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Saw the one with Tilda Swinton the other day, possibly the most boring film I've ever seen.

Remember that brief period where every other public demonstration semmed to feature people in Joker make-up?

I think there's often a genuine component of fear behind things but you're right it often feels like an awkward term when applied to more straight up hateful and ignorant stuff

which is actually very on topic

Weird how you this type of technological quaintness is so conducive to nostalgia. It's not so much any identifiable good thing about that time that you yearn for. It's more like a yearning for not now. It's not the presence of past technology but the condition it evokes of the absence of current...

What does that mean?

It is hard to steer clear of. We should probably try to freeze it out of here (not that I'm succeeding myself)

didn't realize there was a barty/suspended overlap on dissensus!

There is a condition in the state of online discourse in which the coolness economy trumps the appeal to morality. It's worse to be cringe than to be bad. Racism isn't immoral, it's "small-dick energy". Karen is something that is undisputedly cringe on both sides, so it is a very lucrative...

but yeah it's true that there is an excessive tendency to view eveyrthing in terms of productivity that also fills me with weltsmerz

For me the more ugly thing about work culture is the condescension towards low status jobs. It's pervasive

I think there's a fair trade off to this. You don't contribute, you get to feel a little bit bad about it unless you have what it takes to convince the rest of us that you don't care what we think in which case you have earned your freedom in a way

I liked morning shifts. Off at 3, the sense of a surplus in relation to the world, walk home thorugh the city, dose off on the couch

They always go soft for Real don't they. United Barca should be good on thursday, first game was great.

that's what you do? pfft sellout

It came up on twitter but now I follow this Lomez guy to see what he's up to. I follow this bronze age guy as well. They're completely nuts some of them. I also follow a lot of communists so you can't say anything!

you don't even like girls!

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/what-is-the-longhouse I find the larger points and general style of something like this objectionable but do recognize and feel some amount of distaste for the tendencies described:

This place called Hotelier hosts experimental music shows in what looks like a repurposed swimming pool. Very nice little place, I'm sure Rich knows it. Nice cheap wine and food as well.

this sort of appeal withers the instant it is said out loud. not that it's wrong but there is no oxygen for it to survive on the internet. the immediate impulse is to mock it, isn't it?