#like I'm sorry hes a 13 or 14 year old rich kid who thinks its magic when dick does household chore

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Re-reading batman knightfall bc I got the tpbs specifically for days I wanted a somewhat entertaining comic that goes on a while but was too sick or bleh to read something that takes brainpower

And anyway I think with Tim's realistic lack of hair cutting experience, him giving Jean Paul a haircut in the batcave should result in Jean Paul having way chopper hair

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I'm on the cusp of 40 and here's all the wisdom I've figured out.

1. Sometimes you need to just sit quietly. Cup of tea or whatever, blanket wrapped around you and just breathe for awhile.

2. Everyone is insane, to a different degree. The human mind is complex on the level of galaxies, but you will never convince some people that child abuse is wrong because that would mean their mom, who they love, did a bad thing.

3. If you try to convince someone of something, and you try your best (sources, citations, studies) and they still don't change their mind, you can stop trying. Seriously, either someone is capable of changing their mind or they're not, there isn't a whole lot of in between.

4. Mayo goes on the bread, mustard goes between the meat and the cheese. It doesn't make a huge difference, but its the right way to do it.

5. People cannot help themselves from showing you who they really are. Seriously, no one can keep up a charade on the order of months and years. There will be "red flags", and you'll ignore them because you've decided they're not like that, but they are.

6. There is vanishingly little you can do on a global stage. Unless you were born very rich. Focus local, make whatever small changes you can locally, and hope enough people can change their locale that the effect is global. If you try too big, you're just gonna drive yourself crazy.

7. This is a really hard one: stay calm. It can be really hard when someone gets up in your face yelling about shit, calling you names, but understand: you losing your cool doesn't help, and its giving them what they want.

8. Keep physical copies of the really important things and get a fireproof lockbox. Birth certs, wedding photos. Tech fails ALL the fucking time, seriously. You're gonna plug in that memory stick one day and it's gonna say files corrupted.

9. Bad thoughts are fine until you act on them. Your brain is built on the same chassis as a crocodile, sometimes you will think about violence.

10. American politics is stupid to the point of laughability, but you still have to be involved. Make sure you vote, if only for the peace of mind that comes with knowing you did it.

11. Most salespeople hate their job. It is not too controversial to say that sales is literally the worst. Like in a "this is actively holding back humanity" sort of way. Don't get mad at them personally, but also understand that they are paid to lie to you. Even the true things they say are lies because they're using them to trick you. Do. Not. Listen. To. Salespeople.

11b. That used car was not driven only on Sundays by a little old lady. I'm sorry you had to find out this way. It was a car some rich kid got for his 16th birthday and he did considerable damage to the transmission, but you won't find that out until just after the lemon law lapses.

12. Be kind, but know that nice is not the same as kind. Nice is often a mask for just the worst people, kind is something rarer and so fucking wonderful when you find it. Hold on to those people.

13.if you find a really fucking good local restaurant, tell EVERYBODY. Those places are like tripping over a huge diamond at random, and so many of them go out of business before they really catch on.

14. Find fun where you can. It's hard out here, and if playing video games, or tabletops, or flower arranging or whatever! makes you happy? Do it.

15. Be nice to dogs.