There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • I find myself thinking that if I get high I will have an easier time ignoring the pain and doing something good like cleaning or working.

    That isn’t true, though. Getting high every day will add another problem on top of those you already have.
    It reduces your capacity to change things and your capacity to cope with what you can’t change.

    That being said, if your pain is physical and chronic, you basically have no other choice but to take drugs.
    And weed is one of the better options for dealing with chronic pain.
    But then ideally you should do it under medical supervision, and not with the goal of knocking your brain out, but making the pain manageable so you can live your life.
    This would likely mean not to smoke lots of weed with lots of THC, but consuming smaller doses of slower-acting edibles with a higher CBD amount.

















  • A job interview is a conversation, not an interrogation.
    Ask as many questions as your potential future employer does, and don’t put yourself below them.
    You are equals negotiating whether you want to enter into a business partnership.

    This achieves several things:

    • First, you learn more about what working with them will be like, when you actually ask.
    • Second, if they react negatively and try to establish a position of dominance over you, well then you know that they’re like that.
    • Third, it’s a good way to fight stage fright and feelings of insecurity. This is not a test you pass or fail. Or rather, the other party is equally likely to fail your expectations.
    • Lastly, and most importantly, it communicates an air of confidence, which actually makes it much more likely you’ll land the job if you want it.

    Being timid and submissive makes you look desperate, which is not a good look, and will likely lead to a lower salary as well.




  • Oh god, those old adventure games.

    Where doing things in the wrong order (which was explained nowhere) would lead to permadeath, or worse, getting stuck with no way to progress and no hint what you missed in a previous area you can’t return to.

    All I remember from police quest is getting killed or fired for missing a step at a routine traffic stop, or forgetting to check the tire pressure every time you start driving.

    In Leisure Suit Larry 1 you straight up get killed without warning if you step onto a street (run over by a car) or into a back alley (mugged and clubbed to death), or take a cab with wine in your inventory (cab driver takes it, drinks it and crashes).

    Fun times!