Bobby, if these kids could understand volcanic geology, they’d be very upset right now.

To be clear, the vast majority of academic philosophers (at least in the Anglophone world) find Freud to be useless pseudoscience. Freud gets taken seriously in literary analysis and continental philosophy. The latter is a minority position (although drawing a hard and fast line between “analytic” and “continental” philosophy is pretty difficult these days).

When I was getting my PhD in philosophy, I would have been laughed out of the room if I wrote a term paper that used Freud in any significant way.

If only!

I have some bad news to tell you about capitalism

You can soften “a black” or “a Chinese” entirely by adding “person” to the end of it. English is weird.

Water in the microwave. Cheap Lipton tea bag for five mins. A little cashew milk. It’s fine.

Got a divorce and lost my job. Spent six months eating 1500 calories a day, 600 of which were liquor, and walking five to seven miles a day. Hours of walking by the Sound in the rain every day. Felt like the only thing I could control was what I ate and how much I walked. Lost thirty pounds. I got a few compliments on how much thinner I looked. Didn’t tell anyone that every pound was burned with hate.

I’m doing better now.

I used to hear this…back when I was in my 20s 😭

I realize you’re probably talking about news articles but if you want to keep track of PDFs, nothing beats Zotero.

Simple: pirate adobe acrobat and ocr them yourself.

So many okay shows under one roof. How will I ever cancel?

Okay but are you just using toilet paper to dry afterwards? And does just water actually get it all? You’ve still got to get in there a bit right?

It’s definitely effective, but you have to take a higher dose vs. IV. Usually it’s between 60 and 120mg and it’s delivered via troche in the cheek.

It’s worth noting that in the US there are ketamine therapy companies that send you oral ketamine in the mail. It costs about $120 per month and is accessible after a short zoom appointment.

Avocado. Definitely the best one.

Incentives for worker ownership of companies to move more major economic decisions into the hands of workers. Mandatory worker representation on boards of directors. Significant wealth and inheritance tax. A nationalized healthcare service. Public ownership of all utilities, including internet service. Bring back programs like the WPA and CCC to rebuild infrastructure. Entirely publicly funded elections. Overturn Taft-Hartley, overturn all “right to work” laws natonwide. I think all these things would help us transition to a more just, inclusive economy. That’s what democratic socialism is to me, and it’s not just social democracy.

I had never used Instagram reels until recently but also found it pretty damned addictive once I did try them. The ease of access and variety of content is pretty compelling. Of course, it’s information junk food. Very little of intellectual value comes with it, and it’s quite mentally passive, so it’s a good idea to limit how much time you spend on it.

Thinking about buying a gun and starting training so I’m not behind when the shit inevitably hits the fan.

/s … Mostly

There have been times when it was worth it. I keep going because I think I might have more of those.

Hehe sorry just kidding