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Oliver Munday
February 11, 2023

When I was in college, an acquaintance who had graduated a few years prior came back to visit for the weekend. As we walked around campus on Saturday night, he flung his hands into the cold Connecticut air and exclaimed, “You guys are so lucky; you live a minute away from all your friends. You’ll never have this again.”

At the time, I thought it was kind of sad—a grown man pining for my life of university housing and late library nights. But his words have stuck with me in the years since. “In adulthood, as people grow up and go away, friendships are the relationships most likely to take a hit,” my colleague Julie Beck wrote in 2015. The older you get, the more effort it takes to maintain connections, because you don’t have as many built-in opportunities to see your friends every day.

The writer Jennifer Senior noted last year that the fact of our choosing friendships makes them both fragile and special: “You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value,” she wrote. But that’s also what makes friendships harder to hold on to as our lives evolve.

It’s hard but not impossible. Senior notes that when it comes to friendship, “we are ritual-deficient, nearly devoid of rites that force us together.” So we have to create them: weekly phone calls, friendship anniversaries, road trips, “whatever it takes.”

“Friendship is the rare kind of relationship that remains forever available to us as we age,” Senior writes. “It’s a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal in lives that otherwise narrow with time.” It’s something worth choosing, over and over again.

Ohhhhhhhhh!

That is absolutely what would happen.

Wait, what is that? The Soviets made it… more popular to get STEM degrees, is that what that means?

If you go years without peeing, where does the pee go?

Do the balls just start getting bigger?

I guess I’ll have to find a friend I can borrow from, does piratebay still have old PC games?

Wait, it looks like the only way to install OpenRC2 is to have already installed RC2?

Installing on my Linux machine:

OpenRC2 needs files from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 or RollerCoaster Classic in order to work. Please select the directory where you installed RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 or RollerCoaster Classic. (I haven’t learned anything about how to live in the Linux environment, I barely use this machine)

Holy fucking shit this is the best motherfucking news this year

Quality Post

Google is announcing that everything you say through their email service they’re going to read?

I mean, I guess I had no reason to believe they weren’t doing that anyway, but jesus…

Right, I get that, but where was it he was bitten?

Honest reporting looks like propaganda if the only news one is used to reading has been filtered through the fourteen layers of the American empire’s propagandic method.

I can handwrite cyphered text as fast as I can write ordinarily. Never have practiced reading the cyphered text though so reading notes that I took in cypher is a pain in the ass…

“emissions are still increasing… thanks to China.” I understood China led the world in renewable energy development, their total emissions are still increasing despite that?

all your hands?

Wait, are you describing Cop-mala as a leftist?

A cursory check that I’m too busy to give my full attention indicates that, maybe(?) the motive of the Gunpowder Treason was to improve religious freedom?

OP: “god, it’s hard being a paraplegic and trying to run…”

You: “guys, don’t listen to this asshole, being a paraplegic means you can’t run. If this person were actually NPD, it would be an extremely positive sign for them to seek to improve themselves and since we can see this person trying to improve themselves, they are clearly lying and manipulative. Classic NPD.”

Log off and touch grass. You can come back when the stench of your self righteous diarrhea of the mouth fades.

I think you raise a very valuable point here. “Narcissist” is so often used simply as a label for the villain with no consideration for the terms use as a medical diagnosis.

In your case, you may be labeled a narcissist but you make a continual conscious effort to account for the weaknesses implicit in that diagnosis. This is different from the vitriolic insult so often used to condemn people.

This is a failure on our part, in the way we use the term. You may be (technically) a narcissist, but, you are not “evil” in the way that others popularly labeled “narcissists” are. You are a good person.

Neat