u/Haunting-Reindeer-10

For me, it’s always space. I’m not a scientist, certainly not a physicist, but the very concepts and theories around how space and time works just trips me out.

Like time dilation and how we could possibly ever traverse space while accounting for relativity and how you age in comparison to those who are left behind.

How the universe is constantly expanding.

Dark matter.

Black holes and virtually everything about them.

The sheer vastness and possibility of what’s out there.

I think the fascination is also why I enjoy science fiction novels so much as well.

My wife got a nasty cold/flu from a concert and within 24-48 hours was so sick that she could barely get around the house; a week later and she’s still recovering.

I, however, started getting symptoms two days ago but it’s just not progressing beyond. I have a little sniffling, some fatigue, but I’m generally okay. It hit her fast, gave her extreme congestion, sore throat, chills, and exhaustion. I’ve basically got a runny nose.

Is her immune system stronger, because of how intensely it’s reacting? Or is mine stronger, because of how light the symptoms for me are?

I‘ve heard arguments back and forth and have never really asked about it.

Am I tripping or is ball now a Terminator 9000? It was one thing when he had high mobility at the cost of being squishier, but he’s nigh unkillable now.

We had a ball alone on point, not even rolling, and he just WOULDN’T DIE. He finished the match like 2-0. This happens constantly with ball picks lately.

I swear, this tank used to be a piñata in the hands of anyone other than the sweatiest and now he‘s just an invincible pick with anyone that has an ounce of game sense on when to roll away.

Seems like a dumb question and this is the right place.

We have raised and processed our own animals for a few years now. The pork, especially, catches our attention for the vast difference in quality.

The color, the marbling, the flavor, everything is generally better. Friends and family we share it with tell us that it’s the best they’ve ever tasted, but there’s inevitably a comment on how pork is so bad for you… but is it always?

If it’s doesn’t have nitrates, raised on whole diets and clean food, does it significantly affect how generally bad red meat is for you?

I had some very close friends as a young man and teenager, guys I spent nearly every weekend and summer with.

Hiking, swimming, bonfires, concerts, and everything in between. We went through those key moments in life together. First loves. First breakups. Cold beers we stole from our parent’s fridges fireside in the woods.

I remember how we all talked about joining the military and then, out of five of us, only me and one other did.

Once we left for the military, that felt like the catalyst that put us on so many forking paths. We went different ways, had vastly different experiences, and our values and beliefs changed along with it.

Most of us stopped talking to each other at all and, if I’m being honest, I don’t really like a couple of them as people now. But I think of them a lot, and I mean a lot.

I think of those late nights on back porches and a few kids who knew nothing about anything talking each other through it.

There’s a lot of love that was there, and that means something even now.

I can’t remember from where, or when, maybe a movie, show, or game, but it kind of stuck with me in the sense that I wonder if we are our vices no matter what.

I kicked smoking nearly 11 years ago, but I still crave a menthol time-to-time when I’m having a cup of coffee. I also stopped using smokeless tobacco a few years back, and I still get cravings after a meal or riding around in the truck.

Like, If I got a terminal case of whatever tomorrow, I’d probably buy a pack of cigs on my way home. I have no intention of ever using substances again, but I think, if the world went up in smoke, I’d probably light one up with it.

Are they stupid? I mean, am I missing something?

If they’re going to insist on having them, why put them in areas that both reduce our farm land and use our drinking water like there aren’t massive oceans to utilize?

It started with videos of people walking up and talking to homeless people and giving them food or whatever for clicks and likes. There’s a reason it’s a meme that someone can’t walk into a store to buy something for a poor person without having fifteen cameras on them and announcing what it’s for.

It‘s these self gratifying, performative acts for money and attention that people generally praise because “oh, poor person got food“ but, when the cameras turn off, that person is still where they’re at and some rich or middle-class yokel from out of state made a few bucks off of them from the millions of views across five different platforms.

Now my home, eastern Kentucky, has the umpteenth person coming through and doing this under the guise of “bringing awareness”. Coal companies took advantage of our region, data centers are trying, and now weird dudes with three mortgages and a “job” traveling want to pick their bones.

I don’t understand it. For most of human history, carbs have been the greater staple of human diet and it’s literally energy. Yes, if you eat more calories than needed, your body converts it to fat - as it does with any food, not just carbs.

People seem to be treating it like it’s poison or something? What am I missing?