i feel like this is a dying art called 'being a good human being' anybody else agree. anybody

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i feel like this is a dying art called 'being a good human being' anybody else agree. anybody
I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."
been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter
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Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say
you ever listen to a song 47 times in a row and every time you’re like wow what a good song. I’m gonna play it again.
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kicking a hornets nest.
It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.
I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.
#it's fucked and it's bad design #i should be able to write and edit for 20 hours a day #i'm just sitting there how are we even using energy #feels made up (via @softest-punk, emphasis mine)
Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).
And that's how much energy it's using at rest.
That's the baseline.
So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.
Feed your brain.
Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.
wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees
Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.
Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com
things to say after fucking up egregiously
pack it up boys we've made a social blunder
let's run that again
one more time normal style
I'm going to become a statistic
further proof god is out to get me
it's because I tore my acl senior year
I couldn't do it for religious reasons
my ex took my talent in the divorce
good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)
Me, shoving my earbuds in all the way to my brain: this will fix me
Vox Machina, Mighty Nein, and Castlevania are proof that adult cartoons can look, like, actually good, and there was no reason for so many of the prominent network ones to all use the same ugly af art style. I said what I said.
"people don't change overnight" ok but have you considered all the character development they went through while they were in the time loop. What about that
“It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive," said Julia Gillard of King’s College London.
>Particularly among Gen Z, our data shows an interesting duality: they are both the group most likely to agree that women who have a successful career are more attractive to men but are simultaneously most likely to agree that a wife should always obey her husband and that a woman should never appear too self-sufficient or independent.
Incredibly stupid things are happening
I know these two things seem contradictory, but there’s nothing a conservative man loves more than to tear off an angel’s wings. There are plenty of women that would willingly choose the obedient SAHM lifestyle, but these kinds of men always seem to go for the opposite. Why? Because it’s a power play. There’s no need to break a horse that’s already broken, and that would do nothing to validate that man, his ego, and his place in a world he sees as designed for him.
Another factor is that these men avoid dating conservative women who already want the lives they want them to have because those women's standards are too high. Specifically, such women expect to be the obedient stay at home mum, but they also expect their men to be the masculine ideal from the other half of the equation -- they tend to look down on their men if they cry, they expect them to be able to financially provide for the household, they want them to uphold their end of the bargain. You see this again and again in groups of conservative men who go out of their way to date liberal women; there is a power play, to tame someone untamed and bring her into line with his expectations, but there's also her lack of expectations of him. They want a woman who will do all the household and keep the home but ALSO will not reject him for not being able to afford to finance the family alone. They want a woman who'll respect and obey him but ALSO be fun and relaxed and let him show whatever emotions he wants. They want the Perfect Trad Wife who won't expect him to be the Perfect Trad Husband.
You see the same thing in conservatives who complain that all their leftie friends are abandoning them, but who won't just hang out with right wing friends instead. They don't want to hang out with other righties because a group of righties quickly becomes judgy and hateful and socially competitive, and is only fun to hang out with when they want to vent, whereas their leftie friends were more relaxed and fun. They want license to be unpleasant and expect unreasonable things of others, but want the people around them to be pleasant and not expect unreasonable things of them.
An er doctor that wants to just lounge around does not make me feel confident as a patient
how long and how many days a week do you think ER doctors work. i think they're right to want to just fucking chill. i want a well rested doctor treating me and not one who just pulled a 24 hour shift and then a 12 and another 12 before another 24, with only a few hours of legally mandated breaks inbetween.
Yeah some of us want a 30-hour work week because we've read the experimental research trials. People aren't any less productive and they are happier and less stressed and feel less leisure time pressure.
It turns out that working 40 hours a week is just too much. Full stop, no ifs ands or buts. The tiredness and loss of focus it induces is enough that you're about 25% less productive per hour when you're on a 40-hour work week, and so the extra 10 hours a week cancels out. This effect is a little bit more pronounced for white collar work and a little bit less pronounced for blue collar work, but there's functionally not enough of a difference to care. And people who are working more than that actually become less productive in total.
The thing is that you don't immediately gain the benefits of being fully rested and focused by working less on just one day, or even one week. It can even take months to settle into the pattern of higher productivity per working hour, and that's frankly miraculously quick given that full burnout can take years to recover from. And during that transition you will be less immediately productive. Particularly for people who pride themselves on being hard workers and how much overtime they put in, the notion that working less can get just as much done can feel absurd and even insulting. Because it seems so painfully obvious that you get less done when you do less, and any experiences of being invited to do so feel like they back that up.
But it's true. We are all simply working more than we need to, pointlessly, to no benefit at all. It is an appallingly pointless waste of human life.
The results of several workplace surveys may defy expectations, but the data is clear: shortened work weeks can work for businesses and empl
Also, I don’t actually care if someone is less productive working 30 hours a week or 20 hours a week. We do not need endless productivity and it’s bad for the earth and bad for people. We would be completely fine if everyone was half as productive. Literally we would be better off. It does not matter that a 30 hour work week is as productive as a 40 hour work week. Reject that framing!
Guys AITA for wanting to sleep 8 hours a night? Asking for a friend
Just going to add this paper that says we could achieve "Decent Living Standards" for everybody with just 30% of current global productivity.
Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t
the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultural workers but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor. which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water. so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to engage in a trade war with iran over fucking. pistachios.
anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.
anyway one of the vegan recipe accounts i follow just posted like five pistachio-based recipes in a row and it makes me feel some kind of fucking way
it is extremely relevant that pistachios are so easy to acquire here, but acorns, which are an indigenous California food staple crop, are impossible to find even in the best stocked grocery stores, and knowing how to prepare them for consumption is a rarer skill than sourdough starter
i am going to tear my fucking hair out
March
You know what, I can't even blame Jack for deciding to be a hands-off god, even independent of the bad example Chuck set and his logic of "I'm not going to write myself into the story."
The kid is, what, all of three? Four? Years old by 15x19, and in that time has:
lost his mom and had to deal with the fact that he was the reason she was dead;
died at least twice;
gotten blown up;
lost his soul (and got it back),
lost his dad twice—the first before he even knew him and the second after he was perma-killed by the homophobic narrative that put Bury Your Gays as the solution to a nearly left-field screwball problem;
grappled with the fact that his actual father is The Devil From The Bible;
burnt his shitty deadbeat bio dad to a shrivelled, crispy husk after...
his blood was used in a ritual to try and resurrect said shitty deadbeat bio dad;
accidentally killed or was responsible for the deaths/grievous injuries of a good portion of his friends and a swath of innocent bystanders;
accidentally killed his quasi-grandmother and blamed himself after he got his soul back, and was continuously blamed for both the act and his response;
had multiple people ask "what are you", as though he is an abomination and not a person worthy of basic decency (like not being rude af to his face);
perpetually assumed to be Just Like His Father (he is. He is. He's everything Cas was when he and Gabriel stood on the shore and watched that stupid little not-fish wriggle its way onto land, perpetually awed and enamoured with the world) and that he's going to corrupt or hurt people on purpose;
was turned into a walking bomb;
had to hear one of his "more dads than most" parental figures say, out loud, that he wasn't family and that cosmic murder-suicide was the only way out and they should all be hunky-dory a-okay about it.
Like holy childhood trauma, Batman. He basically speed-ran the entirety of the show's emotional arc in three seasons. They had to ice both regular Bobby (and honestly even apocalypse world Bobby who knows first-hand how hard Jack tries) before the end because if either of them heard that shit Dean would have been seeing stars.
"What if we want to, you know, grab a beer or something," Sam asks, after his failure to respond appropriately to the 'not family' comment goes unacknowledged by the narrative, "would you be around?" And Jack says "I'm in everything, so I'm always around" like the polite young man he is, so much like his mother and raised by a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent hell bent on making the world a better place. He gives a non-answer instead of what should have been a resounding "fuck you guys, actually, for all of that, goodbye and good riddance," which honestly was more than Sam or Dean deserved. Any post-finale fix-it also needs to grapple with a lot of pent-up hurt and rightful divine anger instead of making Jack a totally goofy kid with sad/hurt feelings desperate for Dean's approval where he should be appropriately reserved and distant. Clare needs to take God to a rage room. They both deserve it. Quasi-sibling bonding, or whatever.
They should have done the whole 'Jack brings everyone back right at the exact moment they were raptured' bit and then when they're all walking to the car he just pops away without a goodbye. Smash-cut to him putting a little potted plant in the window of the house in Kelly's private heaven, or—the far more painful option—in a garden somewhere feeling all the life in it thrum and having a bee land on his hand. Jack cradles the bee in his palm and holds it up close to his face. Close-up of them "eye to eye" because. You know. It's a bee. But the bee is also a metaphor for how even if Cas isn't with him he isn't gone. Music swells into something bittersweet. Credits. But that would have required the writers to give a shit about anyone, including the audience.
I would say "Jack should have been meaner" but while both are incredibly powerful, and occasionally appropriately wrathful, neither he or Cas had a mean bone in their body and it would have been out of character. Stripping the boys of their narrative arc protection in the Episode We Don't Talk About and having Dean die in the most basic bitch-ass way was enough. I hate the death scene and the way they treated Cas' sacrifice from a writing perspective, but honestly Chuck would never have let Dean go out like that because it wasn't interesting. It was normal. It was like if Dean was just a regular degular hunter instead of hero who saves the world on the reg. Jack doesn't give a fuck though, even if he was offered a half-assed explanation.
"I am in everything, but I'm going to be a more hands-off god. I don't want to make the same mistakes Chuck did [like caring too much about what you, specifically, think of me]." So sayeth the Lord, indeed.