hopefully this bout of youtube being as openly hostile to ux as possible will be enough for me to break my addiction

invidious is fine but feels held together by duct tape, is a chore to use, is actually more difficult to block certain elements like shorts, and remains reliant on the base of youtube.

the reformist in me genuinely think free file hosting should be a public service, and that there should just be really robust APIs so people can just choose their preferred front-end

it would never work, moderation would be a nightmare, you'd have to be draconian with rate limiting and the like, but idk

youtube is just so obviously the only game in town and it fucking sucks. the ideal would obviously be a decentralized protocol blah blah blah you've heard it all before and it will fail for all the same reasons the rest do

it could be paradise but it's really just california etc

It’s nice how I made it through summer into fall wearing hoodies the whole time

Dawg make up your mind

I know the screenshot shows a different link but 1) they actually sent 2 takedown notices before for both links 2) obviously it’s the same image

i like the angsty samples at the start of midwest emo songs

Pragmatism claims that the philosophical impulse begins when one encounters problematic situations, a failure that forces one into reflection. I can confirm that this is true because my life is a recurrent series of failures.

in my head it was a lot more quippy and less dour

Yesterday was a really really good day. Felt like I was beaming w joy at points, mentally stimulated, and had high energy. Today just kinda sucked and felt no motivation and frustration.

just realized my phone can wirelessly charge and I’ve had a Qi charging station sitting next to me for the past 4 years with an extra open spot

College was cool because it let me be a coddled baby without adult responsibility for a while so I could figure stuff out, but guess what? I’m still too stupid. Guess I better apply for grad school.

vulgar Marxism base-superstructure analysis but it’s my gut biome determining my psychological state

*hits blunt* Psychological state p supervenes on the bacteria in my tummy Philosophy of mind in shambles, the undergrads will henceforth refuse to read Dan Dennett or David Chalmers

obv the anti-adblock is egregious, but the most tragic change in this update batch is that mouse clicks outside of the add to playlist prompt actually work to click on things now. i don't want to click your x, just let me close the prompt grrrr

I just realized one way of interpreting the phrase “categorical attraction to ___” is “attracted to the category of ___” which is way different than “attracted to ___ ‘without exception or qualification’”. I had always disliked the phrase bc of the latter meaning, but the former is totally tenable.

my discord diary has atrophied since i started posting here

Evidence #542

today i was on a call with someone for several hours talking through their relationship issues and they seemed to really like my advice and appreciate my listening, but tbh i was a little bored and thought they both were completely wrong-headed

i'm not sure if their appreciation is a reflection on my "wisdom" (their words) or their relative inexperience and immaturity

hiding my power level and contextually picking my battles is abstractly a cool skill, but is kinda bland in practice - i'm just waiting to hear something i can meaningfully engage with

she's like the only person that has been able to function with my relationship preferences long-term and i'm very appreciative

oh wait Harris was included here, it was obviously updated duh

i genuinely have no idea what answer they're expecting here because its the 08 civics test so technically George Bush was president at the time bc Obama wasn't sworn in until Jan 09, but he was elected ig. And Biden being an option doesn't even indicate that the test was updated bc he was VP lol

literally wtf does this mean

well i figured it out

ok i got 100 but like some of these questions are completely unreasonable and i know most US citizens don't know this stuff

lol yeah

i spent a huge amount of my day uninstalling and reinstalling s2yt and its dependencies for a tutorial. at least now i really really understand how it all works

this is my favorite figure out of context lol

reading a few of the reviews of Otaku JDP, it seems like a lot of people are missing the point that he's analyzing a new mode of *consumption*. sure, the objects lend themselves to this consumption, as a whole subculture has been created around it, but that doesn't mean that every work will be.

I don't think theoretically the book exactly hits the mark, but it's a constructive stumble in the right direction. I think there's charm in using Kojeve's footnote but I don't think its the most productive ground to start from

not having fun

should have said 'critique' instead of 'analysis' also i don't love the tone i used here

i wanna restrict again

i need to stop watching zoomer progressive video essays they just annoy me

i guess it's just average undergrad essay + theatre but the smugness + pop culture references + "entertainment" + circle jerk nonsense + vague references to books they haven't read makes it unbearable. it's very thinly veiled in-group affirmation and not much else

me: complains about being stupid also me: spends all my time doing worthless mind numbing things

I love realizing several hours later that I completely fumbled an interaction

And it’s not like a one off thing either, it happens so frequently that’s it’s likely just the default perspective on me

kinda embarrassing being unintelligent

how am I so bad at words

⚠️this poster is a part of the labor aristocracy⚠️

Walked across campus twice today - the bitter cold and damp earth version of the trek was infinitely preferable to the labyrinth of internal bridges and tunnels

officemate w pretty long hair and highlights makes me doki doki