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What funny phrases we think of when we're drawing

I need this in a candle omg

I occasionally still look at my bed or my couch and think I could, but then when I have to clean under them (like now) I'm like "what the fuck happened???"

What is the point? Why is this so common?

Language is too medicalized. I'm not a string of acronyms.

Spent $400 in repairs a week ago. Driving to a festival today and suddenly my car starts making a fuckton of noise. No major bumps. I went over a metal plate but I slowed down to 25mph to go over it. Now either my muffler is loose or something is wrong with the exhaust system. Could cost anywhere between $15 and $1500. Why the fuck did we orient our society around these expensive fucking machines? I hate cars I hate driving I hate traffic I hate I hate I hate

If you had asked me last year? I would have said we know enough about the moon. But now? Now I'd say we need to know more.

Not a new take at all, but it is demoralizing to think about. I'm fine with the idea of life having no inherent meaning. I actually think it's freeing. I live my life in a way that makes meaning through art, community, nature, humor, even spiritually.

But the economic system we (speaking from an American perspective but I imagine this is relatively common in the west at least) live under, combined with our system of governance, makes the above pursuits far more difficult. I know it's whiny to say that having to have a job sucks, but I'm not against labor. I love to labor for things I care about, but having to dedicate so much time and energy to something so disconnected from everyday life - why? To support a stock market? To toil away for scraps to fund my humble passions while rich pedophiles blow up Middle Easterners? I don't want anything to do with any of that.

It just feels like there are so many barriers to simply living. To even pursuing life as an absurdist. I realize Jesus has a somewhat good answer with the whole "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" thing, and perhaps that is really the only functional coping mechanism, but it's a lot harder to buy into when evidence of our government's evil is broadcasted multiple times a day to a device in my pocket. Perhaps our Caesar doesn't deserve anything from us, but then if I were to put that idea into action, I would be incarcerated and prevented from doing any of the things I find valuable.

Curious if any of you feel similarly trapped. Sorry for the rant.

And it would be mostly normal cat conversations but probably murder confessions, insane plots, and tearful stories as well

Say you have an iPhone. You use apple music. You are enmeshed with the apple tech ecosystem. You trust it with your banking info.

Another person is similarly sworn-in to the Google network.

Then there are the intermediary entities. Some of these, like Meta, are quite powerful.

Is this any different from paganism? Dedicating your life and trust to a higher power in exchange for some kind of benefit? That sounds pretty pagan to me. Some people are strict adherents to one; others dabble in some or all. Some love them, others hate them. Some try to be moral, others are plainly evil, and all of them are fallible.

Even the lesser preferences act like minor gods in the pantheon. Sony/Nintendo/Xbox. The Taco Bell fanatics. I myself have a strange affection for it. I think of it as more than a restaurant. It has symbolic and metaphysical importance to a significant number of human beings. I'm not convinced there is a difference between a Waffle House and a temple. The moment food and goods were transformed from simple functionality into aesthetic marvels - into brands - was a serious blow to religion. We're into what, two centuries of corporatism now? I worry this is just the beginning.

Or towers in low lying areas. All disability-friendly. They could be used for stargazing as well. Access to celestial viewing should be a human right. I despise light pollution and it doesn't get discussed enough as a policy matter.

On a hot summer day? A luxury.

I'm always in awe that we share the planet with giant maneating lizards. They are deeply embedded in our mythology, and I think even deeper in our psychology. They cover a lot of ground in the primal fears department.

I'd love to go to Australia one day to observe the saltwater crocodiles. I don't want to end up like Val Plumwood, but just to see them. To experience them like a piece of art. Something about their ability to go into open ocean and remain an apex predator is very interesting to me. I find it inspirational. The adaptability and independence is something I value and aspire too.

They have evil elements as well. I think they embody greed and selfishness. Something about how they will hoard rotting pigs underwater to eat later. I find that very distasteful. One should never go full crocodile.