I used to tell people that John McAfee always exited a room by jumping through a window while yelling, “MCAFEE RULES!” Which he didn’t, but maybe he did? Anyway, I miss that crazy motherfucker. Sometimes nuts make the world more fun.

I got free of this addiction years ago.

I hate you.

Word Cookies. I absolutely love it. You can pay for things, but it is absolutely not necessary and is basically only if you feel the need to use boosts that allow you to cheat your way past the level. I think it costs $2 to go ad-free.

It does give you regular popups asking if you want to buy coins, which I admit is annoying, but they are unnecessary to enjoy the game. There’s also endless opportunities to get coins and other boosts for free. I have something like 80,000 coins and dozens of boosts and other than the $2 to go ad-free, I’ve never given them any money.

You do have to have certain word skills to enjoy it as much as I do. If you’re the sort who can crush it at Boggle, it’s the game for you.

No worries.

Yeah, but folks, flattered as I am, I don’t want to be an admin!

Loneliness is a real problem today. I guess we’re both suffering from it.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html

https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health/demographic-change-and-healthy-ageing/social-isolation-and-loneliness

I knew I was doing Lemmy wrong. Thanks.

I wish I had a person to talk to in person or on the phone, but unfortunately I don’t. The closest I have is personal friends I can talk to via social media (none of them live in this shitty town). My wife is out with a friend tonight, so the best I could do would be the 14-year-old child that I still allow to live here (although sometimes I wonder why). I have a feeling she’ll want to talk about modern slang again since that’s been what she’s wanted to talk about today and I just can’t take having her read to me more from the big list of 2024 slang she found me. I tried to talk to her about 1940s jive slang to get her on a different but related subject. Didn’t work.

I’m as unqualified as you, I’m sure. I don’t fit any of the bonus skills and I have no background in conflict resolution. I apparently am a cause of conflict if anything.

Anyway, I don’t think either of us is getting the gig, but I’m glad we both try to make Lemmy a better place.

Sorry, it’s been a long day.

Well apparently I’m not positive or productive, so I guess I’m not qualified after all.

Oh, trying to make me put in an honest day’s work, huh? Okay then, just for that, I nominate BonesOfTheMoon!

Wah? Huh? Me? Admin? I don’t know anything about web design or legal compliance or social media marketing or anything. I’m flattered though, thanks.

Adobe pulls that shit too.

And it’s really easy to not really think about what you’re doing and accidentally save to the cloud.

Then later wonder what the fuck happened to the file you spent three hours on when you came back from lunch.

Fucking Adobe.

As a salt vampire, I will happily take any expired salt off your hands.

And off your face.

True, but you can compare writing 4000 novels a year with being able to write 80 papers a few pages long in 2.5 and say that both are possible.

Successful writers generally don’t just make stuff up. They do plenty of research.

Stephen King claims he writes 2000 words a day.

R. L. Stein supposedly wrote a new (admittedly short) novel every two weeks.

This Spanish romance novelist apparently wrote over 4000 novels in her lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corín_Tellado

So sure, why not 80 technical papers in 2.5 years?

What an asshole.

And I’m not talking about the scientist.

I don’t question your friend’s ability to smell cockroaches, but I gotta tell you, there is no restaurant without them. The best you can do is minimize.

Roaches go where there’s food. That’s just a fact of life.