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Now administering third third.

I'm drugs. Greetings my friends and happy holidays I hope you are deep in the cushy carby

boosy warmth that is typical of this season and I am personally ready to disengage from all mouth pleasures

and remember what it's like to not be in a gluttonous stupor and just strenuously

full 24 hours a day and start actually working challenges back into my routine.

I actually used to hate any sort of challenges and actively avoid them, but I've come to really admire them because without something to push up against and overcome,

what are we? We're just some sort of soft sentient lump of consumption. We might as well be some sort of like

shirt wearing pleasure chasing societal tumor at that point. And that sort of comfortable complacency is just so insidious because it is exceptionally available in the first world at all times

Even if you're fairly poor. You could just eat little

Caesars and fast food every day until you fall apart if you wanted to. But

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