I guess i have to be the guy to teach you guys what Pilates actually is/does because literally no one on here knows anything about it. Women do it thinking it will give them abs and the chronically injured men who desperately need it write it off as fake exercise. Its rehab.
some people are traumatized in the way that makes you really serious and sensitive all the time and some people are traumatized in the way that makes you constantly make fucked up jokes and have really thick skin and these two groups fucking hate each other
Ted Kaczynski was beyond vindicated about the near-complete impossibility of meaningful action in the modern world, where almost all activities are “surrogate activities.” Thankfully he died before seeing a video game where you simulate being a librarian putting books on a shelf.
This supposedly "classic" book has an incredible number of hallucinated references. It's as if he's summarizing books that never existed in the first place.
sometimes I worry that most of what I would call my “thinking” is just shallow daydreaming or free-association that feels like thinking but actually involves very little genuine thought or reasoning