If you already have a maxed out sharps drawer, then you probably don't actually need any of the knives in this drawer. Like how often do you actually use the pizza cutter? I just cut pizza with a chef knife. Or the egg cutter? How often is that used? Sometimes the answer is to go through all your drawers and see what can be tossed to make space for the things you actually do use.

I'm surrounded by pine trees, blackberry bushes, and ivy. Christmas looks pretty green to me!

This might not be what you want to hear, but you're right. People will come and go from your life in ways you don't have any control over. The only person who will never leave you is you. So, be a friend to yourself! You don't have to be your only friend, but once you have a solid foundation of being ok with just yourself, you won't need to depend on others as much. You'll be better able to enjoy their company without worrying about being abandoned. It won't hurt as much when friends leave, whether it's intentional or just a result of changing circumstances. Of course, this is not an easy thing to just do. As others have recommended, a therapist could possibly help you with this.

I've been in the same situation you describe, and it's taken more than a decade (and me having a complete breakdown and him still not leaving me even though I was a complete mess) for me to finally believe it. I'm guessing you may have had someone in your childhood who told you they cared about you, but their actions later revealed they actually didn't. Exploring those feelings - the real abandonment you did experience - can help you heal and separate current and future experiences from the past.

Yeah the problem with scrolling is that it's designed to keep you scrolling. You could put on a TV show instead. Either you'll get sucked in and watch it or you'll get bored and want to do something else. As long as you don't get stuck scrolling, you can decide what you'd rather do.

Actually, whether or not you want or need a trust will depend on what state you live in. Some states may try to force probate if you don't have one, but in other states it isn't necessary at all. Just to add more confusion!

I love how everyone's already completely forgotten JD Vance exists.

I don't go places with people for social validation. I do it because doing those things by myself is incredibly boring.

I know unfinished business doesn't necessarily mean business in the economic sense, but it's still funny we call it that. Like even ghosts can't escape capitalism.

I'm sure he'll just sue people for not buying it like he's trying to do with his other products.

But why do we need to recreate "real life?" Don't we already do this relatively well in books, TV, and movies? People keep saying we won't use AI to replace creative writing, but this (and propaganda, making bot conversations seem like real people) are the only use cases for this kind of data. LLMs don't need to improve their conversation skills. What they really need is to stop hallucinating, and this kind of data won't help with that.

That's really not true though. I have met so many people who are married that I would never be attracted to! And there are probably loads of people out there who would never be attracted to me or my spouse. The only thing that matters is that we're attracted to each other.

But the fact that you use the phrase "dating successfully" like there's a right way to do it... there isn't. Relationships are messy, and attraction is really only a small part of the whole thing. Stop reading game theory or whatever, that's the real reason you're having a hard time.

Mostly spatial. I can often find a passage in a book by where it was located on the page (I hate audiobooks and ebooks for this reason). I can't remember a lot of my experiences later, unless someone can tell me where I was or what I might have been looking at. I'll probably remember exactly where everyone was standing, but not what any of us said. Sometimes I wonder if I lost my eyesight if I would still be able to make memories at all.

Not to mention that some days I want an app or process to function one way, but on other days I might want it to function the opposite way, depending on my needs. There is no mechanism for the app to guess which way I want it to function, if such a change is even possible without reconfiguring all the settings.

I signed a bunch of these petitions back in 2016. It didn't accomplish anything.

I mean, sure, you could argue we're already there.

That's an odd thing to say. Did he forget that mashed potatoes are almost always made from russets? Try making it with Yukons and you'll get potato glue.

These kinds of vague titles are not helpful. Every article is just the same fear mongering speculation.

What people misunderstand about the tax brackets is that your entire income doesn't get moved to a higher bracket. It's only the income in excess of it.

So for example, let's say you had $50,000 of taxable income in 2024 as a single filer, you’d pay 10% on that first $11,600 and 12% on the chunk of income between $11,601 and $47,150. Then you’d pay 22% on the remaining $2,850 that falls into the next tax bracket. The total bill would be about $6,053 — about 12% of your taxable income — even though your highest bracket is 22%. And this example doesn't take into account the standard deduction.

Bottom line, this won't save people as much as they think it will. Usually the person in the example simply complains "I'm paying 22%" because it always feels like the paycheck isn't enough.

Mormons have three tiers of heaven. According to some, even Hitler would make it into the lowest tier. I'm not sure what you'd have to do to actually go to hell, which is supposedly just lonely infinite darkness away from the presence of God.

There's a $4000 credit for qualifying used EVs.