Hey man, I'm all over the comment sections. I am no content creator, just an armchair critic and pundit. The peanut gallery is important too y'know. :)
The total anonymity aspect is seductive. Say anything without it being tied to any one user. Lots of toxic and nasty shit comes out of that, but also some crazy ideas and high concept stuff that might never gain traction because nobody wants to go on record about it.
The best thing about it is that nobody actually believes it's a real story. But it's a great joke, because it just fits him so well. And the joke isn't just that he would romance a loveseat, but that he might write about it without an ounce of self-awareness. The dude is not just awkward as fuck, but in a sinister sort of way. You could easily believe that if you left him alone with your own sofa, he might do unspeakable things.
I snorted my beer at that line. It was extra hilarious coming from someone so typically buttoned up and above the fray like Senator Warren. Gods I do like that woman.
Thankfully I've never really had any major reaction to flue shots aside from a sore arm for a couple of days, but I know people who get knocked flat for a day or two afterward and they still get them because they know the actual illness is much, much worse and affects more than just them.
They really need to just offer them in parallel at flu shot clinics. It's just a thing responsible people should do, and our health infrastructure should make as simple as possible for them to do it.
That's indeed what he was saying. If there's any actual concept of Justice on a cosmic level, then "eternity" is certainly not a "just" punishment for anything done by a mortal, subject to circumstances and born into a world they had no choice in. In a "just" universe with a punitive afterlife, Hitler would get back an equivalent amount of suffering to that which he caused. So maybe a few hundred million years worth of suffering, but not eternity.
As in everything, moderation is good. Relax a little, but don't make it your whole thing. Work a little, but don't make it your whole thing. Dose a little, drink a little, dance a little, fart a little, enjoy cats and dogs a little, but my god man, change it up a little.
Me when I'm falling asleep and fart myself awake.