Silvanus peed on it once.

My guess would be a (spam) call center landline.

Do you actually do nothing as in stand still staring at the wall with an empty mind emitting white noise or you do minor stuff that you consider as nothing?

…and a water shortage due to Nestle and golf courses.

Idler, Incremental tags?

Can’t be explained easily. It’s a bunch of variables triggered at opportune moments setting in place a mish-mash of values that somehow manage to work.

Take a day in your life. Think about what was good and bad in it. Then think what it would’ve been like had the good things failed and the bad things succeeded instead. Would that change your perspective on how the day went? As day after day pass, these small, usually things cement themselves into a view on life. Who learns what changes from person to person because what, when and how we learn creates differences in values and personality.

An example, you and your brother argue over a toy as children. If the argument escalates and you hit each other, the winner and the loser of the fight will have different perspectives on the situation. Same if a parent or an adult interferes and casts judgement unilaterally. Each person involved will learn something different from the others and this will shape in which direction their overall personality will view the world.

The good and the bad change depending on the position each person is in and each situation can evolve in many uncontrollable ways.

Hah, yeah. One could say it’s a form of digital nepotism.

“Only our bots get go work here!”

Lol, they’re the ones using the bots to fake engagement in the first place.

I don’t get it. She’s always been about bringing you love. Why is it weird she does it after a space trip?

Disagree. The geese would be all up in arms about migrating birds and join a cultist movement with a scorched earth policy that destroys everything just to stop others from having any.

I’m seeing the potatoes reference with a different view now.

Did you know that had the series continued, Inara would’ve been fed up with Mal’s indecisiveness and decided to solo raid a Reaver ship? By the time the rest of the crew would’ve managed to save them, she’d already fucked them all to death and moved on to take on the government singlehandedly?

I would like to point out that Thanos made some guy’s life miserable just because. So a cabal of lesbian witches looking to destroy someone’s marriage is just as much possible. And I say this with the consideration that both are fictional and thus not bound by the rules of reality.

Yo, seriously. If you haven’t watched Meerkat Manor, try to.

In no particular order: Age of empires, HoMMs, Disciples, StarCraft, WarCraft, Dark Reign, Battlezone, Red Alert, Dune, Lula, 3D maze screensaver, strip poker, Duke Nukem, a virused version of that desktop mayhem thing that let you smash it in all kinds of way and many others that will be mentioned in other comments.

Games that give you a lifetime of fun.

Everyone got those yet some people are still cognizant in spite of it, so maybe, but in combination with something else.

Lead, shitty water, opioids, a combination of those and more… who knows?

As long as you’re still in a relationship, it doesn’t have to be just a thing of the past . It can also be a thing of the future, but only if you’re willing to make it a thing of the present…

These are tiny, day-to-day things many couples fight over. It’s quirks and characteristics that are learned about each other over a long period of time.

Yes, you should keep in mind your partner’s needs and they should reciprocate. Having eyes for each other also means noticing and keeping track of the little things that keep repeating and establish a pattern.

Whether one keeps track of things for the both of you or you each keep track in different ways, the point is that both of you bring something that makes up for what the other lacks.

A long term relationship requires reasonable compromises that the participants can grow to be comfortable with. That doesn’t mean there won’t be arguments, because as individuals you will occasionally feel the need to refresh your individualism. But for every win there will need to be a smaller, if not equal concession in another way to maintain the veneer of equality.

Long story short, it’s good when you’re communicating. Argue, make up, talk and cuddle… it will go on as long as you want it to go.

Don’t be a carpenter. Splinters.