Michael Jackson is already back in the public eye, and working to fight the deep state. Not many people have figured it out yet, but George Santos is actually the king of pop.

Or maybe we can just let young people have fun and eat free for a few years, then ship them out to biodynamic farms where they can work the soil by hand, utilizing no machinery or chemicals until death. The middle -aged can pull hand carts carrying produce to urban markets. Everyone has their ration cards and gets to eat, but labor is divided such that everyone gets a chance to have fun to the best of their ability in the pain-free years of life, and graduates to working closer to the land. When death comes it is usually closer to agricultural fields or in them, so less work needs to be done to move the bodies to the compost piles that fertilize the fields. In this way we can avoid directly eating people, but we would all still be cycled into food via soil inputs. If we did it without violence and guns, it would be more like the Smurfs than the Khmer Rouge.

Infertility might be helpful.

Yep. I’m afraid you’re the winner of this exchange. Maybe if there’s a real “zen” virus that comes around and makes us all happy to sit around in the dark and cold, just enjoying each other’s company, and being happy with very little, we could slow the ascent into catastrophe, but I don’t see it coming. We’ll be burning each other before we give up combustion-derived energy, unfortunately.

It definitely is! I know my mom uses one of those machines at night and had to go through observed sleep studies. I wonder if they have a home monitor for diagnosis. I’m trying to imagine doing one in a hospital setting and them getting frustrated ( and me going broke) after I still haven’t fallen asleep after 2 days. I will definitely ask about it. I’m trying a therapist when I get back to the states and focusing on CBT for sleep hygiene and whatnot. I’m not sure how that’s going to work, but I have a sleep-log to start keeping track. Thanks!

It’s really difficult for some people to sleep during severe depression. Some people sleep all the time. The sleepless part, in my experience, is usually caused by repetitive thoughts that can’t be turned off. Often that inner dialogue gets to be a debate about the merits of life versus the resolution and peace of nonexistence. It’s a really horrible problem to have insomnia as the most prominent depressive symptom. I’d much prefer the sleeping all the time version. Your wife is wise to have sleep as the first question.
I guess I wanted to say that it’s not necessarily poor sleep hygiene that causes depression, but that depression can be the primary cause of insomnia. In either case, insomnia is a dangerous accelerant, and if someone is dealing with that kind of depressed insomnia, it’s time to get some help, fast.

How do you get an Alabama girl to perform oral sex? Ranch dressing.

Then take the contamination from the fish that gets sucked out by a magnet and shoot it into outer space.

Bonobos have also been observed eating their own young.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18454-hippy-apes-caught-cannibalising-their-young/

The gut is the primitive brain in a lot of ways. A lot of neurons, more than in the brain of a dog, are making serotonin and other neurotransmitters down there. The brain probably evolved as a way of feeding the gut. It makes total sense that anything that stresses the brain will impact the gut, and vice versa.