That’s what I’ve been saying for years. It’s an entirely different activity that happens to involve blankly staring at a screen

They typically sink and they don’t have that particular scent component. Apparently, I’ve been living with bad info on buoyancy apparently because a couple decades Oprah said it’s supposed to float. As for fat intake, I cycle on and off with keto (high fat, low carb) but can’t say these farts occur during keto. I would also note it’s some scent very specific to Wendy’s nugs that I don’t smell anywhere else. Maybe it’s just a particular spice? It’s not present in the fries so I don’t think it’s specifically the oil. I appreciate your educated guess. I was hoping literally anyone else would have this experience. My wife concurs about the similarity of smells but the production is solely my talent.

Which is the chemical responsible for the overlap in smells between some of my farts and Wendy’s chicken nuggets? Help me Booty-wan, you’re my only hope

And yet, somehow, I’ve very recently seen a video of someone actually farting into a bath jar.

I don’t remember when I learned about it or how verifiable the source was, but I knew it too for at least a decade. I am a radiant, heavy-breathing, sweaty target. I have outclassed everyone I’ve ever met on the mosquito attraction scale. I’ve used loose longer clothes but thought it was just stopping their bites from reaching my skin. I didn’t think about how it could also be diffusing my thermal appearance since I’d still get bitten on exposed areas like face and hands.

Kearns and the car windshield wipers?

+1 on determining (and understanding) sleep cycles. And +1 on naps. I consider myself really good at napping. Somewhere I read NASA determined 26 minutes being the best nap amount, so I have a 28 minute timer because I can usually fall asleep within 5 minutes.

Routines before sleeping can help your brain fall asleep faster. I beleive that’s a key to my nap ability because it usually works even if I don’t think I’m sleepy. I have 1 hour for lunch at work, so if I bring food, I can nap in my car. I used to park facing uphill and east at one job to get extra recline and keep the afternoon sun off me, but my current lot is flat and I got a sleep mask. I play a specific artist (Deadmau5) on a low volume. I have used construction ear muffs as extra sound dampening.

I learned of a mental game that does an amazing job of getting my thoughts to calm down. Pick a category, then run through the alphabet to name something for each letter. Apple, banana, cranberry, etc. If you can’t think of something, skip the letter and come back. I basically never make it to the end unless I’m really upset about something. And, not gonna lie, the most effective category for me is sex/porn categories. Nothing is more focused than a horny brain.

I set my thermostat schedule to help with that. It doesn’t work too well in the summer due to weak ac, but the heat works great in the other 3 seasons. I let it drop to about 65 around 11pm, raise to 72 around 8am, drop to 68 at 9am if I’m home or lower for work days.

The recent trend of Halloween decoration is swinging towards Christmas decorations. Just flood your yard with a Halloween theme made of every item you can afford rather than trying to set an unsettling mood (for the people with more than a few decorations). Maybe I’m too stuck up, maybe I overrate the spookiness of my display. But there’s a ton of absurdly overpriced props with the world’s worst speakers for sale in Spirit. I really noticed it when the home depot “#12ftskeleton” prop went so viral they put the hashtag on the box (still not convinced it wasn’t viral marketing).

Instructions unclear, made chili

And the cheating will be tolerated promoted because they seriously beleive the other side is cheating. “Trump got more votes in 2020 than any prior candidate” is proof enough. Certainly can’t be that he’s such a polarizing, vile piece of shit that actually scared more non-voting people to vote tod defeat him, and they certainly can’t beleive Biden actually holds the vote record (note the key use of “prior” in trump’s claim). They really think the orange coastal elite is somehow on the working man’s side. The same cheeto that has declined to pay every contractor on his towers. The same cheese puff that couldn’t sell steaks. The same crayon that couldn’t find profit in a casino.

I’m pretty sure they meant “20 minutes” to mean a lifetime of always fighting google and “20 seconds” to mean switching to a different browser

I acknowledge it is the only acceptable brand of pork roll

Funny way to spell “pork roll”

DVDs pretty quickly got the front-end trailers that were unskippable, though often fast-forwardable. The ad aspect hasn’t really changed. Cutting out the credits is such bullshit though. I’m not pretending I read them, but I want that time to process the ending of a movie set to the song(s) picked for the ending. Getting immediately thrown into a bright peppy ad after a dark ending is so obnoxious.

I can certainly appreciate your viewpoints. I only watched it once and in theaters, so it’s been a while. I saw it as a gritty version of what happens in the comics behind the “Pow!” action bubbles, but I can certainly see the incel justification take. I would say that was more visible to me with Riddler in the latest Batman, but didn’t see it as much in Joker. I went into it on the recommendation of a very accurate depiction of 1980s NYC so that may have drawn my attention away from other themes.

I do agree, I’m not a fan of the incredibly vague suggestion that it might all be fictional - Joker, Shutter Island, Inception. I’ll give it another go and look for the details, but it’s one of the things I refuse to entertain. I could agree there’s intentional inaccurate recounts of details but I always buckle down on “yes it actually happened”

Huh, I see ads and banners and signs all the time. I guess I should have guessed the only non-governmental propaganda machines that big are religious cults.

What made it a stinker? The lack of super powers? And just to be clear, you aren’t talking about the Leto Joker featured in Suicide Squad, right?

This is close to my belief. Someone has to own the home and they’re worth hundreds of thousands of dollars (I’m not getting into the overblown values right now, one step at a time). Since most people don’t have $300k+ in cash (US non-metro), then they’re not buying it outright. What’s the difference between paying rent to a landlord or mortgage to a bank? Both are making a profit and both can kick you out for non-payment (again, one problem at a time). So, given the current state of housing, you can legitimately provide housing at a reasonable price that doesn’t require a 50k+ down payment first. I am not a landlord sympathizer, I am not a landlord. I’m just someone still putting 60% of my monthly mortgage payment into the interest accrued just in the last 30 days (read: new homeowner).

Don’t be a dick corpo fuck that buys blocks of houses and let’s them sit vacant to drive up scarcity. Don’t be a flipper that does a cheap reno to turn $30k of improvements into a $150k upsell. Don’t do the cheapest repairs to meet code for your tenants.

I happened to have just watched that for the first time last week. Aware of the difficulty in stopping the 67,000mph initial speed after a shallow dive on the Parker Solar Probe, I noticed they did loop around Mercury. Pretty sure they looped the wrong way (adding speed with a counter clockwise loop, assuming we’d still use Earth-North as Solar-Up) and an impressively circular loop ended with an impressively sharp departure, at least in the graphic.

While we’re here, what’s the deal with roasting the antennas that were absolutely required for communication upon return to Earth? They couldn’t handle the relatively distant sunlight but would absolutely be exposed to much more energy when the payload/shield departed anyway. We’re also not going to pretend when they rendezvous with Icarus 1 they weren’t totally roasting the backside of the forward ship’s shield with the reflection off the rear ship’s shield?

I really enjoyed the first half/two thirds. It was very well laid out and I enjoyed the cast interactions. The group viewing of the Mercury transit was a little corny but is definitely something I expect astronauts to get excited for. The fight over the messages and the ensuing apology felt pretty accurate for Evans’ character. I don’t know when those actors’ careers took off but it’s certainly a heavy-hitting group, even if only in hindsight.

Anyway, I still have to watch the 3rd (4th?) movie in this head canon Warhammer40k Origin series. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Honorable mention: The Black Hole (1979) is basically the same story as Event Horizon but more comical. Meanwhile, I’m not actually enjoying these movies ending in divine non-scientific explanations. That’s probably why I enjoyed Ad Astra the most (so far) of this narrow band of the long-lost explorer space scifi genre.