About three days. I get headaches, and shakey, and at some point in the first twenty four hours the hunger pangs vanish. So if I focused through something without eatung I might only realize due to headache and the empty vibrating feel.
It happens less as I get older as I understand body signals better and eat before the point when the hunger pangs fade.
I'm having a bad day, but kitty cats make me smile, so give him a pat for me. And a hug.
As a writer, this is why I'll never condemn cozy books with happy endings. This type of media, whether it's games or books or music, helps real people get through crappy times intact, even if elitists sneer that overly happy stuff isn't this or that. Usually people who are going through the worst times irl are the ones who need avenues of escape most. If you're already living through crap, you don't need media to remind you of the crap, you already know good and well that crappy things exist.
Learn why the Japanese like squid.
Even if you didn't mean to coin an euphemism, I love this new euphemism.
If you have your back to them, they don't emit light either!
Edit: Well, reflections, for you with the FANCY GPUs...
Yep. I eventually realized the car headlights don't actually have a blue LED dot included in them...my glasses and/or crappy eyes are doing something funny that splits out a blue dot.
I grew up reading paper books and I don't like how narrow my phone is, or how reading for 8+ hours at a time drains the battery so much so quickly unless I attach a tether to it to charge while I read (I don't like the sensory feeling of that phone charger dragging over my body as I shift in bed). Phones also provide too many "quick gratification" distractions like apps and social media. Also, as I get older, I have to increase text size because my eyes already sucked before aging got to them, then they got worse, and large text on a tiny phone screen is ridiculous.
eReaders have better battery life and a bigger screen and are easier to read in full sun without glare washing it out.
This is when you use the kiteh as your pillow. (It's a massage pillow; it vibrates and kneads.)
Someone said the turtle was alive, and for some reason I immediately thought of Discworld. I think it's totally plausible Discworld could exist in this universe. Probably in some place that was never conquered, like Allison's Earth. I could totally see characters like Granny Weatherwax and Captain Carrot as effortlessly being Royalty. (And double the pun with Carrot, there...)
Anyway--I did a second-take at the liberators after I read somewhere that the turtle is not a dead god but is alive, and I realized the turtle might actually be alive because Jadis is actually in there, in the glass pyramid atop the turtle.
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I didn't read that as you intended initially.
So, caveat: I think the guys in thi sthread trying to put ideals of a no-car society over the reality of what it's like to be poor and commuting every day on bike are full of shit. That said, I have spent most of 20 years biking to work in the vicinity of a big city.
In winter, you have to dress like you're prepared to be lost outside overnight with no shelter. Like, you have to learn to ACTUALLY dress for the cold, for extended periods of time. (And you have to pay attention to the weather report--if it's going to be wet, you need something that can handle being wet.) Most kids who try to bike to school try to do it in the clothing that they'd wear to drive to school. They either do not physically own the winter layers they need to stay warm, or they were never taught to properly layer.
But basically, you need probably 3 layers minimum in Chicago-type weather. Probably more if you're further north. I would regularly wear jeans with two layers of some type of pants underneath, like fleece and some other base layer, and on top I'd have long-sleeve shirt, t-shirt, another long-sleeve shirt or sweatshirt or sweater, and over all of that a heavy duty winter jacket. For my head I'd have a full-face mask with a thick warm hat on top. Sometimes a scarf too. For my hands, I'd have multiple layers, and I'd usually wear mittens rather than gloves because mittens are warmer, and I'd have more than one pair of mittens. When biking, at least one layer of mittens needs to be wind-breakery because that wind is COLD. For shoes, I'd have wool socks, sometimes two pairs, and real heavy-duty winter boots on (not sneakers or whatever).
The thing is, a lot of people who never have had to actually spend significant time out doors won't even OWN sufficient layers to stay truly warm in the cold. Either due to poverty (it costs money to buy really, truly warm clothes of the right material), or lack of knowledge of how to dress for the cold. (I lacked both when I was young!) Or they'll have thin cotton fast fashion when they actually need wool or synthetic warm-weather gear. Or they'll be concerned about looking stupid (because if you dress properly, you look dumpy and not cool.)
I don't know if this helps, but someone who loves the adult-you will absolutely look at your baby photos through the same filter as they look at you now. They'll see those photos as a little peek into the past of someone they already like. So you could genuinely be ugly as hell as a kid--but if they like you now, that's not gonna matter to them, you'll be cute.
This doesn't have such a large age-gap, but someone I knew had a crush on me looked at my employee photo (that I fucking HATED) and decided they liked my "little smirk". Why did they love the photo I hated? Because they had an emotional connection to me (on their side at least) anyhow.