Better than “dipshit”.

Lots of things. Working on a project, reading a good book, a nice meal, vibing in nature, pleasant exercise. There’s a lot of suffering in the world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy everyday things.

I consider unwarranted dickishness to be a subset of harmful takes

Crack my skull and spine, pull out my spinal cord, brain, and eyes, pop 'em in a robot body.

Who dares. To love. Forever?

I upvote things I like. I don’t downvote things I don’t like, I only downvote lies, misinformation, or harmful takes.

Rewind by Hotel Eden

Windowsill by McBaise

Both albums have some great tracks that fit that vibe.

If you’re feeling extra spicy maybe sprinkle in some .Temp by Graham Kartna

Nobody cares

Edit: I don’t think y’all understand

If my early homebrewing days taught me anything, it’s that vinegar is so easy to make you can do it by accident.

Whoosh

Again, only if you assume “What now?” is a rhetorical question.

Why not say, “Fuck this, I’m writing to my congress person and taking to the streets again with everyone who I can possibly convince.”

Because that requires organization.

I like /srs, but /gen is growing on me

This feels, prescriptively, like the correct answer

No one is promoting defeatism, I think you might have a habit of assuming questions are rhetorical when they aren’t.

The question is that of organization. Just saying to organize isn’t an answer. How do you organize millions of people?

I maintain like a dozen playlists with specific vibes. I constantly try to discover new music, whether through algorithms or active searching. When I find a really good album I’ll just sit and listen, maybe doing something that doesn’t require concentration.

There are bands that I really like that I bring up all the time. When I find a new one, I’m telling everyone who might like them. There are some I’ll listen to over and over, and some I ration to try not to burn out.

I like great art, but I’m also down with meme music and other goofy shit.

How though? You think people aren’t already calling, emailing, literally writing letters? How do we make them?

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I think you’ve lost the context here. Let me summarize the exchange:

“Who is going to hold him accountable when Congress and the courts won’t?”

“The people should rise up”

“How?”

“By using the courts and Congress”

This is where I’m confused. I’m not saying those aren’t things we should do, but this was explicitly a question about what to do when those methods are failing.

Some people are wealthy because they provide a valuable, well-paid skill (neurosurgeons, for example). Some people are in positions of power because they sincerely want to make their communities a better place.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s probably more likely to get there through sociopathic greed. But that doesn’t mean they are all horrible people.

Are you talking about specific wealthy, powerful people?

What does any of that have to do with the issues in question? How does suing help when he ignores the courts? How does pestering your congressperson help if they don’t, or can’t, do anything?

This kind of “Just rise up!” thinking downplays the very real hurdles to effective mass organization. We need specific, scheduled actions with points of contact and well-defined scopes.

I will come back to it eventually, when the time is right.

It’s not important enough to bookmark, it’s not urgent enough to get to right now, but it’s too interesting to ignore entirely. When the time is right for a tab, I will return to it. Sometimes I scroll through them to jog my memory. Sometimes I’ll decide it wasn’t as interesting as I thought and delete it.