against my strong urge to be an obscurantist, i will provide the sauce (this is mostly for my own selfish reasons so i can listen when i go through my skeets [vom] later). i didn't appreciate this album nearly enough the first time i listened a while ago.
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
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
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
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.
*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.
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
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