melisdrawing, melisdrawing@lemmy.dbzer0.com

It feels anecdotal, but I felt like I had a voodoo doll for my last manager. He was a nice enough guy but just hyper and careless. So he would do stuff all the time without thinking about what came next. I would see him on my commute sometimes following close behind other cars, speeding to red lights and such. Said to my coworker, ‘He is going to not be here one day because he got in a car accident.’ A few weeks later and he is out because he totalled his car into the back of another car. Another time the company was cheaping out on hiring someone to replace lightbulbs and he was like, I’ll just change them myself! I said, “you need insurance to do stuff like that in an office, thousands of people fall off ladders every year” A few weeks later he was out for days, found out he fell off a ladder at his house. I didn’t cause these things to happen, but I stopped vocalizing what I was predicting. As the wise Michael Scott once said, “I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.”

Me too!

I came to that same realization a while ago and it’s super depressing. Like, we have already hit a point where the truth matters so little. No one will accept evidence unless it comes from their in group. Everything else is fake. Confirmation bias is rampant and I don’t see our dismal education standards turning that around any time soon.

Ooooooh, that last one is so good.

I love peggle!

I had a really hard time getting through Solaris, but the ending with the rain is burned into my soul. Sometimes the slog is important in order to feel the meaning.

I remember a time when every day our letter carrier would bring us another AOL compact disc. It was incredible, there were AOL CDs littering the streets, crushed rainbow shards promising to connect you to the world.

But why is it seven fishes?

Her face at the end there was amazing. I am so anxious for the reveal of what she saw.
What do you guys think? Is it a soylent green situation? I feel like that would be too expected.

But he said “no puppet” so many times. How much more evidence do you need?

Hahaha same! I started asking every person I know about it because I was so curious. Like, that can’t be real, you can’t see stuff. But everyone I know seems to have some level of actual visualization except me. And I am an okay artist, just need references and a lot of trial & error when drawing.

But like, isn’t that your fucking job? ’Nobody wants to work anymore!!’

I switched to deezer and it wasn’t too painful.

That is dope!

I have been listening to that masterpiece of a soundtrack all week.

It IS crazy but please take John Brown's final words to heart:

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

We are repeating history and that man was an enemy of any rational or empathetic souls left in this country. I took the warnings of others seriously before watching the footage, as it is indeed awful. But that man would have been happy to watch me die. Knowing that, I can't pretend it doesn't feel good to see a threat neutralized.

Still wearing mine. I get asked why about twice a day.

I think about this all the time while commuting. I yearn so much to teach the drivers this one simple trick!

We have our own hissy sissy right now trying to ignore the 1 year old kitten brothers. Our long gone Orange stray took 14 years to sit on my lap, but then I got three years of constant lap attention. Cats are so stubborn.