I’m going to go against the grain and suggest finding people with like-minded life situations.

I had a friend who has a divorce at age 40. I did all I could as a friend, provide sympathy, check in. But he was extremely miserable, or just downright offensive.

Dating is hard at that age - I get it. I don’t need to hear his opinion about why women of today aren’t what he wants in every conversation.

I also cannot play his wingman. No, I’m not going to “pretend” to flirt with girls at a bar with him when I’m married.

But it became offensive. Like my niece turned into an adult and he asked: “Is she looking for a man?” Dude, you’re twenty years older. WTF.

Joke or not, as a married man, that’s not where I am in life. And yeah, I absolutely stopped hanging out with him because this version of him is hard to deal with.

Yeah this show was so weird and off-putting. Watched it every day before school.

Yeah it’s super weird when people pick a very specific thing.

Like, imagine if someone wrote “I avoid approaching Brazilian Men With Beards in public because I believe it’s inappropriate. My parents say that it’s a necessary skill. Who is right?”

Speak to people like people. Stop thinking about what’s in their pants.

I love air fryers. I would absolutely get rid of my toaster oven/conventional oven.

I’m not here making giant roasts or pies. I’m just trying to heat up some nuggies and fries.

They cook so much better.

Oh man! I was thinking waffle maker too!

Every consumer grade one had weird power issues, cooks unevenly, or would just be a pain to wash. I used to work at a breakfast place and those high end ones are incredible compared to the garbage that the average person has.

I finally found a really good one after years of junk. But I’m afraid if I praise it too much, it’ll hear me and crap out. (The Dasher Mini waffle maker.)

I’d vote for Elon Musk as Popeking of Catholicism.

The same way Elon “improved” Twitter and the US Government, I would love it if he did the same for the Catholics.

This is how I feel with a lot of vices.

I think the worst part is when people don’t realize they’re addicted and have a lower-than-average life. Streamers normalizing things like peeing in bottles or living in a mess. Or just being addicted to doom scrolling and not going outside to interact with the real world.

And if the person doesn’t have the tools to reflect on their situation, they’re kind of screwed.

When I was a teen, I believed in that too. The most strict parents had the most wild kids.

As an adult, it’s now verified.

Just joined tuta a week ago from jumping ship out of Proton. They had a pretty nice sale going on.

When I emailed their support team about this, they went real fucking weird on the response.

They linked to that medium post too. They linked to a random Reddit post.

They said things like, “He can’t be racist”, which is fucking weird because I was pointing out that I don’t want a company that focuses on privacy to be licking the boot of any government. Which is extra strange they didn’t bring that up at all.

Proton and their whole company is suspicious as fuck. I absolutely believe if their company starts to flounder financially, they’re going to sell access - no question.

This bothers me more than it should.

Shoddy writeups quickly inject reference links just to make their page look more trustworthy and SEO-friendly, while also not actually READING the links they add.

I feel old because I remember when this conversation was happening with airbrushing photographs and then Photoshop.

And now these days, really good Photoshop is invisible. We can remove people from backgrounds. We can improve the lighting. Movie CGI is just photoshooting stills.

AI will reach that stage too, where it will be so good, it’s scary that you can’t tell.

And maybe we need that. We’ve been blessed with delicious bananas too easily for two long.

24 hour news is to blame.

You can’t have one story anymore. You need to turn it into like 20 stories. Which means that one story, but the perspective of every single other person. The CEO, the Janitor, Ja Rule, everyone.

I am currently stealing Amazon streaming from my neighbor, who let me use it. It’s full of ads now.

Can’t even watch Invincible without 8 minutes of ads.

Easier to just pirate.

But how will I know if I’m rich or poor without a nasdaq score telling me how the rich are feeling?

Pizza place near me has ranch pizza at discount for $1.

I thought I was getting a deal and then promptly threw it away.

I saw this at my local brewery.

A bunch of bachelorettes with their penis straws and hats with SLUT in LEDs were having a fun time in the corner while some parents with their 8yo kids running circles around their table were also at the same brewery. Random guy in a trench coat with his giant dog. Nerd on his apple laptop.

Nobody was acting a fool or making a scene. But it was a strange moment.

My apartment has motion censor faucets.

I live in a nightmare.