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Everytime Pi Day rolls around (har har), there's always comments about how Americans are weird for using the mm/dd/yyyy format for dates, while much of the rest of the world uses dd/mm/yyyy.Hot take:...
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Why? Because it actually makes sense. It works the same as a number (e.g., the carry digit always moves left), and it allows you to effortless sort by date if you use it in a filename.
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mh-My therapist said I looked especially pretty today, but I'm too depressed to believe her 😞
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rambling thoughts on the MCUAnd this leads to the fundamental problem: the MCU stopped being an artistic endeavor as soon as capital discovered it could be an investment vehicle. They misunderstood the...
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rambling thoughts on the MCUThey just extrapolated based on previous trends and kept making the same kinds of movies at nearly the same pace, completely discounting any like centuries of storytelling...
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rambling thoughts on the MCUContinued success would mean restraint and discipline on Disney's part, which is anathema to the way late-stage capitalism works. Shareholders expect you to extract every...
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rambling thoughts on the MCUI've long held the belief that Firefly is such a cult classic precisely *because* it ended. Too early, yes, but it ended. They didn't drag it out and milk it for all it's...
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Weird tangent: what if this is a fundamental problem with nations too? Like, maybe nations shouldn't strive to go on forever. Maybe we should structure things more like stories and have a finite end....
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You might ask, "What happens after?", and perhaps that's entirely the point. If people knew that eventually things will end, they might be forced to actually talk and work together about what comes...
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I mean, it probably wouldn't work out, but it's interesting to think about. Like, instead of all this posturing and vague gestures at a civil war, we just brought it out in the open and be like, "Yeah,...
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I think it would be interesting to see how people reacted. Obviously, there would likely be a lot of power grabs, and other not good stuff. But maybe some good too? People might have to actually...
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It would be interesting to see what happens in the states that receive a lot of federal tax money and realize their budgets will be insoluble without it. They might suddenly care about stuff they...
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Every state would make explicit what would happen after. You wanna live in the Theocracy of Texas? The West Coast Republic? The Northeast Socialist Collective? The Great Lakes Empire?Go ahead. You have...
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Build a sort of "cyclical anarchism" into how the government operates, and force people have a stake in how things work. A cultural apoptosis where we intentionally kill the old to make way for the new.
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It's kind of a weird thing to think about. Instead of worrying about a revolution, you build it into how things work. You make it have a defined date so everyone can plan for it.
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The more I think about nations as a biological analogy, the more it makes sense. Like, there's an hypothesis that sexual reproduction evolved as a way to try to deal with parasites. If every organism...
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What I'm saying is the nations of the world need to fuck and make little nation babies.
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If I seem to be a little, uh, _energetic_ today, it's because I took my last emergency/reserve Vyvanse pill so that I could actually think clearly during my bottom surgery consultation this morning.
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Also needed to think clearly because I had to drive into downtown Chicago, which is always a chaotic treat. Along the way, while stopped in traffic, I noticed several of what appeared to be $100 bills...
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Also, I saw a billboard encouraging people to join the Illinois State Patrol to "Become The Future" which is incredibly ominous in a country that's spiralling toward fascism.
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