what to save and throw away?

Juzo-kun a.k.a JK a.k.a matitaelettrica a.k.a 70hz.

[juzo-kun]

Mini-Juzo stories

I was a kid during the seventies, and in primary/elementary schools there was also the "manual works" hours to develop manual dexterity.

I always was someone who loved to make stuff, cut and color and fold and stick stuff to other stuff and and and.

Of course, as a single-digit-age kid the "stuff" in question was mainly paper and cardboard, with the occasional plastic reused trinket. But! In the last year of elementary school (fifth year, 10/11 years old or more because in the seventies you could fail a year waaay more easily than now) there was the possibility to work plywood with those kind of arched saws.

To Mini-Juzo it was the Bestest Thing Ever. I could stick stuff at it and color it and it wouldn't warp!

Except we were in the seventies. Which was good for some things (you might not believe some of the subjects I was taught), and... not good for others. One of the many things not ok was the manual ability works were gendered. As in, boys to work on plywood, girls to work on crochet and cloth work.

Mini-Juzo was flabbergasted. Mini-Juzo wanted to work with plywood!

"But woodworking is for boys!" Mini-Juzo didn't give a shit. Mini-Juzo wanted woodworking.

"But girls should learn how to make pretty things!" Mini-Juzo could do pretty thing with plywood too.

"But girls must --" Mini-juzo then declared she wanted to be a boy and then make her work with the damned plywood.

"But but but --" and then everyone suddenly discovered how Mini-Juzo was able to do what in Italian is known as "piantare un casino", that is having a screaming fit that would have been heard from orbit, if space was able to transmit sound.

Mini-Juzo parents were questioned. Mini-Juzo parents, as the post-'68, commie voting, practical-headed parents they were, declared "well, leave her work with plywood, then."

And this is how Mini-Juzo was allowed to work with plywood, and incidentally why I was allowed to use boxcutters after a while, because I showed that I could be (uh, mostly) responsible with that kind of tools, and still I am.

[Mini-Juzo, sadly, never asked herself what would have happened to a boy that expressed the desire to crochet. That was a reflection for a grown-up Juzo.]

[juzo-kun]

So

I'm under evaluation to check if I might be on the spectrum. Still waiting, there are a lot of wait times.

So I guess I might have some answer to this clinical depression stuff? Who knows. But many things that vexed me in my life start to make a lot of sense if seen under an Au/ADHD light. I don't think it would automagically settle anything at all, or give me back some of the energy I feel that's completely sucked out of me. But that would be a tiny awareness about why I'm feeling so tired. So lacking the energy and will and momentum that everyone else but me seems to have.

I feel so drained I might just start to cry.

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[juzo-kun]

I knew that something was on when my once literature professor then my father's second wife (it's complicated) told me to get Marcus Aurelius' Meditations book

[juzo-kun]

You can be grateful for the things you have, and still be depressed as fuck. The two things aren't mutually exclusive. Also, the whole "think at those who got worse" stuff, go to hell, I'm not happy at all to know there's people who have worse than me; I'm clinically depressed, not a sociopath.

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[juzo-kun]

This is even 'funnier' when you live in a country like mine where tax evasion is the national sport. Yep, even above foootbal/soccer. What if, and listen to me carefully, authorities start to seriously look into this? (Yeah yeah I know, utopia)

[fujokafka]

we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack

[andthelaw]

reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks

[haridraws]

Keep thinking about this Austin Walker post that now lives in my brain. It's a reply to people saying genAI can help creators 'develop concepts' and waste less time on research (x)

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ Fuck off and give me the ball . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

[juzo-kun]

Also, plagiarism, considering how these genAI are trained.

[juzo-kun]

I've seen a lot of these "humans are the weird guys of the galaxy" kind of stories and I recalled a scenario. So, humans at last gain FTL drive and start to roam the neigborhood and there are a lot of sentient life on a lot of planets, star trek style. And star trek style a lot of them seems to have origin in the same class (in the cladistic means of the word).

Except humans are the only mammals. Those tall people? Reptiles. These other people? Reptiles. Flying people? Birds, thus originally reptiles. Naga people? Obviously reptiles. The ones that look like turtles? Those too. The dragon-looking ones? Guess!

Basically, everyone on a planet of the same type of Earth seems to be somewhat reptilian in nature. Nearly every single one, with the rare outlier like insect people and yeah, us humans.

And every single one of them is quite wtf at seeing us mammals. Like, big sentient version of those fluffy, rare, small critters that some of them still have on their planets. Some of the most technologically advanced cultures managed to discover how, given more or less the same starting point and a bunch of technobabble, evolution tends to go the same way everywhere.

Until a human scientist talked about that whole meteorite in the cretaceous thing...

[monidoll]

instant loss 2koma

[prokopetz]

The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.

[elucubrare]

similarly, "μολὼν λαβέ" (come and take them) is a really cool thing to say, made significantly less cool by having them taken

[juzo-kun]

Historian Dr. Bret C. Devereaux made an intensely pedantic (it's in their description after all) and extremely interesting series of articles about how the spartans' fame is quite, uh, misconstrued: This. Isn't. Sparta.

[juzo-kun]

So there's this thing that whenever I switch network on the cellphone Youtube starts to get me some kind of video it didn't before. This time it was the turn of "People from USA commenting on stuff about Europe".

Europe is nearly always treated as an homogeneous entity and not a bunch of countries even more different than, to say, Alaska and Texas and Hawai'i, but usually it's stuff that's fabricated ragebait for the 99% of the times so whatever.

And anyway, I'm not enough in the place to criticize too much, since other than the aforementioned ones and Florida and California and maybe Louisiana my knowledge of USA countries is "somewhat here, I'm not sure"

But this one video had one of the landmarks of my city on the thumbnail, so I watched it. It was a guy from USA playing Geoguessr on Europe.

Mistook Spain and southern Italy. Reasonable.

Photo of a sea harbour: clicked on a obviously landlocked country. ...c'mon, you're not even trying.

Photo with left-side driving cars, blindingly green meadows and a sign with a reasonably known Irish city: clicked on Albania. *flips table*

...and my city wasn't even in the video, umphf.

[juzo-kun]

Age verification?

I wrote my first fanfictions on one of these!

[juzo-kun]

Bah,

I wish the new Marathon having a "ghost" mode/shell for those who can't be arsed to play PvP or PvE and just want to roam around and discover secrets and lore. Anyway I'm on Linux so that is a non starter, I guess.

[juzo-kun]

"Oh, but the combat is the core of the experience!" Well, give me single player, then.

[juzo-kun]

Bah,

I wish the new Marathon having a "ghost" mode/shell for those who can't be arsed to play PvP or PvE and just want to roam around and discover secrets and lore. Anyway I'm on Linux so that is a non starter, I guess.

[niemalsetwas]

protip for when you're feeling helpless or bored: put on the Myst soundtrack and go about your daily routine. suddenly every manual interaction and transition becomes imbued with Potentiality and Gentle Uncanny. excuse me, the dryer stopped and I must descend to the Mysterious Basement to turn dials and buttons upon this Cryptic Machine and solve the puzzle of Socks

[radix-outpost]

Felt like taking yet another pass at Yuriy's armour to try and get it a little closer to the Security Officer's sprites (which is why he suddenly has grey/silver shin guards).

His bomber jacket provides both an extra layer of protection and an easy way to cover up his armour emblem in places where advertising that Durandal is your partner isn't a good idea.

[iapislazuli]

I hate when another car forces you to park terribly but then they leave before you and it’s just like great. Well now my atrocious park job is deprived of context and I look like an asshole

[homunculus-argument]

The paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you think of tolerance as some sacred and unconditional moral duty. Some ultimate and absolute law with no exceptions, and if you ever slip into the sin of intolerance, you must repent yourself and beg for forgiveness. Yeah no fuck that. Tolerance is a social contract. You're in the game as an equal player for as long as you play by the same rules as everyone else, and if you don't, your ass is fucking out. You're not entitled to the same respect you won't give others.

"Oh so you all tolerate each other just because you tolerate each other, but if I want to destroy you, then all of a sudden you want to destroy me?" Literally yes. That's the gist of it. What's not clicking. This equation is so simple it barely counts as math.

[beka-tiddalik]

"I refuse to sign the social contract if it means I have to be polite to people I don't understand" said the bigot

"Well then you aren't protected by the terms and conditions" says everyone who has signed

[kyraneko]

Tolerance is not a moral precept; it's a peace treaty.