blaise

philosopher of science • cartoonist • lead guitarist, car trouble

[blaise @blaisew_c]

The truth is, most people value excellence more than originality. They don't really want originality in music, they just want it to sound good and not bore them. If you can hit both of those targets your audience will forgive a lot of the shortcuts you took.

[blaise @blaisew_c]

The trick to writing songs is that you think of existing songs you like and write them again. The listener, who has no idea what mental journey led to your final product, perceives it as original. But if you're in command, you know exactly where you got each element.

[maria @falecidamaria]

eu genuinamente nao entendo como as pessoas conseguem criar musicas novas vsf pra mim é tipo tentar criar uma cor nova ja existem todas nao faz sentido nao é possivel q ja nao fizeram todas as musicas existentes

[blaise @blaisew_c]

I live in uh Paris Fronce and I work at la Taco Belle

[blaise @blaisew_c]

Trying this hard to be perceived as cool will give you ulcers

[the hotter kenny omega @SamGreszes]

hope this helps

[drwnprd (comms closed) @Darwin_prod]

Notice how HR hate is a global phenomenon?

[Holly-Beth @cronenbabe]

the pope needs to have a stern talk with martin scorsese, he needs the fear of god put back into him

[✨bi-nosaur✨ @strugglesaurus]

One time a therapist was like “give yourself a reward for completing a task” and I was like “or I could just give myself the reward anyway and not do the annoying boring daunting task” and she was like… oh.

[coolguy15 @boomhotdog2]

52 year old teenage girl

[blaise @blaisew_c]

@ZCqh57 So you're saying the *primary* reason people own cars is protection from urban violent crime and not because getting from Point A to Point B in most places is horrendously inconvenient. That doesn't sound right at all

[blaise @blaisew_c]

People dunking on this aren't even addressing the funniest part

[Zerve @Captain_C2]

Thats a horribly inefficient waste of time. You probably end up spending close to 5 hours just in grocery stores every week if you do this (nevermind the extra hours spent walking there and back as well), when you add up shopping+waiting in line. I'd rather just do 2-3 weeks worth of shopping at once in <2hours, drive my groceries right to my front door, and then not have to go to a store again for a few weeks

There's a reason no one who gets a license ever uses public transit or walks anywhere ever again if they dont have to - its way worse in every way.

Society should be more accommodating to cars, not less. Bike lanes for example, should be illegal

[blaise @blaisew_c]

@deadtired9999 There comes a point where you just have to laugh at how impossible it'd be to steer this population even an inch towards the class consciousness needed to change anything

[blaise @blaisew_c]

Over time vehicles have been made such a money sink—so expensive to access, to maintain, and to insure—that, increasingly, simply having one is to be entangled in an ideological position similar to owning other forms of property. A country of such people is a state of nature.

[blaise @blaisew_c]

Walkability discourse will always be sidetracked by the simple fact that motorists have no material incentive to share roads or communities with pedestrians or public transport. Everything has to structurally serve the individual driver to the exclusion of every other interest.

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

He is describing tax evasion

[𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙗𝙚🏴 @g_abe2]

if you aren't willing to be militant, then the least you can do is get the fuck out of the way of the people who are

[blaise @blaisew_c]

@RadioUndisturb @FergSeamus @CTVNews

[blaise @blaisew_c]

@FergSeamus @CTVNews Guys who haven't seen a book since junior high sure have a lot of opinions about the state of our universities

[blaise @blaisew_c]

You want me to enter a saturated market with little to differentiate myself from the competition and then wonder when I fail

[blaise @blaisew_c]

People overestimate how easy it is to "just sell hole pics". It takes effort and resources to produce profitable content. Your customers will want to zoom all the way in without losing resolution. They want variety. They want personality. You have to stand out. No thanks

[Te'leir🩸 @vampooze2]

why do men pretend like they cant also spread their hole on camera for hella money