I focus on the sensation of my feet pressing into the ground - feeling each tiny differential in pressure as precisely as possible - and then do the same with the sensation of the ground pressing back up against my feet. It's a mind trick, but it works.

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That approach over the river always terrifies me a little.

Mine is called PEW PEW but there are NO LASERS in it. People fight with swords instead because worldbuilding.

I just wish it gazed back more often.

Legend.

Bookmarking for later. Thank you!

FWIW, one of the (very) few positives of refugee relocations is that it tends to improve the cuisine where they end up.

My favorite thing is where they defined "female" in the EO about there being two genders as a being that would produce "the large reproductive cell" (eggs) at conception.

Of course, testes don't develop until about Week 7. So by law, all Americans are currently female.

Which... cool by me. 🤷‍♂️

I would literally be dead now without this.

That is certainly a take.

I mean, if you're gonna be wrong on the internet, why not go LARGE.

(And I'm just talking from the consumer value-per-dollar perspective. Never mind the blood sweat and tears it must mean to you )

IKR? There just wouldn't be so many of us around if it wasn't useful for survival *somehow*.

When you gonna bring me something that *isn't* a soul-sucking horror, man?

(See also: systemic thinking and Disordered Sleep Regulation Syndrome. We know where the bears are likely to come from and we don't mind staying up all night to watch for them.)

We evolved to guard the tribe from the unnatural and uncanny.

Stand fast in your duty. Your ancestors watch with pride.

The part about them possibly trailing an SUU student journalist was INSANE. And terrifying.

Great article! Saving for future reference.

A college degree also shows you can write, research things, and complete complicated tasks on a deadline. For certain minimum values of "can".

No one appreciated it *out loud*.