First time I quit i was sick and cigarettes tasted awful for a week, so I figured if I had already gone a week without I might as well quit. Whenever I got a craving I thought about how disgusting they tasted with a cold, and imagined spongey lungs filling with black tar till I gave myself a shiver of disgust.

I started up again years later while traveling, then quit for good while visiting my parents for 2 months - I know I'm too embarrassed to smoke around my parents.

He's rich.

If we just extend that rule to everyone we'd have better cheaper stuff and fewer rich people to boot.

When I worked in a mall, there were no staff toilets. So I was subjected to a slightly less extreme version of that maybe 2-3 times a week.

I call that symphony "ringing the taco bells".

There's growing evidence that the Anatolian branch - long thought to be the earliest split - may be better described as a sister branch. If so Proto Indo-Anatolian would be the family, with an Indo-European branch and an Anatolian branch.

I believe this has been a minority position among linguists but recent aDNA data suggests that sister branches is a good fit for the genetics, giving a little more weight to that model for the language.

When WC1 first launched the one selling point that everyone mentioned was that if you click on units enough times they get annoyed and say "stop poking me!"

Warcraft was always heavy on the whacky, that's its whole thing.

Don't vote "for/against whoever". Vote against trump like an adult - that means voting democrat.

Sure, picking between two options that you don't want is legitimately hard for human brains to do. But republicans have promised and begun to brutalize minorities at ever larger scales, and are objectively worse than democrats on everything that matters.

Handing the reins of state power to fascists has never improved life for leftists or humanity.

It's one soap dispenser michael. What could it cost, $80,000?

No copays is not necessarily true.

Back in Australia it was a flat $35 for a PCP visit. A $35 office visit copay with 100% coverage and no deductible is functionally the same.

Our healthcare here in the US is a brutal costly joke. It instantly disproves any claims that our leaders make to care about the welfare of US citizens.

As medieval and renaissance scholars regained interest in the pagan past, they wrote about it in latin. That's why we still largely use the latinized names.

These scholars used latin partly because it was the lingua franca of their elite audience, but also that way the only people who could read it would have had a proper church education. And thus less likely to be lead from the path of righteousness by these pagans and all their wicked thinkin'.

This practice of using latin for religiously risque material continues well into the modern period, where the sexy parts of native american myths were marked by an abrupt shift into latin. I believe the first scientific account of penguin necrophilia was written in latin as well.

Twitter is run by a russian influence actor. Facebook has been hosting russian influence operation content for what a decade now? Fox gleefully pushes that stuff. There's a host of grifters and alt-right entry-point content online that's lousy with it.

It's crazy how much of our media space has been seized by brutal foreign oligarchs. I feel like it wouldn't have been this easy for them if we hadn't spent decades letting brutal domestic oligarchs take almost all our media space.

Why would you peel a carrot?