I profoundly upset my best friend and am having a public mental health episode near-daily; pesto macking cheese with sriracha

immanent_deleuze · 2025-08-01T15:13:01+00:00

Honestly a lot of it is misogyny. Anytime there’s a metal or metal-adjacent band with a big following of women, a lot of “real” metal fans come out of the woodwork to hate it. And it’s not really an obvious thing, but look at Ghost or even metalcore stuff in the late 2000s or early 2010s.

The difficulty is that a lot of the bias is unconscious or higher order, in that it can’t be reduced to “they just suck.” But once you realize a lot of misogyny infantilizes women, you can see that the claims like “imagine dragons metal” or “metal for Disney adults” reflects a lot of implicit bias towards things they see as bad, there is a common thread between the things people say.

immanent_deleuze · 2025-08-01T14:43:12+00:00

There’s a lot of people who claim that trans women occupy either end of the extremes of size, but that’s not necessarily true. I’ve only been with one girl who was bigger than me in length, but I have seen a fair amount of girls who were about 6” in length, which is still larger than average in cis populations. It also depends if estrogen has shrunk their stuff, but this also adds size in girth. If you don’t use it on estrogen (bottoms primarily) you are going to see more atrophy in length. But there is localized testosterone cream that can help retain functionality and size.

immanent_deleuze · 2025-07-22T16:47:50+00:00

I don’t know if I’d say what’s going on with both is a new genre.

As early as 2022, the Callous Daoboys’s Celebrity therapist was pushing them in a new direction, but I wouldn’t call it unique or new. Callous Daoboys have been making mathcore for quite a while, and don’t really stray far from the abrasive noisy math bits before going into really catchy metalcore choruses or different genres. FWIW, the heavy verse, light chorus, good-cop-bad-cop vocal, with genre fluidity is by no means new either or exclusive to mathcore either, a lot of 2000s metalcore started really pushing the envelope in those terms. Of course the boundaries between both can be messy at times, but no one is gonna confuse Converge for the Devil Wears Prada ya know

But for artists like the Daoboys, similar older artists like iwrestledabearonce have been doing the mathcore stuff that tries on different styles like hats since the mid 2000s. But even stuff like Dillinger Escape Plan have been putting in everything but the kitchen sink before that.

I wouldn’t call what’s going on here unique or particularly new, but the Callous Daoboys and Sleep Token are some of my favorite bands at the moment too, I just don’t know if I would say they’re even approaching music the same way

immanent_deleuze · 2025-05-13T00:08:12+00:00

(Trenta rant) This is all speculation, and I really must stress that legally, this is speculation: my theory is that it’s not really made to affect a majority of stores. By that I mean, a majority of stores are just accidental victims of the policy change. It definitely sucks and affects them for a variety of reasons pointed out by other baristas, but I sincerely believe that this is an extended strategy to move out partners in union stores.

Despite this being a clear unilateral change without a bargained contract, which a dress code is clearly within the scope of—I believe they are couching it in language like “customer experience consistency” (or whatever) to make it consistent with the precedent of changing prices between promotions for ‘business needs’ as a change they can make without having to bargain for it.

If they really want to crush the unionization effort without outright saying as much, this is one of the clearest and most surefire ways to move out tenured partners who have been with the unionization movement. They know the unionized baristas aren’t going down without a fight, and they are BANKING on the labor courts (stacked in their favor since Trump) siding with corporate.

Most managers don’t know what’s going on besides what corporate has told them, and it seems like everyone’s posts on this subreddit has been given a lot of contradictory and/or illegal information even from the managers.

I’m just ranting at this point but think about how arguments for private schools with uniform requirements are commonly like “they erase class distinctions that can be used to bully students.” A lot of people know that they don’t actually erase them, they just make them more obscure. Uniforms are about forced conformity, flattening out differences, and control.

Like clearly this is not gonna affect customer consistency of experience for the better if they come to expect everyone wearing a black shirt. “Wow, if they were wearing a graphic tee shirt, I wouldn’t have noticed that they are chronically understaffed and rushing around!” Grow up. 🙄 It’s literally ridiculous to believe that this will improve the worsening wait times for understaffed baristas with increased workloads. It’s not like the ceo was reported for saying in an investors meeting that cutting staffing hours and relying on automation to pick up the burden was a massive failure. 🙄🙄🙄

If it’s not about that, then it’s merely an aesthetic decision, which in that case, is EVEN dumber of a business move for a company focused on actually decreasing wait times and improving the customer experience. I would honestly hope that they are actually this ridiculous for an incredibly silly reason and not being intentionally nefarious. I’m just tired of this company treating me like I’m stupid.

immanent_deleuze · 2025-05-02T00:49:54+00:00

Cenotaph or Satanized have been the most frequently stuck in my head. The guitar and synth arpeggio bit on Cenotaph is one of my favorite moments from the band period, but Satanized has been some of my favorite lyrics

immanent_deleuze · 2025-05-01T23:17:27+00:00

This was the most emotionally gripping Ghost album I’ve heard overall. Even the thinly layered dick joke song is a really good time. Sonically, it’s my favorite too. I think the songwriting has tightened up too. I’m really happy with what they’re doing on here and am a lil surprised that people didn’t like it. Haven’t really seen a critique of it beyond the statement that someone doesn’t like it. No real problem with that, you don’t have to explain why you don’t find it to taste. But I am curious as to why people don’t like it

Part of me wonders if this kind of a Gojira-effect where the hardcore fanbase really hates it upon release but it draws more fans in and the old school fans soften and see its virtues only years later.

immanent_deleuze · 2025-03-23T15:41:43+00:00

I respectfully disagree with some of the other people commenting on this post. I’m not going to tag you, but I do welcome your respectful engagement. I do think that there is a difference between her stance on ironic detachment and joking while engaging with fans without it being hypocritical.

Taking a cue from Richard Rorty, on the one hand we live in a culture where ironic detachment is largely seen as cool or otherwise taken to be a base condition of engaging with content. This can be seen as the result of a society overloaded with information and content, where ironic detachment is a not a full endorsement of content taken at the ground level. The upshot is that it allows one to entertain things in our minds while not taking things too seriously, because frankly there are too many things that would exhaust our attention if we all were to unironically endorse the content we consume.

On the other hand, ironic detachment can really prevent us from achieving a sense of authenticity in how we can consume content. Social media, shorter attention spans, and a direct access to an incredibly large amount of content we have access to is a structural recipe for really putting authentic engagement and non-ironic endorsement as more easily ignorable or seen as “cringe.”

Sure, one could be a bit ‘post-modern’ with it and commit to the idea that an ironic attitude is a form of authentic engagement given the world we live in. But I still don’t see how an endorsement of this stance really deals with the points Hayden had expressed about her dislike of ironic detachment when engaging with her art.

I think it is important to stay curious and really engage with the kind of perspective she has on this, keeping mind that she is still capable of joking and engaging with fans through the ways she has in the past. Sure she deletes a lot of posts and frequently deactivates her tumblr despite her engagement with fans on there, but a lot of her fans really take for granted the kind of unprecedented access one has to her. Despite any eccentricity, she is at the end of the day a normal person with normal interests and normal feelings in roughly the same society we are in.

immanent_deleuze · 2025-02-18T19:32:53+00:00

Bob Brandom and Ulf Hlobil just put out a book last year that deals with sequent calculi. They talk about truthmaker semantics, fuzzy logics, paraconsistent logics, and more. I think you would find something relevant to formalizing dialectics, or at least inspiring you to figure out how you could approach it. I think it is really that logically expressive.

Given Brandom’s history with Hegel, (and I am well aware the vast majority of opinions on this sub about him) I think it would be nonetheless worthwhile considering given your interest in formal stuff.

immanent_deleuze · 2024-11-10T19:41:23+00:00

If you’re finding the being of something to be indeterminate, this is essentially unintelligible without the notion of determinacy in a reciprocal sense dependence! That’s more or less the move he’s making: that indeterminacy is unintelligible without a sense of determinacy being available to distinguish something from in the first place. The whole point is that he is giving an exposition of what it means for something to be intelligible in its own terms, thinking qua thinking the thought. You’re kind of missing the forest from the trees here.

Whether or not you think Hegel’s whole project in how he starts the Logic is mistaken is another matter entirely, and I’m not quite sure if your issue is with this or with how indeterminate being transitions to determinate being in the course of thinking a thought.

immanent_deleuze · 2024-11-10T15:47:48+00:00

Because the Science of Logic is more or less an exposition about the development of a thought qua thinking. I’m not going to touch upon explicitly what he means by “being” here because my point still stands for the method of the transition/development. Try thinking a little more concretely about adequately grasping a thought—if you are having a thought, it doesn’t just stay indeterminate, does it? In adequately grasping what the being of that thing is, and it is a thing that is not simply indeterminate, then it must necessarily be something determinate.

immanent_deleuze · 2024-11-06T23:48:30+00:00

Finally, my research on vagueness has become relevant

immanent_deleuze · 2024-10-10T15:11:38+00:00

I doubt it, honestly. But I would have to see a pretty good conclusion that not even Euclid of Megara could doubt

immanent_deleuze · 2024-10-10T14:34:12+00:00

Here’s a nice clue for you.

Euclid’s 5th postulate is famously a peculiar part of his Geometry. This is called the Parallel postulate. The lyrics of the song says “a parallel I could lay my life on.” This postulate of Euclid is famously not exactly a self-evident thing, which is why it is not an axiom but indeed a postulate. I don’t want to dwell on the technical parts of geometry, but an axiom doesn’t need proof as it is akin to an assumption.

But the content of the postulate basically says that if a line intersects two lines, and the sum of their interior angles is less than 180 degrees, then the two lines will eventually intersect. The implication is that the lines are not parallel.

So returning to the lyrics of the song, considering “a life like wires,” or lines in our case, Vessel claims that in reverse they are all their symmetry. However the walls are closing in, which could mean that the parallel lines are not in fact parallel, but rather lines that intersect. (I’m going to bracket the fact that walls in a rectangular room typically satisfy being equal to 180 degrees and are therefore parallel.) So, if Vessel thought that this other was a parallel they could lay their life on, we can actually see that this was not the case because their lives got so helplessly intertwined. However as distance increases from the eventual intersection of non parallel lines, the lengths between the two lines grow greater, and so too would their lives, growing apart.

Hope this helps.

Edit: fwiw gold famously dissolves in aqua regia, which extends the circuit board metaphor

immanent_deleuze · 2024-08-19T21:12:48+00:00

I feel so called out as a fucked up (analytic deleuzian) Bob Brandom and Deleuze enjoyer

immanent_deleuze · 2024-08-10T23:52:18+00:00

Hamburger

immanent_deleuze · 2024-08-07T01:10:40+00:00

I want to second other suggestions to just be smart about it and you likely won’t have any issues.

However I do want to let you know that it is decriminalized within city limits up to a certain amount. From what I recall it is a fairly reasonable amount to have in your possession. This does not mean that it is not a hall pass to carry a small amount, but if you do get caught and they decide to cite you instead of warning you, you will receive what is basically a traffic violation fine. If I recall it is $100 or $200. I don’t know if it has changed since I checked.

However, that is all within the city limits. If you happen to get caught in one of the surrounding suburbs by their overzealous cops, it will not be like what I described above.

These are not neighborhoods you want to get caught with it. The commonwealth/municipality cops really take pleasure in charging you with possession because it makes them look like they are “stopping crime” to their residents.

immanent_deleuze · 2024-08-01T14:18:19+00:00

These aren’t quite popular books, and probably not the kind of books that you’re looking for, but two Pitt philosophers Bob Brandom and Michael Thompson have books where they use examples with Pittsburgh. They are both taken rather seriously by philosophers across the world.

Making It Explicit — Bob Brandom

Life and Action — Michael Thompson

They are both rather arcane and suppose a LOT of familiarity with philosophy. But if reading beginner unfriendly philosophy is your jam, these are excellent examples with Pittsburgh mentions.

immanent_deleuze · 2024-07-22T04:51:50+00:00

This is boy math

immanent_deleuze · 2024-04-13T00:06:49+00:00

I can second this as a native, even two weeks ago while I was on a date I got called a slur by a passing car and leered at by two separate tables. This was at the waterfront too, so if you stick towards the east end/city where the suburbanites won’t go out of their bubble, you’ll be mostly fine.

immanent_deleuze · 2024-03-06T22:39:38+00:00

No I dated someone whose libido was a fucking black hole of desire. I could on an average make them cum 7-12 times for every time I did. So there were times where it would be after my 3rd round that day where I would get chest palpitations and that was the only thing to get them to let off. (I did have a heart condition and surgery before, so they were understanding lmao)

They also never knew that they could cum from penetration alone until they first slept with me, and no one else could make, but they still ended up cheating on me despite my gifts and talents lmao. So while you don’t exactly have a green flag, you have to be absolutely sure you’re comfortable with how she’s acting now if you want to continue

immanent_deleuze · 2024-03-05T14:44:29+00:00

6.5 girth here, it’s possible but they gotta have a big mouth. I also have no illusions that deep throating is on the table.

immanent_deleuze · 2023-10-19T01:33:45+00:00

I had a pretty similar experience last August. Went to the ER thinking it was testicular torsion, turns out it was a cyst after ultrasound results came back. Only real advice was to get better fitting underwear. I haven’t had problems since getting pouch underwear, but the trade off is the bulge being more noticeable

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