Go to bed early, sleep well, wake up for a whole new day feeling refreshed.

There’s a few birds I love. Their calls, how they behave. It’s especially great out at camp and they show up in the morning. Just sit there and enjoy their company.

So, I totally get it. I’d never get to the levels of going out to pursue it, but sometimes I’m in a situation where bird watching is more interesting than people watching—and we all love that.

I have the same thing, but only for some. I haven’t really bothered to notice if it’s due to where the image is posted or hosted, or if it’s the image format. But it seems to be something Thunder derps over for those posts.

Creative burnout = “I’m turning the thing I like into a chore I loathe.”

Stop. Take a break. Creativity doesn’t flourish when worked.

Yeah, I could be wrong. I just find it very hard to believe from a numbers point of view. Mind-boggling odds or rampart racism in Perth that’d make Klan members blush.

Heh. Probably was that. “I don’t serve your kind” being someone 5 mins from the airport when they’d usually get a massive trip into a deeper suburb.

The racial diversity is very valid and important.

If a driver isn’t white, which is a high chance, then it’s very likely the driver is from Bangladesh through to the Middle-East and all the way down into Africa, that we know cop racism from passengers plenty. I struggle to see how they’d quickly form a position of racism themselves, even actually caring enough about indigenous Australians to do so.

It’d be like me moving to Finland and forming a position of racism toward the Sami before I had even learned Finnish fluently, all the while I’m copping racism myself at least once a day from non-Sami people.

I could really only see this happen if the cab company has a wildly effective anti-Sami program, which I wouldn’t understand, but just stuck to for my job.

But now you see the level of wild scenarios and assumptions needed to try validate some truth to the customer’s allegation. It’s not impossible, but it seems highly improbable. Or everyone in Perth really fucking hates Aboriginal Australians.

Yeah, nah. I find this incredibly hard to believe. It’s extremely unlikely that even one behaved like that. Australian taxi drivers are immensely racially diverse, as it’s one of the easiest jobs to get when first arriving here, and all would sell their child for a $20 fare. And you’re telling me an entire rank of 20 drivers are somehow all racist toward indigenous Australians, like at levels they’d refuse a job? Yeah, nah.

Something seems off, like it was more her behaviour or condition. Or, ya know, the album she just released…

I have a Nepalese friend, Pasang Sherpa, but we just call him Mani. The surname means he and his family are from that specific area.

He has done a lot of Nepal (obviously) but for work he mostly portered to Camp 3. He says he preferred that so much more as they would just leave the guide and the tourists and power ahead with way more weight. On some occassions they’d do a second trip between camps for a different group and pass the first group on the way back up.

He enjoyed it, but competition between families and non-Sherpa people using the ‘Sherpa’ name almost as a brand to appear like that’s their locale, started making it risky with poor reward. These days, there’s a chance your Sherpa isn’t actually a Sherpa and is someone from another area in Tibet or Nepal that hasn’t grown up in those specific mountains or even the Himalayas at all and is lacking all that generational knowledge. The increase in ‘Sherpa’ deaths is a combination of that and taking bigger risks to get the better paying jobs to try make it through off-season. It’s a bit cutthroat up there nowadays.

Edit: Oh, fun fact. His great uncle was the youngest Sherpa on the 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition. This dudes done K2, Everest a bunch, spent his childhood at Kangchenjunga, but his great uncle is still cooler lol

As an actual climber, I can’t imagine what these filthy grots do up there.

Camps always has a dedicated rubbish section, contained, easy to seal and haul. Things that are single-use are avoided as it’s dead weight. Otherwise, have planned rubbish that can provide a use later, whether material or balsa containers that become kindling once empty, or keeping wet socks/gear in a dry spot that won’t dampen other gear layer, or dry bags that are light, compact, sealed, and often have many uses when weather or situations change.

The rule in the mountaineering and climbing communities around here is, “Leave it better than you found it.” A real climber manages their haul so well, picking up other’s rubbish along the journey doesn’t impact their ideal max weight. So what the fuck are these idiots doing where 11 tonnes gets taken off the mountains?! Most everything should be easily finding its way to camps for planned hauls down to base during season.

Imagine being at your evolution level and watching living creatures slowly become genius levels and you’re just like a novel pet or exhibit to far superior beings. And like, it just slowly, painfully happens, while your unforgettable past haunts you of times where you weren’t so isolated and alone, where there used to be others of your kind. Just trapped for eternity in a future you’re long since naturally compatible with.

And all the time you’re dealing with whatever the expansion of the Sun brings…

OP’, I choose a gun to blow my brains out when the novelty wears off.

Wing - Dancing Queen

Yes. Especially Lemmy. People here love turning a discussion into an argument on shit they don’t know much about. Subsequently some of the most brazen and obvious strawmanning, wild out of field assumptions, and gaslighting I’ve seen online—usually with a lot of not reading full comments or disregarding context or 90% of the comment in general. You can constantly call them out on it and try to direct discourse back onto topic instead, but it’s almost always futile. For them, it was only ever a competition of feeling superiority of some kind.

I’ve never seen anything quite like it online. Reddit was mild in comparison.

I think that about most cereals in general. Filling up the stomach with almost nothing, let alone anything of any use.

That’s not a meal. It’s like two nibbles of a granola bar.

Maybe the “chocolate” helps? lol

Edit: Jesus, and cereal prices have come up over the years, it seems. That’s a lot to pay for almost nothing. Have some eggs (or mushroom if you’re veg) on toast and a juice, y’all. Start the day with a sense of accomplishment!

It’s certainly not a global news post.

It’d be good if the article included a picture of the painting.

Also why people tend to not dream if using substances that have memory loss side-effects—weed is common. And same reason people get “black out” drunk or drunkenly repeat themselves. The brain just isn’t noting anything down, but it is happening.

That was the most astounding part of the article.

Back when I was young, I put The Used - On My Own on in the car and my mother said, “This guy is really overly emotional. It’s like his dog just died.”

I thought she didn’t understand how hard it was to have a break up. Now grown up, yep, I get it. I hear that song now and I’m just embarrassed lol.

Tried a bunch and landed on Thunder. It’s minimalist, tucking away all its features nicely. It’s experience is like rif if you ever used that, but lots more going on in the Settings menu to set it up how you like.