No one is real unless they’re so incredibly impulsive that they’re in jail.

Hey, I don’t know that I care that Miss Newly Irrelevant Politician Lady is posting a politically motivated condolences post and I know we’d be better off if she had won. But Dick Cheney was an aggressively evil piece of shit and doesn’t deserve tact.

Yeah, we’re definitely better off with her not being president. Much happier with what we got instead.

One of the rare good things to come out of Indiana.

I wish this news made me happier. It ought to but all it reminds me is that in 2032 people will probably vote in mecha-hitler Grok Musk for US president because Americans have the collective memory of a goldfish.

Me and my nihilism and anti-natalism.

And if a .ml user or equivalent is around, my anti-authoritarianism.

Second one was to lighten the mood of my post.

I feel like one of the covenant prophets would have been more fitting what with how racist they are. (And sexist, I read the books)

Its easy to teach them to not rape or abuse but you can’t “teach” them to not be attracted to anyone or thing, unfortunately, including children…

(or feet)

I don’t think you can make that prediction. Its quite possible things will become tepidly bearable again… before getting much much worse than it is now.

This one had me freaking the fuck out as a kid lol

Writing start to finish vs writing the end and going backwards.

First is all about having characters and just seeing what they do in a situation the author throw’s them into. Not great for having a good ending unless you are really clever, lucky, or willing to just keep writing until you naturally hit a solid end point. However, it is good for having memorable characters usually and can enable an excellent hook or high concept.

The opposite, where you write the ending and work backwards in time, usually ensures a high quality plot but can risk making character’s flat or uninteresting unless you put in a ton of extra work to make sure they’re interesting or fleshed out. And also can make it difficult to hook readers and might result in a more mundane/average overall concept.

Other than people suggesting second reading, foreshadowing can be good for people who like to speculate/investigate the media they read/watch. The foreshadowing acts as clues.

Its impossible to know obviously. Generally I read that continuity is considered key to establishing that its the “same” but for all we know each time we go under anesthesia or sleep and wake up if we’re a new person. Or hell every planck second we’re a new person for all we know.

Even if conscious, they’d be different consciousnesses. They’d think they were the same person but weren’t.

So you’d just bring conscious being into existence who have the same set personality because you decided to make them that way and then pointlessly torture them.

Sounds like what god would be if they/it existed to me.

I wasn’t told I was gifted, though I was told I was “Smart but undisciplined/lazy” by my dad all the time. Who seemed more angry that I was undisciplined than proud that I was smart.

Turns out I am just autistic. And while I’m smart about random but highly specific things I had (and arguably still have) no attention or patience for stuff outside my hyper fixations.

Also I interview terribly. Every job search has taken ages, but once I get a job I always end up making my bosses very happy with my performance.

I have a fairly middle of the road job for where I live miraculously but that’s probably because the lady who hired me was very pregnant and on her way out to maternity leave and wanted to be done looking for a new admin assistant. I’m definitely underemployed though.

And, it struck me that even though this crowd considers itself bohemian, and anti-establishment, it struck me that this is exactly the crowd that would go over for Fascism.

What an incredibly stupid and reactionary take.

It had that feel.

Feels over reals I guess.

Shit man, the video games aren’t going to play themselves.

For me, I do kind of think that if someone paid and then forgiveness happened, they ought to be at least partially compensated if they have any history of being low income. They could have put their loan payments into something else but they didn’t so they’d kind of end up screwed over by their slavishly responsible bill paying.

That said: its stupid to not want broad student loan forgiveness because the student loan crisis is literally damaging the economy. Its hurting everyone, even people who already paid their loans off.

The problem is that by its very existence and prevalence you have to contend with religion’s bullshit effecting your life.

So honestly you should be against people being religious and try and discourage it. Though yeah its not super helpful to look at individual religious people and hate them openly. That’s a good way to just harden them right back against you.