I’m not saying mindfulness can’t have serious benefits. However, I would caution anyone who’s into it to read the book McMindfulness. A lot of the “science” behind it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, there can be genuine drawbacks to it, and it’s often used in unethical ways–like to make CEOs of ruthless companies more able to shove aside their feelings of guilt, or to sharpen the minds of soldiers for killing.

I’m probably going to keep using both regardless, though I may cut back significantly on my reddit use.

I do it from the bottom. It’s much easier that way.

I think that if you feel you must clean them, you’re supposed to use some kind of water pick or something, but you’re not really supposed to clean them much at all.

I hold a pencil wrong. I’ve done it this way my whole life. I used to have a callus from it, too.

You are not supposed to use q-tips to clean your ears. But if it’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

You’re the ones who don’t understand that socialism means worker ownership of the means of production, not state ownership of the means of production.