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Ok so I read some more and I can't claim to understand your goals, Mr./Ms. "Can’t get canceled for saying dumb things on the Internet if I’m not verified."
I feel absolutely silly for continuing to read posts and comments, the IMDB page, and googling and finding little snippets of rumors about ADHD, DIY interest, apparently hosting some scientific & technical awards, not a trace on Twitter or Insta, except fan pages..? And a thing for letters?
Is this... plausible? Are you Among Us?
Surely not. Right? No.
Would a copycat write about New Sincerity? Who even knows about that? I've never heard it in normal internet discourse. It strikes me that this confused comment I'm writing seems to be quite aligned with the concept, unless I misunderstood it.
I'll let you be mate, I'm confused about your goals and your commitment. I'm still settling on this being a novelty account by some weird, uncharacteristically funny nerd and impersonator. Maybe with the primary intention of promoting Lemmy activity and prompting comment activity, you seem to be a fairly popular account.
Read some Infinite Jest for more info on New Sincerity. It's a pretty difficult read, but it's rewarding. Funny, too.
I thought there is at least someone here who would connect the dots realize that the movie isn't mainly about feminism, it's about New Sincerity, and so are many of the comments and posts from here before. A bit disappointed.
Maybe I just like talking to Internet weirdos. I try to be nice here. Usually.
Jokes aren't as funny if you explain them. It's not the right time for the punchline yet.
I might end up reading a book again when ebooks get the library treatment for real, but at least I saved a link to it in my bookmark folder for books? So that's something. Sits there along with Herodotus' Histories now, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The first one of those has been free to read since I added it, so my first sentence might be a bit bullshit. Or maybe old free books tend to be difficult reads too, and I really could get into reading something. Maybe one of Hank Green's books.
Is it weird that I get disheartened by the concept "You can read this book for free, but only if we physically send it to your library where you can retrieve it. We legally can't send you the ebook because that's not part of the deal. You'd have to get that one from Amazon or something."?
It feels like I'm in a library-limbo where I'm waiting for reason to catch up to reality.
Maybe I'll read it eventually, probably not. I'm about to try to go to space with Chris Roberts (new patch, maybe not broken?), then to sleep, and then forget about this whole interchange. Oh and I also had this thought that while I haven't read any of those books, neither Herodotus nor Plato have spent hours looking at Earth in VR, so that's a perspective they don't have. I see the disease that gives us good reason for nihilistic joy in our final centuries. Got em. So yeah I wasn't gonna include that part, but in the spirit of misunderstood new sincerity I'll include it. Have fun doing what you're doing, whoever you are.