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When I visited China, sadly all I could find was this non carbonated version of Red Bull that came in like a 10 ounce can. Really roughed it.

My pop psychology take on it is that his fanbase does not want to see aspirational media. They don't want to see anything from Drive to Dragon Ball Z and say "that, I want to be like that."

They're all largely blackpilled. Rejected by society and they reject society back. And want to see themselves on the stream. Someone just as given up on life, bitter and resentful and yet even with all that, somehow still living the "dream" of streaming for a living. They take comfort that he grosses out normies and is inexplicable to people outside his fanbase; the negative polarization problem at its peak. He makes the people they hate uncomfortable and confused, so he must be doing something right.

If you're not familiar with it, Eternal September is a concept that directly relates to this.

Man, how did I miss that happening? I thought I was fairly (too much) plugged into 2020, but I never saw that until now. Very cool.

There's a lot of just training your brain. Being like: "this is the time we do X" and then just doing it. I'm stealing a bit from the classic writer's book, Bird by Bird, but I found it works well for me. Lamott suggests just picking a time that works best for you for writing in her case and just doing it during that time, even if you just stare at a blank word processor (the book is old, OK haha). Eventually, you will carve a groove.

I'm sure this doesn't work for everyone, but it has worked for me. I decided that right after work, before my child gets home from school, that's my writing time. It took a little while, but now when 4:00 PM rolls around, I'm writing. Almost every time.

It was almost assuredly one of those buttons that did him in. I think the tweet was basically just the name of the video with a link to one of those tube sites. It was a very silly title, something about a pornstar named Strawberry or something similar? Honestly not worth looking up. But I remember him actually rolling with it a bit, which was the best way to handle it.

I remember when this guy posted pornography directly to his twitter account on accident. That was a fun day.

Might need to update my pronouns on here.

Certainly Eric Adams is going to perp walk all the decision makers at this guy’s insurance company as they go to the murder trial, right?

Had a similar first time thing taking my child on his first backpacking trip out into actual primitive camping. We had to filter our water and put our food in lockers so no bears or coyotes would come for it, etc. On the hike on in he was pretty insufferable, even though it was only a mile. But even by evening he was already getting very into it, gathering kindling for the fire, seeing his first millipede, stuff like that. We did a lot of hiking around the second day, seeing some ruins, climbing some foothills. He really liked that.

I grew up on a farm, so for me this stuff is already pretty natural. But he's born and raised in a major metropolitan city, so I am trying to make sure he actually knows how to touch grass. We've done car camping before, but it is pretty incredible how much more rustic just a simple mile hike between you and where cars are allowed can be.