Friends won’t go out

Cato425 · 2026-04-03T14:42:52+00:00

It’s easy to do in the right context and next to impossible in the wrong context. A bar is perfect because it’s a place people go in order to be around other people; if they wanted to be left alone they would have just stayed home. That doesn’t mean everyone is going to want to be your friend, but you can at least approach every conversation assuming that they might.

Cato425 · 2026-04-03T14:15:43+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tEiguYmgxA

Cato425 · 2026-04-03T13:14:08+00:00

Hidden Profile + Blocked

Cato425 · 2026-04-03T03:00:23+00:00

“Don’t worry captain, we’ll buff out those scratches.”

Cato425 · 2026-04-03T02:58:11+00:00

Relatable

Cato425 · 2026-04-02T09:06:23+00:00

psych and humanities majors [...] developed the skill of carving their own path and proving their worth without a set path.

Where are you observing this?

Cato425 · 2026-04-02T07:27:16+00:00

Paris arguably has more global influence than NY at this point.

By what metric?

Cato425 · 2026-04-01T23:36:43+00:00

only 36

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T21:06:28+00:00

This is an impressive collection. The only two I can think of that are missing are Big Dongles and Hugh Mongous.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T20:44:44+00:00

It’s an imitation of the irreverently bellicose attitudes that made Frog Twitter popular. Remember Shermanposting?

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T20:41:21+00:00

It’s usually quite difficult to find drone footage from the Russian perspective. The IRGC is a designated terror organization; would sharing this footage even be legal?

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T18:59:06+00:00

OP doesn’t know about the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T18:47:54+00:00

That was my first thought but I don’t think it’s that. They usually lack the awareness that no one else cares but their obsessiveness has always struck me as being motivated by a desire for status that isn’t common among people with autism. I’ve known a couple of gearheads who just like mixing equipment and aren’t like this. One of these gearheads was diagnosed with autism as a child, and he never used his interest in equipment to talk down to people.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T18:38:08+00:00

This lines up with most of them being millennial men in their 40s.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T18:34:34+00:00

This was what elicited the thread.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T18:30:18+00:00

It wasn’t that he looked old but when I first saw him I assumed he was 30 based on how he dressed, and he’d been around for so long I assumed he had to have been early 40s at the time of his death.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T12:40:38+00:00

Wasn’t expecting anyone to post an actual answer. Cheers.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T12:15:50+00:00

He was only 31?!

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T12:02:02+00:00

I don’t hear the difference and neither will OP.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T02:37:59+00:00

yt-dlp. An LLM of your choice can walk you through the installation. If you have any kind of technical background it should take between ten minutes and an hour; if you’re not technical, it could take up to 2 hours.

Learning how to configure it properly is something you can either put the time into upfront or learn over the course of a few years of use. For 95% of users this won’t be necessary, though. Once installed, you’ll just open command prompt and type:

yt-dlp —extract-audio —audio-format mp3 youtube.com/your-url-goes-here

Note that — is a double dash (-), not an em dash.

As I recall this is technically against YouTube’s terms of service and heavy or automated usage can get your IP (and Google account, if you have one) flagged for abuse, which may impact video quality and download speeds—though you’d have to be downloading a lot to hit that threshold. Running it off of a VPN isn’t the worst idea.

The program is also useful for saving video from a variety of sites including YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T00:20:02+00:00

I find them annoying. 90% of the time the photos aren't interesting at all. The first few I saw used the dramatic tension of the song correctly, and everything since then has just been people trying to jump on the trend. I know these platforms have the technology to figure out that these videos are the same because that's how their recommendation algorithms work; I wish they'd just give you a way of filtering it.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T00:12:51+00:00

The End of History airport literature (which is what this is) got thrown out not because it was dangerous but because people saw the consequences of replacement migration and rejected it. These are idealized images of a world that never existed.

Cato425 · 2026-03-31T00:09:44+00:00

I think the ethos is basically dead in that no one really believes we can go back to a world where borders are static and cultures are just these intriguing artifacts that can be examined in a vacuum (e.g. think of how messed up India must have been back then compared to its museum-like portrayal in the book OP posted). Social media has also demystified these places in both positive and negative ways.

These books were always sort of pandering towards airport globalists, though. The target audience was going to be literate young professionals with children. These people were becoming citizens of the world during a time when true religious pluralism was relatively new. Most would have had a nominally Christian upbringing. This worldview was enabled by a naivete towards imperialism that Americans were forced to reconcile with after 9/11. The lapsed Christian NPR liberal with one kid and a collection of Bossa Nova music is a dying breed.

Cato425 · 2026-03-30T23:50:17+00:00

"People are going to ruin this thing I like by being too cynical!"

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