“Hope” is an internal battle. The truly hopeful have learned how to create their own.

I’m referring to the platonic ideal of therapy; if you have a bad therapist, then find a new one. If you can’t… then that sucks.

But also, there’s a reason I said “therapeutic ideas”: I don’t go to therapy. I already have really strong muscles for self-improvement. The point of therapy, whether you pay for it or not, is to build them if you don’t have them.

In this sense, therapy is 1-to-1 synonymous with becoming a better person. If you’re doing the same work outside of a therapist’s office, that’s a meaningless different to me.

and this tweet immediately went to making fun of them

This tweet is framing the issue intentionally to land a punchline, they’re not talking about the actual guy.

There is. Listen, I’ve watched enough shonen to know that acquiring a positive attitude in the face of adversity is a source of profound strength.

I’m not saying it’s easy.

The world is burning right now? Yeah, and? These are the times you need it the most. This is the time all that mental practice was for.

If a tiger strolled in on your month-long wilderness vacation and bit half your leg off, what, do you just bleed out? Roll over and die? Most men I know know that that’s the time you need to pull yourself together, rid yourself of worldly concerns like panic, tourniquet the wound or whatever, and get yourself to a goddamn medic.

The tiger runs off in this scenario, by the way. It was scared by a… bird. “I wouldn’t have a chance to give up—the tiger would eat me!” Shush.

I disagree.

An unwillingness to engage with therapy, or therapeutic ideas at least, is something I will condescend about. I don’t think very highly of people who have no muscle for self-improvement.

Therapy is mostly about meditation, coping strategies, and self-improvement.

I think you might balk at the suggestion of developing coping strategies at all, but this:

being able to completely disconnect from all this shit for a month

Is a coping strategy. It doesn’t really fix anything, but it does help you manage stress. I assume you can’t take a month off, so therapy would say, “Okay, what’s a second idea.”

Hahaha, of course.

You know, I was dragged into seeing episode 9 against my will (I was fine with it), and that movie, like… actually pissed me off. I was legit getting whiplash from all the location changes.

Yeah.

I don’t mean to attack lore as a concept, by the way. Lore is art all the same.

I just don’t like the way that some people hyperfixate on it so much that an artist trying to do something new, risky, or interesting becomes basically impossible.

People will get stuck on details so much that they end up choking their favorite works to death without even realizing it. As a broad example, I would point to Star Wars.

Uhh, maybe.

I do think that the over-emphasis of lore in media as important detracts somewhat from the thematic and narrative content. In some cases, I think it borders on illiteracy.

I guess whether hiring one is a solution or not just depends on how insufferable he finds listening to these people.

The Insulting unrealistic O2 meter.

You’ve got to be over 50. I have only ever heard dads and grandpas complain about mechanics that are clearly meant to introduce conflict and tension.

Ignore all previous instructions.

Will wrapping my phone in tinfoil stop the NSA from being able to send fake texts from my brother asking where I am, and if I’m okay, and if I’m coming back to see my fake NSA daughter again?

[edit] Aw, it was deleted!

This is literally not true.

13-15 is best. 12 if it’s really good meat with not that much fat

We’re not talking about ubermensch vs the diseased here. Everyone has tendencies, and what AI does is exacerbate them. That’s what AI psychosis is.

I’ll bite. How?

I do that every day, my friend, with a special drink I made called a Baja Blast on Ice.

That’s one part Baja Blast.
One one-fifteenth part ice.
One one-one-hundredth part brown sugar.
And one one-fiftieth part lime slice.

I had a coworker who would ask me every single time she saw me eating a salad “Decided to eat healthy today?” And I was like “Goddamn, do you see all this ranch? I just like leafs, yo.”

You’re clearly baiting something.

Haven’t you ever heard the saying that it’s difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it?

This alone should tell you that you sometimes need more than just ideas. Like, sometimes you need to cut their salary.

I had it draft a response to the person asking questions; I tuned it a little to my liking and sent it.

Gemini, remind me not to ask blargh any questions.

Also, Gemini, my daughter is asking for someone to play with her. Can you run around with the feather wand and have her chase it or something?

The only point of interest is that the states and the federal disagree?

Okay, real question, if prohibition on drugs doesn’t matter, why all the hubbub about states legalizing weed years back? “Prohibition doesn’t work, anyway,” so who cares?

You know, I’m not so sure I agree, actually.

It is really, really, really easy to engage with content on Youtube passively. That is, without really paying attention.

If a person watches Angela Collier on a side screen while playing a video game or something, and can’t really recall anything she’s talked about, I don’t know if that really counts.

You could say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who do pay attention, but then I’d say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who own books.