The advice is that you have to.

Dramatically stated: You have to or you are going to die.
(Disclaimer: Not from this, probably, but eventually. And if you don’t do this, by the time you die, then you won’t have done it. You’ll have missed the opportunity.)

Your body doesn’t make dopamine the way neurotypical bodies do. You won’t get satisfaction from the usual motivators. Create your own satisfaction by taking the time to think about how doing something will increase satisfaction. Give it at least 20 seconds. The taps on the neurotransmitters take a bit to warm up. Maybe take a few moments to savor the same thing at different times to reinforce and remind yourself why doing things is worth it.
Focus on what’s achievable, and what small actions you can take to get there. Don’t get mired in thought, but instead give your effort to the actions you can take. Don’t compare your progress to others.

I also often “Forrest Gump” myself through things when it starts to feel like a slog. ‘I’ve come this far. I might as well keep going.’
This is easier for things that have an endpoint, like a degree or long project. You can’t unwind time that you’ve spent on something, but can waste that time by not finishing. Not finishing offers way less dopamine than finishing.

The chocolate is spinning a narrative and I don’t like if.

Particularly messy ass to vagina creampie?

The official said that the passport “will be the default passport out of the Washington Passport Agency when available” for those who renew their passports in person at that location.

“Online options or other locations will maintain existing passport design,” the official said.

Well thank fuck for that.

I did not know he was married. I just assumed not.

I thought he was copping a feel off Usha Vance.

(In my defense, the lighting is dim and if someone asked me to picture Stephen Miller’s wife, olive-skinned is emphatically not a descriptor that would have come to mind.)

For one, the sources claim that the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive and notably more customizable.

Customizable for whom?
Users? Advertisers?

And just like everything since windows xp, it’s a an iterative change from the last version with arbitrary things that are broken and only about 3/4 of the way through the product’s life do the features improve to the around the level of promise that was initially made, save for the stuff that’s been removed or intentionally broken to stifle interoperability, or stuffed with advertising.

I think it’s reasonable to find meaning in a hobby and to be afraid of bears.

Golf claps
Well done, old chap!

I don’t think they know you run your own instance.

It looks like someone tried to make Tom Cruise look like Val Kilmer.

Maybe if we see an era of AI reducing people’s individuality and throwing them all into an uncanny valley of blended-together appearances, we’ll wind up with a resurgence of interest in actors with atypical features.

Performative self-victimization. It tracks.

“We have poor customer data safeguards, confidently present subpar work as acceptable, and have failed to adequately train our intended users but would like you to believe it’s all the users fault.”

When not referred to by its proper name, His Majesty is known as the womb hammer or the flesh dagger.

Are you referring to the 2022 bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, the 2024 bombing of a maternity hospital in Kyiv, or the 2025 attacks against children’s hospitals in Kherson, Kharkiv, Kamianske, and Odessa? (These are just the results from the first page of search results.)

Or are you referring to Russia literally stealing Ukrainian children from their families to try to erase their culture?

I say those things to say this: We can all pretend to be stupid when it suits us. I know you weren’t thinking of Ukrainian children. It suits me right now to ensure those examples are fresh on your mind.

The game of politics is still being played even if you chose to make moves that didn’t contribute strategically. The U.S. system is not democratic, and unless it is reformed, voters must compromise their morals to achieve some of their aims. It sucks, but it’s the reality.
You made a call. You thought it was the most moral thing you could do at the time.

Rather than attack your past decisions, or try to convince you to see things from my worldview — I want to ask if you could go back in time and explain the current state of the world to yourself do you think you would make the same voting decisions again?

My IT department puts anything capable of storing data into a chipper when its time has come. The guys who load the trucks will throw laptops like frisbees into the steel cage that they lock the devices in between the office and the shredder.

They probably wouldn’t care if you gave your laptop a tattoo or even a piercing.

They’ve done Paul Newman dirty.

In the last little bit, I’ve noticed he’s had several weird ‘off script’ bits he’s been doing.
Commentators have picked up on it and have discussed them at length to highlight how cooked his brain is.

• Trump Reveals Rep. Neal Dunn’s Terminal Diagnosis – Then Claims He Helped Reverse It
• Trump wildly sidetracks White House event to reveal he paid for angel mother to get her eyes fixed

I think it’s part of an intentional effort to seed a mythos around him. Some true information, some false information. Overrepresent some of the fantastical stuff, especially through media channels to your low-information fans. Get a couple idiot commentators to start parroting a Jesus narrative for him. Pick a fight with the pope, maybe. See if you can dear-leader yourself into becoming the god king while your oligarch buddies fuck with the media and informational landscape.

Seems to be tracking.

(Editing to add: I want to be explicit that I don’t think this is a super-well executed plan. In terms of plans, This one seems to be written in crayon. But shit is definitely happening .)

At this rate, I just assumed he posted it with the captions. (I mean, I would probably figure out why, but my first impulse was a ‘sure, why not?’ kind of acceptance.)

Which is the goal of hypernormalization, right?

Then don’t put yourself in a position to defend him. Silence is free.

People already know that the justice system is skewed toward the wealthy.
We know that if someone has enough money, they can rape others, then offer them a payoff and an NDA in exchange for silence. We know that people who cannot afford intensive legal representation tend to take NDAs, because often a legal accusation is dragged out to the point where it is financially ruinous. It’s common practice amongst some people accused of various misdeeds to counter-sue on trumped-up claims of libel (or whatever) that are designed to force the accuser into a dire financial situation, to get them to accept an NDA. (Along with all the other reasons someone chooses not to go after a powerful assailant - threats of legal harassment, threats of violence, having been killed and dropped into Lake Michigan or the Caribbean, having your tips ignored by law enforcement, being told by law enforcement that you deserved it, etc.)

This is a circumstance where the devil does not need advocates. They have paid advocates who are entirely too good at their job, plus social constructs and a legal system that helps to enforce their hegemony.

They’ve done Paul Newman dirty.