pastalicious

Unlike Reddit where the director of policy is a former Atlantic Council ghoul. You know… a patriot.

I feel like music is as good as it has ever been right now. Of course the good shit isn’t making money outside of the merch table so it’s a rough time for musicians. There’s amazing shit being written and filmed but they maybe get a couple million viewers/readers at best if it isn’t more Amazon or Netflix slop.

It isn’t that creativity is dying, we all have ideas and sometimes they’re realized quite well. It’s just that capitalism no longer rewards creativity and the energy we have to make our ideas real is depleted by 80 hour work weeks doing the most mindless shit.

This is a real doomer place to be as well… just wanted to put in a few good words for the resiliency of pure creativity. It’s buried alive by capitalism but it is alive down there.

Reminds me of that old last week tonight about China building ghost cities nobody lives in. Fast forward a year and they’re bustling cities full of people.

Also a great metaphor for how US foreign policy works.

Walter White sneaking around inside Jesse’s apartment while he sleeps. “I’m watching Jane choke on her vomit.”

They’re dressed to find out if there’s a cherry pie in Dougie Jones’s box.

You got me reflecting on losing an animal this time last year. There’s something about not having a shared language that makes the rough times so much harder. You can’t tell them why bad things are happening or why you are making them take a pill or why they have to go back to the scary place again (vet). But during the gentle times, when you and your pet can understand each other despite no shared language it’s a really unique and special thing. Every pet and human will develop their own non verbal language over a life time together. My surviving cat just started understanding that we are helping her when we clip her claws. She now rolls over and lets it happen and looks up appreciatively. In the past she would resist it and be mad at us

Where pushing full Poe+ power, control and 4k video through a single cat6 cable at work. Outside of very niche use cases do people really need anything beyond 6?

I suspect I’m autistic and have adhd and have usually felt a sort of “but why” instinct to all gendered expectations put upon me. This is how I feel with all sorts of social pressures so I’m not sure if it’s a function of dysphoria specifically. I identify with my body and pronouns but that’s about where it stops.

Middle school was probably the only time I didn’t feel confident enough to just handwave the malign pressure boys can put on other boys. That middle school thing of being left alone, having friends and not being bullied being (or seeming) incumbent on walking a fine line and not looking uncool.

High school was great, I was as weird as I wanted to be. My sibling and dad also exhibit traits of autism and weren’t at all interested in putting gendered expectations on me; again I don’t know if the possible autism is the reason it just feels like analytical thinking is paramount in my family. Way later in adulthood I have a boss who does schrodingers jokes saying shit like “men don’t read manuals”, but I’m completely comfortable calling him a boomer and rallying my colleagues against his bad boomer opinions. I have no aspirations to his cliched vision of masculinity.

I saw demigender or Demi-boy as a possible name for someone who feels kind of male. Maybe that’s me? Or is society just building a huge house of cards on top of the concept of masculinity that doesn’t serve but a very small subset of men at best? Apologies for the ramble.

Certified reddit moment.

Mr. C between Season 2 and The Return.

Do these people actually believe that the risks are made up or do they have a death drive that makes the danger a selling point to them?