rottenbones-s:

cali:

if i was bugs in a crack of a tree id name our hometown Populous Crevice. if i was bugs in all cracks of all trees on earth id sit back and watch the rippling patterns my body produces until forever

This is one of the last looks at the top of my stomach I’m gonna get for a while, possibly my whole life.

Constantly having to check to confirm that no, I didn’t put my athletic shorts pajamas on backwards, the leg holes just fit tighter cause my thigh muscles have grown.

Okay, 4.5 yards out today, new daily record. And the roughness with Darwin in getting power to the front wheels ground out by the third trip to and from the yard.

kontextmaschine:

Whatever insect’s stings settle into small scabs, and now I look like an actor who had no clue how to do makeup for track marks for a “junkie” part

Early ‘90s grit on a dark-lit scene of cooking up in a spoon and injecting into the points of both my elbows

Whatever insect’s stings settle into small scabs, and now I look like an actor who had no clue how to do makeup for track marks for a “junkie” part

Yeah it feels like up to now was the preliminaries, when the deposits lumped upon it were eliminated, but we’re in the end boss battle now, the only thing left is for the main bulk of the stomach to fade.

Well, we’re only at the top of the Normie state, beyond that is Slim and we might even hit Thin, maybe it’s more a midgame boss. Then we enter the underground castle World of Ruin, or something.

Weird, largely uncommented unwinding-unto-backlash of repression playing out in sexual culture rn, in how after so long being oriented around the poles of partner-fidelity and the biological threat of insemination from pregnancy and then AIDS, the two big throughlines in today’s sexual culture seems to be creampies (or adjacent, breeding) and like “fuck my wife… please!”

(The latter of which seems increasingly shifting from “cucking” or even hotwifing where the unfaithful sex is at least kind of about the status of the official relationship to kind of a celebration of both how hot it is to have a girl who can pull dick and how satisfying it is to have a partnership that doesn’t inhibit her from self-fulfillment in like, using her cunt to experience the dick of the world, which is the exact kind of fucked-up processing of feminist social change I can dig.)

My muscular chest feels great right now, my stomach doesn’t feel that bad, and the defining experience of my torso is the area that registers as “chest” expanding while “stomach” shrinks.

Anyway I guess a big takeaway from the whole autistic/allistic, flatfooted/not, hetero/bi Covid-brain personality change is that basic functions like walking or sex or cognition under the self/other distinction are complex and important and actually have multiple redundant startup protocols buried in the species-akasha?

shieldfoss:

kontextmaschine:

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st-just:

I hear advice from the older generation that “buying a house is an investment”.

On one level, I get that. Buying a house is a better way to spend money than renting, because at the end, you have something. You have a whole frigging house.

On another level, I think that the idea that home prices should outpace inflation is insane and maybe has broken modern society.

-Andre Cooper, Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

This entire article is “a-HYUK, why would we expect homes to appreciate when the building’s obviously a depreciating asset? We’ve simply stumbled down a nonsense path that I just realized because I r so smart!”

Because even as the structure depreciates the property claim on the underlying land appreciates because it’s a finite good facing rising demand, dipshit.

This points at the question they really haven’t had to confront since the legal form was established in the 1970s: what are condominiums for?

…they’re for living in?

Are you asking why it is legal to purchase only a partial ownership in land/building, or are you asking why anybody would want to do that?

Well I suppose in the sense of condo towers, like anything built in 1981 Miami or Manhattan seemed like already the maximum units you could put on that site so it didn’t matter if all you ever had was the title to one with no provision for anything else

But like, if you can’t sell the option to redevelop the property what do you have beyond the one we’ve-only-seen-sub-40yo-of-these-buildings-in-America-and-remember-that-one-that-collapsed-in-Florida?

I guess your transferable title gives you one vote towards a condo board that could dispose of the whole property for redevelopment.

Well the reason I bought a condo unit was because I wanted to buy, not rent[1], I wanted to live in the center of town and didn’t (and don’t) have the casual millions necessary to own a house in the center of town.

[1] And the buy-not-rent idea does make sense: My current condo is better than my old apartment, financing costs me less than rent used to, and of course it is me rather than my landlord that gains the accumulating home equity)

Well if we’re disclosing our personal investments here mine is kinda that my childhood cul-de-sac home was a condominium, built in the late ‘70s before it was clear that was not the proper form for subdivisions, and the city is actually densifying out to it now (this was for a while “average, good people” houses being bought and inhabited, maybe un-duplexed, maybe torn down and rebuilt to lot lines by rich people. who were often sympathetic greyhairs.)

And I am going to inherit that house in the next 20 years, and have to take that seriously, and also am displacing here some emotional intensity I think I’m supposed to feel about that but can’t now, now that I can’t feel loss I’m not sure how I’m going to process my parents’ inevitable upcoming death and it fucks with me.

Listening to the extended Prince of Bel-Air theme in this bar’s closing time mix, and A) those are some hella early-90s synths and B) what the hell kind of accent is Will Smith even trying to do?

kontextmaschine:

Just saw a prescription drug commercial say “Ask your doctor. Or go to the emergency room.”

What the fuck?

Like whether that’s them twisting a regulatorily required disclaimer into a sales line or them acknowledging the ER as the front line of basic medical care in 2023, either way it’s fucked up

kontextmaschine:

shieldfoss:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

st-just:

I hear advice from the older generation that “buying a house is an investment”.

On one level, I get that. Buying a house is a better way to spend money than renting, because at the end, you have something. You have a whole frigging house.

On another level, I think that the idea that home prices should outpace inflation is insane and maybe has broken modern society.

-Andre Cooper, Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

This entire article is “a-HYUK, why would we expect homes to appreciate when the building’s obviously a depreciating asset? We’ve simply stumbled down a nonsense path that I just realized because I r so smart!”

Because even as the structure depreciates the property claim on the underlying land appreciates because it’s a finite good facing rising demand, dipshit.

This points at the question they really haven’t had to confront since the legal form was established in the 1970s: what are condominiums for?

…they’re for living in?

Are you asking why it is legal to purchase only a partial ownership in land/building, or are you asking why anybody would want to do that?

Well I suppose in the sense of condo towers, like anything built in 1981 Miami or Manhattan seemed like already the maximum units you could put on that site so it didn’t matter if all you ever had was the title to one with no provision for anything else

But like, if you can’t sell the option to redevelop the property what do you have beyond the one we’ve-only-seen-sub-40yo-of-these-buildings-in-America-and-remember-that-one-that-collapsed-in-Florida?

I guess your transferable title gives you one vote towards a condo board that could dispose of the whole property for redevelopment.

The obvious comparison models would be the Central Park co-ops of the pre-condo era and the 99-year ground rents of the European neighborhoods that date from when nobles would sell or mortgage their rural agrarian lands, buy urban lands, develop them, and collect rent as the modern updating of the yearly harvest for a commercial/Industrial society

Watching True Lies (1994) in the bar and mostly noticing how ‘80s the interior design still is

shieldfoss:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

st-just:

I hear advice from the older generation that “buying a house is an investment”.

On one level, I get that. Buying a house is a better way to spend money than renting, because at the end, you have something. You have a whole frigging house.

On another level, I think that the idea that home prices should outpace inflation is insane and maybe has broken modern society.

-Andre Cooper, Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

This entire article is “a-HYUK, why would we expect homes to appreciate when the building’s obviously a depreciating asset? We’ve simply stumbled down a nonsense path that I just realized because I r so smart!”

Because even as the structure depreciates the property claim on the underlying land appreciates because it’s a finite good facing rising demand, dipshit.

This points at the question they really haven’t had to confront since the legal form was established in the 1970s: what are condominiums for?

…they’re for living in?

Are you asking why it is legal to purchase only a partial ownership in land/building, or are you asking why anybody would want to do that?

Well I suppose in the sense of condo towers, like anything built in 1981 Miami or Manhattan seemed like already the maximum units you could put on that site so it didn’t matter if all you ever had was the title to one with no provision for anything else

But like, if you can’t sell the option to redevelop the property what do you have beyond the one we’ve-only-seen-sub-40yo-of-these-buildings-in-America-and-remember-that-one-that-collapsed-in-Florida?

I guess your transferable title gives you one vote towards a condo board that could dispose of the whole property for redevelopment.

Just saw a prescription drug commercial say “Ask your doctor. Or go to the emergency room.”

What the fuck?

Like we may be “over” old charges that feminist activists are just a bunch of lesbians but can we finally admit that the ‘70s thing of hosting some event where you get all your women’s circle together to masturbate in the name of reclaiming pleasure as part of their connection to their bodies was iffy and there were presumably individual stagers of these events with mixed motives?

Jesus, looking back being stunned how inessential Reputation was. Gun to my head tell me to list Taylor Swift singles I would hit Tim McGraw before Look What You Made Me Do.

That was a US #1!