Putting in the effort to dress in the way one has come to think is appropriate for appearing in public is a form of self-care. For some people, from certain generations or cultures or who have adopted the habit to their identity, that may be more formal or elaborate than for others.

That a person of an advanced age, possibly suffering some mental decline still does this is a great thing, and very good for their well-being.

Not mine, but I knew a guy in high school who did this and I think it’s ripe for someone to steal. He would frequently add “like the dickens!” to things, the less appropriate, the better. .

Sir, I salute you!

I play some music (thru earbuds unless my wife happens to be away). My go to is the Goldberg Variations. I think the reason it works, even though it can be quite busy and fast in some parts is that there is enough complexity to occupy the mind, but enough sameness to lull, and I know it really well.

Sometimes I’ll take 1mg of melatonin, and a cup of warm milk with honey.

When your brain explodes out your other ear, you don’t want to be getting any in your eyes. Also, its not a plug, it just ties them to the table so you don’t steal them.

I don’t have an answer, but FWIW, here’s ideas for expanding your search in case exactly such a thing doesn’t exist:

video players can sometimes handle audio too, maybe a video player has this function

players that have command line interfaces sometimes have timestamp parameters (i think such players exist on Linux, don’t know about Android)

Scientists have been known to be materialist.

Gorm!

I’d ask your friend if they walk 3k to the market, and if the answer is no, tell them to STFU.

the walk is good for your though. You can feel like a badass for doing it, but complaining kind of weakens that.

And less crunchy.

The devil is in how things are made useful to users who just want to get things done. The problems comes with corporations making decisions about what users should need to understand, and what users want. There’s been a lot of dumbing down and manipulation in that process, serving the needs of those corporations and advertisers and not the needs of the users.

Software can be made useful for those who don’t want or need to undertand all the details, in a good, non-harmful way. The principle of separation of interface and implementation even demands it. But our society being what it is, that largely doesn’t happen, so I’m inclined to agree with your pessimistic take.

I love the stains! I have recipe pages that look like this and know it is the sign of a well loved recipe.

The pimento doesn’t really have all that much flavor, espec next to the olive. You should definitely try some green olives again, it is one of this things that it’s not uncommon to dislike as a child and later acquire a taste for.

If we did we could save the money we spend on toothbrushes.

Vignetted? If I’m correctly inferring what you mean by that, you might also try ‘tunnel vision’ as search term.

Humerous rant or not it seems reasonable to assume its basic claims about the animal are factual. It seems really fucked up to make shit up about an animal in order to rant about it.

or a Dengue

Well yes, and what it means for “there to be things” is a whole discussion in itself. But the concepts of space and time are rather deep and fundamental (to our mental models regardless of how or if that maps to objective reality). The preference for right angles is much less fundamental and we can see past and get over it.

All this should tell us is that we have a strong irrational preference for right angles being aligned with each other.

Could somebody point out where the safe rocks are?