@coldhealing The friction of analog mediums created enough tension to cause real shifts and movements. Big beautiful satisfying waves.
Digital mediums don’t allow the tension to build. Culture has become cacophonic.
We’re on the beach hoping for the waves that we’ve only read about.
@Empty_America $30/mid is pretty weak. There’s still a few old school trappers in the upper Midwest, but it’s just not feasible to survive off current prices. ~15 years ago when the Russians were buying up everything was the last time guys were still making it work full time, afaik
@coldhealing Wow, that actually surprises me in a deep, fundamental way.
I always assumed that vegans (regardless of subtype/reason) were operating under the assumption that they were fighting a losing battle.
I’m not entirely sure if this is my impression from observation or my prejudices.
@mateosfo “autonomous vehicles will allow them to keep their car-oriented lifestyles”
What? Trillions of dollars of infrastructure is what’s going to allow me to keep my car-oriented lifestyle. Do you think that’s going to change in our lifetimes?
@simonsarris It seems to me the problem in engineering circles is more often “actively and consistently deciding to not live”
Many identities built around passing the marshmallow test
@drethelin I think Eddington is a good example of a director trying to very hard to integrate real-world phone usage into a modern story, and in effect just making a mediocre movie.
@drethelin But it doesn’t matter, what matters is *the conflict*. A lot of the greatest movie scenes ever are just people talking in a room, but a ton of modern “real” stories play out solely through textual mediums