The Caffeinated Counselor

Baltimore Catechism comes in handy again; have you ever been in a situation where you know someone is doing something wrong, but you're not sure to what extent you are obligated to express your concern about that action? Some guy at a party casually mentioning he takes stuff from work, a friend of a friend asks if you want a tarot reading done, etc? Well, the commentary for Q. 222 says:

Good excuse to roll this out again

Please pray for the young men who have lost their sons, their brothers, their friends, and their fathers to suicide;

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

@kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

I just Googled the Swedish-Japanese guy in the OP, and according to this interview, his Japanese name was given to him by the master gardener he was apprenticed under:

2026

https://xkcd.com/1259/

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

I can't remember if it's a Reddit post or a 4chan thing where someone's DMing a D&D game, and they tell the players they have to beat this major villain, but then the players go off and make the nation change it's views on gay marriage, and they go through the whole thing and then the villain just comes and wipes everyone out, and the DM basically goes "I told you that you had to beat this guy".

I would admittedly say that the DM deserves the right to be mean about it, in all honesty.

I don't think the DM was mean about it. He ran an entire campaign for them based on something he didn't really want to run originally. I think it's fair for the DM to hold true to the plot he established in the beginning like this.

I think the fact that they went along with it as long as they did before basically pulling the rug out from underneath them says a lot about him really.

I think it might be a side effect of most players these days being introduced to RPGs through video games/those god awful podcasts.

The point of TTRPGs is to tell a story together.

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”