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I think I just feel a bit more sympathy for people who joined the family. She fell in love with William, ‘t ain’t her fault that comes with infinite scrutiny.

I mean, they went out of their way to become media celebrities and monetize their existence, beyond just being royals. I don't have sympathy for people who court public attention for personal gain then complain about it. It's like a Youtuber putting their opinion out there for views and ad revenue and then resenting the response to it. Or someone showing their ass on instagram for views and then resenting that people have opinions about showing your ass for views.

Don't want the attention? Stop trading on it. You don't selectively get to choose what kind of attention you get when you bait the entire world.

They wanted fame. They get no sympathy from me.

Well we already got a grimdark cleaning simulator. Only a matter of time, really.

I'm sure it would catch up with me eventually. IIRC it's all about the blood vessels and how the lack of caffeine affects them when you've been using it for so long that leads to the headache.

Right now I can drink upwards of 4 French Presses on the weekend. Usually half of that during the weekdays. I need to cut back, I think my adrenal system is fuckin shot. As much as I adore coffee I've been debating going clean for a few days to see what happens.

Toriyama's death. Man, is really sad.

R.I.P. Brave Warrior.

Ah, in other words incredibly large amounts of drugs. That'd do it about as well.

Possibly why my reaction was largely "Yep. This is a thing."

Not quite a WTF but...work paid for managers to go do a sensory deprivation float experience. They put you in a tank with like a 60% epsom salt solution so you float, buck naked, about 6 inches off the bottom of the tank. The water is the same temperature as your skin so you aren't supposed to feel it. Inside the tank its completely dark and the room its in is sound proof.

And I'm not gonna like....I was kind of disappointed. I've read about total sensory deprivation and that's kind of what I was hoping for. This was sense dep lite. About the only time you really drowned everything out was when your ears went under the water line, but you still get that kind of thrumming effect.

For the first 20? minutes I was kinda bored. Then I relaxed into it and, surprisingly, my mind kind of cleared. Probably about 50 minutes in and I think I was starting to fall sleep. Then the music came on, which I heard through the water, and it was over. Truth be told I was pretty relaxed and peaceful in my mind afterward, but that may as easily be the fact I didn't drink coffee to start the day, for the first time in.....I don't want to think how long.

And it was kind of neat to feel my back side totally suspended in water.

But all in all, it wasn't total sensory deprivation and that's what I was hoping for. I found some benefits but it wasn't that much of an experience. I'm glad work paid for it, but I wouldn't pay $75 to do that for an hour on the reg. I took the whole day off from work as a "me" day and got a massage too, for about the same price, and I'd say a massage beats out that experience 3x.

Also the waiver was funny. "If I defecate/urination/ejaculate in the tank I understand I may be charged up to $1500 to clean the tank and replace the salt." Along with over waivers about psychotic breaks, open wounds, injuring yourself, etc....The things that place has probably seen.

They want gender studies in mine removal operations because they believe gender has a bearing on who is affected, how they're effected and whether there are protections in place that consider their specific needs.

Basically civilians may have to clear their own backyards of unexploded ordinance (instead of trained military personnel) and someone in Canada wants to kick $4 million towards making sure someone is thinking about women and displaced persons (those whose home was destroyed by war), the things they need and the risks they particularly face. (Is a woman 2 months pregnant having to clear explosives from an area coated in all the residue from fighting going to be affected differently than a 14 year old boy, who might have their hormones fucked with from breathing in contaminated dirt from a war zone for 6 months?) Instead of just sending everyone in willy nilly and then wondering why there's an increase in birth defects for the next generation, and other health problems in the war generation.

There. I applied basic critical thinking to clearly written sentences for you.