It’s really exhausting. OCD, ADHD, NPD, BPD, Bipolar disorder, all these commonly armchair-diagnosed disorders have lost so much meaning due to inappropriate use. I was recently accused of gaslighting because I didn’t recall what someone was criticizing me for, so I said as much and asked for examples. Big gaslighter here, everyone.

I’m sorry for being emotionally caring and caring about the durability of your own bedroom.

Ugh, yes. I’m going through a rough relationship patch where we’ve separated to work on ourselves and the relationship.

My natural inclination is to pursue and put in effort until I drop, but the smart move is almost always to wait. For days, even weeks. There have been a few instances where I felt like my last move was an eternity ago. Nope, just two days. Not even full days. Torture!

Did you eat it? Because they’re delicious.

My thoughts exactly. I can’t wait to see the controlled opposition “accidentally” fumble a guaranteed win.

I thought so! I remember setting up all the computers in the labs to start playing the musical All Your Base animation at the same time at full volume. That was definitely 2000 or early 2001.

Awww shit, Pudding’s owner made me cry.

I assume the spiders would have died, and now you have delicious, brined cooking bananas!

The same way you finished your username?

Same, though mine wasn’t always like that.

I’m allergic to cats but live with three without issues. I took one cetirizine a day for years and I’m now asymptomatic. I can love all the cats now!

Same, it’s just running an unresponsive prime95 24/7 and Windows 95 won’t let me kill the process.

It might be one of the things that got my partner and me through the pandemic. Maybe, if we were to do such things.

I see the point being made; however, how the fuck else might I jam several clauses into one compound megasentence - overwrought and peppered with purple prose - if not with multiple types of punctuation? Should I summarize, streamline? Clearly not: all thoughts should be expressed in full, replete with all irrelevant details. Perhaps remove unneeded, intra-sentence explanations and asides (like this one, which I’m quite fond of) of details obvious to the reader?! Never!

No AI could write with matching convolution — especially when, unlike me, it cannot do so on the toilet.

Seriously! BoF 1-3 with modern graphics and controls would be great .

You just have to push through! Willpower!

Just kidding, I hate that shit. Sorry to hear it, I can’t imagine how difficult that must be. I’ve never tried meth. It sounds like it’d be too much of what already works for me.

It could be ADHD too. It, other neurodevelopmental disorders, and affective disorders can affect how one feels about just about anything.

I have ADHD and I derive nearly no pleasure from “a job well done” unless the outcome is directly and fairly immediately beneficial.

Project completed at work? At most I’ll be relieved it’s done unless it shows off my skills, which I like - dopamine!

Baked a cake? For myself, fuck yeah - dopamine! For someone else and I don’t get any? The forecast shows a light chance of a low pressure dopamine system entering the region this afternoon, depending on how much I like the person.

It’s likely multifactorial. Transit time is going to affect microbial composition at different stages of digestion due to resource limiting and nutrient transformation effects. The digestive system also directly affects microbial composition via the immune system and modulating nutrient degradation.

I.e., two people with the identical diet and living identical lives could still have significantly different gut microbiomes.

They have a microbial oligoculture, maybe even a monoculture.

Wash yourself in the soothing glow of Mint’s DE and be born again!