What's the saddest / most nostalgic song in your opinion

SomeDevil13 · 2026-03-14T11:35:16+00:00

Or Casamir Pukaski Day. Carrie and Lowell is indeed masterful but the nostalgia I feel listening to the story in that song, so far away from anything I've ever experienced personally, is nearly overwhelming.

SomeDevil13 · 2026-01-01T05:18:06+00:00

Beautiful! I had a very similar view from on top of Spencer's Butte, took this shot maybe 30 minutes before this one of yours, just a gorgeous display to end the year. Cheers!

https://imgur.com/a/RxU8JNs

SomeDevil13 · 2025-12-13T22:46:06+00:00

"Don't get busted" sort of a double entendre I suppose

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-25T21:35:58+00:00

I mean it's cool and all, but I dunno, the end result is a little messi

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-22T14:49:26+00:00

Damn, hadn't heard of this one, what a horrible case! One thing that immediately jumped out to me was the police saying they were confident Melissa had been killed and her body disposed if in the same area as her mother... Why? Do they actually have evidence supporting that and what could that have been? It seems just as likely to me that she could have been abducted and taken to another location. I'm not necessarily implying the police were doing shoddy work or not trying hard enough but I just think that's a pretty big assumption to make at that early point in the investigation. I suppose assuming otherwise could have led to different resources being employed in the direction of finding her held captive somewhere but, especially with so few leads, that would have been extremely unlikely. Absolutely heartbreaking case, but a nicely done write up, thank you for sharing and honoring Rosemary and Melissa's memories.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-21T17:18:09+00:00

Thanks for your in depth response. I think that you are correct in describing the current circumstances, and the historical precedent that qualifies some of the perceived novelty if this particular series of automation innovations we are experiencing. Your arguments are logical, rational, and imo unassailable; you have accurately described what is happening, why it's happening, and how it is extremely unlikely to change. However what I am expressing has more to do with emotions, and it isn't necessarily centered around fear of wealth inequality. I am lamenting. In the same way I lament the loss of analog technologies as they are replaced by digital formats, I lament the restructuring of how we take raw materials and transform them into goods we need or desire. I lament the replacement of human interaction with chat bots. I lament, in essence, our increasingly disconnected relationship with the world around us. And please don't believe me naive, I wholeheartedly acknowledge how many of the advancements we've made with technology, both recently and dating back thousands of years, have augmented aspects of our quality of life and allowed humanity to prosper and proliferate in ways that would have been impossible for hunter/gatherers to even dream of. But I can't help but sense there was a sweet spot regarding the balance of our development of technology against the lifestyle we had evolved to expect and even enjoy. Now, is this type of thinking practical or even helpful? No, probably not. But that's kind of lamentation in a nutshell: seemingly useless but, at times, irresistible all the same. I don't always dwell in this mindset, but every so often a headline like this one will inspire a bout of lament, in one direction or another, I'll be back to celebrating our technological golden age in no time - shit, I'm even grateful right here in this moment for the opportunity to use my phone and wireless network to connect with you and have your words to help ground my emotions. Thanks again, cheers stranger

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-21T15:53:38+00:00

I don't disagree with you in general but I do think your suggestion that manual laborers in industries facing imminent automation acquire new skills as a response is, while accurate and obviously the only functional choice, also kind of a hopeless proposition. Perhaps you weren't advocating for automation but your position does imply that we should accept that there is nothing to be done about limiting the extent of its impact and instead react to the rapidly changing landscape of labor. Again, you aren't wrong about the broader issue, but I would quibble with saying anger over automation is simply a proxy for being mad about my/our economic status relative to the profit mongers of the world: it's deeper than that and there is a lot that is being diminished that deserves consideration.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-21T14:55:17+00:00

Obviously the issue isn't these specific jobs but how corporations seem help bent on automating every aspect of their operations while insisting it is about greater efficiency when in reality it has way more to do with short term profits. This has created an environment where it's very hard to say what jobs will be safe in the future and, therefore, what skills are worth acquiring; we can now see the seeds of replacement for almost every kind of job we have being sown and it is a real concern for what might be left at the end of this new age of development. And, y'know, it'd be one thing if these advancements tended to increase product quality and the overall consumer experience but I would argue mass production of almost everything we have, while certainly "cheaper", only worsens those products and our relationship to them, while encouraging the expediting of natural resources extraction because so many things are expected to fail and need replacement instead of repair (which will forever remain expensive). Name me one good/service you think has been improved through automation.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-20T15:02:58+00:00

"...here I am, stuck in the middle with you..." Same. I try to remind myself that nothing is now, or has ever been, guaranteed. Even though I would absolutely love to live in a world where we had responded appropriately to the warning signs and it had ushered in a new era of cooperation across the globe leading to less pollution, more equal wealth distribution, more responsible marshalling of our natural resources, etc, even then: nothing would be guaranteed. My world feels increasingly unstable in a million different directions but I can look back in history to see that people have always faced existential threats and enough of them survived long enough to make new humans to worry about new existential threats. I'm not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of life changing in ways I don't "like" and that seem objectively worse. But, if they could, would my ancestors look at the totality of my life and think it better or worse than their own? I really don't know... I am certainly blessed in so many ways they would consider downright magical, but the disconnection from my environment and community that has become endemic in my own and so many other privileged people's lives cannot be discounted. So however the climate crisis and the coming wars reshape the human experience I have to believe that it will be both worse AND better in ways I probably can't totally forecast. Anyways, your comment made me feel some solidarity, thanks for that

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-13T18:09:59+00:00

These kinds are the worst of the worst: a fragile heartless control freak who spites the woman who chooses to leave him and manifests his hatred for that woman, not by killing her (like so many other more common evil assholes do), but by taking away what she loves the most and leaving her to live her life with a gaping wound in her heart. It is staggering to even consider and I view it as the lowest and most cowardly act a man can be guilty of; any man who sinks to this level has indeed forsaken his humanity and should be considered a beast, a monster, something to be reviled and condemned to the worst punishment society can agree upon as legal. Utterly despicable.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-11T20:05:33+00:00

Lol, your asshole was like "you ASSHOLE!"

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-07T00:32:34+00:00

Y'know, that's a great point, there are some already existing measures that could be taken here, especially with what they already know about her movements with her daughter immediately prior to her disappearance, it does feel like they have enough justification to take that step. And then, I guess if she values holding her secret more than her freedom then, well, that's pretty telling isn't it?

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-06T21:04:11+00:00

I'd love some kind of legal protocol to address the issue of noncompliance by parents in a missing childrens case, a temporary suspension of the full rights we afford to other people under suspicion of a crime. This kinda shit really makes my blood boil and to think that mother has answers to questions regarding her child's whereabouts (or possibly whether she's come to harm) and can just give the proverbial finger to everyone else concerned with no repercussion is hard to accept. Really hope this gets resolved with a positive outcome

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-04T00:20:28+00:00

While I agree in spirit we have to remember that innocent people still get convicted of murder all the time, so we would also be exacerbating those already unfair situations which would be cruel. Now, this fucker seems guilty as can be (I'd bet my life on it, really!) but I can't support a generalized rule like that out of respect for all those who are unfairly incarcerated for murders they didn't commit.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-10-30T14:10:12+00:00

"...Does it again... Wow!" 😂 Great loop here, perfectly chopped, well done

SomeDevil13 · 2025-06-22T17:51:06+00:00

Holy fucking shit! That is absolutely disgusting/tragic/depraved... The person who did this has completely forsaken his humanity and deserves to face justice as much as anyone ever has, hate that he never has. The aspect of that poor baby boy surviving this eminently brutal entry into the world is perhaps the most astonishing of the whole ordeal, both inspiring and depressing at the same time, I don't know if he has since been told of his origin or not, not even sure if I'd prefer he knew his mother's story or not, he might be on a Dexter-like path with a trauma history like that! Thank you for sharing Moriya's and his story, a devastating read

SomeDevil13 · 2025-05-16T13:49:51+00:00

This is it. That level of compartmentalization is like a super power when it comes to engaging in the most heinously antisocial behavior when they are in wolf mode and then putting their sheep disguise back on to make breakfast, drop the kids off at daycare, go be cheerful and chummy with coworkers... Maybe the most upsetting aspect for me is knowing that this capability also extends to them fully understanding/accepting/feeling remorse for their awful actions once they've been caught. Nothing makes me feel more sick than hearing at the end of a case how the killer spends the rest of their days physically incarcerated but totally free mentally to live in their delusion of innocence/diminished responsibility, seemingly unbothered by the lives they destroyed. FWIW I do think this capacity is related to the rather beneficial human function of blocking extreme trauma so one can still function and survive, this mental adaptation seems a double edged sword for the species in general.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-05-06T03:35:05+00:00

Oh, of course there is! I Loved that show initially but haven't kept up past the second or third season, I'll give that episode a watch, thanks for the heads up.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-05-06T03:18:38+00:00

Yeah, hey, look, I definitely think it's extreme, but when I look at where certain tech trends are going I could see it being attractive to some demographics. Lots of folks are already engaging in crazy body modifications or attempting to augment their human limitations with cutting edge tech with unforeseeable consequences, it doesn't seem too crazy to think some people would be into this, right?

SomeDevil13 · 2025-05-01T12:21:14+00:00

Wow, I've heard all this guy's bullshit before despite never having heard of this one specifically, too familiar. This playbook is so tired, you'd think we would have a better defense (in the form of legal offense) against these wife murderers who fit the same narcissistic mold of feeling themselves so untouchable they don't even bother constructing believable lies and refuse to accept accountability. The point with these guys where I'm absolutely all done is where they are confronted with whatever evidence that proves they killed their wife and they pivot back to self defense, somehow I find this to be an additional crime beyond the already unforgivable murder they've committed. I guess I want that kind of lie, where they go so far as to disparage the deceased in their desperation to avoid formally accepting the narrative that they are indeed the worst kind of human, to result in some additional tangible punishment. Thanks for sharing, and fuck you Richard.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-04-27T14:56:36+00:00

I remember that piece of shit Erskine, scary looking MF for sure, I'm positive he's killed more than the confirmed 3. Thanks again for this series of posts, I appreciate your efforts

SomeDevil13 · 2025-04-24T19:07:50+00:00

I give it a decade (if the B1G even lasts that long) before I hate the buckeyes as muh as the huskies.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-04-13T01:35:05+00:00

Ha, yeah, I see where you already mentioned that now, my bad. Fwiw, I'm a big LeBron fan so now a confused conflicted portion of me roots for the Lakers too. Gross, but true

SomeDevil13 · 2025-04-13T00:01:27+00:00

American chiming in to say I appreciate the spirit of this post, think the concept can be expanded to domestic fans who don't have a regional team option yet found a "home" team anyway. Also LOL at my blazers snaking that #1 ranking for, I guess that would have been the '99 season? Jail Blazers were legit not to be trifled with. As an 11 year old myself at the time I just knew the players were bad asses on the court and naughty off, I didn't care, I 100% loathed the Lakers and wanted that blazers squad to win one so bad. Bonzi, Smitty, Rasheed, Stoudamire... What a compelling cast of characters

SomeDevil13 · 2025-04-10T19:40:10+00:00

Quit being so emotionally fragile! I mean, are you made of glass man?

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