Hylactor

My commentary was that 4th of July this year felt more like a going away party.

Honestly even two parties would be an improvement over what we currently have.

Some additional social constructs they may be more sentimental about: gifts, allowance, summer vacation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, doors, privacy, the internet.

The real miracle was creating chocolate chip cookies 1,908 years or so before they were invented.

This is still superior to quitting or getting fired without comment. I wish more people would use their platform before being removed from it.

Been a vegetarian for a while, but here's a hot dog tip from my past:

Stick a skewer down the center, then use a knife and sort of barbershop pole around it. Then deep fry it. Then remove the skewer. You'll be left with a corkscrew shaped hotdog of unparalleled crispy goodness. Maximum surface area. Nooks and crannies galore.

Though, my ideal hotdog is a classic beef dog on a classic plain bun, with boring old ketchup and mustard. I feel like the quality of the hotdog experience is more about circumstances than execution.

No.

Bach on organ in general, specifically BWV 565 reliably makes me cry. Also Max Reger's Introduction And Passacaglia In D Minor.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, I once got some really bad news while listening to Pantera, and now I'm afraid to listen to them out of superstition. But that's not really applicable here I suppose.

I'm losing track, but don't they usually go good, bad, good, bad?

98 good, m.e. bad, xp good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad, so maybe 12 good?

Obviously I'm over simplifying and I skipped over 2000. But at least since 98 I feel like the trend has been pretty reliable.

Men are what happens when you indulge tantrums. Women mature earlier, so there's this really early period when boys are behind. The boys get mollycoddled, the girls are shamed and belittled, the boys get used to having thumbs on the scale in their favor, and to being defensive. The girls are conditioned to modify their behavior for the benefit of others. I think this is a very key building block for the larger prejudices in society later in life.

As a silver lining to this bizarre and misguided attack, perhaps these uses of social media to overtly scrutinize and surveil people will make big monolithic social media less popular for everyone, not just prospective immigrants. Which, social media in it's current iteration played such a huge role in the legitimization of post factual politics, that this feels like biting the hand that feeds them.

It's so frustrating to watch this regime try to kill the messenger. They are objectively wrong about so much. And get mad at the people who "point it out". And so attempt to muzzle people who are factually correct. Which even if successful, is just going to mean they know less and less, and are increasingly wrong. Which will make them even madder, and muzzle more. Which will make them wrong even more. And so on. It's the stupidest feedback loop.

It's like they can't drive, and rather than practice and learn, and actually become better drivers, they're trying to change the roads themselves to accommodate their shortcomings. But they're still going to be bad at driving no matter how much they change the roads. Meanwhile the roads are getting harder to use for everyone else. It's only a matter of time until something really important catches fire and emergency services can't put it out because the roads are all too fucked up.