The sparks are actually coming from the steel and not the stone. Flint is just a very hard and sharp stone that can make tiny bits of steel fly off, heated from the sheer friction.

A different stone that is hard and sharp enough would have the same effect, like pyrite also known as fool’s gold. A different metal with, i believe, not enough carbon in it would not work. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

“Soldlers”

Art basically

Look at him all of a sudden worried about other people

That tracks, Charlotte loved Wilbur like a mother and mothers sometimes violently fuck. Preferably without the children knowing

Accurate, don’t forget that Donald Draper is actually a miserable SOB who is not who he’s pretending to be

The same could be accomplished by pretending but ok whatever you need to tell yourself I guess

Doubles as a contraceptive

So you’re saying it can be done

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It becomes a habit if it isn’t already, a very harmful one to be sure. Thinking nobody likes you may inadvertently cause you to keep your guard up, to appear closed or uninterested. This signals people not to interact and thus closing the loop of the self-fulfilling prophecy.

The resulting loneliness is killing.

Directly triggering the brains rewardcentre with a device. I would definitely call that an external stimulus. But that depends on whether you use a literal or figurative meaning of the word ‘external’.

Instead of finding external stimuli to make him fulfilled maybe Todd should work on finding fulfillment in the here and now.

Or smoke under the shower

Same for me, balloons too

I had to read that multiple times, confused as to why their work was looking confused in a museum and how dating apps were conflicting with that.