>TESCREAL
We are like 5 months from some US SJ professor asserting that wheelchairs are eugenics, because they imply mobility is better than non-mobility.
Anyway had a good evening at kind of a salon with an in-person close parallel to part of my scene on here, that was nice
Anyway realizing it’s no knock against @mtxyqmpsfqklt but testimony to the maturity of the scene that there was a trans girl that looked like Ramona Flowers and sounded like Some Guy who spent a share of time curled under the coffee table, or that the whole scene wàs so autistic that when I showed up to a room of 4 people and introduced myself I got one name back and as 4 more showed up and I did it again I got one more
Fucked up Yudkowsky doubled down after all those experiments established that letting the AI out of the box was the revealed human preference
apparently vintage pickups have become a thing since I got Darwin, establishing once again that I see things years ahead
crazy that there are still legit cults doing the time honoured cult tactics and they still work just as well as they ever did, like someone shows up at a compound and sees everyone wearing robes and chanting and they’re like shit mate this looks like a cult! but then they settle in and they’re like oh nah it’s just a place where the leader tells everyone what to do and psychologically manipulates them into handing over their cash and sucking his dick, nothing weird about that, and then five years later they’re like wait, this is a fucking cult!!
One of the roommates I stayed with in Portland before I got the house, in no small part for locally acclimating myself, was a guy who’d grown up in a local small town in a church where they were all a little off from the common world, wearing formal clothes and that, but all so happy cause they knew they were all going to heaven, and then around the early 90s his parents and some others were like “wait is this a cult? It’s starting to seem like a cult” and they got together and confronted the founder and he did enough to wave them off but within the week had taken the church’s money and expatriated to the Caribbean, and then that roommate’s world was torn asunder and he suddenly had to go to public school still dressing like that
The worst thing about Homestuck being the masterwork of our generation is it retroactively makes all those 1993-ass “Multimedia Studies” professors teaching courses on HyperStudio kinda onto something
At a new place and there’s a bartender I recognize from several years and like 30lb ago, but I can’t remember from where or what terms we last met on, whether he actually proved to be a backstabbing little bitch somehow, or I merely vibed his bonhomie as clearly fake
I have a sense he had an air of superiority arising from something I considered risible, like stoner rock
Like there is a real possibility he’s just a decent, sometimes vibe-awkward guy I have a completely arbitrary hate-boner for is the thing, and I might feel bad about that but there’s also a real possibility that fuck him
I unironically appreciate how Facebook these days can tell you’re investing attention at bullshit ads or videos and you don’t realize until you’re like “oh huh, why have they been showing me purely this bullshit for 2 minutes now?”
Also, (also unironically) this is what you were asking for when you wished Facebook wouldn’t rely on stickiness through encouraging oppositional engagement
I unironically appreciate how Facebook these days can tell you’re investing attention at bullshit ads or videos and you don’t realize until you’re like “oh huh, why have they been showing me purely this bullshit for 2 minutes now?”
I have lived under several regimes of how the responses to my [tumblr] posts vary by time posted, in accordance with the makeup of my following and their experience of their timelines
Parliamentary system where legislators’ salaries are paid by their parties and differ by party
Unironically, a big part of the mid-90s to mid-00s golden age was both the elite and the common man could settle and overlap around the Schelling point of “Peter Griffin”
crazy that there are still legit cults doing the time honoured cult tactics and they still work just as well as they ever did, like someone shows up at a compound and sees everyone wearing robes and chanting and they’re like shit mate this looks like a cult! but then they settle in and they’re like oh nah it’s just a place where the leader tells everyone what to do and psychologically manipulates them into handing over their cash and sucking his dick, nothing weird about that, and then five years later they’re like wait, this is a fucking cult!!
At a new place and there’s a bartender I recognize from several years and like 30lb ago, but I can’t remember from where or what terms we last met on, whether he actually proved to be a backstabbing little bitch somehow, or I merely vibed his bonhomie as clearly fake
I have a sense he had an air of superiority arising from something I considered risible, like stoner rock
Anyway had a good evening at kind of a salon with an in-person close parallel to part of my scene on here, that was nice
No trespassing
See, the top picture is just what happens to a healthy, perfectly well-shaped tree if you don’t remove the lower branches once the crown establishes higher up – the lower branches get more and first spring growth as energy gets hydraulically pumped up from the winter root stores, so they try to stretch and outrace the shade of the crown but they just get spindly for no real gain – the thickness of a branch is basically representative of how much lifetime sun has been kicked up from leaves on the tree (!) graph it tops, look at how where it meets the trunk is noticeably thinner than the younger stuff above it, and keep in mind that sustaining the wood of all those branches in the interim not only came with some “support cost” but the opportunity cost of using that spring growth up higher
