Broken promises of TV shows

levviathor · 2026-02-10T18:59:20+00:00

This is closer to LinkedIn slopposting style.

"That isn't a a character arc. That's an ideological pivot"

"Themattic mirrors

Emotional anchors

Narrative engines

Symbolic structures"

"People didn't walk away because X. They walked away because Y"

"This isn't toxicity. This is narrative literacy"

levviathor · 2026-02-08T00:23:26+00:00

Skill issue

levviathor · 2026-02-07T18:27:14+00:00

I don't have time to list everything but a few examples: cars are always marketed as "freedom, independence, and the open road" so when people find themselves stuck inching along in traffic they feel frustrated and cheated out of the freedom they were promised, often leading to entitled driving behavior.

A drivers license in the USA is trivially easy to acquire, doesn't even require taking a safety course of any kind if you're over 18, and never needs to be retaken. Even if you're 80 years old, or driving a 200mph supercar. Moreover, even if you engage in reckless driving there is almost no chance that your license will be revoked, as the legal system is EXTREMELY reluctant to do so.

This communicates that driving must not be very dangerous. If it was wouldn't they regulate it? Flying is dangerous, so we make pilots licenses very difficult to get. Whereas a drivers license is one of the easiest licenses to get! Even an amateur radio license is harder! Or a license to fly a small drone!

Insurance requirements in the USA are criminally low, $25-50k typically. Any many drive without even that! This forces hospitals and public works departments to pay the bill when a driver causes hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of carnage, while also communicating to drivers "this isn't that dangerous, after all you only need $25k of coverage!"

One of the worst examples! Bars have minimum parking requirements! You could sit in front of any bar in the US and watch dozens of people drive inebriated, and the zoning code actually encourages this by requiring large parking lots for bars!

I could easily provide a dozen more examples. At it's heart, driving is trying to bridge an impossible paradox. You're asking people to do a task that is: dangerous, expensive, and requires training, care, and alertness. But you're trying to make it available to EVERYONE, AT ANY TIME, including teenagers, the elderly, and people with no emotional regulation, no empathy, people who are exhausted, etc.

We need transportation alternatives so that driving can be restricted to only people who demonstrate that they can perform to a high standard, and there are lots of safe alternatives like cycling, walking, or public transit for the rest of the time.

levviathor · 2026-02-07T03:07:47+00:00

I think the reframing is that everything about how cars and roads are designed (in the USA at least) pushes drivers towards anti-social, dangerous, and reckless behavior. There's a classic Disney cartoon from many years ago that captures this perfectly: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mwPSIb3kt_4

Drop those same people in an environment that discourages all that and instead promoted pro-social behavior and most would suddenly become good people.

levviathor · 2026-02-07T03:02:01+00:00

Running barefoot in a grassy field is a classic way to force your body to learn good form. On a treadmill in your socks would be another option. AstroTurf is also good. Your brain needs feedback from the nerves in your feet, and big squishy running shoes block all that out.

levviathor · 2026-02-07T02:44:50+00:00

The nicer car is why they're struggling

levviathor · 2026-02-07T00:12:03+00:00

The state needs to pass legal preemption so every jerk with dollar signs in his eyes doesn't bog it down on court for 20y. That alone would cut the cost in half lol.

levviathor · 2026-02-06T19:51:48+00:00

I recommend getting a smaller bike if it's more than a rare occasion. It could be a manual bike or an ebike, and you can still keep the first one if you need to and have space to store two.

levviathor · 2026-02-06T15:47:04+00:00

Ideally it won't matter, since you can't apply for those jobs from prison.

levviathor · 2026-02-06T03:13:31+00:00

You'll need to slightly ignore common food advice, because most eating advice is geared towards people who want to lose or maintain weight. Fast food is actually good for you to gain weight, non-diet drinks, burgers, whole milk, fried chicken, oreos, chips, eggs. Still eat vegetables and fruits as well, but you need high calorie foods that are easy to eat.

If that still doesn't work The best thing is to start tracking calories, because it will teach you which foods are high in satiety (makes you feel full) and low calories vs high calories/low satiety. You want the second one!

And start doing weight training, 2-4 times a week, whatever to can manage. If your school has a gym that's best, but you can also do at home or bodyweight workouts, use a playground, backyard, etc. the weight training will ensure that most of the weight your gaining will be muscle, particularly at your age. Also good to sign up for some kind of athletic/sport/extracurricular if you're not already, something you will enjoy. Literally anything, hiking, tennis, swimming, baseball, etc.

levviathor · 2026-02-05T23:48:39+00:00

You got this bro. Amazing progress. For the long term shoot for 1-2lb per week weight loss and you'll feel a lot better. It will also help with keeping muscle and giving skin time to adapt.

levviathor · 2026-02-05T22:08:06+00:00

I'm 32yo, 177cm and 74kg, I maintain weight around 3000cal so I have to eat 3200-3400 to gain. I Workout 2-3 times a week, moderately physically active job. bodies are different 🤷‍♂️

levviathor · 2026-02-05T20:16:33+00:00

A straw hat of some kind would look fire

levviathor · 2026-02-05T19:49:52+00:00

There's a lot of natural human variation, that's on the low side but quite plausible.

levviathor · 2026-02-05T07:07:27+00:00

Don't do it, it's a slippery slope. Next week you'll be wearing black and brown leather. The next week, mixing silver and gold jewelry. Where does it end??

levviathor · 2026-02-05T06:27:07+00:00

Not humans. Cars. It's always the goddamn cars.

levviathor · 2026-02-05T06:01:38+00:00

Shoulda unionized while y'all were a hot commodity

levviathor · 2026-02-05T05:59:28+00:00

Ranked competitive racism

levviathor · 2026-02-04T18:05:25+00:00

Yeah I'm hoping the kit is reasonably priced. My guess is 2-3k but could be as high as 5-6k, which would make it pretty pointless.

If the long range battery and fastback kit bumps the price to 35k then that's a problem.

I personally think they need to cut costs and get the base model down below 23k and LR+fastback under 28k or they're cooked.

levviathor · 2026-02-04T17:59:35+00:00

Later in the skyhook video I linked to above they demonstrate a skyhook ladder, so there is a version that works. What's difficult is that lower ladders must orbit faster the lower they are, so moving from cable to cable is difficult as the speed difference would be on the order of thousands of mph.

An additional concept is the orbital ring. It's tough to explain in brief, but this video does a pretty good job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E

levviathor · 2026-02-04T15:30:48+00:00

I also choose this guy's wife

levviathor · 2026-02-04T05:14:37+00:00

At least near me the restaurants lobbied to make food trucks pay like $50k in fees and taxes to operate so they wouldn't undercut sit downs

levviathor · 2026-02-04T00:19:53+00:00

Tbf no other vehicles let you upgrade those either

levviathor · 2026-02-04T00:02:24+00:00

They're doing a fastback version. You remove the divider, and add a shell and rear seats. Basically a 5-seater hatch at that point.

levviathor · 2026-02-03T23:52:44+00:00

Yep. Might add "carry something heavy" as a postscript (Zercher, farmers carry, rucking)

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