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 “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” 
 I had never thought of it this way but she’s right about humanity’s greatest invention: “…the hideously long off-ramp of postpartum survival. None of our accomplishments would have been possible without it.” https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/10/gynecology-human-ancestors-eve-bohannon/675526/ 
 You are what you pay attention to. 
 I thought I had seen all the good flat earth memes by now but this one is a masterpiece of the form

https://media.infosec.exchange/infosecmediaeu/media_attachments/files/111/168/689/408/887/384/original/900f6ecfb9ac45a5.jpeg 
 So many things the world did not need in this one singular image but you are welcome

https://media.infosec.exchange/infosecmediaeu/media_attachments/files/111/070/823/182/683/150/original/1ad75252fc83e70d.jpeg 
 The Olivia Jaimes reboot of Nancy: proof that, despite much evidence to the contrary, life should continue to exist.

https://media.infosec.exchange/infosecmediaeu/media_attachments/files/111/030/045/922/292/318/original/d111b6f73988222d.png 
 “...the most important question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what’s happened to you.” 
 I love Apple's hardware, but what the heck is going on with the Apple TV? I've had to reboot multiple Apple TVs (latest model) multiple times just to get basic video playback going across several apps like Hulu and Netflix and HBO Max. You'll press play and it crashes back out to the main menu. Repeat. Repeat. Until you reboot..