This resonated so much with me. I am nearly 40 and have spent far too much of my life obligated to others and not setting healthy boundaries. And of course, now that I’ve realized that and started setting stronger boundaries with people about what they may and may not demand of me, there is anger and pushback that I am declaring sovereignty of my own time.

Lying and pretending to know something who’s actually a complete stranger to them

When the stranger is a drunk woman in distress clearly trying to get away from a predator.

Exactly.

LLMs are ideally suited for replacing corporate middle managers everywhere.

And summers in Australia are brutal and can give you skin cancer

I’ve been working out 2 hours a day and started playing daily sudoku and lichess puzzles

If you’re congested, put 12 drops of the spiciest hot sauce you can get in a small cup of water and gargle it and swish it around like mouthwash.

You won’t enjoy it, but you will be able to breathe.

Reddit back then was like a blend of what content we’re seeing on the “chat” communities here on Lemmy, and what Hacker News is today. It was much more technology oriented, and much less topical.

Subreddits existed, but ones for smaller fandoms and narrowly focused meme formats did not.