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hipsters were our remaining guardians of sincerity and taste before merciless ridicule killed them off. the last holdouts before ironic detachment took over everywhere

funniest is museums trying to launder modern works through antiquity bias by hiding the creation date and putting (b. 1967) so you won't realize it's just a photo a boomer took a couple years ago

"i'm not looking right now" is a mating call by women who assume what attracts them, a man whose life mission is a higher priority than romance, is also what attracts men. they pretend to be such a woman "focusing on myself/career" to entice imagined men who prefer a goal-oriented woman

finding socks that minimize triggers (smooth, plastic) for hyperhidrosis is hard because people who just sweat a lot (not HH) keep recommending "moisture wicking" plastics that trigger even more sweating. my goal isn't to sweat to dehydration. it's never to start the cycle at all. i need pure cotton

if building a home, you'd be foolish not to run Matterport scans at stages of construction, especially before drywall goes up, so you could see through walls before blindly sawing at the next renovation

i suspect the "you're not allowed to complain unless you offer a solution" marms are the same crowd as the "let people enjoy things" slop fans. two flavors of the same toxic positivity DARVOing any attempt at criticism as cruelty or elitism

4 people shot at a class reunion in Chattanooga; no arrests announced Police didn't provide information about a suspect or whether anyone has been arrested.

Facebook makes organizing our 25-year high school reunion effortless while ensuring it flops—our liberals opting out after Facebook-facilitated conflicts with their rabid right wing classmates

being surprised others are out at this time/in this weather is proof we're all failures at metacognition. others aren't noble savages thinking: weather bad me stay in. they're us: "now's a good time to go since everyone will be hiding from the weather." you're not in traffic; you are traffic

it is a sharp, terse model. i'd delete everything local and use it daily if i could. separately, i generally don't believe "large model smell" claimers. the "smell" is probably entirely slow token streaming

very funny. which one of you did this?

rappers are also a powerful survivorship argument for A/B testing personas. from observation, success appears to come at a rate of in 1 in identities vs. 1 in distinct humans. winners are rarely solo identities or even first attempts. Slim Shady, Nicki Minaj, Kanye, Kendrick, MF DOOM, Travis Scott

this same attitude viewed through another facet makes me appear generous when i really just do not like seeing effort or resources destroyed. here, you take it and absolve me of both the guilt of destruction and hassle of eBay

"slop" attempts to directly deliver feelings that are supposed to be earned upon unwrapping higher order stories. it is a degenerate form of sap/schmaltz that further subtracts sincerity, vulnerability, cultural memory, and authorial presence/risk

writers overwhelmingly say they do their best work the moment they wake up. universal cognitive decline throughout the day for all people, just more evident in dementia?

after exposing us and our backstory to all of TikTok, i have suddenly switched to illegibility

a duckowner tried that a couple years ago for having a face pfp. it didn't take

I'm right here guys

we lost something when each profession and status tier insisted on its own distinct "look". you couldn't tell if Vince Lombardi was NASA mission control, football coach, or plumber out to dinner. endgame of our new: if you're not recognizably ingroup, you're outgroup, so you better pick your team?

Warby Parker really dropped the ball not naming their frames in proportion to their gender ambiguity. from masculine to unisex to feminine: Chuck, Evan, Casey, Paige, Lily

humans are incredible fat hiders. a 125 lb woman who looks perfectly slim can lose 20 lbs and barely look any slimmer. meanwhile a 500 lb man you thought was 350 lbs tops can lose 250 lbs and look about the same when all that loss wouldn't even fit in a wheelbarrow

forget influencers, companies need to reward the early-adopting, tire-kicking Deciders who control exactly which tech products 4 immediate family members, 5 close friends, and 6 coworkers all end up buying

never seen people so stingy with likes in my life as boomers on social media. they treat them like a nonrenewable resource. "sure i'll compliment and comment on your post, but liking is a bridge too far"

I now almost solely post replies to myself and create topical threads, so hit that tab for better recency sorting

King of the Hill is experiencing a nostalgic resurgence because it was the only sitcom of its era with a competent, stoic, sincere patriarch keeping in check an overconfident, delusional matriarch, and the tired inversion is briefly comic and culturally safe, but ultimately unrelatable, forgettable

suspect the obsession is a way of turning the jealousy they feel at the proscribed hijinks they wish for themselves into righteous anger. "why should you get to have all that fun? if I can't no one can!”

"I wonder what I'm going to look like when I grow up"
—me, in the mirror, approaching my mid 40s

same technique as going to a scarily famished dietitian. "if i can get halfway to her malnutrition i'll have accomplished my goal!"