MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
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MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
12d ago
That would be pretty funny if done on purpose.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
15d ago
This is an obvious tactic, it even has a recognized name if I remember. “Washington monument syndrome”, from the act of closing a high visibility and popular attraction to affect maximum outrage.
High level bureaucrats get to where they get by knowing how to play the game and defend their turf. Cutting their budgets is a direct threat to their power, so instead of trimming the fat they immediately cut into muscle and bone to cause maximum observable negative effects.
If you’re a librarian, instead of cutting unpopular programs or reorganizing for a leaner institution you cut staff hours at the front desk, maximizing wait times, then blame it on the mean old politicians who just hate children and reading. Same thing with national parks, I rolled my eyes when I saw they cut that locksmith and shut down the bathrooms, it was so transparently designed to be maximally disruptive and silly.
But this is just politics 101, its easy to see if you’ve ever interacted with any of these people.
Sinecures for the politically connected? Untouched. Programs and initiatives that play to the party faithful of radical activists? Reshuffled, renamed, hidden from view.
Beloved symbols that are popular with a huge swathe of the public? Tragically closed, so sad, so avoidable if mean old republicans and townies just learned their place.
Utterly predictable.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
19d ago
Furthermore, despite obvious structural problems the USA is economically much healthier than the EU, Canada & Mexico.
So from a leverage / bargaining position tariffs make a certain sort of sense; we are much more well placed to absorb the hit and bounce back. It’s like a Mexican standoff where one person has a Kevlar vest and the other person has the shakes from alcohol withdrawal.
It’s completely in line with the “Daddy’s home” / “My house my rules” vibe that sustains the MAGA movement. Trump has been entirely consistent in his sentiment that the USA has been taken for a ride by its supposed closest allies and partners, and it’s time to play our hand. He’s been saying it for like thirty years, it’s his most deeply help political belief as far as I can tell.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
23d ago
This is a fair point, and that’s why I said it’s not a precise comparison.
Do we have examples of elections being held in circumstances exactly like Ukraine’s? I genuinely don’t know, although I know elections have been held in war torn countries before.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
23d ago
I think one reason the justification for suspending elections is particularly unsympathetic to Americans is that we held an election even during a raging civil war.
It’s not exactly the same scenario as Ukraine, but it some ways it was worse. And it was 150+ years ago, and we still managed to do it.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
24d ago
Isn’t most of the immigration in Australia from Asia? That would explain it, no?
It might also explain partially why they can tolerate such a high percentage of of their population being foreign born but not suffering the same intensity of issues like Europe.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
24d ago
There comes a point when a house is so pockmarked with termites and water damage that the only sensible solution is the wrecking ball.
Are there some sections still good and salvageable? Yes. Could you theoretically save sections of the house? Yes but the time and effort needed makes the opportunity cost too high.
Or to put it in more bloody terms it’s like Iwo Jima; eventually you just learn to throw grenades in every cave and light fires at every entrance. Sometimes there’s enemies there and sometimes not. There may or may not be scant civilians clinging to life in the caves.
The rational conclusion is to not care, and go forward in a workmanlike manner and get it done, and quickly. Delays only serve to weaken you.
MaximumCuddles
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1mo ago
MaximumCuddles
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1mo ago
That looks delightful. German N.A. bubbly from a quality region like mosel seems like a winning combo.
MaximumCuddles
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1mo ago
MaximumCuddles
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1mo ago
It’s because the most economical ways of making non alcoholic wine end up cooking off the aromatics, which make up the majority of the flavor of wine.
There’s high fidelity ways of doing it but they are mega capital intensive
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Miguel Torres makes excellent non alcoholic Rosé and Sauvignon Blanc, they’ve been making it for like twenty years
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Gin is like a subcategory of what he’s referring to.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Aquavit / Eau de Vie?
I know what you’re talking about but yeah there’s not a good term for it in English.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Yeah it had / has a huge presence on social media. It’s extremely popular and well known in online culture, which as we both know tends to leak copiously into the mainstream at this point.
People used to use it all the time in video edits to the point of cliche.
Maybe so, but Little Dark Age came out in 2018 has been streamed 700+ Million times on Spotify.
Considering Kids is a decade older and only has like 15% more streams, I’d hardly call it “niche”.
The song has been used a bazillion times on YouTube / instagram / TikTok / Reddit. It has a massive presence in online culture, and not just in weird spaces.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Not everyone is aware what Suomi is in reference to.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
How old are you? This song is instantly recognizable to a huge portion of Millennials, zoomers and gen alpha across cultures.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
This is why I think of myself as both a neoreactionary and a right revolutionary, they aren’t opposites at all rather they’re synergistic and actually necessary for one another.
Neoreaction is at its heart the recognition, mourning of, and ultimately a plan for the restoration of a lost future. It’s about triangulating where we could have been without the malign influence of the cluster of intellectual cancers that have been slowly withering down our collective will to live and will to power, and then grabbing the steering wheel and jerking it as hard as possible in that direction.
There’s no going back. If you’re fifty years old and unsatisfied with your shitty life, there’s no use trying to be young again. It’s actually pathetic to even try, we collectively recognize people doing that as living in deep denial. But it’s not too late; through honest introspection you can identify your mistakes, begin to heal and learn to love life again.
I’m not even remotely interested in indulging classical liberal’s collective midlife crisis.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
I almost don’t want to correct it, it’s too good.
It would have been better if I misspelled it DeBoor drum roll
There was a researcher from the mid twentieth century whose name I forgot said this is basically supported by the psychological research.
Being the top or bottom is more than a preference, they’re really more like two separate sexualities in which very few people naturally gravitate towards both.
Tops are much more likely to be bisexual using modern terminology.
I understand the objection to “gay” as a label in this context, although I have no dog in this fight. People also use the term “gay” to essentially bind extremely disparate people whose behaviors vary wildly into one essentialist unit of cultural and political valence, which I imagine some “Men who have sex with men” would object to.
I’m sympathetic to this because I suffer from a mental disorder but I find attempts at building cultural and political solidarity amongst people who suffer from my disorder or a cluster of related ones to be absolutely abhorrent; I’m not a member of a “community” with proscribed political and economic interests, I’m just someone with a fucked up brain.
This is one of the few things Freddie deboar gets 100% right.
I think basically how we moderns think about identity is fundamentally harmful and stupid, getting in the way of understanding behavior which is the real interesting and functional bit with regards to how individuals interact with society writ large.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Trump 45, yes. Pre assassination attempt.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
Tiberius Gracchus
Giaus Gracchus <——— you are here
Marius
Sulla
Pompey
Caesar
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
1mo ago
This is exactly why “you can just do things.” Is such a powerful meme / rallying cry at the moment. It’s funny but also 100% true; you can just do things.
Agency is back, baby.
This is the absolute pinnacle concept of that series. I’m not exactly an AI skeptic, I truly think it will revolutionize the entire world in my lifetime.
But rationalists constantly underestimate the power and grace of intuition in service of subversion. Humans absolutely excel at it, and I can’t envisage a world where they are overtaken by machines in this particular task. It’s too messy, too inexact, too chaotic.
Under constant total surveillance and crushing power imbalances, prisoners develop their own occult economy, rituals, alliances, symbology, etc etc etc. the prison which is not in fact run by the prisoners is the unstable exception only bought by extreme and unwavering competence & creativity, not the rule.
People regularly deceive themselves in a richly woven pattern that only they themselves can unlock.
Deceiving a rationalistic / probabilistic super intelligence?
Child’s play. GG EZ.
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