I do not listen to podcasts and rarely watch videos of speeches because people talking is just so, so slow. From talks I’ve watched and then read the transcripts of, I read approximately 30 times as fast as people speak.
This is not a good use of my time.
People can’t seem to tell that images that are very obviously photoshopped are in fact photoshopped.
In a similar vein, many men say things like, “She’s not wearing any makeup and she looks great!” when the woman in question is obviously wearing loads of makeup.
I am not particularly observant, so not sure what’s going on in these instances, but they seem similar to me.
I have no idea how I found this but WHAT SORT OF DEVILRY IS THIS?!?!
God that is impressive, and even more impressive that she looks like she is pondering her taxes during most of the performance. That finger-tapping….
Such a cute, fun song.
When The Hunger Games books and then movies were released, I was assured that it was completely unrealistic that through great violence and tribulation, a mere teenage girl could rise up from the carnage and challenge existing power and verities.
When assuring me didn’t work, I was chastised and besieged with snarky criticism about the sheer impossibility of such a thing.
Then Emma González happened.
She and David Hogg are the rebuttal to the “don’t even try” enforced despair of apathetic centrism, and represent in their refusal to play nice the cri di couer of our deliberately repressed desire to improve the world, to not live in fear.
And according to tons of liberals, it’s literally impossible that she exists.
Yet there she is.
You know, I am a cheeky, bold motherfucker when I want to be.
I did something cheeky and bold today and it totally paid off. Most of the time, it doesn’t. But the payoff is fat-tailed. You only have to be right 1 out of 100 times, but when you are right, you are so very right.
Not strictly financial. More will be revealed later.
I wouldn’t hate cloud and mobile so much if weren’t so markedly, remarkably inferior to what came before.
What happened to technological improvement? All people seem to care about is that it’s portable. It can work like diced ass, it can steal all your data and peddle it to Russian hackers, it can lack any sort of useful functionality, but if it’s a mobile app people are all over it.
I need something that actually does something, anything useful. The only app I use on my phone and the only one I likely will ever use is Google Maps. Everything else is worthless childish garbage.
Apple will reportedly replace Intel chips in Macs with its own in 2020.
Appears as if there will be no usable computing platform for me after 2020. This will isolate Apple and essentially kill their desktop altogether.
I guess the best I will be able to do is Linux at that point. You can tell Steve Jobs is gone, because Apple is beginning to make massive, stupid mistakes that are easily avoidable.
I’ve been struggling to formulate a larger working social theory than either the useless pieties of modern feminism or the thoughtless and sometimes accidentally-correct rank misogyny of the MRAs and PUAs and similar worthless reprobates. And I watched this.
With mobile dating-apps like Tinder and Grindr designed to minimize unexpected encounters, and the #MeToo movement unveiling the rash of sexual abuses of power, does anyone still dare to flirt?
As my partner and I were watching the movie Ladybird, there’s a scene where two characters were flirting in a coffee shop. As we watched, I turned to my partner and said, “By the modern definition, both characters are now simultaneously harassing each other.”
The above bit about “designed to minimize unexpected encounters” made me think of that scene. I’ve also been pondering a lot about how (most) women’s visceral disdain for sex workers and very narrow ideas about appropriate age differences in relationships is almost all about competition limitation rather than any desire to prevent harm. However, this is something you just aren’t allowed to bring up in polite conversation. Fortunately, I am not very polite.
There are hidden mechanisms at work here, and relatedly in laws like FOSTA, and I care far more about those hidden mechanisms — the things that really propel society — than being courteous. I want to know the things that, socially and societally, you aren’t supposed to realize or understand.
Something else I’m considering is how much of these supposed “reduction of harm” changes are actually efforts to ensure proper assortative mating occurs, and that marginal and undesirable men (and, in many cases, women) are excluded from the dating and sexual markets. It’s also obvious that as basic needs are met, more sexual selection occurs. This also plays into it and how nearly everyone (men very much included) is hypocritical about sexual and mate choice.
Most people are in fact hypocritical and delusional about their sexual and cultural desires and wishes, because if they weren’t they’d be seen (correctly) as monstrous.
Never married 21-36 year-old Americans
In 1965: 17%
In 2017: 57%— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) March 22, 2018
And people insist on telling me that socioculturally, little has changed, when there have been massive changes in the last few decades in nearly every way.
I visited the mugshots site of my home county again today.
Only saw three people I knew, and no family members, for the past few months. That is some sort of record.