Do nothing.

This is not a joke. Sit comfortably, commit to doing nothing for a period of time, and then do nothing. Do not have your phone. Do not prepare by ‘just taking care of these few things’ before doing the nothing. Do not look up the random thing that pops into your head. Do not set up music, a podcast, or some other distraction.

Just. Be.

I’m imagining a slightly lower tech version which is just a little flag that unfurls over the butt.

Becky: “Brenda, I’m with Belinda now. Stop trying to sabotage my happiness.”

Less of a complaint and more of an experience of vicarious embarrassment.

Or both?

Oublievish, god of the forgotten

We cast him into darkness so deep that the light could not reach him, and he ceased to be. From him, we stole the ability to forget. And then we used that ability to erase our memory of our crime. Now, no one knows he even existed.

Tobias, from accounting: The shipping department is the only one running at a loss. Why is your department ordering so much furniture?

Thomas, Shipping: How else are we supposed to make 1 ft^3 of packing peanuts fill a box big enough to destroy the spine and sanity of the UPS driver?

Tobias: Why would you want to do that?

Thomas: It’s part of the departmental vision statement. The company has one. Why can’t we?

Looks like someone is pulling reeeeeal hard to try to stretch an already well-established and explained metaphor so they can say ‘No, guys, don’t you see? This huge piece of pop culture I like is really about meeeeeeeeeeeee.’

They create and release tension, like a joke, which creates a pleasure burst greater than the discomfort of the tension.

Starting from basically birth, we learn. Learning is the process of creating models in our heads of corresponding causes and effects. This is what makes intelligence powerful. You can know, to a point, what is going to happen before it does. However, the causes in reality are complex and not always perceivable. When this happens, we experience emotional discomfort, the fear of the unpredictable. In stories, there is nothing but the story, so everything is built to create and then satisfy that sense of tension. This is the pleasure of learning.

You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don’t know about price there.

Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don’t want to drop them because it’d make a mess.

Why is this in funny?

Classic. It’s only sexist if you are sexist. If you assume dresses are ‘womens’ clothes,’ and that women are inferior, it’s possibly sexist because you are elevating yourself by declaring yourself to not be one of those lowly dress-wearers. If you don’t have that internalized misogyny, it’s just a statement of boring fact.

It’s a balance of probabilities, like everything in security. Which is more likely? A. People are careful, using good, strong passwords, and maintain vigilance, but are targetted by an advanced attacker who will hack the protonpass system to get their database and the necessary keys to open it? Or B. People get lazy, use the same password for everything because remembering stuff is hard, and everything they own ends up protected by the modern equivalent of combo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

If you are truly capable of generating and memorizing enough good passwords to handle all of your accounts, that is technically more secure, because a password manager can create a single point of failure for all accounts. However, most people aren’t able to do that and will resort to crap passwords or using the same single crap password for every site.

It’d function the way it does on PC, which is to say, as a product, not a subscription locked service.

So that’s what he meant when he said he liked the stuff with two women? I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. Not appalled, though.

Potato

I get that sometimes. It goes away when I refresh.

I’d reinforce point one with consideration of cost/benefits. Purchase, install, maintenance, replacement, and compliance with legal requirements are all going to have a cost. Most people don’t feel like they’re getting their money’s worth out of having an HOA in the first place, much less want to pay more for essentially no benefit. Since the primary benefit of security cameras (if not being professionally monitored) is deterrence, maybe you could get the benefit without the invasion or cost with some dummy cams. <10% of the cost for 99% of the benefit.

You wish you looked that cute.

Mine takes on elements of whoever I’ve been hearing a lot of lately. Had Dexter’s voice when I was watching the show. Had Serj Tankien for a bit. It varies.