Yup, my mom bought one for my brother and I. Just a rectangle with exposed springs. No pads, no walls or nets.

We never did get hurt, but man, we could do that double-jump timing thing and send each other ridiculously high.

This goes right back to thinking that you’re going to be a different person in the future.

• When I am old enough to drive
• When I am an adult
• When I get that dream job
• When I get that cool car
• When I get that dope house
• When I find the perfect partner
• When I get married
• When I have a beautiful family
• When I can finally retire

You’re still gonna be the same person. There’s no dividing line. You are always going to be the entity that you are right this second. Tomorrow you will be the same human being, just with 1 less day to live. In 20 years from now you’ll still be the same human being. But with 20 years less to live. Did you use those 20 years wisely?

If you don’t love yourself now, you won’t love yourself in the future. Work on yourself. Learn to love all the good things about yourself, right now. If there are things you can improve about yourself, then work on those things.

I mean, of course they could.

But where’s the money in that?

Upvote for the Tesla shade!

I absolutely will click that headline. Either it’s a sad day and a hero has left us, or I get to watch one of my favorite videos again!

Oooo…Im ready for suggestions too.

I swear to God if you say something about a runner’s high or something…

Oh for sure…fasting is waaay easier. That’s kinda my point. Fasting is literally not eating.

Unfortunately you can’t just do it forever. Well I mean, you can…

Addicted to alcohol: Stop drinking. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to cigarettes: Stop smoking. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to crack: Stop smoking crack. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to food: Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don’t consume so much of that thing that you’re addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser…

The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can’t stop eating food. You’ll die.

So it’s as if an alcoholic has to constantly have just a little alcohol. Or a crackhead has to keep smoking crack, but only every once in a while. No problem, just control yourself…

I’m sure telling people that they’re pieces of shit for eating food will fix the problem, eventually. We just have to try a little harder.

Every fat person on earth already knows that too much food makes you fat.

Yet somehow, even armed with this knowledge, we’re all fat.

Curious.

I only have anecdotal evidence of what homeschooled people are like. I’m sure there’s a ton of nuance and some homeschooled children are probably taught by extremely intelligent, capable parents and some homeschooled children are probably taught by people who are barely even qualified to be a parent much less a teacher.

That being said… Every homeschooled person I’ve ever met has been what can only be described as “off”. These people become adults with very skewed social skills and even worse, their sense of humor is completely stunted. I think a well-rounded person needs to be exposed to the rest of the world and the people in it starting from kindergarten, and homeschooling cannot reproduce that.

Holy shit it is the Adventures of Briscoe County Jr. theme!

It’s not some classic composer or something; it was literally written for that show and since it was such a good song and the show got cancelled after one season they totally snatched it up!

https://ccmpr.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/nbcs-2014-olympic-coverage-features-the-iconic-music-of-ccm-alumnus-randy-edelman/?hl=en-US

I’ve replied a few times over the years with similar versions of this. It always gets downvoted.

I’m literally telling people “take control of your life; your recreation time belongs to you and you deserve that time, so protect it” and that’s too much responsibility for some people.

Plan your “free” time.

If couchmaxxing is important to you, put that time on your calendar. Don’t call it “free time” when you budget for it. Call it a “recharge interval” or something else that denotes how important it is.

There’s no such thing as free time. We’re all granted a finite number of hours in our life. Use them wisely. Time to chill is important for mental health and should be treated as such.

Blue cheese. Specifically double cream blue cheese spread on triscuits.

I used to think blue cheese tasted like play-doh…

Yup. Self-driving cars will never truly be possible with unpredictable humans still driving the other cars on the road. Maybe if you could put a true AGI into a car.

We could have self-driving cars with today’s technology if the only other vehicles on the road were also self-driving and all interconnected via a mesh network with each other and the other critical road infrastructure like intersections.

But if on today’s roads if you want a truly Level 5 self-driving car where you get in the car in your driveway and say “take me to Burger King”, you’ll need an AGI in the car.

Holy shit! BASHED? I bet he doesn’t do that again…

Oh man if this passes it will be a “stunning rebuke”. It won’t actually do anything because the President would still have to sign it.

Wow. That’ll show 'em.

“Outcry”, you say? Better watch out or they might get “slammed” or even “face calls for”…