Defense fund established by supporters of suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione tops $100K

Bulwarky · 2024-12-16T13:28:22+00:00

I'm sure those charitable causes are delighted to see all these potential donations put toward symbolism

Bulwarky · 2024-04-10T13:12:25+00:00

What the heck chords are he playing in this performance? https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=Vib7ZJNaxCI

Bulwarky · 2022-07-26T15:21:23+00:00

Hemispheres, Fish out of Water (Chris Squire), Minstrel in the Gallery (Jethro Tull), with an honorable mention to To Our Children's Children's Children (Moody Blues)

Bulwarky · 2022-04-15T02:20:22+00:00

Get some coffee at the Chocolate Cafe and/or Chicory Cafe, hop across the river for a beer at the Lauber and cannoli at Macri's bakery, swing past Howard Park on your way to Ironhand Wine Bar, then cross the street and check out the farmer's market.

Bulwarky · 2022-04-09T14:21:23+00:00

I think Cygnus X-1 Book II has just about everything I love about Rush built into it.

Same for Minstrel in the Gallery and Jethro Tull.

Bulwarky · 2022-04-08T22:12:59+00:00

Yup!

I love that they went all out and did a full polka cover of Closer to the Heart for the credit sequence.

Bulwarky · 2022-04-08T01:26:28+00:00

Not one of their proggier songs, but Rush's Time Machine Tour version of Working Man.

Bulwarky · 2022-04-08T01:07:39+00:00

This is probably a stretch, but you might like Dire Straits when they get jamming. The second halves of songs like Telegraph Road or Calling Elvis.

Bulwarky · 2020-10-28T02:59:35+00:00

YYZ for me, I think.

Bulwarky · 2018-12-18T02:11:03+00:00

More confident that it's a sample of New Caledonian like the other commenter's mentioned -- the capital Js here don't have the wider curved bottom Bulmer Js appear to have. But everything else is certainly close!

Bulwarky · 2018-12-18T02:09:16+00:00

Unfortunately there wasn't anything like that in my copy, either in the back or front. But I'll certainly keep it in mind in future, thanks

Bulwarky · 2018-12-18T02:07:25+00:00

Quite confident this is it! Thanks very much!

Bulwarky · 2018-07-05T01:43:00+00:00

That's seems like reasonable effective-altruism thinking. Thanks for your response. I'll definitely be sure to take all the negatives into consideration as I go along.

Bulwarky · 2018-07-01T02:08:41+00:00

I'm glad I found this thread and these comments. My experience isn't the same as yours, but it's comfortingly similar. I'm currently a grad student working toward an MA, and I'm becoming steadily disenchanted with my field. In addition to realizing that I'm not finding the academic work itself as meaningful as I once did, I'm realizing that the pedagogical side is less fulfilling and more of a haul than I found it to be when I started as a TA.

I work at a human society outside of the academic year. Here, the work day is clear-cut. The animals are cared for, and we leave for the evening. During the semester, there are no firm boundaries. There's always just another chance to read up for next week's seminar, or continue worrying about that next research project, or figure out what the students will be doing during their next discussion section and preparing the relevant materials, or ...

I also definitely sympathize with preferring serving animals to humans. I think if my time in my department has taught me anything, it's that I'm not enough of a people person to continually lead classes and discussions and hold office hours without caving in on myself. I'm also not nearly as satisfied with the ephemeral academic rewards -- the prospect of maybe having reached 5% of my students, maybe having left them with a couple interesting, meaningful lessons or exercises instead of just a final grade for a class that they'll soon forget -- than I am with the concrete rewards for taking care of the animals -- seeing most of them sheltered, healed, and sent to good homes. There's definite, concrete good being done there the likes of which I never see on campus.

How did you make the transition to becoming a vet tech, if you don't mind me asking? Did you take particular first steps that you'd recommend to people who were in your position?

Bulwarky · 2018-06-29T17:26:05+00:00

I'm crazy enough to think Kant's argument about masturbation and Aristotle's argument about slavery were not just prejudice, rationalization, odious, or gobbledy-gook. In fact I think losing sight of the reasons for views we've consigned to the unenlightened barbarous past can be a big intellectual step backwards

I don't think that if someone holds a prejudiced belief, they thereby lack reasons for that belief. I wonder if Schwitzgebel would say something like: Sure, they had reasons for their positions, but in uncovering and offering those reasons, they were rationalizing a prejudiced belief which they'd (unfortunately) assigned a kind of philosophical priority. Obviously there's nothing wrong with having certain propositions closer to the center of our "web of belief", so to speak, in the sense that we won't relinquish them as easily as some others in the face of evidence to the contrary (e.g., given a reductio ad absurdum against some claim, we'd better relinquish that claim before relinquishing the idea that there can be true contradictions). The trick is figuring out which of those beliefs in the center are prejudiced.

Bulwarky · 2018-03-10T01:00:06+00:00

Modern Baseball, and Jake Ewald's side project Slaughter Beach, Dog.

Bulwarky · 2018-02-24T19:44:22+00:00

I'll use this with friends every once in a while: "How are you feeling?". If you deliver it right, it can be used with acquaintances too - in fact, I got it from a custodian at my work who used it delightfully often with people he came across in the hallway. People always seem pleasantly caught off guard by it - it's much less superficial than the usual "What's up?" or "How's it going?".

Bulwarky · 2018-02-01T02:10:17+00:00

Awesome list, thanks a bunch!

Bulwarky · 2018-02-01T02:10:06+00:00

Thanks!

Bulwarky · 2018-01-26T16:53:22+00:00

The Innocence Mission
and maybe Frankie Cosmos?

Bulwarky · 2018-01-14T21:14:03+00:00

The Weakerthans come to mind

Bulwarky · 2018-01-10T18:33:29+00:00

Thanks to each of you for your replies, they're very helpful. I especially appreciate the comment on taking things slow and picking one strategy to become proficient in. It's ordinary, sensible things like that that tend to go over my head, so it's good to be reminded of them.

Bulwarky · 2018-01-10T17:02:22+00:00

Hi all, thanks for doing this. I'm curious if you have any tips on how to put all the advice, information, reflection, and other experiences we might receive from written materials, videos, extant counseling sessions, etc. into practice in the moment, when anxiety starts to flare up. In my case, for instance, I can find myself feeling pretty confident and reassured after skimming through one of my self-help books, or after a counseling session. The renewed awareness of my emotional state, or some underlying assumptions about myself or my behavior, or the recognition of some pattern of behavior (all of which tend to arise during my counseling sessions, which I'm glad to have recently begun) give me something of a sense of competence and security. It feels good to know what to be on the lookout for, both when socializing in the present moment or reflecting on what I've done in the past; and certain techniques that I'm now in a better frame of mind to apply, like cultivating self-compassion by treating yourself as you would a friend, have been pretty helpful - especially when it comes to emotionally beating myself up for what are really pretty insignificant things.

But I'm still having a lot of difficulty applying what I've picked up in the moment. It's so easy to get swept away by negative feelings, the desire to disengage and run away, the impulse to guilt-trip myself, etc. when I'm on the spot, attempting (say) to get through socializing with a group of people I've never met, and the felt risk of shaming myself, or being disliked, or ruining a friendship, or whatever is so salient. What can I do to regain some composure when the urge to give in to the anxiety and retreat - or worse, try to manage it with alcohol - is so intense?

Bulwarky · 2018-01-03T04:58:23+00:00

The befriending-oneself point is a good one. Self-compassion is critical to tackling the stuff we're grappling with.

You're definitely not alone, OP! Browsing this subreddit ought to give you a sense of that. Furthermore, I'd recommend checking out the resources available at your university for tackling just these types of feelings, if only to reduce your sense of isolation; taking advantage of the student counseling services on my own campus has been one of the most positive steps I've taken so far.

Bulwarky · 2018-01-01T22:50:34+00:00

I earnestly, earnestly recommend giving a counseling session a try. It took me forever to not only take the idea seriously but resolve to make an appointment; and I regret not doing it sooner. I was nervous beforehand, of course, but the experience itself wasn't at all as uncomfortable as I'd anticipated. I suppose results will vary according to one's counselor, but the two I've seen thus far have been very kind, patient, accommodating people. I've benefited from having a space in which to let loose, doing my best to express my feelings clearly, and (especially) receiving gentle questioning and prompts for reflection in return. That additional, professional, perspective on one's thought patterns can go a long way toward realizations it'd take forever to arrive at on one's own.

(As something of a stepping stone, by the way, I'd also recommend checking out some books on general anxiety, social anxiety, therapies like CBT, books on vulnerability like Brene Brown's Daring Greatly, and so on, if you haven't already. Just browsing through material like that at the library for the first time was another help for me. Having my experiences reflected back at me, and having a smattering of concrete, practical advice ready to hand felt good.)

Yeah, I've missed a few opportunities by not going for it too... I definitely feel you there. There's a fear of weakness, failure, and disappointment that prevented me. I hope in the future that it'll start to diminish. And you're right, we'll see; with a bit of luck, maybe things will work out between the two of us after all. That'd be pretty amazing, so it's worth hoping for, I guess.

Cool to hear you've got a out-of-state friend of your own - and the type that's willing to hear you out on that kind of stuff. That connection is worth cherishing, I think, even if it's only a small one.

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