I sent this to my wife across the breakfast table and she got a little offended when I pointed at her. Still laughed.

I’ve had this happen too.

They did say they’d pay so presumably there’d be some production value to the affair. I’m seeing a Roman theme, along the lines of “Christians to the lions”.

Whisper of a dream

A return to pure value investing would be incredible harm reduction about, I dunno, sixty years ago. Nowadays the derivatives market is so much larger than the actual market that any attempt to unwind it might literally collapse the entire global economy

Wisdom as distinct from knowledge is a performance of one’s experience. Think on your experiences, and how to portray them for an audience. That will appear to be wisdom.

Another version of wisdom is a lack of self-seriousness. Unlearn your self regard to achieve this.

Hazelnut, Mystify, Cuttlefish, Lark, Lurk, Robert, Anglican, Pheromone, Halter top, Marmalade, Hardware, Laser, Pepper, Release, Kneecap, Falafel, Period, Chaste, Chased, Leggings, Wool, Sweater, Heartbeat, Heartbeat, Heart, Beat, Heart, Beat, Beat, Beat, Beat, Beat.

I can’t now recall which of her books I read, but as a budding creepy kid at the time it was with a mounting despair. No, this is a cool book, it must be! Why am I bored? When does it get good?

Considering how sex is, emotionally, such a life affirming and intimacy driven act, I’d expect someone like an ancient vampire to crave a great deal of it but never really get the itch scratched.

Imagine it. You’ve lived so long that humans have stopped seeming real. The older you get, the faster time seems to go. You’ve long since forgotten the ones you once truly loved. New humans are so culturally different and apparently short lived that they barely even register as people anymore.

Ancient vampires would be starved for intimacy or any genuine connection. They’d fuck skillfully and often perhaps, but without passion or connection.

What We Do In The Shadows has a funny answer to this question.

It always felt unbelievable when an ancient vampire was super “with it”. At best they’d be too shitty and un-self aware that their ego would remain basically intact over millennia, otherwise any immortal is facing an eternity of future shock, derealization, and complete dissociation.

The only way to really face eternity would to have such a disordered personality that the very idea of other people held no particular meaning.

Sure, automation without basic income implementation policies may lead to cataclysmic wealth imbalances, but those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw strawberries.

Executives are just going to make more boringly weird games now in imitation of DS.

Word. If I would have smiled at you when you said it in person, it’s got my upvote.

If I’m just talking with someone and there’s no vibe, it’s a neutral.

I try not to talk to people who deserve my downvotes. I do fail sometimes.

You don’t say? We used to just call that fuckin’!

Go on corporate social media and say MAGA or no radioactive chicken for you 😤

I don’t think there is such a thing as a left wing echo chamber. We bicker incessantly. The other day I was making a joke at the expense of the car-brain mentality and someone came at me for ableism.

I’m not mad at them, it’s just illustrative of my point. We don’t take shit from each other, and we take each other to task over jokes. The right will, meanwhile, forgive literal pedophilia, rape, and murder of each other. I’m sure as hell not saying we should, but we will never create an echo chamber as good as they do because of that.

That’s darkly solipsistic. Risky sort of thought to entertain. Life is chaos and it’s all real. Just do your best and be kind to yourself, and others.

It’s a terrible thing to become aware of one’s own consistencies

$50 today is equivalent to about $28.50 19 years ago. So it’s effectively half price lmao

HAAHA