Bougie_Birdie

I would totally smoke that hamster

God, I hope not

This is presumably a goose down jacket, it's essentially stuffed with goose feathers

It's either that or fisting

I have a hard time watching new movies and shows. I guess I usually look for a show to unwind with, and nostalgia is a pretty strong factor there.

If I'm watching a new show with somebody because they want to see it, I'll generally enjoy myself. But lately I find that I'm pretty quick to reject anything made after 2020 or so

Another way I look at it is that there's an awful lot of crap competing for my attention, and with the rise of gen-AI, writing for streaming, and other icky things, a lot of it really is crap. I'd rather watch the crap I already know I like

Any old westerns you'd like to recommend? I've been watching a lot of 70s era and earlier movies lately, seems like I'll stumble into the golden age of westerns sooner or later

For a more modern show (geez, 15 years old already) I really enjoyed Hell on Wheels

For me, the break timer is really just "take a few minutes to eat/hydrate/pee" and then resume the original task. Although when I'm depressed I often use one full 25 minute task to do the thing I dread, and then the next one is to play video games or watch a show - generally to do something fun to recharge my batteries. Sometimes I can't even manage to do something fun for myself without timeboxing it, I hate that.

My wife has pretty debilitating ADHD, sometimes the pomos are really helpful for her and sometimes it's the opposite. Without some kind of externalized structure, she can't finish the tasks that she intends to start and it causes her a lot of distress.

She would want me to plug Spirit City LoFi. It's a customizable task manager that's very chill, and just gamified enough to keep her attention without being distracting

Footlocker evolved into Feetlocker

“We had an incident last week where there was literally a driver who got out, he spat on one of our members and the security just stood there and they just filmed it.
“They didn’t try to intervene,” he added. “They just let it happen.”

Well duh, warehouse security cares more about property than people

Not to be flippant, but if you want to alter the way you think, then therapy is probably the answer.

The good news is that in my experience, the valuable part of therapy is totally free and you could start today.

I've had success with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The model for CBT says that our automatic thoughts initiate our feelings, and while our feelings are valid, our thoughts can be bullshit.

Our brain is like an overgrown field, and each thought is like a person passing through it. Each time a thought passes through the field, it wears down a groove which will become a trail or a road. Our thoughts want to take the path of least resistance, so they follow the well-worn paths. However, we can create new paths with better thoughts that lead to more positive feelings, and eventually the negative paths have more resistance than the positive ones.

The key technique is recognizing Cognitive Biases, which are common ways that our brains lie to us, and then restructuring our thoughts through journaling exercises. Common biases include assuming other people think poorly of us, making predictions of the future with limited information, or thinking that because we feel bad we must be bad.

Now on the flip side, therapeutic techniques are not a one-size-fits-all solution. What's worked for me might not work for everyone. And that's okay because there's plenty of tools in the toolbox left over.

I got a lot of mileage out of CBT. It's logical, there's a process to follow, and it improved the quality of my life to a point. It didn't happen overnight, and I still have bad times more often than I'd like, but there was improvement

Whether you have access to a therapist or not, the greatest impact from therapy comes from doing the homework. It's lame, but there it is. But if you really don't vibe with a technique, the good news is there's a zillion other techniques you could try a web search away.

The rant is pretty unhinged and difficult to follow.

The man is using his personal experience to say that men like sex more than women - or at least he does. He describes a scenario where the man stops contributing to the relationship for six months, which would understandably make any partner upset.

Then he says that if the woman were to confront him about not contributing to the relationship, he might act all flirtatious and offer sexual favours. He posits that the woman would never think that would make up for him being a useless slug for six months. However, he admits that if the roles were reversed he would consider the offer.

In this case, they're related by being played by the same actor. This incarnation of Puss n Boots was definitely influenced by Antonio Banderas' Zorro