respect

perfectly balanced, as all things should be

hot take

My favorite interaction was on a college campus. They had set up a table and were telling every passerby “Jesus loves you!” So I cheerfully returned “and Allah loves you!”

I will forever cherish the physical recoil and look of revulsion that crossed their faces. I’m an atheist, for context

I experienced this playing neopets in the early-mid 2000s so it’s not exactly new, but might be more prevalent now

Every few months I have to reset my dictionary. My phone will eventually decide that because I mostly use the words “hope” and “will” at the beginning of sentences, the correct spelling must be capitalized. Drives me nuts

I have this issue too. I have a few people in my life who pay attention to the news, I just ask them to inform me when something big happens, or I ask for updates if it’s been a week or two. I check out those specific topics then move on. I realized it didn’t serve me to stay very informed, so I just want the bare minimum.

I go through phases. I was glued to the news at the start of the Israel-Hamas war, then it became too much and I had to back off. I’ll be back at it again at the height of the 2024 US election so I can make informed voting decisions, then I’m done again until the next major thing.