She should be on the beach, or anywhere that feels affirming.

“I would be the beneficiary of this AI, not having to do any work myself. And people would pay the subscription fees to me.”

It’s just a poorly-placed line. The dunk has been made.

Looking at this image and thinking “Whose By-Line Is It Anyway”

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Oil-rich monarchy: “We are the guardians of Mecca and Medina, anyway no AC for you if you don’t pay us registration fees, also we only give annual permits equal to 5% of our country’s population”

OP: “Haha religion, amirite?”

"oops all of a sudden I have made more than the global/national average income, this means I must suddenly convert to reactionary ideology in accordance with how my financial standing is the bulk of my self-conceptualization. not based at all on deep personal values so nothing at all that can be done about this.

I’m really really happy for you, you deserve it!

When this happens for the first time it proves that it’s possible, and if there’s a decent human connection there, it feels like the whole world pouring affinity through you.

I hope you discover and learn a lot about yourself relationally (and about her too).

A lot of this sounds really, really familiar, although my experience was a bit less severe.

One mantra I try to give myself, as frequently as possible, is “Anything you put out there is good enough”. I would have massively benefited from hearing this in childhood.

Another thing that I’m trying to live by is “Don’t leave worthy things undone or unsaid”, because I have way more regrets from what I haven’t done than from what I have done.

Make mistakes and embrace them. Bob Ross did it in painting, the Japanese have a whole philosophy of wabi-sabi, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Some substances may regulate the neurotransmitters in ways that makes it all seem way less paralyzing. Use moderation in this though.

Fruit juice has vitamins and other micronutrients, but it doesn’t necessarily have that elemental salt profile.

Blackstrap is the good stuff, it’s got potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron. Because of how it is produced, it has lots of the impurities of the sugar concentrated in it. Sorghum molasses is okay but not as good for this as blackstrap is. Take a look at the nutrition facts, and you’ll see a bunch of quantities for stuff that’s on the periodic table. I suspect various other concentrates might have similar properties.

Typically I add maybe 20g molasses per liter of water, with another 10g of iodized salt or baking soda or cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate).

I had a health condition for a while that had me carrying salt water on my person for a year, just as a precaution.

If there was no wind and it was cloudy and everyone was shouting or singing or talking loudly all the time, then maybe a 2-10% chance. Indoors it would be 10-50%, depending on circumstances.

3 main groups of political positions: socialism, liberalism, reaction.

3 main groups of value sets that underlie the politics: egalitarian collectivism, individual liberty, might-makes-right.

3 main groups of philosophies that underlie the value sets: constructivism, relativism, essentialism.

Over a long period of time, people develop their value sets based on the philosophy they have. In turn, they develop their politics based on their value sets. Sometimes people try out ideologies for a fit, or cycle or drift through ideologies. If they change, it’s not so much due a lack of commitment, but because the ethical/philosophical grounding wasn’t there. Individualists, regardless of what they profess, tend to converge on liberalism. People who admire exclusive personal power tend to become reactionaries.

If you want to get people who aren’t already on board but might have their heart in the right place, frame your beliefs as egalitarian. If you are interacting with people who are fully propagandized against egalitarianism but are somewhat scientific-minded, claim constructivism, defend that position, then work your way up. You can’t lose with constructivism because it is the most valid model/approach.

If the sun is shining, you should be okay without a mask outside, unless there are constantly people less than 2 feet away from you.

I often use molasses with a little bit of salt, that’s about as cheap as you can get.

I’m feeling a lot lately like a lot of therapy-speak is toxic positivity rooted in liberalism, kind of has a mindfulness style to it but isn’t actually useful.

“Don’t turn to blame, this won’t help anything”
“Saying what people deserve is a trap, it’s best to not worry about that”

I mean sure, these are negative emotions that will have a negative effect on your psyche. But there’s a reason why they’re there. If we all gave up on the idea of people “deserving something” or “not deserving something” or “getting what they deserve”, we’d be giving up on the idea of justice, and giving up on the idea of curating what behaviors and consequences we want in the world. If we don’t have a sense of blame, we give up on taking any side or even affective position in what goes on around us.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”

Someone cleverer than me has probably written a piece about how a very cherry-picked selection of Buddhism has been popularized and co-opted by capitalism to promote moral relativism, the underlying philosophy of liberalism.

I for one embrace blame and determining what is deserved, as well as lots of other value judgments. They shouldn’t be the biggest part of who we are, but they are important.

I tried doing what I was “supposed” (expected?) to do for a while. By age 23 it was clearly not working out, everything seemed to be falling apart in my life and even if it wasn’t, it didn’t have the promise of going anywhere.

Finding people doing actual organizing in controversion of capitalism and empire made a switch in my life. And while I’ll never have a “regular” professional career or suburban lifestyle, life is much more rewarding and true to myself than it ever was before.

OP has posted before about how his cat is “one of the pack” of dogs.

borger is like mulch

you want to donut it a little bit

Funniest result would be Trump winning the popular vote but losing the electoral college, so the New Maga Army tries to monkey-wrench the electoral college.

You are a silly owl who needs a shave, and wears a fur coat.

“We had a year where the population wasn’t going up… this is a calamity!”

“living wage pls”