Whenever I see a guy reading—which is rare, thankfully—I grab the book and punt it. If he challenges me, I just kick his ass. We have to get the male reading number down to zero. We’re almost there.
@dwaldenwrites Being remotely literate in the history of philosophy makes the AI discourse mind-numbing. In like ten years some Big Tech gargoyle is going to declare “we have discovered that minds are not some autonomous thing separate from embodiment, oops” and everyone will clap like seals.
just don’t engage with the AI bait posts against artists, they don’t get it, it’s fine, you don’t need to show anyone that, normal people get that it’s just a meme thing and it’s soulless, the dorks that feel like this is a battle against artists were dorks before they found ai
hello, lossless audio doesn’t exist over bluetooth, if you dropped spotify for apple’s lossless marketing, ditch the airpods and wire up that 3.5mm dongle
@cleaming_ David Comes to Life by Fucked Up both sonically and narratively. The first song is deconstructed and strewn into pieces throughout the whole album only to be reconstructed with each playthrough. It rules!
when I mention Arby’s, you’re likely already picturing a specific location
maybe one down the street, or that you went to growing up, maybe it’s not even there anymore
this is your “Mind Arby’s” and with training you can go to this Arby’s at any time and from any place
Ok, here's something I learned in high school humanities: As long as people believe that they have redress for injustice, either through courts or through political action (like voting), the people will choose nonviolent options.
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@matthiasellis There needs to be a name for this! You got to hacker news and the top post for the day is a tech guy being like “have you noticed the more you know of a subject the less you actually know of it? I call it Mark’s theorem”
Why do so many people who are extremely introverted or have social anxiety or generally hate going outside also fetishize communal living that requires constant participation.
Ideal story formats include:
1) prison break of a legendary guy
2) all the soldiers die horribly after science goes wrong
3) two brothers do things
4) not even the vast expanse of the universe can keep two people apart
5) a man contemplates human nature and does crimes
still seeing "you don't have to read theory" posts in 2024 is so humiliating. you already won! no one is reading anything! you did it! i gave up this fight like 2 years ago. just let me die. i get it. you're not going to read. no one is. please, god, stop the victory laps!