captainlezbian

Yeah it's more like each cigarette is a bullet in an incredibly large barreled revolver that's firing at you occasionally. But it's also not the only thing loading it. Some people will survive by chance and a lot won't. Clean living will increase the odds you live long and it'll increase the odds you're healthy while alive. But there are enough people that we have plenry of pediatric oncologists and plenty of 90 year old smokers. And even the 90 year olds that don't smoke are outliers

Nothing will fuck you half as hard as random chance. For every one of those people there are a lot of people who died young thanks to lifestyle choices.

That's beautiful. When I was a teenager my friends picked up smoking. My mom had cancer so I didn't, but I did pick up stepping outside and having a chat with strangers. And yeah it's been a wonderful habit to have. That and a willingness to say yes to adventure have led to an interesting life.

For guided meditation it takes practice to learn to let go and figure out what your mind needs to enter such a state. It's a trance state, which some people are better or worse at.

For observer style I like to do mild exercise (walking or casually biking for me) and letting my mind roam free. The trick is you let your thoughts happen as they will, without trying to encourage or discourage any of them. You just let then play themselves out. It's very much a "the only way out is through" thing

There's also energy style and I recommend starting with guided energy meditations and once you find them helpful and understand the basic gist you can free-form decently.

Exactly. Maybe the agencies should be joint legislative executive or something but we do need them, because I don't want Jim fucking Jordan deciding how much lead is safe for baby food, but even worse would be for nobody to decide

Not all Christians are biblical literalists. It's not uncommon to treat early Genesis as metaphors containing a general truth but given to people who wouldn't really have the understanding or language to really get the whole "you share a common ancestor with those trees" thing

The catholic church's official position is divinely guided evolution. If you ever see a catholic denying evolution you can tell them that their position goes against official church doctrine.

Mind you my catholic school "taught the controversy" with the biology teacher doing her damned best to pretend both sides were worthy of consideration, but that's because the family that donated our building was denying official church doctrine.

It's more like a variant game of chicken. The longer everyone stays in the higher the value goes, but once people start bailing you better hope you sold enough for it to be worthwhile. The big investors set the game but they're also the most constrained because if they pull out entirely or quickly they can pop the bubble and they may not be able to sell their shares fast enough to get all their money before shares plummet.

I subscr to the theory that Tesla is valued not as an automotive stock but as a tech stock. Companies like Toyota and VW are valued wildly different from companies like Google and Amazon and tesla has long pushed for everyone to think of it as far more like apple than like Honda, with quite a bit of success. That's why Elon does his whole Tony stark/Steve jobs routine and swears full self driving and other revolutionary tech. Because otherwise you have to look at his vehicles as the gilded Yugos they are that do have some really great aspects, but ones that are now being done by companies like Hyundai that can actually assemble a car well

The problem is that restaurants usually have similar load patterns. The orders for the Mexican place aren't coming in while the pizza restaurant are slow, they're all getting a decent surge at lunch time and a bigger surge at dinner timr

Yeah the cold and soggy is my main criticism. At that point I'd rather cook

Maybe it's what I eat but I find the food is always worse after delivery. It's usually gotten a bit cold and steamed a bit. Some stuff like pizza and Asian food handles it well, but falafel and anything fried is best served immediately