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Corvos
18hr ago
“Well, golly, I like the leopard-pattern wallet but where’s the rest of the fursuit?”
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
18hr ago
Depends which version of market efficiency you're talking about.
I just spent quite a while at work doing research for a legal case we're doing where proving the semi-strong market efficiency hypothesis is a profoundly load-bearing part of our argument.
We'll know what the judge thinks in like, two years lol
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
18hr ago
If it makes you feel any better, one of my university housemates loaded up on cruise line puts, he timed it well (somewhat) as the price did indeed drop further after he bought the puts.
However, due to the implied volatility being so high when he bought them, he still managed to lose money overall despite buying puts on a stock that fell after he bought the puts (as the IV also dropped over the same period).
I've never felt bad about not being an options degen after witnessing that lol
Twin peaks review, season 1
I wrote a personal comment two days ago, mentioning twin peaks in passing which got all the replies, so here I am putting Lynch's magnus opus here.
David lynch like me and @TowardsPanna was a yogi, I saw Mulholland drive and didn't like it a lot, blue velvet was fun, as a person he stood out to me a lot. Blue Velvet was a great movie, not just fun. Lynch refused to discuss his abstract cinema, even though there's academic papers on it.
So, why would the best American director make a TV show, that too in the 90s. Enter Twin peaks, there's loads of trivia about this which I'll skip. This is an amazing show that up until season 1 and till episode 5 of season 2 where I am, has been amazing.
You can't describe much of what lynch does, I can't, he mixes tropes of soap operas, murder mysteries with his brand of surrealism in 90s Pacific Northwestern small towns.
Spiritual journey can help describe some of what he does. I read descriptions of enlightenment or it's equivalent in Trika, the sect of Shaivism you find on tantra illuminated, I never read any of them well, skimmed them really and once I had spiritual experiences, I looked back and the details given were right down to the word.
You can't scientifically prove this stuff. It's real, it's not me retrofitting my own account or getting influenced by ones that I spent a minute on whilst laughing. Lynch's work reminds me of that, tangentially. That a lot of it is surreal, you think it's voodoo, despite that, it feels real.
Twin peaks is peak TV for me. I have never seen a director do something serious that's funny whilst interweaving tropes they make fun of via a running soap opera in the TV show. Every night, I fire up an episode and can't stop, I unfortunately for the spoilers which i urge no one posts, yet there's so much more here.
Like my spiritual experiences, I cannot describe lynch's movies. Highly recommend it a lot. On a personal note I'm facing an onset of depression in the short term due to my spiritual prsctise which should fade away soon.
I don't like the abstract, there's better, actually holy things that go deeper than any movie ever can. How Lynch manages to have a really good normal TV show like story whilst having a deep level of abstraction is extremely impressive. Every twin peak fan sounded nuts to me until I became one, Lynch somehow made my spiritual practice parallels fit here despite his death.
You feel a love for Americana, Pacific Northwest small towns feel like heaven, I'll nevrbe able to look at hills without remembering falling, the shows theme song.
My last few comments have been about my growing angst with modern tech, the show is infinitely better than whatever harebrianed things I can ever find online whilst making me appreciate life more.
One more thing, Lynch, unlike a lot of film directors or novelists like Geroge RR Martin wasn't a shut in loser who has any bitterness towards the world. He shows the dark, the surreal, mystical visions, dreams are super important in twin peaks. The shows themes are dark, somehow I only ever remember the good from it. Very few carry a true love for life, even fewer can showcase it in something that's dark, extremely grounded. This isn't LOTR where you have large fights, it's a low budge by today's standards.
Most of what I wrote is incoherent, that's alright, everyone will have their own take on the show. I don't respect box office, modern media, yet I really respect the creative craftsman that Lynch was, we're lucky he left us with a whole show. I'm gonna watch the prequel, fire walk with me after season 2,before starting season 3.
On the point about the internet and it discouraging people to live life, all gossip we see pushes us to invest more, I see the pretty girls and the surroundings in his TV and it's joyous. It makes me want to do well and do bad things to the same sorta girls. I mean that, you appreciate the good things in life. Online circles take up more and more of our lives. Watching TV unfortunately is an upgrade.
I admire lynch a lot, I can write a lot, it won't mean much, watch it.
TeknOShEeP
18hr ago
Disagree entirely. While i do not agree with them politically, many of my leftoid friends have suddenly discovered the purpose behind the second ammendment, and are wondering why our state has so many idiotic gun laws.
Guns may be fun, and they may provide a constructive outlet, but their purpose is potential violence. Thats the point. Pretending otherwise is dishonest and pointless.
oats_son
18hr ago
Reading iprayiam's post, I was originally in agreement with him, but now, I am not sure. If euthanasia was legalized, I would expect a spike as all the olds with terminal illnesses and low quality of life euthanized themselves, and then a stabilizing as the rate of them would be the rate of people entering those low quality of life stages of their life for the first time. Are there really 5% of people right now with terminal illnesses and low quality of life? I hadn't really ever thought about it.
quiet_NaN
18hr ago
If anything, it seems low to me. From my understanding of the actuaries table here, it seems that the median age of death is around 79--84.
That is certainly what I would call old age. Assume that half of the people dying above that age have a terminal condition which qualifies for MAID, such as cancer, and that half of the ones who qualify actually opt for it. That would give us 1/8th of the deaths (12.5%).
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
18hr ago
Should be 100%. But that's just my opinion.
I don't hate AI. In fact I like it a lot (while having some concerns about long term implications). I use it for art, and I have artist friends who are furious about that. I do use it to write tedious stuff, like rough drafts for letters of recommendation, which I then clean up and edit.
But on an art forum, I would not post AI, or even post-worked AI, unless there was a section specifically for that. On a writers' forum I would not want to see AI writing unless there is a section for that. And I don't want to start wondering how much help AAQCs are getting from AI.
The European elites all attend the same universities, go to the same cocktail parties etc
No they don't? The European elites overwhelmingly attend the universities in their own countries, like everywhere else in the world. The Anglosphere universities do suck in some of them, but I can't find a single European head of state or government outside of the UK that was educated in a UK or US university.
Socialisation is similarly within countries, for the obvious fact that Europe is a multilingual continent of dozens of countries and elites aren't all jetting to the same city every weekend. British elites socialise in London, French elites socialise in Paris (in French), Polish elites socialise in Warsaw etc.
This is without touching on the EU, and the member states' obligation to implement EU law.
As far as I can tell, none of the authoritarian measures you mentioned have anything to do with the EU. The cancelled election in Romania was done by the Romanian judicary. I'm not sure which arrested opposition politicians you are talking about but the ones that Google came up with (Belarus, Turkey, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia) are not in the EU. Legally penalising speech and building digital panopticons is, I assume, a reference to the UK, which is not in the EU.
Do you live in Europe? Because this reads like someone who just thinks of it as the USA plus funny accents, which is wrong.
Crowstep
18hr ago
What about them? They, like the US, have had liberal gun laws for centuries. These aren't recent innovations that have been lobbied for by activists eager to imitate the US experience.
Ioper
19hr ago
To be more accurate, a lot of patients talked about wanting to die, some asked me at some point if I could help out (I'm not sure how serious those requests were) and one lady pleaded with me to kill her every time I was there, which was almost every day. 1/5 was an approximation on my part. I was regularly asked by patients to "help them die", but I wasn't really regularly asked by the same person except by the one patient. Some other people phrased things like that "it would have been good if I was allowed to help them die", which isn't really asking but is kind of in the same neighborhood.
Most of these people could probably have killed themselves if they had really wanted to, and for all I know some might have. They could have overdosed on the medications they already had in their homes. Perhaps this was too complex and scary for them though, I don't know. I imagine people want a solution that is painless and guaranteed to work, possibly under the supervision of a medical professional, not something where they can fail and die alone painfully over a longer period of time.
These things dont necessarily correlate with how poorly someone is either. My grandfather for instance who died last year at 100 desperately wanted to live even at the end when he was in horrific pain, had terrifying hallucinations and had not been able to move from his bed for months. The last thing he said to my mother was to ask her when he was going to get better again.
His wife (my grandmother), who died 40 years prior from ALS, wanted to be killed and started refusing food etc almost as soon as she became hospital bound in order to speed things up.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
19hr ago
This incident was because of some trans streamer wasn't it, because he didn't like being called out for making bath tub hrt.
I have been a regular at kiwifarms, unfortunately, God, I have wasted my life.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
19hr ago
The guy who loads up on tight ends
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Europe isn't a country. Talking about stuff that Europe is doing is like talking about how Americans love Samba dancing, mate tea and poutine.
Not really. The European elites all attend the same universities, go to the same cocktail parties etc. The end result being ideas fashionable among them sweep through the continent, even when no one in their countries asked for them, and when you'd expect them to be offensive to their culture. This is without touching on the EU, and the member states' obligation to implement EU law.
Surely more credible? Making it easy and legal for your citizens to own guns includes making it easy and legal for sub-populations (you mean black people right? You can just say that here) to get hold of them too.
When it turns out that said subgroups (black people among them, but there was quite a bit of mass immigration from strange countries lately), skew the statistics to the point that without them, the US would be as safe as any part of Europe, I find it less likely that making guns illegal would substantially change their behavior.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
19hr ago
One is known as Otterbox. One is known as Otterlocker. I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened, here
The gay furries got some new robust cellphone cases?
gattsuru
19hr ago
There is a very well-known robust cellphone case manufacturer. There is also a gay furry porn website. One is known as Otterbox. One is known as Otterlocker. I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened, here. And boy was my face red.
I've also had to consider very carefully what image edit tools to recommend, because I have a go to, and it's pretty robust if not the best GUI. But I also can't tell randos to install GIMP on their home computers without ending up on a list.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
19hr ago
Have you heard of three branches of government:
I did, that's my point.
Some parts of the government exist to exert checks and balances on the others.
That strikes me as nothing more than fiction. The idea relies on there being some objective standard the judiciary judges the other branches of the government on, without it, it's still government just wanting to do something. Look no further than no right to euthanasia existing for the majority of the existence of Canada, only to magically appear now.
gattsuru
19hr ago
It's a bit of a distraction and cjet79's willing to accept the standard story, but I'll caveat that the evidence is a lot weaker than common knowledge suggests. There's been a sizable number of countries that have either brought about new firearms regulation, or clamped down significantly harder, in the post-1980 range where we have pretty good statistics. That's part of why the Australia example always bugs me: the decrease in total suicides didn't actually stay and there were increases in non-firearms suicide.
((Is this in contradiction to the one case of gas ovens? Sure! ... but exactly how sure are we that pre-1970s 'suicides' were all intentional suicide?))
Rov_Scam
19hr ago
I'll play, but only on the condition that we gat at least ten people, including the following:
- The guy who drafts Patrick Mahomes way too early
- The guy who loads up on tight ends
- The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
- The guy who drafts the Ravens defense in the 9th round
- The guy who drafts the consensus best kicker in the 10th round (used to be Janikowski, more recently Justin Tucker, who knows this year)
- The guy who drafts an inordinate number of Steelers (or whoever the hometown team is)
- The guy who drafts someone who will be bagging groceries two years from now because he had a 79 yard run in the preseason
- The guy who takes fantasy football way too seriously but nonetheless ends up drafting an awful team
- The guy who fucks up his entire draft because he thinks it's a PPR league when it isn't, or vice versa
This last one happened in a league I played in a few years back and the results were hilarious. He had drafted a bunch of wideouts and practically no RBs and didn't realize we were in a standard league until the 7th or 8th round. He then started frantically drafting every questionable RB available to make up lost ground, and was offering desperate trades the week afterwards to correct his error. He ended up almost making the playoffs, but the full-blown meltdown was unforgettable.
Glassnoser
19hr ago
I haven't had a haircut since October and have had lots of compliments. It looks fine, so I don't get the salad bowl comment. If I've recently showered with shampoo, it gets in my face, but by the end of the day, it accumulates enough grease to stay out of my eyes after repeatedly brushing it back.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
19hr ago
But where's the defeat though?
You might be able to say this once they've successfully occupied the area and destroyed Hamas. That hasn't happened yet.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
19hr ago
Yeah I'm totally lost when people talk about inner cities as anarchic wastelands... They're mostly just poor and dirty at worst.
Glassnoser
19hr ago
Is there a word for that emotion you feel when you're aware of someone who is naive about a situation and you feel sympathy or concern towards them?
This is both mind-blowing and completely believable.
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