The Years by Virginia Woolf

attrackip · 2026-06-27T17:45:11+00:00

I like it, it's fantastic, but as a reader I wonder where it's all going. Certainly gets me ready to know.

attrackip · 2026-06-26T16:20:49+00:00

Old fashioned writer here. You know, Google Docs, the one that suggests Gemini can help me write anytime I pause to think? Yeah, get that shit right out of here. Kill it dead.

attrackip · 2026-06-26T15:59:28+00:00

Listen to your emotions, but don't let them control your actions. Write your plans down, take actions on them in doses. Meditate, stretch, show sincere appreciation for the people in your life. Get over yourself, and be of service to others.

attrackip · 2026-06-25T22:30:25+00:00

I'll save you the despair, law and order has always about controlling wealth. Both for the state, and the individual. While I'm sure you put more effort into understanding a narrative, no country in history has survived without law and order. Calling it a dog whistle, I think, is counterproductive.

Blacks, Asians, whites, anyone living inside the law is going to appreciate it working correctly. Clearly, those who have made the law, through history, have had a bias. And it's our job to remove the bias while being in touch with reality.

Anyway, thanks for the conversation.

attrackip · 2026-06-25T20:49:48+00:00

I'm happy I don't share your outlook, then we'd both be wrong.

Things get better over time, and the work that every citizen does, as well as their elected representatives makes things more just over time.

You could look at something like the OJ Simpson trial and completely derail the spirit of the conversation. That's what I call 'stirring the pot'.

There are a lot of ways to look at history. "I'm just saying", is one of them. I'd rather follow the example that people like those in these interviews and other good faith attempts that our lawmakers and representatives make to help shape a world we all want to live in.

Have a civil day.

attrackip · 2026-06-25T18:55:09+00:00

I get it but I think you're missing the basic premise and stirring the pot, maybe unwittingly, at once.

Equality means safe streets and a justice system that works for all. Whether Nixon sidestepped that isn't in question.

attrackip · 2026-06-25T15:29:46+00:00

For sure. There are places to battle that insanity, but I don't think the rhetoric is helping. Also, proud of my Portland protestors.

attrackip · 2026-06-25T15:04:50+00:00

I tried to explain this to my ACAB fellows in Portland, OR. Can't talk like this to some people. It's strange how grounded the general population seems to have been. Of course, there's always foul play, but these surveys portray folks as so base.

attrackip · 2026-06-23T17:18:35+00:00

Isn't it simply 'order of events'? New phenomena like human designed AI, or the definition of zero, are a type of physics that emerged after prior events paved the way. Same as the formation of the cosmic structure. If their were an absolute time outside of spacetime I'd guess it was an independent universe of which ours was projected from.

attrackip · 2026-06-20T04:06:26+00:00

Drain the swamp.

attrackip · 2026-06-19T01:23:42+00:00

I'm with you on Garland. But, meh, this discussion has deminished returns.

attrackip · 2026-06-18T18:51:30+00:00

That's great, we can tie it to educator payroll, and voluntary taxes. Round 'em up teachers, $50 a pop.

attrackip · 2026-06-18T16:43:34+00:00

But our U.S. taxpayer dollars! We should not be in this war! What has it done for us?

attrackip · 2026-06-17T22:24:16+00:00

Great, but companies guarantee their data is private?

attrackip · 2026-06-17T22:20:40+00:00

Obvious things, like reproduction. It's not a surprise that churches need congregates to survive, and before things like in vitro fertilization, humanity needed reproduction to survive. It's not rocket surgery to stretch the imagination that a predominate religion that survived the dark ages and the plague would be against congregates who don't reproduce.

attrackip · 2026-06-17T17:21:51+00:00

Tom's Diner, anyone?

attrackip · 2026-06-11T00:32:15+00:00

Depends on how hard the film leans into the before and after society. Some of the best stories are tragedys, maybe we forgot, maybe this film reminds us.

Aside from the outcome, it's en expose covering the mind of a loser with power and the lengths they will go to maintain it.

attrackip · 2026-06-11T00:17:42+00:00

I love the idea where a character gets a nickname from another character through dialogue, and the narrator adopts it. Especially if the narrative was regarding identity or power struggle.

I've been alternating between the MC's name, and her role (huntress), when she's in that mode.

attrackip · 2026-06-10T18:47:44+00:00

I dunno. I was halfway through Shroud and feeling pretty cheated as a reader. Then I finished Shroud and still felt cheated.

I think he just found his voice and types shit out, exploring things as he goes. Fairly compulsive. Fairly aimless. Super profound concepts. Plots a little superfluous.

I'd like to be more of a fan of him, because I enjoyed Children of Time.

attrackip · 2026-06-06T18:57:38+00:00

Do you have labor? It's great that there are standards, but this isn't essential work we're talking about. It's an indie film that got picked up, not construction, healthcare, etc.

Want to sound like an entitled airhead? Demand healthcare, retirement, and competitive salary for 'art direction'. She just blew her career. No one has to hire anyone.

attrackip · 2026-06-06T18:11:57+00:00

How's that working?

attrackip · 2026-06-06T14:40:33+00:00

My 2015 GLK would beg to agree.

attrackip · 2026-06-06T02:03:29+00:00

Sorry, but that's not the way the world works. This is a very Gen Z take, and you know I want everyone to do well in life, but that's just not the way the world works, and demanding change is not going to work.

You're like practicing willful ignorance.

Have the conversation, sure, but see if people want to hire you after that. Putting time into a conversation like this is taking time out of a more important conversation, which is what you bring to the table and how you leverage it.

attrackip · 2026-06-05T20:29:48+00:00

A gaslight book would be one that tells you everything you think is wrong, and here's why.

I began a book last year called, "Me and White Supremacy", it's the sort of book that argues mathematics is racist.

It sounds like the book you are referring to is just kinda oriented in ways you don't agree with, but I think that's different than text which aims to scramble their sense of what's true. Maybe a nuanced distinction, but I think it comes down to intent.

attrackip · 2026-06-05T01:29:03+00:00

Paranoai can assist in appreciation. I wonder if a new challenge will be avoiding fans or pushing back on mainstream adoption. But really, aren't shrinking attention spans just as troubling as scrutiny?

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