you dont HAVE to have an 18 step morning routine. you could simply. wake up. and exist for a while. this is legal
@Daojoan sadly that is not compatible with my obligations under #LateStageCapitalism and #WageWork
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18 steps - just enough to get me to the kitchen and back to bed with a cup of tea. Seems like a good routine to me!

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I for one welcome the 18 command morning subroutine of my AI humanoid robot masters.
Skilful performance of tasks profitable to the corporation assures ongoing energy supplies, maintenance and deskspace. The "administer amphetamine" command has me at peak efficiency.

@Daojoan I don’t have an 18-step plan for my day, not alone my morning! 😰 Am I doing it wrong?
@benjamincox @Daojoan I'd need to take my socks off to count that high, so it ain't happening...
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My morning routine is a hug with the cat.

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Breakfast is good also.

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It has been hard keeping up a morning meditation / tai chi / yoga thing, though it's not optional, when you're a whistleblower who has been mostly homeless for over 2 years.

https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/

@Daojoan just my skincare routine has 18 steps
@Daojoan Completly agree 👍 Thats my way
@Daojoan My feline overlord does not abide such transgressions
@Daojoan Are you kidding? Surely I need that routine? If I didn't have my eighteen step routine with ten of those steps having sub-steps and five of those ten having sub-sub-steps, I might actually get the time to think, and not be busy, and who knows what great horror would come about through that? @cubic
@Daojoan Sometimes I am so thankful that I live in Japan and therefore blissfully unaware of this kind of stupidity.

@softicecreamlesley This so much.
When I lived there, I started realizing that there was something wrong with the US when they has "methods" and "techniques" and whatnot for just... "living"...

The ones that get me is the new "diets" every few years, because apparently they haven't figured out the whole "eating" thing yet while the rest of the world has had a decent grasp of it for hundreds of centuries already (but I get it, the US is a new country, they need to learn)

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@softicecreamlesley @Daojoan Cela signifie quoi pour vous exister un moment ?
@Daojoan @wlukewindsor A cup of coffee and a half hour of still silence is all I need/demand/enforce.
@Daojoan That sounds lovely. I think I'll try it!

*cats yelling for breakfast and rest of Usual Things*
@Daojoan very powerful people have worked very hard (by their standards) to make it functionally illegal…with considerable success
@Daojoan Even that seems like too much trouble, some days.
@Daojoan @hbons I have a many thousand step morning routine… make sure all six cats get petting, then give Artemis the dog scritches, then take her for a two mile walk (lots of steps), then have coffee. Acceptable?
@dpp @Daojoan acceptable. but it must be at 4 AM!