hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
there are people out there whose entire job is to make sure their factory’s bagel slicer perfectly divides every bagel into one brick that barely fits in the toaster and one sliver so thin it’s almost transparent
I loved when “Drift Compatible” entered pop lexicon cause we were in DESPERATE need for a way to platonically express “one of us to the other is as a limb to a body; we are a left and right feet of a dancer; we do not need to speak because any one word inspires an exchange of unspoken words that conveys a full conversation in which a mutual conclusion is determined in an instant”. Huge win for the QPRs out here
I also really love that the movie explicitly shows that drift compatibility can be any form of relationship. Two brothers, three brothers, husband and wife, father and son, two friends who have lost everything to the same enemy. It isn’t about the way you connect, it’s about the connection itself. And of course, that connection lets you put boots to asses and kill alien monsters together. Because the power of human connection can change the world or something.
When I was growing up we had a German Shepherd called Mischa. She was truly the goodest girl. We found her tied up in a parking lot having been left there by her previous owners. It happened to be Father’s Day and my dad, allergic to most animals, was cursed to have my mom bring home new pets year after year on Father’s Day specifically.
Her history was unknown but she was just about a year old when we got her. She was a lovely sweet tempered dog who loved us with all her heart. Her greatest desire was just to be where we were, vibing with whatever we were up to at the moment.
So no one thought it was odd that she was hanging out near my dad while he worked on the roof. Our house was set in a hill, so the upstairs was at ground level from one side and had a balcony on the other. My dad set up a ladder on the shorter side of the house and got to work.
After a few hours he came back down to get lunch. It took us a while before we realized we couldn’t find Mischa. We started calling her and were met with faint whining. We looked all around the house and it baffled us that east to west we could hear her whining. Which is when we finally looked up.
There was Mischa on the roof, delighted that we were finally looking up at her. We couldn’t understand what had happened. My dad went up and carried her down the ladder while her tail wagged happily.
It wasn’t until he went to go back to work and she instantly followed him up the ladder that we really conceptualize how she’d gotten onto the roof in the first place. She loved climbing ladders it turned out. But unfortunately it was a one way trip.
After that any time the ladder came out we had to secure her lest she pop up to join the workforce.
We interrupt your usual service to bring you a rebirth of an early 2010s obsession.
Ok so as a childhood reader of the book I actually heartily disliked the Hobbit films for a number of reasons but when I tell you these two and their eternal compatibility had (still have) me in a chokehold 💀
They’re husbands ok, and Bilbo for sure wrote that in his book 😬
ok r y'all happy i went to my gmail and typed in ‘is:unread older_than:100d’ and mass deleted everything in that category and it deleted (literally) 65,000 emails.
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now everyone leave me alone
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DISCLAIMER: I figured out how to do this reading ancient forums, so if something goes terribly wrong, heed that warning.
Type the command into the regular email searchbar. I actually had so many emails, Gmail wasn’t willing to mass-delete so many, so i actually started at 1800 days and moved down a couple hundred each time LOL. Anyway in this example I did '10’ days because I’m almost out of emails.
Click the select box, which will only select the emails displayed on the first page of your search.
So click 'select all conversations that match this search.’
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It’ll tell you 'All conversations are selected.’
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Hit that garbage can.
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It’ll ask if you’re sure. Click 'ok.’
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Assuming there’s a lot of emails, they won’t all delete at once, and you’ll get this prompt:
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Don’t close the tab or go back to your inbox, or this won’t happen. Open a new tab and do something else for a few minutes. After a couple (or 10) minutes, the emails will all move to your trash, and the page will be clear:
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