convos with some of my friends make me feel like a character in a socratic dialogue
"it is certainly so, just as you have said. my brains must have been addled to even consider the contrary to your evidently astute judgement"
listening to my autistic homies is extremely comforting and very relatable
but then i get weird moments where i worry i’m just being dramatic and appropriating real struggle
and it’s like bro you don’t even believe in the ontology of psychology much less the tiktokification of it, don’t sweat it
current solution to adblock:
- use youtube site directly as a front end
- Context Command EXecutor extension to open context menu
- open in mpv
still feeling out invidious, but yeah we'll see. wild that my phone is better for ads atm
How is it possible that 100% of the mail I receive is intended for a recipient that is not me, and how come there are 5 different identities receiving mail at my address
Noooo do NOT let the retarded puppy (me) change production!!!!
Retarded puppy (me): *paws at your void and repost utility* arf arf uwu
Oh god half the UCLs were excluded
Some hard drive containing PHI in Arkansas: *sizzles and pops*
somehow today I ended up explaining subahibi to 5 coworkers in a meeting today and someone looked it up and found the phrase “abhorrent sexual content”
the world is a vast agglomeration of violent abstractions and intersecting oppressive systems
some rich white guy from the global north: ok but have we considered how this makes the functionally pacifying source of cultural reproduction mildly more inconvenient for me to access
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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