Capitalism really do be making it hard to be on the right frequency doesn’t it

It always feels like this sort of quandary is utterly defined by its existence in a world order that lets people who don’t perfectly fit their groove starve. Like I can’t even picture what the ideal substance relationship would be without capitalism to define why I would take them. I’m picturing someone with ADHD who, without anything to directly coerce them into doing labor, might just have ADHD and live in a way that is comfortable for them, bouncing between tasks and finding their own groove.

This is not at all to say these drugs are dubious, just that whenever I consider this question I wind up feeling especially asphyxiated by the current status quo.

(If I’m completely off the mark someone tell me, this topic is something I used to grapple with a lot before I personally decided against going on antidepressants in high school, and I sometimes wonder if I made a mistake)

ACKSHUALLY most members of eusocial insect communities don’t toil and they just hang around chatting and cleaning each other, not even joking

Honestly I think it’s worse when it’s a language I understand since it makes the sing-talking a lot more frustrating to listen to for me

It sounds kind of paradoxical but being around strangers can help

the times in my life when a random passerby offered me something I needed were very powerful experiences for me

When I found out that leech saliva was antimicrobial I decided leeches are good and that disliking them is lookism

Even without a centralized brain, jellyfish can both learn from past events and change their behavior to preempt expected events.

No need to look for aliens in space when we’ve got plenty of them to make contact with underwater

People said nice things to me and I desired more

Love that one, George starts that episode out unemployed and is like “I’m a college grad, there has to be something unique I can offer the world” and instead of something that comes from his personal expertise or experience, he discovers that what he has is his hands lol

(I am stealing that rfk line)

I have very few resources to offer anyone in need, as it’s really only by my basic unfair privileges as a cis white man that I even have a place to sleep, but I’m just trying to make it clear to the people I know that I have the space to house them/feed them if they are in crisis. Without much else to support them with it feels like the best I can do.

I think I’ve done too much generational analysis, everywhere I look I see generations. I think it’s a millennial thing to do so much generational analysis. Everything feels enveloped in another generation to me. Now I can’t tell gen alpha from gen Renaissance, it’s all just gen post-agrarian to me now, and I find myself hating those boomer-gatherers for fucking it all up

It is wild how there really are furries in every part of the culture war now, Nazi furries are an old phenomenon but now you can find MAGA furries, brunch eating lib furries, furry landlords even

But in the end it still makes me happy to see how often I find a furry pfp next to based posts, lots of very smart and talented furries out there

Very interesting site. A lot of the descriptions about terms becoming incorrectly “associated” (the example I got was the word “hammer” conjuring the image of a screwdriver) sounds a lot like schizophrenia symptoms, but apparently they have very different mechanisms.

Really makes me feel bad for Matt, anyone who rants often is someone who thinks in paragraphs, so the aphasia must really be frustrating. Glad to see he’s doing better

Yeah the reveal of the linguistic imperialism theme was pretty cool and it just makes me sad that the game was so undercooked, it’s right in line with the rest of kojima’s style of “I just read some good shit and I’m gonna use it”

anyone who tries to claim there was any absolute standard of behavior for pre-industrial tribes like that is just doing fantasy worldbuilding

Every social organization you can think of was probably the way of life for someone out there, from patriarchy to matriarchy, communal to hierarchical

Okay this is a very earnest examination of a little joke I was making but I will say that I agree, it’s just that kids at like 5 simply can’t really conceive of a “social contract” for the most part

There are some cool chimp studies though that showcase how infant humans and infant chimps, when presented with a little “play” involving a shape atop a hill that pushes another shape down whenever it climbs up, have very different priorities. When presented with physical toys that match the shapes from the play, infant humans usually chose the shape that was getting pushed down, while the infant chimps chose the “dominant” shape

It’s not super conclusive tbh but it’s cute that kids seemingly want to console the bullied actor

I have a niece who keeps biting people

I am afraid of her

I hate that things are the way that they are now, I can’t even have a good laugh at Tucker getting attacked by demons in his sleep like I would have a decade ago

kindergarteners should have their “individual initiative” suppressed, kids at that age are SOCIOPATHS

Would this work with a gaming pc