding the impact of your worldview on your life, and b) pollyanna willful ignorance, and you know it but i forgive you. being reductive is so tempting.
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3 years
has a hunch gf independently arrives at the same conclusion from analyzing the data bf
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11 months
like virginity but for if you haven’t yet cried, gasping, heaving, sobbing, trusting, in the arms of a lover
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2 years
i wonder how much of polyamory is solving the problem of how in an atomized society, monogamy removes the little contact you had w the outside world
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2 years
when that guy asked me what happened, i said “you never know how it goes when you finally meet; i just wasn’t feeling it” but the truth is smthg else. there wasn’t any trust or foundation for me to speak truthfully, which is significant considering feedback is a core value for me
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3 years
stop liking start replying
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10 months
i don't know if betrayal games have always been a thing, if i've become morally stiff with age, or both, but i refuse to participate in something that teaches us to distrust each other, even in so innocent a context as a card game.
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3 years
being a “renaissance man” means you’re rich, basically
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1 year
messed up my morning, fell into a dopamine trap, lost the day :’( we’ll do better tomorrow
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2 years
“i’m trying to learn programming, not engineering but crypto, but 20m on the computer gives me a headache. i hate social media and i have no friends nice to meet you” i cannot count the number of times i’ve had this conversation this generation is doomed
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2 years
🎬 *attempts french with a native speaker* 👨‍🎨: get our perfect language out of your mouth, even drinking water is wasted on your untrained palate 🎬 *attempts greek with a native speaker* 👵: YOU ARE YOUNG BEAUTIFUL AND CLEVER MY GRANDSON IS ALSO BEAUTIFUL ARE YOU MARRIED
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2 years
a nice writing prompt tell the events of the average day in your current life; tell it with the warmth of a nostalgia you hope you’ll have for it 20 years from now
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1 year
what's the deal with needing so much protein? if i'm 170 lbs that means I'll need 136 grams but like, half a thing of tofu and 2 burger patties is 54 grams. if i do that for lunch (which is omg sooo much food wtf), then i still have 82 grams??? how on earth?
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@nvpkp
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2 years
consider that what you restrain in yourself to protect others from is precisely what would endear you to them
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3 years
why listen to good advice when you could spend fifteen years figuring it out the hard way
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1 year
you don't have to get into psychedelics to perceive that reality has multiple contradicting layers, and they're each equally real to the people who live in them
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3 years
guy who learns things so he can teach them
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3 years
*crying* i don't want to feel like a part of the cosmic oneness, i wanna be a dumb bitch
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1 year
they knew what they were doing when they only had one wizard per village
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2 years
ive been on the other side of this side so many times. the only way ive been able to learn and grow is to be able to reflect, introspect, discuss with my friends. that’s the best i can recommend in this difficult world. i’m not sure people do it or else i wouldn’t tell this story
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3 years
i don't even know what the ?s=20 is doing i just feel like it's rude so i remove it
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11 months
oh no the view outside my window is beautiful
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2 years
*gets enlightened* wait, that's it? i thought there would be more
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2 years
what's something surprising you're tracking in your life, and would you recommend that others track theirs as well?
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@nvpkp
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3 years
curious how everyone reads this painting i’m thinking this is the monk being disturbed by his own fantasy
@michaelcurzi
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Yeah
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2 years
my suggestion is to become a dad, if that's what you want. yes, right now. you don't need a partner, you don't even need to have been on a date in the past 3 years. be inside the dad you imagine yourself wanting to be, and retire the bachelor.
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3 years
what’s the best counter-argument for “if you can’t take care of yourself how can you begin to take care of the world” ?
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3 years
we should get honeymoon period paid leave for every relationship, not just marriage; it is an injury to the human project that any of my energy be spent on smthg other than loving rn
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3 years
why are words so much better when there’re less of them
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3 years
having a conversation with a friend about the reasons he doesn’t find himself in relationships, like being unable to “reason about” them and then he said this do y’all relate? i…do not
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3 years
this may be unfair or obvious or both, but i get the feeling it is impossible to walk into marriage prepared how does anyone do it
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2 years
how do you win friends and influence people
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2 years
btw if you’re saying “people will treat me better once i heal my trauma” a lot, you may just be dealing with people who don’t care about you
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2 years
someone was ruminating recently on how yeah, okay, in 5 or so years he wants a family – a wife, children, etc – but not *next year*, which feels like it will be like this year, and so will the year after that. so how... does that happen? how does he become that person? when?
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2 years
the conversational move of "have you considered that you don't understand your motivations well enough yet" is pretty unpleasant on the receiving end, even if it's true
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1 year
one social hack is that people don't want to keep their secrets; they want someone to care enough to ask them what they are. most people will tell with little nudging. it makes them feel cared for to be poked out. wild huh?
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2 years
once upon a time i said, “someday i’d like a cat”, and then i realized no one invites you to get a cat, so i just… got a cat
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3 years
men: i’m in love with someone who is in love with me. i have to build in recovery time after i see her bc she inspires strong feelings in me and i feel empty when she’s gone. time to break up.
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10 months
girlfriend service where i am undeniably in the same room as you. i scroll on my phone for 4 hours.
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10 months
the more time i spend with people i love, the less bearable loneliness is
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3 years
what if ur complicated, high status problems like "meaning crisis" "culture war" "capitalism" are actually simple, low-status problems like "i want lil mozzarella cubes in my soup"
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11 months
i’ll be honest, i still struggle with jealousy i’ve done work to reduce the surface area of what i get jealous about by becoming the person who has those things, or doesn’t want them. but some things remain impervious to breakdown. mostly around love and possession
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1 year
“wow have you noticed you’re making an assumption” buddy –
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2 years
instituting a moral code called “be fun at parties”
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1 year
there should be something like marriage but for friends so you know that when you're old and gray, they're the ones you'll be sitting with in front of a fire talking ab how things were back when we took ourselves so seriously
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3 years
if you “went feral”, do you have a feeling for what that would be like
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10 months
how does singing work like it feels like in order to do it well you have to put emotion into it and that's a lot of emotion. does it get spent and leave a person empty? how does it get refilled or does capacity for emotion increase what's going on
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2 years
nice pain you got there, considered making it into art?
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1 year
person who was bullied: some people just need to be bullied
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11 months
gaining more and more material evidence that my colleagues dislike me. it’s aligning with some other things that’s making me feel some kind of v bad way. at what point do you accept the signals that you need to dramatically change or else live out yr life as a reject
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2 years
alas, even in our superior state, the dishes will still need washing, the clothes kept off the floor, and the broom to make an appearance once in a while but no one taught us these skills, so how do we do it? well, it seems we want a pie. so let's create a universe.
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2 years
alright, we've found our next life problem to solve due to anxiety, at my job i spend twice the effort to get half the work done i've maxed out everything i can do on the fronts of organizational, alignment, psychological, behavioral. now i want chemical solutions.
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