If your goal is to avoid that, and you look 21 permanently a la Highlander, you probably want to get new one every thirty years or so, starting over as a “runaway teen” or “refugee” who lacks identity documents with a nominal age of fifteen.

Or just commit identity theft. That one you could probably do once a decade, or more; just keep a running file of unsolved disappearances of children and teens and pull another one out whenever the age more-or-less fits.

lemmy is the go-to

I still check up on reddit and facebook, though both are becoming ever harder to use in a healthy manner

What part of the world and what time of year?

In general, you want to prioritize rescue over acquiring food and water. A set of three markers in a triangle that can be seen from above is a universal sign that someone needs help. Flashing mirror at any passing aircraft is also good.

For food, don’t worry about it until after you secure water and shelter. It takes well over a week to starve. Water, boiling is best; you can do this even without a pot by heating rocks in a fire and dropping them into a basin you’ve filled with fresh water. Failing that, fast-moving streams are somewhat less likely to have as many parasites and dangerous microbes. But boiling is best!

For shelter, building a lean-to with fallen wood against a big rock will do for your first night; break off leafy branches and layer them over top to shed water. Longer-term, big sheaves of long grass bundled and stacked will insulate and shed water better.

If you’ve received more than three threads about the same topic in two days, make a megathread.

I don’t force myself to start right away. After years of “well I guess I might as well” I now more-or-less automatically start washing dishes, doing laundry, and tackling yardwork when my mood dips. I still need to make the conscious choice to tackle bigger jobs like mucking out the basement or turnjng the compost.

Not in that way, but:

A) my environment is usually nicer afterwards, which improves mood, and

2] if I was miserable due to fighting with my partner, seeing me do chores usually improves her mood, facilitating reconciliation

When I feel bad emotionally, I clean. I do the nastiest, most unpleasant jobs; since I’m gonna be miserable no matter what, I might as well get some use out of it.

perambulation is a good one. My morning walk isn’t quite grand enough to be called a ‘constitutional’; nor scenic and leisurely enough to be called a ‘stroll’; nor yet social enough to be called a ‘promenade’; ‘perambulation’ is just the ticket.

Thanks, Satan’s Maggoty Cumfart, I know I can always count on you.

Doesn’t even have to impact. The gravity of other bodies in orbit will pull out-of-plane objects closer to the plane over time.

+ butter

Mattress, about five years. Towels, every decade or so.

Just keep the ones you have clean with regular washing, and they don’t wear out that fast.

I just took a trip and the estimated arrival time assumed I would drive 15mph over the limit without stopping the whole way.

Personally, I scream for icecream.

I don’t feel attacked, I feel seen.

ZZT

I DO have my own website, and I’ve never had to block anyone.

Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.

Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.

But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.

But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.

I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.

It taught me meditation and self-control. It made exercise desirable as an activity.

But for self-defense, many martial arts do teach techniques for disarming opponents. The range within a gun loses effectiveness against a trained, unarmed opponent is actually larger than you think. Not to mention that muggers tend to avoid “harder” marks like those in good shape or who move like fighters.

I was under the impression it has a web interface.