I’m still so glad I had a really good nickname in the army. That was a nice ego boost coming out of middle (especially) and high school where the only nicknames I received were derisive and derogatory.

For those who don’t know, everyone I considered a friend in the army called me “Chill.” That was mainly due to how laid back and collected in the face of danger I tend to be. A few people noticed and started tossing out that sobriquet because I was always so (appropriately enough) chilled out. I’m not an emotional person in general, but I can tell you that it definitely affected me hearing people I liked and respected calling me something that meant they liked and respected me too.

Being not treated like trash makes so much difference. Leaving North Florida is the best decision I ever made. The second best choice I’ve ever made was letting my partner know she’s the one, but if I hadn’t done the first the second one would’ve never happened.

As ever, I am Chill.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die review – Will Smith bromance goes big on Pointless Action Explosions.

Sometimes what you need in life is Pointless Action Explosions. I will probably watch this. The first Bad Boys has some really fun action sequences. The second one was not quite as good but still enjoyable too.

Not every movie needs to be Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (though I enjoyed that film as well).

If I started a band, I think I’d name it “Oscillatory Mechanism #581.”

For no particular reason.

Fighters of the 1st separate detachment of the “OMEGA” conducted an aerial reconnaissance and discovered a fortified enemy position, where a ground-based kamikaze drone with a powerful charge was directed, Zaporozhye direction.

That’s a fucking lawn mower of death! I didn’t see the comment that said something very similar till after I wrote that. Dang. Even the lawn mowers are getting in on the action now. It’d be so horrible to be on the ground there.

What is the most hard hitting song lyric?

This bit in Baby Queen’s “Obvious.”

I get this awful feeling late at night
That she held on for one more day
In case I came home again

The whole song hits hard, though. I think it would for anyone who has left everything behind to head out into the unknown to find something better. I did it by joining the army. Bella (Baby Queen) did it by moving from South Africa to London with few resources, then living in poverty, unable to visit her family and losing all her friends in the process.

Such a great song.

My partner of two years didn’t know what color my eyes were.

I do not have a visual memory at all. I know my partner’s eyes are blue because I remember the word “blue” in association with her eyes. But I don’t see the color in my head and just cannot remember that sort of thing well. Aphantasia. I’ll never recall it without it being word-based. Many people are similar. I have gotten in trouble for not knowing what a previous girlfriend’s eye color was because I’d never tried to commit it to memory it. So now I do.

I don’t know anyone else’s eye color, really. Not having a visual memory will do that to ya.

According to the Covidians, all kids were happy to go back to this:

Wasn’t that just so damn weird?

Reading through this and other threads (etc.) I think there is more than enough evidence that our smartphones do in fact monitor our conversations and show ads based on that.

It’s happened to friends of mine and I witnessed it. Of course it’s widely denied by the propaganda apparatus. But I can almost guarantee it is occurring.

Well I feel all of that.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

The first ten on today’s playlist:

The first ten on today’s playlist:

It’s a positive change that the impulse has passed that many had to spend all their time telling you how very offended they were about nearly everything. There are still traces, but it has diminished greatly.

Partially it was the pandemic that helped to extinguish this malignant trend, but mostly it was just how very tiresome and boring these people were to be around.

Why It’s So Hard To Maintain Your Weight Loss.

Wasn’t hard for me; don’t know what makes it hard. Was actually pretty easy. This just sounds like excuses. Make excuses or do it. If you cannot control yourself, who will? People are so willing to cede their minds and responsibility for their actions to someone else.

And I refuse. I am in charge here.