I haven't seen the sun since November.

That's all I get for a few more days.
I haven't seen the sun since November.

That's all I get for a few more days.
At least I have a rather nice monitor that can simulate the sky.
*also the sun is a giant laser
**also also the ozone layer is still sorta fucked
***also also also I have an air purifier in my room so the air inside is healthier than the air outside because of all the goddamn vehicles that fill the air with poison gas.
Just because prisoners suffer from certain punishments doesn’t mean that I can’t enjoy a very roughly similar but still wildly different situation. I love spending my days inside cozy in my chair, but thats different than being locked up in a prison cell, I love sleeping naked, but underneath a big blanket in my own bed is different than a cell floor, I love eating two meals instead of three, but it’s my dietary choice and not malicious food withdrawal.
In short: Consent matters
I think you are completely right, but that doesn't invalidate the point behind the OP even if the specific comparison doesn't fit great.
Having a cozy dark indoor day won't kill you, but it does seem to be good for us to get ample exposure to the natural world.
What's with this sudden tendency to pad screenshots of tweets out for about 400 miles of unnecessary white space.
I blame the poor UI design and attention-grabbing tendencies of phone-compatible social media. Namely: Facebook and Instagram. It all goes on one endless vertical ribbon to compete for user eyeballs, and the winner consumes the maximum amount of screen real-estate possible when their turn is up. The software could provide decent margins for text-only posts to compete with images and video, or even clickable links and/or attribution for source material, but doesn't. Because screw the open web, this is our walled garden. Anyway, that's probably the reason for the massive margins: because it works better in content-hostile enviroment.
But the air hurts where I live. Are windows okay?
Give it is pitch black outside, extremely cold, and there nothing to do I think I'd prefer to stay inside where it's warm, and I have cats.
I also don't have to stay in a 6 ft square concrete room with the constantly humming fluorescent light. I think that's what makes the difference.
I look at the sky every night. I think, "C'mon, UFOs! Do something!" And after a few seconds, my neck hurts, so I go back inside.
When I don't have to go outside to go to work, I'm perfectly happy just staying inside all the time. Although I do at least see light coming in from the window - I think being windowless the entire time would be too much even for me.
Some of us stayed inside for literal years thanks to the way things went in the world. And you wonder why things turned sideways in the world.
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