The Ex- Med-Student's notebook

If you feel lost and disconnected from yourself; if you feel like you don't know who you are and question your purpose in this life, the best thing you can do is reconnect with everything that has ever brought you joy. There are so many parts of ourselves we hide and forget because we adapt to the environment and people around us. Other people's opinions, judgements and thoughts influence us and it's so easy to get lost in them and forget what you actually think and want, who you actually are. So revisit the songs that make you feel happy and alive, pick up that hobby that always grounded you, connect to people who bring warmth to your life and indulge in anything that makes your soul feel at peace. All of these things are the essence of who you are, my love. And in order to find yourself again, go back to your roots and engage with everything you have been neglecting for so long. I can see that the light inside of you has been dimmed for a while, but it's still there, waiting for you to uncover it again.

The problem with "treat yourself like you would treat a friend :)" is that I can't treat myself like I treat someone that I'm not personally responsible of. I don't have to make anyone else get out of bed. I don't have to make anyone else do their work. I don't have to make anyone else maintain a social life. I don't have to make anyone else do their hobbies and chores. I'm not in charge of anyone else's life, of course I don't have to hold them to the same standards. And I can't verbally express how fast my entire shit would asplode if I treated myself like I treat people who are not my personal responsibility.

This is why these days I'm treating myself like a child that I'm trying to look after and teach.

takes a real artist to go "i have to deface this billboard promoting an evil corporation's evil product. but crucially☝️the typeface and kerning must match or else it's cringe"

If you make it look official, people will leave it up. I knew someone who replaced all the motivational posters at work with 'demotivation' versions and corp didnt notice for like 2 years.

"But why can't they use cutter machines?", "doesn't [x] factory automation automatically pin component together . . .?", etc. Yes, large parts of making clothes could, if clothing never, never changed, could be automated. We, as consumers, don't want those clothes because a) fashion, so what the sweatshops are making constantly changes, and to a sweatshop worker, it's all the same, but to an automated process, that's re-tooling the entire line, b) they would suck. As producers, factory owners don't want that because a) that would have to be a separate automation line for every piece of clothing, in every size, and possibly for each fabric. b) the level of standardization that would have to be imposed on the supply materials to ensure that the automation continues to work well beyond the test batch would not be tenable on the scale of clothing manufacturing. c) constant re-tooling, as mentioned above. And that still wouldn't account for the stitching/ironing/finishing, so you'd need to invent novel methods of automation to cover those. Clothing has been big money for decades, and it was, in fact, the very first industry to be mechanized, so you can bet your bottom dollar it's already very very thoroughly mechanized. And there's a damn good reason that [x] has been tried + rejected before (The first modern mechanical computing device capable of more than one operation & capable of compounding operations was almost certainly a loom. The first programmable computing device was also a loom, we know that one for certain, it's the Jacquard loom) In automation scenarios where things are cut and fixed together, you either have extremely uniform materials, (like metal shops with sheet metal and tack welds before the real welding/fastening), or you have a small enough amount of manufacturing and high enough profit margin over material input, (like etched-surface manufacturing), that you reject 98%+ of your input material to select only that would works for your automation line.

Don't be silly. He's a cat, obviously.

"That pairing would never be canon" and what of it? I'm only supposed to ship what the church tells me to or something?

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal