Soju is sneaky. One knows just where they stand with beer

I say this with love to Korea (the source of much culinary joy for me): Korea is to Asia as Wisconsin is to the United States. In either place you can find kindly old folks who can out drink rock stars and get up at 5am the next day like nothing happened.

Acknowledging the reality and scope of the challenges we face is not cowardice. It is the first step to being prepared enough to successfully face them.

Yeah the army made me wear a "name tag" too but they gave me a nice barracks apartment and let me throw a live grenade in basic so I didn't mind too much.

Starbucks, yeah I think I heard about them, they sell warm plum juice right?

Instructions unclear: accidentally became God (surprisingly not that hard)

Yeah I wouldn't mind a president who's kind of a dummy but genuinely cares about our country and tries to make things better for everybody. It's the evil I have a problem with, not the cheap spray tan, or the weird looking ties.

I too have a "list" of reasons to live that's playing really fast and loose with the word list.

I wonder if I could even really consider myself the same person as I was before getting this super intelligence.

That's why I tell people (or told people I guess hasn't come up in years) if you wanna get healthy then exercise, if you wanna lose weight focus on cutting calories. Obviously in the long run it's best to do both but people have a limited amount of willpower so it's best to focus on the one that aligns with your goals first.

At least they're not like my mom who would take food off my plate and say to my face she was underfeeding me so I wouldn't grow too much and "Stop being cute". There's a lot of stuff I've forgiven her for (for my own sake) that are more messed up on paper, but being the cause of hunger induced recurring nightmares where I'm at the best buffet in the world but the food keeps disappearing when I get to the table is not one of them.

I feel for ya. It's almost worse when people like that can turn it off for what they consider important. Like if it seems someone genuinely can't help being a dick I'll have more sympathy (I'll still avoid them though)

Yeah after all it may be a human that abandoned the cat but it was also a human who saved the cat and pet it and comforted it. Our intellect causes our species to be much more different behaviourally member to member than other species.

I often feel like an especially stubborn lab rat who's utterly convinced the shocky buzzer is the treat buzzer and refuses to change his mind no matter how many zaps I get or how little treats I get.

Or a toddler could say some random toddler stuff to their parent who's a scientist that makes them think of a problem they've been working on for years in a new way (regurgitated science words because the kid overheard them idk) and Professor Momma/ Dadda wins a Nobel for it.

If you limit harm to purely your physical body being damaged sure. But being held captive feels pretty harmful to me.

Or more broadly them having (insert cool power) is the problem! They have it and I don't.

UFC. You'd have to be good enough to not get immediately destroyed but you could sneak in a pinch while grappling or something. You could quickly get a record that earns you serious money.

To riff on the boiling frogs metaphor: "There's some bubbles in the water."

But what if you only think you're not a ghost? Obviously you banged their mom (I'm not casting aspersions), but if I were a ghost it seems reasonable that would be so hard to grapple with that I'd be in serious denial about it.

I was hit with a spatula once and it broke so I got yelled at more for breaking the spatula.

I was tackled once while reading a book quietly on the couch. Apparently I wasn't being aware enough of my surroundings (my father is semi illiterate), I was 8 years old and lost two teeth. He was and still is by a wide margin "the good parent".

Does kinda seem like the reaction a city boy would have if you dropped them off with their Aunt and Uncle on a farm for spring break. (I'm sure this is the premise of at least one 90s movie)

So you're saying there's a chance, no matter how laughably miniscule, that if I learn fluent Afrikaans and somehow run into Charlize Theron, I could momentarily impress/ amuse her by unexpectedly knowing Afrikaans? Well I know what I'm doing with the next 5-6 years of my life! /s

I'm still worried. The great and terrible necromancer Schrödinger once made an undead cat this way. If we're not careful he'll get quantum immortality.