I am going out on a limb here to say you aren’t married, or have children. Once either of those happen, it’s usually that she wants you to smell meat or milk or some food to see if it’s still good. Or to share with you how preposterous something smells that one of your kids did or made.

Firewatch. Road 96.

Doesn’t even need to use those binoculars.

Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.

Hate to say it, but just about everyone I know has a junk drawer, myself included. Same as you with the other drawers, organized to the max, but the junk drawer will always be the junk drawer.

I think it’s a collective 6-9 pounds of butter, cheese and hamburger meat, not 6-9 pounds of butter alone. But either way, nuts.

Seriously thanks for the information here. The picture alone is fascinating, and the background info about the scene is very intriguing… but the additional history lesson is much appreciated to put the whole thing in context. Very cool, thank you.

Shunnnn. Shun the nonbeliever.

All the talk of the “T-zone” got kind of weird.

Just seems like there is such universal interest in ‘releasing’ them that something should have leaked by now. You hear the argument about the moon landing or other conspiracy theories that it would take so many people colluding to hide the truth it would be impossible not to leak, how many people have access to “the files”, and if there is a vote to release them, who just pushes the button or whatever to make that happen? (And in no way am I suggesting they are not real and only a conspiracy theory, just giving an analogy)

What a great sentence, well said. I’m going to use that in the future.

I feel your pain, and your post speaks to me almost as if I wrote it. To make it even worse, however, is that I’m now in management for the last two years, and have to put on an even more false front when all I want to do is work. One thing I have gotten better at, is being straightforward. Instead of just dodging around it and trying to let them down easy, just saying “I really need to finish this assignment I’m working on, can we talk about this another time?” Or “hey I appreciate you wanting to tell me about your entire weekend, hour by hour, but I have several things I need to get to working on, we’ll have to chat later” and then just stare at them until they leave. It was uncomfortable at first, but I’ve gotten pretty good at it lately, maybe give it a try?

How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?

The hawk tuah girl.

Two of my three are teenagers now, and I completely agree. Not only that, but some of the science projects that my son has inadvertently created by leaving food in places in his room (which is against the rules of course), have had their own interesting odors.

I laughed harder at this than I care to admit.

TIL the sun look like a Lorax.

What does long COVID face look like? Different than a regular face?

Ok, but wait. Why would there be no traffic? I know that near the middle/end of ep 2 she says how many millions died during the “transition”. And we have seen sparse roads like when she’s driving the scooter to the airport to fly the plane. But what keeps nagging at me is that stuff still needs to happen. People still need to go to the power plant to make power to allow the chef to cook your food and power your mansion. Someone still needs to mine fossil fuels for you to put in your bikes. Someone still needs to plow the roads in the snow and patch the potholes and make the vehicles that do those things and the clothes you wear and… even if it’s a hive mind, and happy people, someone still needs to keep the lights on the and the sewers working and all that creates traffic. Even if everyone knows how to do everything, there is still transit and shipping. I dunno. I like the idyllic Italian coast setup, don’t get me wrong, but I have been tossing around the rest of that for a while also.

They’re probably disgruntled on account of the long face, from the COVID.