IDK Im an older millenial and pretty much stopped drinking a decade ago. Never had a problem, but I just got too busy going back to school and working full time. Then I started noticing how many people I knew who were using it as a crutch to get through the week. Others were amazed when I said I couldn’t remember the last time I drank. It just started to really turn me off drinking once I noticed how seemingly everyone had a terrible relationship with alcohol.

Now I drink again but not much. i buy a small box of wine to make a recipe every now and then and will drink the leftover glass or two. In the summer I feel a beer goes well with yard work but i buy a sixpack or two all summer and probably have leftovers come fall. Ocassionally I’ll go out and have a beer with people. All in all maybe $100-$200 a year but probably less

Fuvk ICE

Physical media does force you to interact with it differently and i do appreciate it in 2026. I like being able to put on an LP or cassette and not be worried about the algorithm telling me what to play or noy being able to easily skip tracks i don’t love. It makes me consider the album as a whole. I like being able to flip through my collection and find a record i haven’t heard in 10 years, that would never get suggestef by an algorithm.

I’m not sure I’d like using a type writer, seems like it real pain in the ass. I’ve used film as a kid and remember it being very fiddly even without doing any of the development myself. I know I ruined more than one roll of film being dumb.

That being said I do like digital devices that replicate that tactile analog feel. I love my remarkable tablet, its just an eink notebook/PDF reader. It helps me think out ideas and keeps me focused. Unlike a paper notebook if I lose it the data is saved to thr cloud. I chose a digital camera that had physical access to the main settings you would adjust, because i hate menu diving. Same with digital synths, get one with close to one function per knob.

I know people who fell for that hook, line and sinker and somehow have blanked that from their memory.

100%. I think I did college every possible way (except ivy league). First two years at a small liberal arts college, left because tution went way up and scholarship stayed the same. Three yeara at a big univeraity, where i switched majors and graduated with a bunch of useless paper in time for the 2009 financial crisis. Never found a career and went back to community college for a focused degree. All had good and bad aspects but community college i thought was the best learning experience.

Part of that may have been due to already being loaded up on gen ed credits, so i could focus on just the degree classes. It was also the fact that the teachers were real people who had experience in the field rather than career academics.

I’m usually thinking about minotaurs or hoagie sandwiches.

I want to go to there.

I hate this timeline. Daily fantasy already ruined sports now its coming for everything else.

That picture of him blowing Bubba is Putin’s most prized possession.

Wash once a week, replace as needed which is probably 10 years or so. Then they become dog towels.

Oh good it can fit the next Call of Duty game.

I don’t want em

Just a few mild ones. Never swung on anyone but some altercations.

In highschool I was ready to throw down with a guy in a fancy car who couldn’t find a parking space so he just parked in the middle of a one way parking lot to run into the bank. I yelled at him out my window and he came over to get in my face but when I got out I was like 8 inches taller. We yelled at each other face to face then went on our ways.

In my mid 20s at a Jesus and Mary Chain reunion show a drunk guy in front of me was double fisting some beers and started spinning around with his arms up splashing everyone. We made eye contact while he was spinning and I flicked him off. He took offense to that and dropped a beer and started pushing me. I was going backwards and reached out and my hand kinda grabbed his throat. His eyes went wide and I’m sure mine did too but before anything more happened some other people were pissed at him too and shoved him. He went flying through the crowd and we didn’t see him again in our section.

Later that same show a mosh pit broke out and I was on the edge of it. No one seemed pleased this was happening and i had shoved the dudes back in pretty agressively to get them away from me causing at least one of the thrashers to end up on the floor. The dudes in it were swinging extra hard forsomee reason and ended up hitting a chick on the edge of the pit in the face and I think breaking her nose. She was covered in blood at least. That was the last straw and the crowd descended on them. Security came in and broke it up.

I don’t know what was up with that crowd. I expected a bunch of chill aging hipsters (and it was mostly that) but it seems quite a few people came in with different mind sets. I’ve been to legit hardcore and punk shows with a more polite crowd and where the thrashers weren’t looking to hurt anyone.

Only insane billionaires plan for that.

I’m not looking to live forever. Just another 40 to 50 years as long as I’m healthy. Only plan for that is to eat somewhat healthy and get a couple hours of cardio and strength training in a few times a week. Nothing obsurd just enough to maintain strength as I age and get the heart pumping.

Headphones are absolutely fine. I tend to crank music and have 0 loss in hearing over the last 10 years (we get annual hearing tests at work for OSHA). I do have a significant hearing loss in one ear but that is genetics and hasn’t gotten worse in 3 decades of using headphones.

Just don’t turn it up so loud it hurts, and once you find an initial good volume don’t turn it up later. You acclimate to the sound level so it seems quieter.

Thats a good idea.

The town home next to ours was abandoned and had the smoke alarm beep every 60s or so. We tried calling the city and they were no help so we broke in and handled it ourselves.

It was a weird system where the smoke detectors were hooked into the security system which was hooked into one of those soda can sized 9v (12v?) batteries in the basement. I guess that battery was dying. Disconnected that and the beeping finally stopped.

All my schools had them. Sometimes you’d catch them doing a resync and all the hands would spin around. I think they probably couldn’t rotate CCW so had to go around the long way if they needed to roll back a few minutes.

On work days. Coffee and a banana when i wake up. Some oatmeal a bit later. On non work days, nothing.

Electric guitar into a full stack.