Severe Discomfort

I don't think about it often. I'm generally fine with how people view me (as I understand it, of course) except for coming across as colder than I'd prefer to. I think meditation has probably influenced this.

I think that places like Bluesky are just not appropriate to post like that it because it just leads to cycles of co-rumination. If someone is feeling overwhelmed there are better places to talk about those feelings that won't lead to that.

Sometimes you just want to be miserable, I guess

She'd be honest about her Diablo rank

I have often wondered how many people haven't seen video of him and picture a totally different guy than a barely verbal tweaker.

KG is incredible in it

Like realistically he probably kills TikTok by merging it with X and making it worse

"Bazinga"?

A funny possibility is that Elon buys TikTok and also renames it X.

"Make TikTok uncool"

I am back to doubting polls

And more broadly: I really like how stories from other cultures can have a viewpoint that isn't the same Christian-influenced, deontological one we get all the time in the US.

A lot of people liked the Sandman show but it did not work for me except for a couple moments.

In his case it's pretty easy because he's been de facto retired for like a decade.

I'm glad that there's no surgery that can fix Andreessen's head. They should try anyway.

The way that Gaiman and Palmer worked together is especially awful.

You mean you didn't like the sequence that showed fun Easter eggs like a Superman that aired before any viewers were born and a Nicholas Cage Superman that was never made?

"I'm focused on the big picture" (far away from the problem)

Lately it's feeling like Nietzsche was wrong about the "long" part of looking into an abyss.

I think the basic problem is making a better decision knowing exactly what we knew then and none of the things we know now.

It looks like it says "BUM"

It's really funny how many people swear that Tiktok has the great algorithm also have the most performative politics unbounded by the ability to get results. But it's also really disconcerting.

[Me to the inquisition]: See, I'm not really part of this

Imo the only possible hint was how actively he fostered parasocial relationships. Even when he was my favorite author I thought "Neil, you don't have to be online this much".

I mean that I am describing roughly the same position you are, but emphasizing different parts. Like in your other comment (which I agree with) about "broader or narrower" roads, I'm emphasizing that difference.

That's not what I mean.

I don't think we disagree! I think I'm just saying that "sleeps" is a meaningful difference and you're saying it's not. Which is understandable.

Yeah, I'm not saying he's a humanoid shark. But I do think that his psychology is clearly different in meaningful ways or he wouldn't do this.

Insofar as a person like him believes in anything he believed in at least some of his states politics, because he spent a lot of time on charity work. It's weird!

I don't know how I'll feel about the series as a whole but the issue where an author imprisons a muse is definitely unreadable now.