We don’t talk enough about how amazing Taylor Swift’s “Begin Again” is for being a sincere, heartfelt appreciation of a rebound relationship you’re having to get over a breakup.
So when I talk about how you can go to Seattle and tell Japanese from Japanese-Americans on the street by subtle personal style touches—
Look at that 6th picture, from philtrum through ribcage. No way is that lipstick a Japanese style, yet that hair definitely is.
Which how do you explain that? Well, looking it up she’s a model in Tokyo – where she gets the hair – who works the Insta/OnlyFans online pinup circuit, which is the international community she takes shoot makeup cues from.
The progression of how my arms feel as the fat melts off has been spoiled by the complication that the muscles are also growing significantly larger and harder.
One thing behind the Japanese practice of treating houses as consumable rather than capital goods, intended to last one lifetime and then be replaced, is the legacy of centuries of urban culture in which it was understood that every building would be destroyed in a fire about that frequently so there wasn’t much point in using more relatively more precious building materials in trying to push durability further.
So one take-away from the personality change maybe making me unautistic is that the antonym of “ask culture” isn’t guess culture, they’re not (now I’m not) guessing, there really is some sort of interpersonal signal they’re (we’re) picking up.
But it’s not like an information-carrying signal, or at least one that gets delivered to the consciousness, it’s not like as if where before I’d be like “oh I want to make a romantic move but I don’t know the right moment” I pay attention to the signal and it tells me what the right moment is and so I can decide to do it then.
What it is is that being attuned to this signal, I will make that move at some point that happens to be the ideal moment, without ever having specifically considered and decided on that.
I dunno, maybe this is what instinct is? Whereas previously I had thought of it in terms of information (like “this is the moment”) arriving without any obvious source that would then serve as an input to the same conscious decisionmaking process?
I guess I’d say it’s like driving an automatic transmission – you’re absolutely still the driver, but there’s a bunch of stuff you used to have to do manually – choosing to execute a particular maneuver at a particular time – that the mechanism now takes care of itself.
A difference being that I like stick shifts because direct control lets me shift at useful times the mechanism wouldn’t pick up on – engine braking, downshifting into turns or to pass – but the automatic mechanism here seems to shift me usefully in situations I’d have no clue what to do with myself.
Looking at my torso head-on in a mirror from top to bottom there’s no clearly defined start of the stomach, it’s all one plane starting out from the shoulderblades, you can look at the top and say “that’s chest” and at the bottom and say “that’s stomach”, but there’s no clearly defined point where it switches over.
Okay got a new yard of topsoil and did some very minor distribution and leveling of yesterday’s, in looking for something strenuous to do that wouldn’t aggravate the stitch in my back I used the new mattock to take out maybe 20% of the remaining lower backyard bamboo.
That exhausted me, but in how well my core was holding up even exhausted AND favoring the back I’m appreciating how fucking strong it’s getting, curious what it’s gonna look like when the rest of the fat melts off over the next year. “Oh I’m suddenly getting thin for no reason” was already so dumb you could only just “sure~”, so “and I’m actually gonna be kinda ripped” is just more of the same.
Gotta plan some stuff for the fence to tell the contractor by tomorrow. I was gonna get one gate with over-height posts so that when I tile the roof in Japanese style of authenticity to be determined I could use some tiles and set up a small matching gate roof, but I’m realizing I have to make decisions about specific height and crossbar now. My mind’s still recovering in terms of how many factors I can account for how many steps ahead in a way that makes planning hard, so I’m gonna have to take some graph paper and draw things in a way that concretizes them tonight.
So one take-away from the personality change maybe making me unautistic is that the antonym of “ask culture” isn’t guess culture, they’re not (now I’m not) guessing, there really is some sort of interpersonal signal they’re (we’re) picking up.
But it’s not like an information-carrying signal, or at least one that gets delivered to the consciousness, it’s not like as if where before I’d be like “oh I want to make a romantic move but I don’t know the right moment” I pay attention to the signal and it tells me what the right moment is and so I can decide to do it then.
What it is is that being attuned to this signal, I will make that move at some point that happens to be the ideal moment, without ever having specifically considered and decided on that.
I dunno, maybe this is what instinct is? Whereas previously I had thought of it in terms of information (like “this is the moment”) arriving without any obvious source that would then serve as an input to the same conscious decisionmaking process?
Like I have no idea what the mechanism is here. Is it just checking for the most ideal moment I’m likely to get, or the first time I cross some threshold such as to expect it be well-received? Can I fake it into false starts with local maxima? To be determined.
So one take-away from the personality change maybe making me unautistic is that the antonym of “ask culture” isn’t guess culture, they’re not (now I’m not) guessing, there really is some sort of interpersonal signal they’re (we’re) picking up.
But it’s not like an information-carrying signal, or at least one that gets delivered to the consciousness, it’s not like as if where before I’d be like “oh I want to make a romantic move but I don’t know the right moment” I pay attention to the signal and it tells me what the right moment is and so I can decide to do it then.
What it is is that being attuned to this signal, I will make that move at some point that happens to be the ideal moment, without ever having specifically considered and decided on that.
I dunno, maybe this is what instinct is? Whereas previously I had thought of it in terms of information (like “this is the moment”) arriving without any obvious source that would then serve as an input to the same conscious decisionmaking process?
ithink it’s more important than anything to try and find common ground with people that share your goals even if your worldviews don’t line up exactly. MLs and anarchists both want to destroy the U.S. government. transmascs and transfems both want to look like kurt cobain. me and the dude calling me slurs on the train both want me to suck his dick
the only Threads i care about is the harrowing 1984 brittish tv movie documenting a thoroughly researched hypothetical scenario of nuclear attack upon Sheffield and it’s after effects
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