Just defending their borders against aggressive neighbors

Gross, olives.

Sorry, I mean the “collective we.” Of course individuals do build compassion, but look at the state of America and tell me that the collective we is different than I stated.

Totally wouldn’t work. We Americans believe in a brotherhood/sisterhood of suffering. If we suffered, we believe that others NEED to suffer as well. It’s why nurses are terrible to new nurses, why so many people are against forgiving student debt, and why so many parents refuse to acknowledge their children’s issues. It’s all “I lived through it and it sucked, so you need to too,” mentality. We didn’t build compassion though suffering, we just wish it on others, too.

Pork: it’s the dolphin of the land

Write it down/put on your calendar now. You’re not going to remember to do it later and then you’ll completely forget it. Even if you’re sure you’ll remember it this time, you won’t. Just write it down. And make a habit of checking your calendar frequently. Like multiple times a day. Putting it in your calendar and never seeing it again doesn’t help.

Schedule just about everything. Even the things you didn’t think you’ll need to schedule. Schedule what time you’re going to work out, or play video games. Put an event in your calendar to make that phone call to your insurance company at a specific time instead of remembering to do it after they’re closed every time.

Of course.

I had these in a few houses in Germany. I call them trophy shelf toilets.

Revved up like a douche…

Very big bullet, much recoil. Very ouch. They’re rough to shoot in a heavy rifle, there would be consequences shooting then out of a light pistol.

Wrong kind of white obviously.

That’s obviously just a catastrophe

Also describes half the d&d groups I’ve DM’d

“Yup, those are pants.” - my phone.

The Seek app by iNaturalist is great. It’s really good at identifying pants and animals and to a lesser degree, fungi. It’s also used for research, so it’s pretty cool. My wife and I always update each other on how many new species we snapped at the end of the day.

Looks like the lab results weren’t good

Me 2023: what’s your favorite pikichu, son? The fire lizard one?