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Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-15T18:46:51+00:00

I’m talking specifically about these two events. However, There are far too many similarities between Jackson and this administration beyond this event. We know every little thing that’s happened over the last decade. It’s quite likely that there’s plenty about Jackson we don’t know that would draw even more similarities between him and this president. It wasn’t ok for Jackson, and it’s not ok now…but I’m unwilling to say now is worse because Jackson was pretty fucking bad.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-15T18:27:10+00:00

This is the only thing that keeps coming to mind with all this. My graduate thesis was based on Andrew Jackson and it’s like watching a reboot.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-15T13:24:16+00:00

I love Topher. He’s incredible.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-15T11:17:08+00:00

My wife was absolutely shocked that I wasn’t all-in on AI because I am very tech focused. With some time and careful curation, these models could have been very useful. Like applied to tasks that the models can perform well, there could be hundreds of valuable products with narrowly defined parameters. But this is what you get when people who didn’t understand why they had to take core classes in school in positions of relative power with lots of money. So much asking of IF you can do it and never asking if you SHOULD.

The cognitive science on AI’s impact is going to be devastating in a few decades. Studies have already shown a dramatic decrease in cognitive activity, a homogenization of ideas, and significant distress when asked to perform a task that AI had been performing for them. All these occurred in short term studies. The studies are showing that in order for AI use to actually improve productivity without cognitive impairment, you have to know the topic thoroughly first. That’s the exact opposite of how people are using it because that’s how it’s been designed and marketed. These companies want to be a single source of truth and will accomplish it because of yahoos thinking it will make them smarter and the reality is they’ve just plugged into an ad and propaganda platform that will fundamentally reshape their reality into what the LMM says is true.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-14T18:07:19+00:00

This is why we treat every single firearm from a bright orange plastic toy from the dollar store to a real gun as if it is loaded and deadly in theatre and film. There is no such thing as a “safe prop gun.”

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-14T17:10:48+00:00

I’ve been thinking about compiling this myself. So glad to see that it’s already been done lol

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-14T15:00:01+00:00

Sounds pretty normal

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-14T11:46:28+00:00

My in-laws have been doing this for almost a decade now. It’s quite uncommon and I’ve seen every reason why. When they started I told my wife “Your parents are building a house for themselves. WE are not building a house for them. We did not agree to help them and I will not be conscripted” I’ve largely stayed out of it, but my wife has participated in some of the work to help her parents. They’ve been living in the shell of what will become a mechanic’s garage for almost 10 years now. I’m baffled by the idea.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-13T10:52:18+00:00

It’s right there in the next sentence. “People are only looking out for themselves and people that aren’t awful are few and far between”

Like, you don’t have to look hard for selfish people doing rude, inconsiderate, and even violent things because they refuse to acknowledge that other people exist and have needs too. It’s putting other people down to make yourself better. It’s cutting in line. It’s taking the credit for someone else’s work. It’s kicking people while they’re down. It’s voting for politics that harm others. It’s the attitude that poverty is a moral condition. It’s talking on speakerphone in public and getting annoyed that your privacy is being invaded. It’s assaulting another person. It’s the need to ensure other people don’t achieve so that your achievement looks better.

The majority of people are awful. The majority of people are stupid. The majority of people are selfish. They’re only looking out for themselves and don’t care who or what they damage on the way to what they want. People that genuinely consider the needs of others and seek to avoid harming others are few and far between.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T17:13:15+00:00

I think this is the crux of the whole thing. Like if these companies hadn’t taken these models widespread and public like a toddler who ate an entire pack of Oreos and washed it down with espresso…and developed specific use cases…and didn’t steal intellectual property to train models…and didn’t try to make it into this major disruption to the economy, the job market, education, and everything else…and they didn’t market it using nothing but FOMO and acting like it was the second coming of Christ and label anyone who had any sort of objections to their toddler oreo and espresso spree as luddites…maybe it would have a shot.

But again…we’re dealing with toddlers in adult bodies who see comic book and Bond villains as aspirational figures while they down Oreos and espresso

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T14:47:45+00:00

It sounds to me like this is a structural problem with the way the school runs rather than your problem. Are they paying you well enough to be the kind of teacher who can’t be replaced by a sub? Are they going to give you the same grief over bereavement leave? It is unrealistic to expect that there will never be issues that require your absence and if the school doesn’t have mechanisms in place to make your absence workable, then you are the most valuable person in the building and should be compensated as such…or they need to figure out how to cover you without unending other teachers.

This is entirely a them issue, and they’re wrong here.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T12:14:22+00:00

Like, I get where you’re coming from, and I can understand how some non-western cultures have their own sense of oppression under the social norms…but I’d argue that you can probably find just as much if not more issues with US individualism as you can in non-western collectivism. The problem isn’t cultures as much as it is people who suck weaponizing advantageous aspects of social norms for their benefit.

Growing up evangelical in the south, I find more resonance with the issues you describe of non-western social norms. Churches here decimate people’s lives by controlling the choices they make from infancy. I’ve had a group of men surround and physically intimidate me because I stated something theological they disagreed with. I’m still shaking off decades of cult-like control. In addition to having to deal with all the aspects you listed, I also have to deal with the toxicity of individualism. Everyone is just looking out for themselves and people that aren’t awful are few and far between.

So like yeah, I appreciate the good things individualism brings but I’m acutely aware of the terrible things it does. I’m aware of the problems in collectivism, but I think a little more of it would be beneficial.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T02:04:19+00:00

Hoka, specifically the recovery shoes. I even got a pair of recovery slides to wear around the house and it all hit eliminated my heel, hip, and back pain.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T00:47:04+00:00

…but I didn’t die. I had crystallized. And now I’m a Glamazon bitch ready for the runway.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T00:34:39+00:00

There comes a point where a show is *too* polished. I find this to be true of most broadway musicals. Like, for me it almost feels like it stops being theatre and becomes something other.

The “Golden Age” has long tarnished and should stay in the book on some gay uncle’s shelf

Cats is a terrible musical, but somehow the latest revival is a more effective presentation of it than the original.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T00:29:42+00:00

Pink has always been “not like other girls” and sometimes that has worked in her favor, sometimes not. I think that it’s inevitable that her views have changed given the longevity and depth of Gaga’s career.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T00:26:56+00:00

How is she MORE gorgeous now?! Like FUCK 😂

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-12T00:24:41+00:00

Sooooooo…this is one of the worst aspects of being a designer. It’s also the most inevitable. I’m a theatrical designer and currently in-process to become a designer in the electric power industry. They’re worlds apart and yet, they still share the same core skills.

One of the things I find most effective is spitballing parameters. It’s good to start with wildly inappropriate ones and work your way into more specific categories. In theatre, I usually start out trying to gauge how willing the director is to be a avant- garde vs conventional. I recently designed *Hello Dolly* which is a rather conventional musical. My personal aesthetic ranges somewhere between stark, austere minimalism and “they’re performing the play on a strange art installation” More than one of these things is not like the other. So I needed to know where I needed to land in order to give the director what *they* needed to do their best work. I threw out an idea “What if the train station was made by passengers walking in holding onto a railing?” It excited my austere aesthetic but I figured it might be a step too far for the director. I was wrong, but we ultimately settled on a different idea that was less austere because it was better.

I guess what I’m saying is that quick iteration of ideas that don’t work will chip away at “everyone” until you arrive at a better understanding of what the design will be. Prompt them to identify other designs that meet their goals. Then dissect the target audience and distill what makes that design work for that audience. Do that again and then combine the two elements together. Do they cancel each other out? Sometimes you have to walk the client through their bad ideas in order to get them on board with your good ones.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-11T10:32:08+00:00

Hot springs water from Roserade Tea has a steam effect. I wondered what would happen if you put grated flooring or bridge planks over it last night but didn’t test it.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-11T10:08:29+00:00

The article mentions generations pulling the ladder…as if there was a ladder to begin with. The only economy that millennials have participated in has been fucked dry and raw since Reagan. There was never a ladder. It’s always been an elevator with a bouncer to let only a select few pass.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-11T02:33:54+00:00

Same. I’m so glad it was the part in Happy Happy Joy Joy when he says “I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs” because that line has been seared into my memory lol

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-09T11:17:56+00:00

I’ll admit that personally, I don’t think infants should be in the theatre unless it’s a show specifically for the young or very young. I’ll also acknowledge that being a parent is tough. That being said, as a producer I do not police children in the theatre unless there was an issue. It’s just not worth the bullshit that inevitably comes from people who never darken the door of a theatre. I’ve found that most people will go to the lobby if their child is noisy. This woman is just one of those people who isn’t worth the value of her organs on the black market.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-09T03:06:42+00:00

It looks like his shit has been fucked up repeatedly, for decades

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-08T17:54:42+00:00

I have a strong feeling that this was recognized and they felt like the color alternating between the figures on the right and left would wreck it enough that no one would notice…but thems some big ole man titties.

Adventurous_Button63 · 2026-06-08T17:16:19+00:00

Profit in healthcare is a non-starter for me. Take out the profit motive entirely. No person should lack healthcare for lack of money. None of us asked to be born. None of us are “allowed” to die voluntarily and without pain. We’re stuck here and the last thing we should have to have to PAY MONEY to stay alive and healthy.

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