The second paragraph answers the first. We wait until we’re coordinated.

If you want to speed up the process, get out there and coordinate. You might be ready, the people here might be ready, but a few thousand geographically isolated people on a left-leaning niche forum aren’t gonna do it. Getting out into the community and getting active, that could actually shift sentiment.

Find a local organization with at least a hundred members. Even if you don’t align 100% with the DSA, join and go to meetings. That’s where you’re going to find people to coordinate with. Network with people, find out who has which skills, and volunteer your own. Participate in mutual aid. Canvas for leftist politicians. Even if you only care about revolution, going to these events and interacting with these causes will bring you in contact with the people who will coordinate with you.

I was a vegetarian/vegan for a few years, and the specificity of my cravings increased dramatically. I wasn’t ever just “hungry”, I had specific cravings for specific foods.

Unpopular opinion: I want as little information as possible before watching a movie. At the other end of the spectrum, we have trailers which basically spoil the whole film. The only information I want about a movie is whether it’s interesting, which I will get from audience sentiment online, and the only information I really need is the title.

Any additional information is either irrelevant to the movie experience, or a spoiler. Yeah I’m a weird little freak, and I like low-information posters. It’s better than posters which give away too much

And, ideally, we’d have an active and informed constituency that keeps their representatives honest.

Ideally, yeah. But the mandatory town hall thing seems a bit easier to actually achieve. Have you met the constituency?

Those that aren’t should be voted out by their constituents. If the constituents keep voting them in, they’re openly saying that’s the representation they want.

Seems like it should be a mandatory part of the job. Senators should have scheduled town halls in every district in their state, Representatives should have scheduled town halls in every municipality in their district, every year.

Min maxxing

You’re right obviously, but it’s frankly wild to see that take from an .ml username

Because people have very diverse political beliefs and don’t fit neatly into two groups, but the mechanisms of our elections lead to two parties. As a result, they select one of the two parties, even if it doesn’t perfectly align with their beliefs.

I think I hypothetically could, but I’ve got real thick fingers so I usually make a bunch of sloppy typos.

Redragon briefly made an upscaled keyboard, and I didn’t pull the trigger when I had the chance because I like having a num pad, and now they’ve stopped making it. Haven’t found anyone else that makes one, so I guess I’ll never really know if I can touch type.

There’s a lot of reasons not to like Regan, but he did get some things right. That was one of them.

Was it though? Not that I’m saying you’re wrong about the conditions in asylums, but is abandoning the patients to be homeless on the streets really better? It feels like the right thing would have been comprehensive reform with extensive oversight.

I think anyone who claims to fully understand it can be safely ignored. It’s not supposed to be understood, it’s supposed to be felt. Lynch intentionally tries to invoke a dreamlike feeling, where things simultaneously feel internally consistent and incomprehensibly bizarre. There are certainly things to understand, but there are also things which are meant more to inspire an idea of something that could be understood, without having a concrete explanation. That’s part of the magic.

I think the middle of season 2, when he stepped away to work on Blue Velvet, is frustratingly weak, but they got there in the end. I think The Return was good, but not quite as good.

Overall I love it and reference it frequently.

Look up which season 2 episodes Lynch was involved in, and which ones he wasn’t. For me, the drop in quality perfectly aligns with his brief departure.

Obviously the intelligent person on a team of idiots then. There is value in being the least intelligent person in a room, since you have the opportunity to learn from people smarter than you. But not if you’re just forgetting things so that you can relearn them.

Do I get dumber to become the idiot or is everyone else just smarter than me?

I feel like it would be difficult to translate the footnotes and layers to the story.

This reminds me that I need to finish House of Leaves.

Worrying about it won’t prevent it from happening, it’s just going to make you feel bummed out about something you can’t change.

Focus on enjoying your life, so that in your final moments your last thoughts are “Bummer, ah well, I had a good run”.

30 something male, average is 1-2 times a day. Some days it’s none, some days I get those demons in me. Down from 3-4 per day when I was younger, and some of those were deliberately prolonged sessions. Still do that now and then, but I’ve got shit to do most of the time.

I am married, but her libido only really spikes once or twice a week so that doesn’t affect much. When I had multiple partners I almost never masturbated, but I was having sex multiple times per day, so.

Construction is a factor, but outside of my relatively short commute, I always use GPS, even when I know how to get there, to minimize traffic.

Like sure, I can get there without it, but if I use it I can be pretty sure I’m on the route that’s fastest *right now".

From what I’ve replayed in recent years, yeah not great. But it certainly inspired me to question narratives, which has actually been quite beneficial.

If you really want to get your money’s worth it should always end in 8