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I remember a black-and-white realistic art style comic with a female main character, from I believe the 2000s.

I think it ran over the course of several years. It's a fairly serious dealing-with-young-adulthood story. I'd describe it as "existential themes".

Plot points:

• The main character starts out in college, at some point breaks away, wanders into a forest. Eventually ends up near-freezing on the doorstep of a writer, whom she stays with for some time, and they develop a friendship. I believe they are still friends at the end of the comic.
• At some point she runs into a group of people, one of whom is drunk all the time. I believe there are scenes with this group drinking on a

There’s a thought floating around that men are subject to a lot of anxiety at failing to live up to traditional cultural standards of manhood and losing status, and that this drives a lot of "masculine" behavior, for better or for worse. (That fragile masculinity is a thing.) In rough terms, this is the feeling that one’s masculinity is at constant risk of being "lost" by making a wrong move. "I’m not a real man if I don’t ..."

Often when people talk about this I get the impression that they’re operating from a place that contrasts what goes on with masculinity with what goes on with femininity. (E.g. the article in [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/pdf884/why_girls_ca

I've been meaning to start growing things on my windowsill for a while, and I bought this basil on a whim when I saw it in the store.

http://imgur.com/J9YcX4X,lleB76c,Knz8p9W,d1Te0ym

That's a six-inch pot, and the stalks are about 2 inches apart.

I'm not that interested in maximizing yield or anything, I'd just like a reasonably healthy plant to take care of and eat bits of once in a while. So I prefer "good enough and cheap" over "make everything perfect."

I read basil likes a lot of direct light, but I can only give them about half a day's worth; my window faces east. I'm in an 11a zone (Los Angeles).

I did a bit of googling, but I don't have a good idea of what I'm supposed to do wit

In case you missed it, there's a popular post on r/videos discussing this video of a group of people helping a man climb out of his burning apartment. I think this is the sort of situation parkour training is supposed to prepare us for, but I rarely hear people talking about specifics, so I thought it would be nice to use this as a case study. To get it started, here are some questions.

Is this the sort of thing we train for?

What would you do if you were the position of the man in the window? What if there was nobody on the balcony to help yo

My cardio is pretty bad (it takes some willpower to finish running a mile), and I'm feeling more and more that this is not in line with my parkour training. If parkour is the art of escape, then what use is it that I can run up a wall if I can't run long enough to get to a suitable one, or I can't actually run up it because I'm out of breath? If I can't run long and fast, then I can no longer pretend that my training is anything more than urban acrobatics. With that in mind, I've started running a mile at least once in a while (lately, once or twice a week) to get my cardio up to speed, specifically so I don't feel my parkour training is worthless.

What about you guys? To what extent do you