firmamenti
1yr ago
You're getting into a pretty ridiculous semantics argument here. There is now way to be "right" in this. You both just disagree with each other.
For what it's worth, to me if somebody eats meat once a year or so, then they can still be a vegetarian. Even the vegans eat bacon at burning man, for instance. They are still vegans though.
firmamenti
1yr ago
What's annoying about this is that only some dietary restrictions are honored.
For instance: I often eat a keto diet. This means lots of high fat, usually red meat. But when places with catered food ask me for my dietary restrictions ask, do you really think they'd accept "I eat a new york strip and runny eggs with a side of avacado for breakfast every morning, so please have that ready."?
However, if somebody asks for vegan food, that is always accommodated, even though in my opinion that is far more of a taste thing. Non adherence to my low carb diet will actually have measurable negative effects. A vegan eating a normal diet won't be meaningfully effected other than not being happy about it (at first, until they realize how good it tastes of course! Just kidding).
firmamenti
1yr ago
How does a random weirdo get into the house of the third most powerful person in the US?
He smashes the window of a door with a hammer, unlocks the door, and walks inside. There is a video of this happening if you want I can find it.
firmamenti
1yr ago
The reactions to this video are strange to me.
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The attacker is smiling because he is a drug addict having a manic episode.
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Paul is smiling because he is trying to mirror the attackers demeanor as an attempt to de-escalate the situation. Paul is a hyper-social business person and married to one of the most powerful political operatives in the world.
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Paul isn't wearing a button down dress shirt, he's wearing pajamas.
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He's wearing boxer shorts because he was asleep and that's probably what he sleeps in.
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He's probably holding a beer or other drink in his hand because he's been trying to calm the attacker down and buy time. If a manic schizophrenic broke into my house and I was trying to buy time, asking them if it was okay if I got a drink while we waited for Nancy to get home (waiting for the cops to arrive) seems completely reasonable. Or asking him if he wanted something.
This video seems completely boring to me. To be clear, the narrative surrounding it is also completely ridiculous.
firmamenti
1yr ago
It is still absolutely unbelievable to me that this infographic got published.
firmamenti
1yr ago
Can you remind me what part of cloud atlas you’re talking about?
firmamenti
1yr ago
This person proposed a pretty interesting thought experiment which has spurred interesting discussion. It seems foolish to ban them for this.
firmamenti
1yr ago
It's because he could easily be replaced by a chatbot. He talks frequently about "love" and yet seems completely incapable of expressing love.
He has also had some morons on his show, and he acts like they're providing some sort of profound insight on life. For instance: Destiny, Chamath. He also let the founder of Cardano on his show, and let him spew absolute verbal diarrhea for like 5 hours. Lex is supposed to be some sort of intelligent computer programmer, but was unable to identify this guys completely nonsensical technobabble. And I'm not kidding, this went on for 5 motherfucking hours.
He also constantly preaches love and how we should be willing to have difficult conversations, and yet is pretty notorious on reddit for banning anybody from his subreddit who even vaguely questions him.
Finally...he really leaned into "MIT artificial intelligence researcher" but his degrees actually come from Drexel University, where his father is a physics professor. He isn't exactly lying about his education, since it does seem like he did something at MIT at some point, but he isn't really being honest either. It also seems sortof rude/insulting towards his dad to imply that Drexel isn't good enough to be proud of.
I don't know. I really used to like Lex, and I really should like the people he has on his podcast, but he just seems so fake that it's hard to get past him anymore.
firmamenti
1yr ago
Mmm, I don’t think you should feel like an ass. Hes trying to elicit the feeling you’re having now. He’s an asshole, not you.
firmamenti
1yr ago
Wear a hat? Shave his head?
Jamie Raskin is a lifelong grifting rage baiting asshole who continues spreading the insane propaganda lies about Russian spies in the White House.
He also used this opportunity to spread more rage baiting lies, claiming republicans had insisted that he take his bandana off.
This was, of course, a lie: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jamie-raskin-cap-chemotherapy-republicans-house-representatives-1778293
So he wears a bandana, nobody cares except to tell him that they hope he pulls through with his cancer, and he uses this as an opportunity to claim that his political opponents are cartoonish villains, and that his bandana is a form of resistance.
Yes, him wanting you to feel like an asshole, and using his bandana to do so, is very literally what he is doing
firmamenti
1yr ago
Why can’t these people just fuck off and leave everybody alone? If you want to live by a grocery store, then do it. If people want to live in suburbs, then let them.
Stop trying to impose your pet ideas on everybody else.
firmamenti
1yr ago
I'm not disputing that cancer patients wear bandanas. I'm saying that in this specific case he made his wearing of a bandana a political tool, and lied about people to do so.
firmamenti
1yr ago
Can you guys recommend some really good, wholesome, non-CW children’s books?
I’ve been reading “the giant jam sandwich” every night and loving it, and would love more like that. Thanks!
firmamenti
1yr ago
Well it was written by a filthy Protestant…
(Just kidding)
firmamenti
1yr ago
What does the catastrophe look like?
Move to a small community in Northern Maine, buy about 20 acres, join a church, and get some chickens.
firmamenti
1yr ago
Being involved in theater doesn’t make you a theater kid, and you can be a theater kid even if you are not involved at all in theater. I wouldn’t take it too personally.
Do you see yourself as better than others? And wish to impose your beliefs on others? Do you imagine over dramatized revolutions yet oppose gun ownership, and associate fitness with something negative?
It’s the kids who were in high school asking for more homework, tattling on other kids, and sneering at anybody who liked sports. If that was you, then yeah you’re a theater kid.
There are however many right wing and even far right wing artists. Anybody who doubts this should spend some time at burning man interacting with the people building the art there. They’re the most libertarian of libertarians.
firmamenti
1yr ago
I have never heard this term used as anything other than a pejorative. I've only really understood this term to basically be the teenage version of the "karen" archetype.
firmamenti
1yr ago
I will first point out that the question of whether or not libertarians are “right-wing” is a very hotly-contested topic, and that I would answer the question with a definitive “no”.
Let's start with: what do you consider 'right wing'?
Also, when was the last time that any of the art produced at Burning Man made any sort of cultural impact on the general public? I’m certainly not aware of a single example, although I admit that it’s not an area about which I’m very knowledgeable.
I don't think there is really a way to address this question. In my world, burning man is a massive cultural juggernaut. It defines building/architectural styles, sculpture styles, music styles, clothing styles. It's practically inescapable.
Burning man had its own exhibit in The Smithsonian: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/burning-man
Hmm, man I'm really at a loss as to how to address your question of what cultural impact burning man has had.
firmamenti
1yr ago
I think that the internet has really, really broken this man's mind.
firmamenti
1yr ago
The argument that those two get in in the clip you lined is an excellent example of why shows like this are so useless. Once they state their own position, their cohost simply misstates it back to them. It's obvious that the conversation is going nowhere. What is the purpose of subjecting people to the rest of this?
firmamenti
1yr ago
Just don't list your pronouns, and don't make a big deal out of it. If somebody asks you to list your pronouns specifically, agree to do it, but then just don't, and if they press you on it later claim you forgot and then just again don't do it.
If somebody wants to escalate "rokmonster won't put pronouns in bio" all the way to you getting fired, then just claim bewilderment when their boss asks you to do it, do it, and then quit and get a different job somewhere else.
firmamenti
1yr ago
Have you guys watched "The Bear"? A couple of notes on this show:
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This show is absolutely excellent. If you've worked in a kitchen, or if you've ever worked in any sort of extreme-stress environment, this show captures the feeling perfectly.
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Just to stress again, I absolutely loved this show. 10/10 acting, cinematography, story, music. It's a perfect show.
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There is a heavily implied theme here, which is that the main character, Carmy, has a toxic personality, and that he needs to overcome this in order to succeed. Some of the other characters, the young female chef, as well as the older "gentler" male cake making chef have conflicts with the Carmy over how mean he is being to them. Eventually these two quit, then "forgive" him, then they eventually return.
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Many bits have been spilled about how the theme of this show is "toxic masculinity".
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The problem I have with this is: Carmy is presented at the beginning of the show as an absolute savant level of chef. He is young, has already been declared as the most promising up and coming chef by some prestigious magazine, and has worked at both The French Laundry, and Noma, two of the top restaurants in the world. In one scene the younger female chef is explaining to the cake maker chef how when she finished culinary school (she also went to a very prestigious school, CIA, but hasn't done anything yet) she went out on a tour of top restaurants, and that Carmy (the man she now works for) cooked the best meal she has ever had in her life.
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The people who work with Carmy, who complain about how mean he is, are morons. Young chef girl screws up multiple times in ways that could be disastrous for the restaurant. Cake maker man has been essentially trying to teach himself how to bake while on the clock, and the "blowup moment" where he quits is during a high stress situation (that young female chef created and Carmy is in the process of trying to solve). Cake maker wants Carmy to taste/give feedback on some donuts he has been trying to learn to make. Carmy yells at him that he doesn't have time for this right now, and cake maker quits.
In the setting of the show, where Carmy is one of the top chefs in the entire world, the reality is that he would have an endless list of people willing to work for him for free, who would be willing to follow every command he gave to a t. Additionally, if this top chef was known to be working at some crappy beef sandwich restaurant in Chicago, they'd have a line around the block of people wanting to taste his food.
Again, this show is amazing, and the CW elements are easily ignorable. I'm curious if anybody else watched this show and had similar frustrations about it.
(Also: I'm not sure why I like writing posts like this as numbered lists.)
firmamenti
1yr ago
I guess I’d like to see the “growth” happen among the people working for Camry then, too. Cake man should realize that he was getting sucked into his own side project, and the younger chef (I’m sorry I’m seriously terrible with names) should have had an aha moment where she realized her greenness and unwillingness to listen to Carmy almost sank the business.
Maybe there’s something there where the viewers are meant to take on the role of the naive staff and see Carmy as a bad guy?
The scene where he apologizes to the young chef was particularly ridiculous to me. She screwed up his restaurant, then in the middle of him trying to fix it, when he would most need help, she just walked out and he is now apologizing to her about this?
Again, loved the show. 10/10, can’t wait for more of it. Just like talking about this part of the writing.
firmamenti
1yr ago
I live in a 15 minute hellhole. There are probably a dozen coffee shops within a 15 minute walk, almost as many churches, a bunch of drug stores, some clothing stores, infinite amounts of restaurants
It’s early morning here and I can hear the light rail’s grating, electronic simulation of a bell dinging and angrily bleating at cars as it rumbles past my house. It’s morning, but dark in my house because of the blackout shades I had to install after my city switched to dystopian white LED flood lights to “prevent crime”. All night long people literally drag raced up and down my street reaching speeds of >100mph directly in front of my house.
I used to sit on my front porch every night and chat with neighbors as they walked by, but these days the neighbors mostly sit in their own houses, rightfully fearful of the homeless drug addicted schizophrenics who have laid claim to the sidewalks here.
No I do not love my 15 minute city. Tear out this god awful light rail, it does nothing but bring crime to the neighborhood, tear down ALL of the streetlights, start enforcing the laws against open drug use, and speeding, and maybe then this city would be enjoyable.
But the same people who advocate 15 minute cities seem to think these horrifying hell demons are virtues, not things to be overcome, so no I do not want to give them any power. If they want to build their childish utopia, they can do so out in the desert from scratch. Stop ruining cities.
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. I mean a mottizan may have the experience of the clown when talking to non mottizans. I didn’t mean you literally. (I’m away from my computer so typing on my phone. Sorry about that).
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