tanadrin:

That’s interesting. Okay, audience, do we think the “fat, hairy, sitcom-dad” image of masculinity represents an emasculated archetype (or some kind of failure to live up to “true” masculinity), or is just a variant? Because afaict some people seem to find many of those traits attractive.

Well I think the “slob[b]ish” degeneration angle is important, a gay man who cultivates a fat, hairy body is a bear.

cryptotheism:

I’m the prime mover actually. I make it all go. I don’t have any control over it though it’s really scary

Deism

imposterogers:

imposterogers:

imposterogers:

if I was matt murdock and I found out the same chemical spill that blinded me and lit the world on “fire” turned a bunch of turtles into pizza loving ninjas I would lose it actually

I’m not going lie the thought of matt finding out he’s radioactive ooze brothers with this particular version of the tmnt has me in tears

matt, trying to recount his childhood and ignore the smell of turtle, three day old pizza, and sewer: …..so yah, after my dad died I was basically on my own.

the turtles, already planning on buying their radioactive waste brother a shirt that says “I fell in radioactive waste and all I got was these glasses”: cowabummer dude. our dad’s a rat

vellichnora:

vellichnora:

there’s just something inherently holy about a girl vibing alone in her room

via Vincent Giarrano on instagram

https://instagram.com/vgiarrano?utm_medium=copy_link

jumex:

Men will cum in anything…..you could throw a plate across the room and a man will fuck it before it lands

kontextmaschine:

memecucker:

“Body language analysis” was invented as a psy-op to make polygraphs appear scientific by comparison

I do feel kinda weird about this stuff re: forensic/investigative woo because like, ask me, I can quite often tell when someone’s lying by how they move their eyeballs when they’re talking.

(and that when I’m manic I can effectively read their thoughts if I know them well enough, because I can construct a sufficiently detailed model of their mind, figure out how it would respond to various stimulus if certain facts were true, how those responses would manifest in outwardly observable signs, and if those signals aren’t coming off what those that are correspond to)

But even then, could I fit those insights to a theoretical framework extensible and applicable in scale that I could then train others in through circulating literature or hosting professional development seminars such that any given student pursuing training could be certified as competent to apply them to any given situation and have their analysis be taken as a legitimate basis for establishing truth in a court of law? No the fuck I could not.

(Like, I don’t mean that when I’m manic I develop the delusion of overhearing other people’s thoughts, I mean I’m mentally overclocked to the point I can run modeling of others’ interiority [that in retrospect is almost certainly an adaptation of autistic masking!] so complex and accurate that on multiple occasions I’ve been asked how I possibly knew something they’d never told anyone.)

When a collision shop 3 blocks away closes and suddenly you don’t see all the stolen cars getting stripped and left by the curb anymore you do have to wonder.

So new post-#MeToo theory of the ‘90s is that as institutions from businesses to the Senate and Presidency of the United States “grappled with sexual harassment” and started reorienting against it and trying to sort practitioners out the NY and LA culture industries held out effectively, relying on tight internal relationships and captive legal and para-legal institutions (“privilege” meant “private law”).

Other norms too – I cannot emphasize enough how in the 90s fucking teenage groupies was accepted and celebrated as definitional of rock stardom – this was where you first saw “new economy” companies generalizing “rockstar” to “elite and valued employee”

This differential sorting left the culture-shaping industries of the time consisting of, and thus the culture guided by, a cohort that was significantly higher in both desire for human exploitation and skill at human manipulation than the rest of society, over and above the dynamics you would normally expect pressing in that direction, and this is critical to understanding '90s culture in retrospect.

animentality:

Your grandparents had jobs in the same way the dinosaur appliances on The Flintstones had jobs. “It’s a living!”

(Yes, I’m reblogging with commentary added a lot right now. No, I’m not manic, I just made my coffee too strong.)

[now that the anxiety zeroing means neither coffee or the sleepiness it replaces manifest negative effects, this is basically all I have to go on in determining how strong it even was in the first place, but I do remember wondering “hm, did I pour this concentrate too thick?”]

{dehydration/how often I piss encodes too much other stuff like blood pressure, temperature, salt levels, ambient humidity, rate of liquid consumption, etc. for that much accuracy}

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

tsarina-anadyomene-deactivated2:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

tsarina-anadyomene-deactivated2:

marks on the ruler should be infinitely small so you can measure more precisely

idk who this is you’re going to have to tell me if this is funny or not

(it’s john conway, who is known for the surreal numbers, which is an extension of the reals that includes infinitesimals (number smaller than any real nonzero number) and infinities.)

Oh, I thought this was gonna be like the king of Denmark or something and the joke was that his face was finely lined.

memecucker:

“Body language analysis” was invented as a psy-op to make polygraphs appear scientific by comparison

I do feel kinda weird about this stuff re: forensic/investigative woo because like, ask me, I can quite often tell when someone’s lying by how they move their eyeballs when they’re talking.

(and that when I’m manic I can effectively read their thoughts if I know them well enough, because I can construct a sufficiently detailed model of their mind, figure out how it would respond to various stimulus if certain facts were true, how those responses would manifest in outwardly observable signs, and if those signals aren’t coming off what those that are correspond to)

But even then, could I fit those insights to a theoretical framework extensible and applicable in scale that I could then train others in through circulating literature or hosting professional development seminars such that any given student pursuing training could be certified as competent to apply them to any given situation and have their analysis be taken as a legitimate basis for establishing truth in a court of law? No the fuck I could not.

eightyonekilograms:

collapsedsquid:

Quinn Slobodian in his talk is drawing the difference between Trump as the Polanyi “Double Movement” where Trump is there because people need to be protected from the market run by the liberals, and Trump as libertarian, where Trump is there because people are tired of the nanny-state government “protecting” them.

What he says in his piece is that the Trump movement was more pro-market in the beginning but has since he left office broadened to include much more of the “double movement” stuff.

I sort of see the trend as the opposite though, the hard-right has become more libertarian, and this is the frame through which I see stuff like the attempts to kill public education because it’s grooming your kids. That stuff is on the rise and has the zeitgeist, while nobody gives a fuck about Compact magazine or Rubio’s plan to put union members of corporate boards outside a handful of literati.

(Could also discuss the Trump “freedom cities” proposal which could come right out of Quinn’s book, but could also say that purely imaginary and transient.)

Hm, I disagree with this completely. I think the overwhelming trend on the right at the moment is abandonment of libertarianism, both in the fine details of policy and in the overarching philosophy: “if the government gets out of the way and does the minimum necessary to secure markets, people will be prosperous and happy” is passé, while “we need to use State Power to impose our vision of the Good Life, whether people want that or not” is in. It’s true that the latter was always more popular among the conservative base, but for a long time the libertarians were the wonks who actually steered the direction of conservative policy; they are now out in the cold while the incoming generation of right-wing wonks goes to NatCon. Even the devoted libertarians are shifting focus if not totally overhauling their beliefs: Tyler Cowen himself would say his philosophy hasn’t changed, but he sure talks about “state-capacity libertarianism” a lot more than he used to.

and this is the frame through which I see stuff like the attempts to kill public education because it’s grooming your kids.

I don’t think that’s the correct frame. I think what’s happening here is a belief that public education is an institution which can’t be captured, and only steered by state power to a limited extent, and so opting out is easier. If they thought public schools could be commanded to teach their way instead, they would do that and make them non-optional.

Well I think that say the LP Mises Caucus folks would say that over the 2010s libertarianism decanted a lot of its left-friendly or -tolerant elements (drawn largely as legacy of its 90s heyday) that strayed for essentially reasons of career (Washington “liberaltarians” at centrist think tanks) or social advancement (“wokeness”, #Resist, yada yada)

memecucker:

I think it’s funny how a lot of people assume “ethnic” categories in porn are from “fetishizers” and not people of the same categories (eg; “Ebony” is the most popular porn search term in Black Belt areas, “Asian” is the most popular in areas which are predominantly Asian) but also like I think it’s kinda sus that the means to demonize this stuff by means of suggesting it’s out of interracial attraction

It is a little odd that you only really have categories of white porn in terms of them being matched with other partners – black male/white female interracial, with “BBCs”, or WMAF raceplay with “BWCs”, etc. You don’t even really see porn categorized by Caucasian hair colors – blonde, redhead, brunette – like you still did into the 2000s.

memecucker:

Just learned there was year old discourse about if “spaz” is a slur bc Lizzo said it

Interestingly, is in the UK where they call each other cunts all the time.

flakmaniak:

official-kircheis:

hmm fighter jets need like 15-25 maintenance man-hours per flight hour…wonder what the number is for passenger airliners… must be much lower because sure you can put several maintainers on it per wall clock hour, but if it’s not in the air it’s not making money.

There should be a romantic drama about a US air force pilot, and one of the mechanics responsible for maintaining their plane…

Airbus says the maintenance checks for the a220 take 10-15 man-hours per 850 flight hours, and what seems like at least 1600 man-hours per 8500 flight hours, but that’s not maintenance, just inspection, if they find “this part needs to be fixed or replaced” I have no idea how long that takes, or for any standard servicing they perform at X hours.

theaudientvoid:

kitstacean:

auntaoifesupersoldier-deactivat:

beaubambabey:

I am going to spit on Thomas Edison’s grave

Its really shocking how much evil shit can be traced by to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

That being said you can trace the standardised exam to the Sui/Tang Dynasty

(though to be fair it was replacing the even worse system of getting government jobs just because you know a guy)

I mean, when Edison and Ford started doing job interviews, they were also replacing the worse system of getting a job because you know a guy.

06-archive:

flakmaniak:

kata4a:

sungodsevenoclock:

tsarina-anadyomene-deactivated2:

i love the beautiful tyranny of glass and concrete. crush the feeble bones of naturalism under your heel you mighty, you godlike-terrible giants!

I feel this, but I also like the revenge aspect of tree roots creepres and moss overtaking concrete and glass. The idea that straight lines and perfect symmetries can, in the long run, be defeated.

why you gotta pit two bad bitches against each other

They’re eternally at war; that’s kind of their thing.