What fictional death emotionally destroyed you?
When the character Ekaterina Golovkina in Life (2017) slowly and agonizingly drowns in her spacesuit. What makes it so much worse was her colleague being literal inches away from her but unable to help and just having to watch her die face to face.
Fuck, man, that scene was brutal. No gore. Not even a drop of blood. But horrifying. Especially the sounds of her drowning and how she held it together with just steel will till the end.
I’m a good swimmer. I’ve always wanted a house you had to do something like dive 40 feet down to get into.
Ain’t no one ever robbing that place. Note that the house itself wouldn’t be underwater. Just the entrance.
Because I did not know a single Jewish person when I was really little, I thought a Bar Mitzvah was a celebration that occurred when you were officially allowed to drink (I thought Jews had different drinking laws than gentiles).
But I was five or six. And no internet. It was hard to find out stuff back then, and no adults knew or would give straight answers on anything.
I was a champion of fake meat: but I’m not surprised people are losing their taste for it.
Anyone who had a taste for it was beyond impossibly insane, because fake meat is like licking a bear-snot-beslimed dumpster.
At least someone like this clown admits it was a con job, just like all the bug-eating propaganda that often accompanied it. Me, I eat as much meat as my body needs, which is quite a lot. Plant proteins are not a good replacement. And real meat tastes far better of course.
I’m just so tired of being the guy with his eye on the details.
Brother, I am right there with you.
I solve 70% of problems even for those in my own field by just reading the error message and doing what it says. That’s it, that’s all. And that’s ridiculous. How can people not do this? Doing so doesn’t make me some mega-genius. IMO it just makes me minimally competent to perform my role. But apparently that’s a lot to ask.
I’m reading Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment again. I read it for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I am getting more out of it this time because then I had only about the equivalent of an undergrad in philosophy and now I have far more.
It’s dense, it makes a lot of claims, and it was written towards the middle and end of WWII. Some of it is anachronistic but most of it holds up pretty well. When you consider that Dialectic was being completed at the end of the largest example of rationalized mass slaughter in human history, their critique of enlightenment makes a lot more sense.
Would I recommend the book to most people? Or even people who read this blog? No. It’s for someone who has time to kill or is deeply interested in this sort of philosophy and its development. And it’s a hard book. Not Heidegger hard, but difficult enough that parts of it slow me down — and almost nothing written in English does that.
It’s worth it for me to re-read. For most people? Skip it.
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking.
I’ve noticed tons of sites doing this. Google is evil and sites that do this are terrible.