Yep. If you want to get woo-woo about it it is kind of interesting that the Bible says that we are the light of the world and when measured with appropriately sensitive scientific equipment it turns out we glow.

https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light

Not trying to push an agenda, just commenting on the connections that my mind makes.

I used to have one pop up ever so often on my neck, which was weird because up until a few years ago I didn’t even grow facial hair.

Just like overnight all of a sudden I would have a 2-in long white hair sticking out of my neck.

Humans emit photons as well, but very few of them, making it almost impossible for them to be detected except with special detection systems (I don’t know what they’re called).

They only look that way thanks to explosive decompression. Most blobfish are pulled up too quickly and end up expanding like that. At their normal pressures they look like almost any other fish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrolutes_marcidus

Haha, looks like Bob won in the end. Screw you, Jimmy Pesto!

https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2024-largest-password-compilation-leak/

Only everybody gets their pocket picked

I quit jobs on the spot in the past back when I was working minimum wage jobs but the only job that I have ever quit without a backup plan was my first big boy job post college.

I worked there for 3 years and I kept getting overlooked for promotions even though I was the number one or number two for Farmer every single month.

It was a contract job and nobody could tell me why I was not getting pay raises or promotions.

One day it just snapped and I was like all right I’m going to quit and I put in my two weeks notice. I told my wife at the time about it and she asked me what am I going to do for money and I said I don’t know, I guess I will work multiple jobs until I land on my feet and so I had this plan to work two or three full-time minimum wage jobs if need be to keep money coming in while my job search was going on.

Then, a friend of mine told me he had turned down a job offer for a local college and asked me if I wanted to put my hat in the ring and I said yes and I got the job.

It paid what I should have been making at the job I was at with additional responsibilities commensure it to my skill on top of that I ended up working there for the next 3 years.

I have a work friend that I occasionally chat with and I will keep this for the next conversation.

Many of the at least 400 words that are technically both nouns and verbs depending on usage can form sentences of just repeating the word.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Echoes echoes echoes Echoes’ echoes.

Mrs Missus misses misses’ Missus.

Fly flies fly.

Tests “tests” tests tests Tests’ test.

Reasons reason reasons.

They say scientists are saying this but is it like all scientists, the majority of scientists, a significant or intelligent minority of scientists, or is it just like this one person and because it’s an alarm worthy headline it’s being amplified?

What helps me is knowing that everyone is fucking awkward.

I’ve met thousands upon thousands of people and I have never met anyone who is not socially awkward, just a lot of people who are socially skilled in different ways.

The people who don’t come across as awkward are the people who acknowledge their awkwardness and own it, who give themselves an opportunity to fumble with their awkwardness and to get used to it the same way you do with any other difficult thing like math or reading or studying or dance or games.

I said all of that to say, not being awkward is not a talent, it is a skill, and you can learn it.

I was about to say. Over the counter vitamin d is so cheap you can buy it at the freaking Dollar tree.

Why the fuck do I have to spend a third of my life growing new blood cells and healing neck wounds for these mighty bitey bastards?

It’s not my fault they didn’t put $1.27 into a savings account in 1820 and are now multi-millionaires that can afford the good shit.

Ocean salinity has increased over the last 200 years, I’m just saying revert it to it’s 1800s levels.

That would be a hilarious way to discover that you were a transwoman, spontaneous combustion style.

You can buy a cheap smartwatch that will monitor your pulse, give you a pulse oximeter reading, handle text messages and phone calls, take photos, and also within a reasonable margin of error check your blood sugar for about $35 on AliExpress.

Even better, if you scour your local thrift stores you can occasionally find them for as little as $10 and all they typically need is a cleanup and a new toner cartridge.

I bought mine for $7 4 years ago and it’s still working on the toner cartridge that was in the printer when I bought it.

Admittedly, I only print about 40 or 50 pages a year but that’s a hell of a deal.

Books-A-Million and Barnes & nobles have one advantage, people that really like books like picking up the books and looking at them. It also helps that you can usually get coffee and read your acquisitions and there are board games and all sorts of things that they sell to kind of balance out the mix.

If they had come up with a good interface.

There are a couple of stores that I have seen that used to be brick and mortar or catalog based and made the transition to online but their website is terrible.

McMaster-Carr comes to mind. I’m never really sure if I have found the part I’m looking for whenever I shop on their website.

Maybe it’s a skill issue, sure, but online shopping should not require an onboarding process.

I don’t know. I got to play with a virtual boy once and honestly for the time it wasn’t bad it just wasn’t good.

Nobody wanted to stare at Red lasers play a video game, but the technology itself had potential.