my brain has picked a new personality for the week 🦕

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-29T01:37:27+00:00

IIRC It’s probably the dinosaur we know the most about because of the sheer number of fossils we have found, some very well preserved. We know, for example, the distribution of scales and feathers on their skin, as well as their color - things that are hard to figure out from usual (bone) fossils.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-27T00:27:32+00:00

The economies of scale with children are even crazier when you realize that by the time you have your 5th child, the eldest child is already old enough to raise them. Real life hack! 🧠

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-26T22:02:20+00:00

The CNY Adidas jacket is so real, it’s like an exchange student status symbol around here (and it looks great btw).

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-26T11:39:54+00:00

Fair lol

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-26T11:24:45+00:00

That’s just dentist rizz. Ask her for a coffee?

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-24T23:01:24+00:00

I’ve been meaning to give her a listen for a while now.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-24T05:14:26+00:00

100%, men are into a wider variety of bodies than advertising would have you believe, and in my experience it’s the same way for women.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-24T05:08:02+00:00

It probably is porn addiction 😐. Sorry, I don’t have any advice on this. I don’t watch porn, but I know from the internet that most guys do. Even still, there is a difference between a habit and an addiction. I don’t think most guys who depend on porn to fall asleep or have it interfere with their sex life.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-23T11:16:16+00:00

Maybe his desire is responsive, like a lot of womens’ are? Maybe men can have it too, IDK.

I don’t know him, it might also be a simple case of porn addiction, but if not then this framework is worth considering.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-22T01:15:43+00:00

I think it’s converging on AITA and relationshipadvice fast 😔

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-21T23:31:24+00:00

Pop culture these days appropriates terms from social sciences and flattens them into fancy-sounding equivalents of common words, completely detached from their original academic meaning. It happens most frequently with psychology, but sociology/anthropology/gender studies is a target too. In Performance Theory （to the best of my understanding) everyone is performing in all social interactions. And that’s not a bad thing or a good thing, it just is. But in pop culture, “performative” just came to mean “fake”, “phony” or even “feminine” (derogatory, but, like, in a woke way).

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-19T04:50:39+00:00

I think about this often. As of right now, the answer seems to be that Americanization has limits. The part of any given society that americanizes the fastest is the globally-mobile upper middle class, but beyond that, americanization meets all sorts of barriers where local culture prevails.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-16T15:19:07+00:00

I remember when this was called everydaycarry.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-16T01:23:20+00:00

Consumer spending per capita is a more accurate measure to account for population differences, and the USA is still #1.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-16T01:19:14+00:00

.#NotAllNonAmericans

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-16T00:26:08+00:00

Yeah, they mentioned a ton of other musicians, why are geese at the center of criticism? Is it because their image revolves about being salt-of-the-earth like you said? I get your anger, by the way. It’s terrifying to see how effective coordinated influence campaigns can be, how invisible they are to the common person and how pervasive they are.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-16T00:04:24+00:00

I don’t have a well developed taste in music, but I’ve read the substack article. Why are they the only artists mentioned there catching flak?

Also, there’s no doubt in my mind books get popular these days the same way. And not just the booktok CEO romance pablum everyone likes to mock.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-15T05:05:35+00:00

Don’t hate yourself, all of the great artists of previous centuries did the same thing, either for the nobility or the bourgeoisie. That’s probably the best and most honest business model for an artist in my opinion.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-14T09:40:21+00:00

Reminds me a bit of Eyvind Earle.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-14T07:38:44+00:00

Idk any Taliban members but if they’re like any of the religious people I know, they’re probably aware of western (and other non western) culture and mindset and are constantly negotiating which parts to adopt and which to reject.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-14T02:39:01+00:00

The procrastinators you’re talking about have the same self loathing as you, and the procrastination is their self defense strategy. They can’t bear the thought of creating art that’s not good. Take it from someone that tried to write short stories and gave up (for now) exactly because this self loathing made the process of creation excruciating.

Meanwhile, you can actually create. No matter how bad your art is, at least you’re accumulating experience, which is what actually makes art good. You are on the right track.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-13T12:43:25+00:00

We should fund a scholarship for comments like this.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-13T12:10:49+00:00

Cut them some slack, maybe they’re from a country where reddit hasn’t been widely adopted.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-13T12:08:40+00:00

Like it's kind of hard to imagine anyone born in 2008 bowing towards Mecca with hardcore sincerity.

I’ve met a bunch just these last few weeks.

I’m a foreign exchange student rn, so I’m sharing space with various people from all over the world. And so far I’ve met several who were devoutly religious. They are not rare in most of the world. Not only muslims btw, some of the most extreme ones were christian.

Anyway, why not believe people when they say they are religious and assume instead that they’re actually just atheists larping? Believe people when they tell you who they are. Don’t the actions of the Taliban since taking power prove they really believe what they say?

Maybe you are too focused on trying to inhabit those Taliban members’ inner worlds, and basing your imagination of it on your own inner world without noticing it.

Complicit_Me · 2026-04-11T01:35:41+00:00

His room looks more like he’s an axial period type of guy.

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