You can be critical of somebody and still respect them for how they achieved what nobody else has. Example: Elon Musk. None of his companies are profitable. But his marketing geared towards millions of nerds around the world (muh space, muh electric cars, muh robots) + the ability to convince the government to fund your ventures (subsidies) deserves some form of genuine manly respect. Man wants, man takes.

I can easily tolerate a religious person up the to point he becomes superstitious. “Did you see Holy Fire descend this year?” From this point, he’s batshit crazy to me.

We’re supposed to learn from our mistakes if we’re not to be considered stupid. Oh, how many times have I done things at the very last moment because of procrastination! I still do that. I’m stupid that way.

I honestly couldn’t careless about some shithole third-world country in the Middle East called Israel. But I inevitably spend time on the Internet, and news and social media are stirring up if not an outright negative perception of it then definitely an element of annoyance and repulsion.

Did WW3 start while I was sleeping? GM

A week will pass, and everyone will forget how angry they were at something called “liquid glass”. There will be other things to get angry about, after all.

Water, honey, raisins. Trying to make the most basic mead there is. Let’s see what happens.