average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points using the fediverse than you do from reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit
Sometimes I can just feel the neolib oozing from an NPR host and their faith in capitalism to fix all things.
For me it really started when Freakenomics lobbed those softball questions to one of the Koch brothers, and then I had a moment of “…what the fuck are you doing? …have you always been like this? …and I’m just now noticing? …oh god …oh god! your previous episodes are so terrible too! how did I not see this?! it’s all bathwater! no baby! oh fuck!”
I remember hearing once that when your brain knows there is an option to depend on an external source for something it could’ve stored in its memory, it loses (or at least weakens) the opportunity to utilize the elasticity that would’ve made the effort into storing that information, and this problem compounds the more often one uses the external source.
I think about that whenever I turn to a search engine to look something up. I can’t imagine how much more I’d think about that using an AI to think for me.
The older I get, the more I realize I think I can pick up on things about a writer’s worldview, even if the work isn’t trying to make a point of the worldview details I might pick up on.
I’m pretty sure Ari Aster is ableist, Christopher Nolan and S Craig Zahler are republicans, and Todd Field did something heinous, but diligently oversees his own Wikipedia article and Google Alerts to a degree that ensures it’s hard to find/I’ve been too lazy to really dig into it.
Kick rocks and push daisies, you sewer-swimming stool.
And you can’t uninstall them.
Guess I’m the only one who still uses ringtones. They’re mostly from EarthBound, except when Halloween comes around I’ll sometimes use the plucking sound from It Follows soundtrack for phone rings.
Some celebrities I just knew in advance were not going to embrace age as they get older and were going to fuck themselves up.
He was one of them.
My checklist, please ignore:
I really hope swing districts have volunteer stakeouts at the ballot boxes. One near us had two fire bombs last time and they were barely investigated.
I used to have a box of one-off tools I didn’t know what they went to, but devoting a day to the use of a label maker, determining which adapter went with which thing, and writing up a file of what’s in what box, was one of my greatest feats. I haven’t had to dig through a box for something in years.
My minimalist self loves it. Now I have more room for more useless shit.
Not all jobs, but yeah they exist. Working on films/TV production is often 60+ hr work weeks.
Existing is punk rock.
Why should Mitch McConnell get to live longer than me?
These are some reasons I decide to keep going.
yeah no you’re still not worth my time. time to block your little wet fart of an existence. byeeeeeeeee
3 days later and that’s all you’ve got? No wit in that staircase. The only time you’re worth is the catharsis in telling you to kick rocks; so kick rocks.
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complaints not parsed into action items aren’t worth anyone’s time.
“The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine.”
Yeah? Is that how they got the Zodiac? Is that why Mitch McConnell died with dignity?
Fuckin’ grease ‘em with whatever lubricants you can find, you peanut buttered snails.
I read in a book somewhere that NOAA has the most accurate weather data, and that all other for-profit companies are just piggybacking off their data, but the companies fudge with the numbers a bit so people are less mad in some situations.
For example if there’s a 10% chance of rain per NOAA, a company might report there’s a 40% chance of rain, so you’re less mad and more understanding “we’ll it was 40%” vs “wtf you call this 10% chance?”
Just felt like telling that little anecdote.
ageism alienates allies; no war but class war
Radiolab has some good stories, but the editing is so grating. I wish there was something with energy between them and Science Friday or podcasts where it’s just two people talking back and forth. I appreciate Radiolab’s effort to keep me engaged and science exciting, but… it feels insulting to my attention span to do it as much as they do.
…which is a fair thing to insult, but not that much.