Open Sudoku you can download thousands of new puzzles.

Weaponized incompetence much?

A quick release keychain, it releases from a simple multi purpose carabineer. (Yes I know - the carabineer function is for my belt loop, the quick release is really what it is named for)

Not All SF is optimistic. I could start bringing up huge names - but it doesn’t matter. That wasn’t really your question.

Fiction - be SF or Fantasy - is mostly* about escapism at the end.
People who read them don’t want reality. They want to forget stuff that bothers them, that they can’t do anything about.

*Mostly, because some books are using fantasy/sf to introduce higher concepts, but usually that goes over most reader’s head.

If you need the paper, then you don’t have a choice. So it makes it never late to start.
If you want a CDL there are places that for a contract will train you. There are other places like that in other areas.

Schooling isn’t that important anymore. But you should never stop learning. When you stop you die - or slowly rot away.
You do not need fancy schools to learn new things. They only give you some random piece of paper.
There are countless ways to learn new things on the internet. Free udemy courses, youtube tutorials or even paid tutoring lessons and apps to learn new languages.
You could even buy paid college courses online and fo it at your leisure.
Or just visit couple courses for some small $.

You start to develop the ability to not give a fuck.

I’m coming from a phonetic language… Anything else don’t make sense. Tho I have not studied Chinese or Arabic so those should be interesting.

They just need to write what the heck they meant to say. :D

I have a reusable bag. I repaired the seams at least 6 times.
I really love the bag, I got it from CES about 7 years ago. And even it’s an evil entity now, it is hands down the best reusable shopping bag I own.

There are words I really hate struggle with…
Whirl, macabre, dairy, faux, chique.

Looking at other comments I will point out one thing nobody mentioned so far: keeping an old per alive is not always cheap.
You have to calculate the cruel numbers against the gain or loss also.
You could give an other neglected - abandoned pet a new life, instead of making your loved one to slowly expire.
Or I do not wish the situation on anyone, but pet meds vs human food can come into play too.

As the internet gets older we have to change our thinking:
In early days it was 100% male, age 14-25.
Later in the mid 90’s 97% male. 14-28 age.
In 2000s it is still 80% male, 20-35
2010 - gets messy. Still mostly thirsty males. +Lot of perverted people
2020 anyone but you is a bot

Sometimes translation changes the original book to something different. Translating a book is not a manual. Word by word process. You have to take cultural differences in account also.
It is not cheap and definitely an art form itself. And with modern works licensing and the og copyright owner sometimes overreaches making it even more harder.

Not really big tradition, but gifting is on the eve 24th. And its from baby Jesus or / and from the Angels and no santa included.

I’m sorry to hear that. Life is a mess qnd we do have a lot of things to worry about. But there are many things that worth it living for.
In my mind my line ends with me so I will take mult time so I don’t go to waste. A human cost about a million dollars let’s get our value out of this life ;)

Vote with your wallet, recycle, reuse, no single use plastics etc … It is all a lie also.
Footprint is a lie. I do recommend his channel it is very eye opening = depressing.

My therapist suggestion was to: bear witness.
That maybe our role is just to watch it burn, to acknowledge it is on fire.
So it’s fine :) at least I don’t have kids to worry about.

Everything is on fire. Bugs are dying, teflon - and chemicals are everywhere, micro plastics, warming oceans, invasive species, west Nile virus, ohh cancer that I might be actually developing right now, the emptiness of existence, the inability to change big things, that at the end it won’t matter. Nobody cares. Me doing my part doesn’t matter. Immeasurable human stupidity, global upcoming financial crisis.
These are of the top of my head. But I do know how to keep my head in the sand, so at least I can sleep well enough.

Music itself is important. But for me actively listening to it is not as much. If I am in silence I start to sing - hum random folk songs and I won’t even notice that I’m doing it. So I do need music or an audiobook so people won’t get annoyed with my antics.
It is a very weird situation, because while I don’t actively seeking music and I don’t really notice mid quality speakers - my phone still has about 20gigs of mp3s.