Part of being a kid is having preternatural access to buttons your parents didn’t even know they had. It took me several years to come to terms with that.

That’s fine, I think there are enough From titles to last me. I still haven’t gotten through BB, Sekiro, ER, or AC6. I’ll probably have finished them by the fifties, assuming civilization exists that long.

I wasn’t ready honestly. I just wish I was twice as patient and four times as smart. Or at least vice versa.

Feeling pretty fucked up over what happened to you, all the more intensified by my first encounter with the phrase “correct rape”.

I hope they burn.

Happy for you, that’s a best case scenario for COVID imo. Take the time, live the examined life, rest for now.

If you find you have any lingering brain fog, I found lions mane helpful. Subjectively & anecdotally, etc.

Been there. Loads of water and rest. I was SOL and worked through it from home, but hopefully you’re taking time off

Goddamn. Me and my family got that round of shots too and we got the bug in '22. Moved across international lines though, maybe that makes a difference.

Hope you’re breathing easy and taking it easier.

Have you had it before? Are you jabbed up?

I’ll say something: Michael Schur is a legend, and he’s in top form throughout this show. His blend of wry wit and genuine warmth would be incredibly comforting for a lockdown binge.

Agreeing again - all we have is hopes at this point, as far as I can see.

I don’t doubt it. However if Trump’s team sent it down the pipe, I doubt he’d fight much - even a principled man finds it difficult to stand up to their friends, and that he ain’t.

In no order:

The Forbidden Zone (1980)

Psycho Goreman (2021)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

Blade (1998)

Ernest & Celestine (2012)

Patrick Stewart’s PBS production of Macbeth from 2010

MFKZ (2017)

Kinda it. He’s set up his government to operate like an organized crime syndicate, so our best hope at the moment is to weaken them by degrees and wait for a more risk-averse (or at least more realistic) power player to usurp him.

Bold of you to assume Russia can nuke anybody. Putin would have to do a lot of talking to explain why they had to nuke Ukraine when the war is going sooo great according to all the state media. He isn’t invincible even in Moscow. And if they hit anyone else, then it’s pretty much all over but the crying for all of us.

ZeroHedge: “markets are reeling!”

$SPY: -0.349% premarket

ZH is so painfully lacking credibility.

I’m sure this one will get right on that.

Privileged people like him will certainly expect there to be workaround and loopholes. He’d just get a marriage cert in a state that allows it. Depend on it.

Oh I know. It’s a centerpiece national shame among a wide collection.

I’m from the only country that has ever dropped a nuke in anger. I bear some of the weight of that. It’s real to me.

Everyone knows Russia is just posturing, but it still personally offends me on a moral level.

It’s hard to say what’s appropriate. A lot of people feel like that’s already the appropriate move, given their hugely successful election interference, assassinations abroad, continual war crimes, nuclear sabre rattling, allying with rogue nations, and the resulting destabilization of the global power dynamic. How do you deal with that if not regime change? Putin was so sure that regime change was an American aim that he made it a necessity. Paranoid Russian dictators and self-fulfilling prophecies, name a more iconic duo.