Much like the scarecrow, I chased after wit. Presently, I came upon a singular fact: the Tin Man's quest is Noble and mine vain. Being considerate, compassionate and sensitive towards the fellow man is the only way forward.

Good form deadlifts.

If they are not all water soluble, you might be taking too much of one (or more). This is not always safe.

They can also be downright harmful. Cyanocobalamin molecules must be first broken down and turned into biologically available forms of cobalamin. In the process, a cyanide molecule is released into your liver. It’s not enough to kill you, but it does tax your liver. People report feeling slightly lightheaded and a loss of focus taking cyanocobalamin versus other, more readily available forms.

For the future, if you use yubikeys, yubico authenticator is a drop in replacement for google-authenticator and you can save your google-auth setup on multiple yubikeys. So, even if you lose one, you still have it on another. Then it is independent of the phone. Also the yubikeys themselves can be used as 2FA for google accounts. However, sadly, you can't set them up on firefox the last time I tried.

Ensure you've eaten well.

Pick a drink which has a taste to your liking. Relish it while you drink it.

Drink a glass of water between drinks.

Stop after a couple of drinks. This is much easier if you've done the above.

(This may turn out to be rubbish advice but there may be a good idea or two in there.)

Does it also bother you that a lot of people tend to say "amount of people" instead of "number of people"? I think of cannibals talking about their food whenever someone says "amount of people".

It never has, but it probably will now. Your comparison reminds me of the phrase "2.5 kids".

Also "Less" vs. "Fewer".

If it doesn't bother you, try making the same mistake in the other direction and asking for fewer milk in your coffee.

The use of "less" for countable objects never used to bother me. At all. I'm pretty sure I didn't even notice.

Then one day, a couple years ago, it started grating on my nerves. I have no idea what caused me to suddenly start caring! I just do now.

I guess as I get older, less things get past me?

>I guess as I get older, less things get past me?

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Exactly! And of course this ought to go further and only the desperate are ultimately deserving of that job. They won't even demand safe working conditions. They'll be grateful for the opportunity. It's not slavery if the employer doesn't "own" that person.

I'd prefer our improvements and working conditions come through the political process. That way it remains fair across the board without the lucky few who make it into unions, which nearly always become a good 'ol boy network, handing out favors to someone's cousins first, or beating the crap out of people who dare to not join them.

"looked it up wrongly and did the wrong thing"

"Everything is slow, cumbersome"

You may want to evaluate if this is going on even in other spheres of your life and see where the crux of the problem lies. Unless this is how you always were, these are symptoms of something else. Perhaps you need to figure out what is bothering/troubling/ailing you. It could be inadequate rest or something entirely different. Find someone who can look at things objectively and can help you sort this out - perhaps a therapist, doctor or a trusted friend?

While I detest the notion of science being religion, often I too have thought about your first point (thus I did make it a point to vote your comment up in the hope that more people will see it). Ultimately science does rely on one core aspect of things being taken on faith: that what we observe today will also be so tomorrow. It is in theory possible that everything is random and it's just a coincidence that all the laws of nature that man has come up with seem to hold up so far. At any moment, the universe could go haywire and perhaps we were wrong all this time and it's just random? This is possible of course but not a useful model for man in his attempt to understand the world.