Monday, 26 August 2024

He says "your millennial is showing"... BUT I WAS BORN IN THE 1970s.


Vegan diet.  Zero alcohol.  Zero marijuana.  200 push-ups a day.  :-/


Perhaps due to his admitted lifelong alcohol dependency, he's ended up looking and sounding like this. :-/  
https://youtu.be/_fTvIT9bCzg

Monday, 19 August 2024

I will not be well remembered here, but I will be well forgotten.


That is "my" poppy hidden in the back: the one I plucked from a crack in the pavement and tried to transplant. It seemingly died as soon as it took root, but either it revived since then or, more likely, this is its direct descendant.
I had no friends here, only enemies.

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Misery Misperceived as Pleasure.

You're lying to yourself: you don't "destress" playing video games, they only stress you out more —like a part time job you're not being paid to do.  I can tell you that learning Chinese is relaxing: don't believe me.  It's hard work.  Video games are, too.  They're misery misperceived as pleasure.  Lifting weights at the gym, also, is stress, but is commonly misrepresented as relaxation —and as a pleasure.  And the most dangerous delusion of all: you think that "destressing" in this way makes you more proficient at other tasks —but that is also the opposite of the truth.  As Herodotus said, it is what is contrary that is good for man, as with drawing tension in the bow and the lyre.

I'm not morally opposed to video games: I'm morally opposed to escapism.