Do you have a standard of living you want to upkeep without having to work around your pile of stuff?

Do you consider some items not of good enough quality to be owned and maintained by you?

Do you not want to see the world burn and the source of your collection to fail so you can't collect anymore?

Congrats you have standards and can collect away.

Just saw a Facebook post where people were asking how ABC made a special about Rob Reiner so quickly and accusing it of being AI, even though this has been done with celebrities for a long time. He was 78, they figured he'd die soonish. The first part of the special is about the murder but the majority of it is recapping his life and career, they probably had most of it put together well in advance.

Remember when Biden dropped out of the presidential race and the media kept recapping his life and career? I'm convinced they were playing stuff they had put together for when he dies.

I ain't getting any younger.

Edit: I'm learning a lot about sheep dogs.

And I'll bet that the original trilogy hate Tiffany and Barron with a white hot passion.

Thinking about the shopping/purchasing coping mechanism, my mom, and the adage, "money does not buy happiness," along with my own experiences overcoming habitual purchases. There is a positive feedback mechanism present in shopping purchases that is rational. For me, that drug is hope. Perhaps that reflection resonates with others too.

that was a really cup of coffee. and an even better bagel. i've only got, fuck, three bagels left? and those are good bagels too. and when those are done i'm gonna have to buy more since i bake about as well as i metaphor. fuck. none of those eventualities involves me staying on my ass if i want more bagel.

edit: just realized i can ask my wife for bagel

edit edit: just realized if i ask my wife for bagel she will eat the remaining bagels

edit edit edit: just texted my wife that i told y'all about her eating my beloved bagels yesterday (CAN Y'ALL BELIEVE IT SHE ATE MY BAGELS) i will win this battle even though the war is long lost

edit edit edit edit: i just got a phone call from my wife y'all. she was at the bagel shop EATING A GARLIC BAGEL. I have been outplayed.

Not just uncaught murderers, there are a lot of people who have killed without legally being considered murderers.

People who killed people in accidents such as driving accidents or hunting accidents

People who killed in self defense

Soldiers who killed enemy soldiers

Executioners

Police officers who have killed on duty

Doctors and nurses who have made mistakes that accidentally killed patients

Additional context:

Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I'm in Europe, I've noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away...

In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just... understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it's pretty incredible

Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn't think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this...

These two sentences are translated from Chinese, so the wording may be suboptimal. The original version is given below.

鹽十分鹹；糖不太甜。

alt. title: It takes surprising little salt to season dishes.

It hurts but you learn from it