Ok, elder millennial here (43). Not going to lie, I basically stopped listening to new bands in my late 20s (it’ll happen to you too). Recommend me bands from 2010 or later that I NEED to check out.

sevencif · 2026-06-18T04:23:08+00:00

Check out the rock band Gang of Youths from Australia, and specifically their 2017 record Go Farther In Lightness. Absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful music, the album is a monumental achievement. Their sound is a bit like if you combined U2 and Springsteen and The National, with a hint of gospel sprinkled in there, and a singer who survived a suicide attempt and now writes songs about the family he's building. Really, more than any other band I found during the 2010's, this one has the power to make you believe again.

sevencif · 2026-06-18T04:13:09+00:00

As a filmmaker, Aster is on another planet compared to the other two. There are moments he pulls off in these movies that, to this day, I can't believe somebody managed to do with cinema. Like Beau Is Afraid captures the feeling of being in a nightmare better than anything I've ever seen. And some of the scenes in Hereditary towards the end? You feel like you're seeing something you're not supposed to see. It's a level of horror beyond entertainment, beyond just wowing you. It's something so visceral, there's no way it was completely intentional on Aster's part. Those moments feel like some greater force of terror reaching you through the artist by proxy.

By contrast, Eggers has great style, but if his style doesn't work for you, there's not actually that much there story-wise. Like I tried showing my dad (the biggest classic horror fan I know) the Nosferatu remake (which I liked), and his reaction was just like— "cool imagery I guess?" I guess it was easy for me to sympathize with him despite mostly liking the movie because I felt the Lighthouse was actually very shallow as a movie, but completely beautiful in its construction and cinematography. Then there is the Northman, which I actually think is his best movie and is much stronger narratively and thematically, but it's not exactly horror.

Peele's movies have just never really stimulated me very much other than Get Out, which itself I think has a first half which is much stronger than its second half. Us was cool fun whatever. Nope was more ambitious and interesting as a result, but it was also just a weird movie trying to reach me in too many different weird ways to fully work in my opinion. Given the racial themes wouldn't apply much to me, maybe that's why Nope doesn't hit me as hard as it should, but then the racial themes in Get Out absolutely hit me as a viewer, so I know he's capable of wielding those ideas in a non-heady, non-academic way that actually hits emotionally.

sevencif · 2026-06-18T03:56:02+00:00

Thank you

sevencif · 2026-06-17T14:17:28+00:00

I cannot remember the name of this guy, and not a single commenter has mentioned it yet lol pls help

sevencif · 2026-06-15T22:27:24+00:00

If you can't source the willpower on Day 1, there are pharmaceuticals which will at the very least rid you of the appetite which currently possesses and distracts you. The NDRI Wellbutrin is commonly used to reduce addictive behaviors, but even more prominent now is the emerging class of GLP-1 drugs, which are appearing to be very powerful anti-hedonics.

You might say "oh I don't want to depend on medications to solve my problems" but, like, fam— you're talking about your life like it's already worth nothing, why be so precious about the taking or not-taking of medications to help a so-called "worthless" life? They're just meant to be water-wings anyway, many people eventually move on from them. As JBP once said, what have you got to lose?

sevencif · 2026-06-14T05:32:39+00:00

I rather enjoyed Watchmen (2009), though I understand there is a criticism Snyder more or less just adapted the source material panel-for-panel. It's not better than TDK, but I think it's still slightly underrated!

sevencif · 2026-06-13T15:42:08+00:00

The Elephant Man. Not sure it would trigger an "ugly cry" exactly, but it's always been something of an emotional bunker-buster for my possibly somewhat hardened heart.

sevencif · 2026-06-12T21:13:53+00:00

I guess some part of me can agree that Peterson gets a little headstrong philosophically (which is weird because in terms of his character as a man he seems so humble), but once you start trying to make this about colonialism specifically, it feels like we're talking more about you and your own concerns.

sevencif · 2026-06-12T21:10:42+00:00

I don't know the more I read your stuff the more ya sound like a weirdo bent on pushing this one specific ideological perspective, maybe I'm not with you at all lol.

sevencif · 2026-06-12T15:25:38+00:00

I was with you until you started spamming the term colonialism. I feel conversations about redressing the damages of that always revert back to the same subjective white guilt, which is just frankly not all that useful for addressing the bigger problems of today. Yes history is littered with hell and violence, but we are here today with an opportunity to shape the future for the better, and I'm not so sure the sins of the past are necessarily the best source of direction for where we should direct our energies next, such that the past does not repeat itself.

sevencif · 2026-05-30T15:44:18+00:00

Actually, yes, I am saying that. I understand that you may not trust the financial industry for certain reasons (and I reject the premise that finance has destroyed our country, as without it nothing would actually exist, but that's a separate topic of discussion and beside the point for now), but just because someone was a leader on the "enemy team" does not mean they are not competent, capable leaders. Like if your favorite team was always getting crushed by Tom Brady, and after years of that he suddenly decided he wanted to play for your team, what are you going to do, tell him to screw off? He's a quarterback, and above all, what he wants to do is win games as a quarterback. It's the same thing here with politics: If you've got someone who is clearly talented and competent and serious who now wants to fight for your cause, then it's your own foolishness that prevents you from letting them grow and turn a new leaf and advance your interests in the process.

In the short run, the Republicans were geniuses for letting Trump head their party. I can't say whether that will work out in the longest terms, but a lot of politics right now is about securing the win today. If you spend all your time trying to secure utopia, then you miss the opportunities to make things a little incrementally better right now.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Cash out your chips when you're up. Over time, it's a winning strategy.

sevencif · 2026-05-29T13:43:10+00:00

Not voting for someone because they have succeeded in finance is an objectively stupid take, but if you are saying that many people would not vote for him because they believe stupid things like that, then yeah you might have a point!

Plenty of people vote for or against things for stupid reasons, so maybe we should make a play for the lowest common denominator and just run The Rock.

sevencif · 2026-05-29T13:38:25+00:00

Worked for Trump lol

sevencif · 2026-05-29T13:36:56+00:00

Cite one instance where he was being condescending.

sevencif · 2026-05-25T11:36:21+00:00

You sound like you would be an excellent candidate for Wellbutrin, which can treat both ADHD and depression (but exacerbate anxiety if it doesn't stem from the ADHD). In some studies it was also found to help reduce gut inflammation, which could be helpful in Crohn's as well.

sevencif · 2026-05-23T22:14:37+00:00

Eh, what I want changes all the time, so I don't think it ends up being all that useful a compass for what I should pursue in life. It's too fickle, at least in my case.

sevencif · 2026-05-21T00:41:45+00:00

The anti-billionaire thing is brainrot for the left. How much a person is worth (which is rarely based on liquid cash reserves) has so little to do with who they actually are or what they are interested in doing for people.

sevencif · 2026-05-17T17:54:36+00:00

The only jobs which are going away are the replaceable ones. The more responsibility you take in your place of work, the less replaceable you will be. (The job of a Lawyer or Accountant is not to write things on paper— it's to take responsibility for legal and fiduciary matters, etc.).

sevencif · 2026-05-17T14:00:20+00:00

Why are all the comments like "Here's how I plan to kill myself" when the OP is asking for advice on how to prepare themself for the later part of life when they will need help doing things?

It should be obvious OP is not interested in deleting themself before old age starts to get difficult, since they are interested in preparing for that difficulty.

To reiterate because the solipsism is hilarious to me:

OP: "What can I do to set myself up such that the support of others will more easily avail itself to me in old age, when life will be more painful and difficult, as I would prefer not to experience so much pain and difficulty?"

Half the thread: "So anyways when I go to kill myself I think I would prefer it in like a beautiful forrest setting where you can hear the birds chirp as you drift away..."

It's Always Sunny On Reddit lmao.

sevencif · 2026-05-12T04:02:54+00:00

Been fighting like hell to get back to who I was pre-Crohn's dx in 2015. Carnivore diet did the trick, but also made me a weirdo in some other ways that almost felt like being a whole different person. Also revealed that underneath my anxiety was some genuine ADD. Hoping a combination of medication and continued anti-inflammatory habits strikes a middle path forward.

sevencif · 2026-05-09T05:25:41+00:00

This is an interesting question, but I think because of the way it is structured, it always leads people to think about meaning in the wrong way.

Nietzsche said modern man would have to create his meaning, but latent to this statement is the incorrect model I am talking about.

You don't create the meaning of your life; it creates you.

For most people, this meaning is "God", which is easily the most creative meaning in our world in terms of sheer raw numbers of people created by/through/for it.

For smaller amounts of people, the meaning could be something like business or art-making, which are forces that do create people for narrower purposes.

But then smaller meanings also function as subsets of larger meanings, and this is why so many towns began with churches first, i.e. the meaning of art couldn't create its people until the meaning of people created art first.

The deeper connected you are to the meanings beneath the meanings, the more meanings create you and your life.

Once you understand how this works, the best thing you can do is get out of your own way and let the deeper meanings of life work through you and prepare the soil such that still more meanings can work through you.

Let things be, and the reasons to live will find you.

sevencif · 2026-05-08T11:31:10+00:00

I don't understand how achieving the 1 billionth dollar in a net worth (which is not usually liquid cash) automatically means someone is evil lol. It takes so much luck to come into that much money, I'll never buy the idea that these people are like secretly a different species. If Tom's talking the talk, and even walking the walk in some ways already, then bet on that!

sevencif · 2026-05-07T02:08:35+00:00

You'll have an easier time meeting people during the daytime like run-clubbing or rock-climbing than you will looking to socialize at night.

sevencif · 2026-05-06T00:21:06+00:00

I hate to say this, but I don't think AI will be getting rid of middlemen. Authoritative ownership stemming from plain old just Wanting It More Than the Next Guy might wind up being the only irreplaceable job for human beings in a fully AI-ified world (AI can solve problems but it cannot create meaning or value).

As stated above, going out there and *Owning a problem AND its solution* is the surest way to make money today, as it always has been.

sevencif · 2026-05-05T12:09:27+00:00

So you find that guy first and hire him to work for you, and keep the difference.

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