Get out of here with your false hope.

Damn, that’s a nice note.

I realized I very much do, too, as I got older and had more say in the matter, but I didn’t grow up like that.

I can see how targeted ads like that would be overwhelming. Would you like me to sign you up for a free 7-day trial of BetterHelp?

It’s crazy when you realize, “oh, shit, they’re just people.” I don’t mean it in an insulting way. I had that experience, too. Travel certainly helps. It’s not even necessarily that you don’t believe that before, just maybe that you didn’t know or hadn’t even thought about it, because who can know everything. But then what was previously vague/unfamiliar words in sporadic headlines in the background is suddenly very real and personal, standing in front of you. It’s a gut punch.

Think about it. It’s like Werewolf 101. You transform.

“Oh, shit, oh shit! NOBODY CAN KNOW ABOUT THIS!”

That’s exactly what I’d say, too, if I’d turned into a werewolf and wanted to keep it secret. Oddly specific and defensive, no?

Is his name Linus?

I’m not sure what I’m talking about, either. Just a dumb joke.

Bring back the UI team from 6 and I’m sold.

How do you know I don’t live in western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, where we all know mint is native!?

Why would you do this when the functionality is built right in?

1. Open Photoshop
2. Select the Ellipse Tool
3. Draw a Circle of Your Choosing
4. Press Print Screen on Your Keyboard
5. Voila! A Fresh Circle to Paste/Insert Into Your GIMP Project!

The result is the same. Sooner or later, one of the animals is bound to respond favorably.

Did they not offer a deep-dish Pepperoni Lovers option?

I wouldn’t get my hopes up. I expect a “Mission Accomplished” press conference that will put Dubya to shame.

I can share a personal anecdote that leads me to strongly disagree: the first/main time I took MDMA, I was walking along with my then-wife and had to suddenly just stop and hold onto something. A memory from childhood had just gone POP!

It felt like when an ice cube gets stuck at the bottom of your glass, then bobs to the top, at some point. If we’re being technical about it, it was less “suddenly remembering” and more “suddenly remembering and contextualizing it all to realize how fucked up it was.” I could have recalled that the thing had happened, had someone randomly asked about it, for some reason. I just hadn’t thought about it in decades, and upon doing so, instantly realized my childhood narrative about it was way wrong and I’d been fed lies to cover-up really fucked up stuff.

But even still-religious, still-conservative family members who would resent my representation of the details would not disagree with the details themselves. It 100% definitely happened and is very verifiable.

Why are you making it weird.

If anyone wants to see what an absolute menace he was in his prime, this is a great documentary (and a great YouTube channel rabbit-hole–fantastic production).

https://youtu.be/8zfpIkEylSg

The shot that always sticks with me is George’s trainer trying his best to hold onto the already-heavy heavy bag, while George knocked the bag AND the trainer around with every punch.

https://archive.is/s675B

I recorded myself and ran it through Shazam and it returned this?