bro's two-three steps away from Buddhist enlightenment - you got this

My favourite "feature" is sorting by Top 6 hours and Top 12 hours and actually seeing an end of content

just donated thanks to this post - cheers for the PSA

unable to understand social interactions and people on a fundamental level

choose a bachelor degree in literally the study of human mind - Psychology

realise there is nothing fundamental about people, we are all subject to an innumerable amount of factors, and social interactions and psychology are culture-based and ultimately arbitrary

All because westernised NTs demanded I have the perfect amount of eye-contact while we spoke about the weather

reminds me of the "bicycle in a car-centric city" analogy. Everyone is telling you take the main freeway and just "go faster" under the presumption that your driving a car without consideration that it takes more effort for you to even take freeway.

Ah yes, a gay dean and strictly only a gay dean. Just the right amount of different that I, a simple minded-voter, can tolerate. Anything more different would make me upset. /s

Welp, this broke me. Not to discount the other passings (R.I.P. ✊) but there's only so much I can take within a week. 2016 all over again :(

flappers all day or nothing at all

"Support the arts" I say as I upvote.

You touch upon something I've been struggling with - is this film intended for the "broad-strokes" introductory audience or more experienced filmheads?

His interviews always seem to imply he wants it both ways. Praise his films on anything remotely artistic and profound and he'll readily take credit. Critique and it's "a technical film", that can only be enjoyed in IMAX.

I want to love this film (I did find it entertaining and worth a watch) but felt nothing. Brother, this all could have been avoided if you just got someone else to write instead of your ego.

To me it seems like it's up to what you prioritize. If you prioritize convenience, nothing can beat one thing to keep track of – especially if it's the one thing you spend all your time on (easy to track, and less likely to lose because you spend too much time on it).

I'm from that small slice between proper millennial and gen Z (94-98), where we experienced the social media and smart technology boom during our teenage years. I directly experienced the rapid shifts and pressure to use all the trendiest social medias, smart appliances and the accompanying apps, cheap streaming services, easy shopping, every device using the same usb standard, dynamic smartphone designs, touch payment etc. During that time and uni, I would've jumped at the chance to coalesce everything onto one device, but couldn't because the infrastructure wasn't there. We were technologically "naive", thinking technology would only become increasingly more convenient without having any trade-offs.

But now, we are all aware of the negative consequences, politics, and burdens of being reliant on these services and infrastructure from the technological monopolies. Half the conversations with my friends of this age group end up being about what trade-offs we're willing to put up with for convenience while losing privacy, security, and autonomy. Gen Z grew up with this infrastructure in place and are readily entrapped in it (to no fault of their own). Of course they're going to notice a wallet when they use a more convenient option, because the alternative isn't something they personally experienced nor needed.

Unfortunately, this leaves them vulnerable to the whims of the private companies who control the infrastructure and social media – surcharges on touch payments, increasing costs of streaming, not owning media (games, movies), subscriptions everywhere, social media and smartphone addiction. We're seeing a trend of people choosing away from the convenient option towards privacy and autonomy. . Unless it's an open standard and I have a readily available alternative, I don't use it on my smartphone – hence the wallet.

did not know Costco sold exclusively non-luxo glasses - interest piqued

When it comes to foreign concepts (subjects that aren't part of my day-to-day and dont have a personal understanding with), I think about the inspirations, media, and sources that inspired myself to write/think about them.

I ask broad questions of why am I writing about it. Realistically, how much do I know about it. Don't be shy or evasive about it. It can be as simple as "I like that movie..." and "It looks cool" etc.

The key goal is to dissect your perspective and target the gaps and maybe tropes you've unwittingly taken as truth. Tropes aren't necessary bad on their own, but they are audience-shorthand (I.e. stereotypes) rather than creative/interesting writing expressions.

Here you decide whether you just need shorthand (so do a little research to keep it accurate so it doesn't take the audience out) or want to explore the concept deeply and perhaps even subvert it - which can only be done by deepening your understanding of the foreign concept (more movies, articles, first person accounts etc). What core idea is most interesting to me and how do I respectfully write it.

Think about shows in one genre/setting (e.g. The Good Doctor, Scrubs, House M.D) Clearly each had done different levels of research and uses tropes for the different goals. TGD uses the general population's stereotypes of autism as shorthand to drive the protagonist's characterisation despite being inaccurate whereas Scrubs is painstakingly accurate despite it being a comedy to drive the real medical troubles they face.

I personally don't know how to write about the cartel but I know my exposure is limited (Fast Five, Sicario, Better Call Saul, friend's family anecdotes) so I'd go out of my way to read their history and why I'd want to write it.

It's tragic the level of immediate relief I feel every time I shutdown on Linux after years on Windows.

Tragic

Save that name for a primary fork/different project - it's too good

Maybe I'm a dunce but I wouldn't even know how to keep all my books spread evenly at rest let alone like this

English was due for it tbh. Do I like that it's emojis – not particularly.

But it does fill that ambiguity gap, especially when it comes to written humour.

Side tangent but I felt like this one scene drastically (albeit not clear at the time) shifted the tone/direction for the rest of the MCU going forth - just for essentially a light chuckle and mild worldbuilding (illustrating the insignificance of the world/timelines ikik).

Looking back and seeing what's been (barely) done, I wonder if those writers would've gone with that same direction?

oh dip, is that why pomegranates are considered the fruit of the greek underworld?