Matthew Blanchette

This begs the question: which technical term is most mangled in common usage “emotional labour”, or “learning curve”?

people On Here really, _really_ hate it when you suggest that it's bad to treat all human interaction, including with friends/family, as "emotional labor" that eventually demands compensation in some form or other

And then it morphed further into 'take my vaguely worded 80s word salad and pay me for more incoherent 'contributions' before I offer you more steaming piles of shit.'

There's a lot good in this comment thread

Yes, it was supposed to be about people like flight attendants having to be nice to jerks at work

this basic fact strikes people with sheer terror

the issue is that self-actualization requires other people, and other people have the capacity to influence your view of yourself and you cannot control them

Now, here's the germ of a story:

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

fuck

Damn what's wrong with the Czechs.

Like they seem to have gone notably insane by even Central European standards.

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

my take on ww2:

1. a whole lot of nazis died, which is good.
2. not enough nazis died, which is bad.

i am a man of nuance and complexity, finely tuned to the intricate threads of cause and effect in history.

Strom Thurmond was a goddamned paratrooper! And I HATE that guy!

My contribution to the WW2 discourse is that pissing on the memory of the war as a fight against fascism is undermining the antibodies of the body politic against Trump. You are literally the RFK Jr. of ideology.

thankfully have not seen The Discourse but assuming it is "you fight against fascism yet your own country is not perfect, curious" and lol shut the fuck up and read literally any book please, christ

it was a fight against fascists and not a fuckin coincidence the civil rights movement happened next

also i'm sorry but the nazis were way worse than anything the US has done up to this point. the US did a lot of awful shit but it was not nazi level. that is just a fact and if you can't understand that again, please read a book

I'll just say that at least one of the Nuremberg defendants used the argument "How dare you judge us, look at what you did to the blacks and Indians" as a desperate defense to escape the noose. It didn't work.

The fact that Goldman is saying they seems to indicate the caucus is pretty in on this

Hey, Sami Hamdi, how you feelin' right now?

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Including the people who voted to make this happen, or refused to vote to prevent it from coming to pass.

Graphic that reads, 'Proudly celebrating National Coming Out Day.'

You are loved, celebrated, and supported regardless of where you are on your journey.

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm kind of shocked (and a little bothered) upon learning that Robert Bloch is featured as a character in the new Ryan Murphy/Ed Gein show.

Apparently there are scenes of really appalling antisemitic cruelty in this film, given as an explanation for Gein's pathologies. Because this is a Ryan Murphy show, they're presented for their shock value more than for any kind of moral commentary.

Robert Bloch was a Jewish American who, in spite of the dark psychological horror he wrote, was a kind-hearted man who never glamorized real life serial killers or used true crime for exploitative purposes. I can't help but feel that he would be deeply uncomfortable being featured in this series.

(I was so frazzled that I completely forgot to add the detail that Bloch is the author of Psycho, the basis of Hitchcock's movie, which is why he shows up in the series at all.)