Sentient Loom

If I didn’t do it then I’d be thinking about doing it.

I’ll interrogate my inner experience next time I’m standing at the lights, and I’ll report back if I discover anything interesting (unless it’s really damning information).

There’s no rationality to it. I don’t get out my calculator and graph paper to plot out the best possible course of action. I just push the button a few times. And sometimes I push it a few more times.

I think we know it doesn’t help, but we do it anyway.

that your base metabolic rate slows as you age and is primarily responsible for you putting weight on in middle age

Is this not true?

This is actually good common sense. It works much more than 50% of the time. You’re responding to the very specific instance of anti-vaxxers, whose claims of relying on the immune system instead of vaccines are not considered common sense by most people.

You have more control over your attitude than over politics, or other peoples’ opinions. Don’t exhaust yourself and don’t strain your relationships uselessly. They want to bring you down and push you out. I usually reject stoicism, but this is a good time to be stoic and keep your energy reserves, and your attitude, fresh.