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[silvershoe]

on the train yesterday!

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[carmenbelair]

[amazoogle]

it's Tuesday all day today and there's no known way to prevent this

[antimanifesto1973]

in the back of the club observing gender relations

[dioraddik]

[millenianthemums]

listening to fleetwood mac is like. i don’t know this song but let’s give it a shot. oh wait i do know this song. i’ve heard it a million times and always liked it, i just didn’t know the name. on some level i kind of assumed that song was just an ambient part of the world the way the sound of the wind or birdsong in the trees was but apparently it’s by fleetwood mac. neat.

[twinkwolf]

there are gay women. like, queer women

[rubyvroom]

corporate simulacrums

Excerpted from the Unpopular Front newsletter:

Cracker Barrel, of course, is not a real old country store or restaurant; It’s a replica of an old country store, an institution which had already gone the way of the dodo by the time the chain was founded in 1969. Conceivably, people could be nostalgic for the old stores in the early days of Cracker Barrel, but by now, people are nostalgic for the nostalgia, for the experience of going to a Cracker Barrel itself. As the Bulwark blog writes, it’s “a Xerox of a Xerox.” There’s a fancy theoretical term for this: “simulacrum.” I’m, of course, referring to the work of the late Jean Baudrillard and his 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation... Basically, a simulacrum is a representation that no longer has an actual referent; there’s no preexisting reality it refers to, it has become the reality itself. Cracker Barrel is not pointing to a remembered Americana; it directly generates the feeling of Americana through its simulation of old-timey-ness. “When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning,” as Baudrillard gnomically comments. It’s really the perfect example because Cracker Barrel wasn’t some old institution that got updated; it was always already a corporate simulation of country life. It’s a gimmick to sell gas, thought up by a Shell executive: It was meant to be plugged into the commercial matrix of the interstate highway system. People at Cracker Barrel are consuming the idea of communal wholesomeness and a pre-suburbanized society... It’s sort of pathetic to reflect that we have so few—maybe no—authentic and unmediated experiences that the thing that now really upsets people is an alteration of a simulation of authenticity. It’s felt as a loss of national identity on par with the defacement of George Washington, because our national identity is now just corporate brands and consumerism. It’s no different than the “trad wife” fantasy, which is also a simulation and simulacrum of pre-modern living. You see this across the reactionary right, and it would be amusing if it didn’t muster real political energy: people genuinely angry over the loss of comforting consumer experiences. The attack on simulations is experienced as a trauma: remember the fury of gamers who felt their imaginary worlds were being tampered with. Not for nothing does Baudrillard refer to the “panic-stricken production” of simulacra and simulations.

Read on for the tie-in to Fascism and the volk

[podencos]

[loveridden1999]

i miss my ex bestfriend & everyone else that i have ever loved but don't want any of them back either

[loveridden1999]

what the fuck man

[spiralstaircased]

everyone sounds like this to me all the time

[noah-wyles]

the pitt cast on breaking barriers and becoming lifelines

[ifyouknowmeirlgoaway]

Y’know for Langdon stealing meds.

It’s one thing to steal pills. It’s terrible, but at least the patient knows those meds aren’t there and can try to do something about it.

He also stole from liquid vials that he filled back up with saline and returned to the hospital pharmacy, which fucks up the dosage and risks contamination. Not to mention that he is then teaching students and younger doctors to give the wrong dosages. And that’s the thing that Santos knows about, I don’t think she even knew about the Librium. He didn’t just steal, he stole in an incredibly dangerous way. And he’s not even taking responsibility for that, just for being an asshole.

No wonder Santos feels crazy about him being back.

[ifyouknowmeirlgoaway]

#YEP#i swear people only remember louie's pills#when i rewatched season 1 the vial felt even worse the second time

I do think it's an easy thing to forget. The huge drama happened around the pills, and the vial hasn't been brought up yet in season two. And if you're not familiar with that kind of vial, it can be hard to string together why it was suspicious (they're supposed to be very easy to open, so the fact that it wasn't is suspicious! and then there was the glue on the lid and the dosage issues, but all that was stretched across multiple episodes), so the smoking gun of the pills is way more memorable.

Which makes me hope that the vial comes back up in a big way that really rocks the ER.

[thebreakfastgenie]

I don't think it's all that easy to forget. That it's spread across multiple episodes means the audience is reminded about it several times over the course of the season. Every time it comes up the story deliberately calls attention to it. The vial is why Santos starts investigating her suspicions. She asks Dana about it, without explaining why she wants to know, and Dana demonstrates how the medication vials are dispensed for both her and the audience. When Robby convinces her to tell him about her concerns (she's very reluctant) she shows him the vial. The scene cuts away after that; we don't actually see anything else. That vial is the entirety of Santos telling Robby about Langdon. I think a lot of people have forgotten about it, but only because there were 8 months between seasons. I don't think more people remember the pills because they're a more memorable smoking gun, I think it's mostly because the pills have directly come up in season 2 because Langdon told Louie he stole them when he apologized.

I'm also hoping the vial comes back up in a big way. I'm just not overly sympathetic to viewers who don't remember major parts of the story and still go online and take strong positions and argue with other fans about them.

[ifyouknowmeirlgoaway]

Oh yeah, I didn't mean that the vial wasn't a big deal. It's the biggest deal.

But also arguing over it without revisiting season one does really really suck. And being so wrong. Not just about what happened in the season, but also the morality and ethics of the situation.

[bisexualhunterbiden]

I wanted to add these screenshots from reddit, which go into how that diluted Ativan could have affected patients. It's more serious than people are acting like it is.

"Dilute[d] Ativan means patients are getting improperly sedated for procedures, possibly even intubated while aware. It's also critical for interrupting seizures - which is how Santos figured out Langdon was the one who messed with the vial. He knew to give more Ativan to [break] the seizure because he had been [diluting] it."

[transjjester-deactivated2026031]

How to sleep at the right time at night begginer tutorial

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

[ninhaoma-ya]

Too good to leave in the tags

[pansyfemme]

whoevers writing the script for my life can you throw in a few out of nowhere tasteless tacky sex scenes real quick. thanks