“Teenager” is a fairly broad spectrum of age; there’s a big difference between 13 & 17. You should pick something geared toward his approximate point of psycho-intellectual development. I personally would suggest tinnitus sounds, the kind of droning bass that literally makes the house shake, or an earrape version of “Reveille” accompanied by you banging on something metal, like Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket.

-A 20-something college student who can barely get out of bed in the morning himself.

This is the Washington metro area on the US East Coast; spotted lanternflies have been invasive here for years.

As I understand it they’re originally from East Asia somewhere.

More of a sound than a texture TBH, but the way certain types of styrofoam squeak against cardboard boxes legitimately sets my teeth on edge.

Lowkey same, especially when it cakes onto my fingers…( shudders in abject discomfort )

There IS one a street up from me near one of the county govt buildings…

I mean, so long as he doesn’t make them go out of pocket themselves for it…

It’s all about consistency.

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The two-party “A or B, this or that” thing in America is FAR from an optimal means of politics, but always remember: your most important right as a citizen is voting for your legislative representatives and local/state/national leaders. It’s your civic duty.

That too

Aragorn on the cob-of-corn

Me:

-Autistic

-White

-Debatable whether I have a soul or not

Where does that leave me?

Can someone fill me in on this “Tesseract” thing? I know what it is regarding geometry & spacetime & whatnot, but how is it related to Lemmy?

(80s-90s sitcom laugh track)

I like to think that Washington DC is the fourth, seeing as it’s the national capital, the political & historical center of America, and the fact that things that happen in DC have not just national, but international effects.

Also a fair bit of personal bias tbh, seeing as I live in the metro area.

Pawn shops that don’t ask where I got those rings,

These are a few of my favorite things.

My memories go back to about age 4-5, when I lived near/in the Phoenix metropolitan area. I remember rolling down this one grass hill a lot, a passing, irrational fear of this one riding lawnmower that often came near said hill, an asymmetrical, irregular-shaped pool, a red ball going over a brick wall, and Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory album on this CD boombox I had.

GMU’s Manassas campus has something like this; I think it has something to do with the pressure of the water within the basin resulting in an ultra-thin, low-friction “cushion” for the ball to rotate on.

I was listening to Hybrid Theory on a old CD player when I was 5, and for years Dad would often as not have the classic rock/heavy metal channels playing in the car.

I was 14 in 2016; I lived in a red town back then & all I knew was “funny old blonde realtor who says dumb memeable shit on TV & Twitter is gonna be president? PEAK COMEDY ROFLMFAOOL”

10 years later, I have since been thoroughly disabused of that immature, uneducated teenage mindset.