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It would certainly cut down on those pesky cost-of-living expenses.
15·10 days agoMostly just subjects I don’t have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
Grausame Töchter is loads of fun, and I’ve enjoyed some of the others.
Twins in Fear has done some work with Aranea of Grausame Töchter.
Also check out Vampyros Lesbos.
Maybe also:
That sounds more like social anxiety.
Believing illusions is much older than photography. People went to plays and laughed and wept before anyone ever thought of how to capture it for replayabiliy. It seems to be an inbuilt function of human compassion or sympathy.
Taking a step back, one can also realise even the ‘real’ events are illusion. The Case Against Reality is a reminder the human mind doesn’t have privileged view of reality, and never did. Existence monism, or the oneness of being, erases the lines we draw to make maps of reality. It’s all just sensory data. …But, that’s a deeper rabbit hole than I feel like diving into just now.
It’s a mix. The amount of information coming at people is vast, so much so as to be impossible to fully manage. It’s also tainted in various ways to various degrees. Some forms of misinformation are simply caustic, destroying the individual as they ingest it. Some is ideologically carcinogenic, creating harmful lumps that slowly choke off the host. Some is intentional, taint added by malicious actors. Some is negligent, added by those who don’t know or don’t care that it does harm. Some is well-meaning, impurities added because the adder likes them, regardless of the other effects it might have. And some is just there from sources long dead, still circulating because the filters haven’t caught it all. You can try to filter it but it’s a firehose. It’s nigh impossible.
No cups. Fire hose fed by pipes made of lead, rotting wood, and bisphenol plastic, and filtered through other people’s kidneys.
From what I understand, most anime is made for Japanese audiences and licensed out for localization after the fact. I’d be surprised if more than a few Japanese companies spent much time considering what the rest of the world wants to watch.
2·24 days agoMisread woodworker as woodpecker. Amusingly surreal.
Exactly. There are a lot of things I find uncomfortable about other cultures, but I know I can’t force my beliefs onto other cultures. They have to deal with that themselves.
That’s their standard. The rest of the world doesn’t get a say, same way Nigerians don’t get to tell British gay folk not to be gay, Scandinavians don’t get to tell Americans what kind of gun laws they should have, and you don’t get to ban the Chinese from eating dogs. Your standards don’t determine the lives of people half a world away. If they don’t it want to change, it won’t.
-Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?
-Sure. What are you looking for?
-Anything, as long as it doesn’t have rice or soy in it.
-… here you go.
Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that’s the only way you’re going to avoid all the people who don’t share your beliefs.
I’m no brainologist but I wonder if things like this might be more related to autistic cognition. There seems to be something similar in the space of not attaching the same significance to events others find emotionally charged.
4·28 days agoPragmatically, I am, not because I chose to play the game, but because I didn’t play well enough to win.
With the benefit of perspective, no one’s. There is no author. The game, the loss, all of it, and even the world it took place in are meaningless. It’s all just part of the universe playing with itself.
Not really.
‘Mood disorders’ are highly heritable. Poor economic circumstances are highly heritable. Unhappy people who have children rarely cite them as the cure to their unhappiness. It’s very likely that, if an unhappy person had kids, they’d be unhappy too. Not a given, but more likely than not.
The truth has value in decision making, while comforting lies have value in stress reduction. Choosing ‘truth’ over ‘comfort’ is a long-termist strategy. Being satisfied by a simple answer will make you feel better now, increasing survivability in the short term, but finding a better model of the world to operate by, a.k.a. learning, lets you make better decisions for the rest of your life.
1·30 days agoIn a computer, checking a memory address would be closer to what we would call ‘conscious’ actions in a person. It is performed actively by software. In a brain, we still don’t really have a full understanding of how memory is stored, but we at least know it isn’t part of our experience that we have explicitly defined storage locations that we address. If it were, we’d have a name for it. Computers and brains are metaphorically similar but structurally and functionally quite different.
Free will is based on the concept of the individual, a concept bounded by a separation already as arbitrary and illusory as a nation’s border. It’s pragmatic to pretend these things exist in your day to day life, but they don’t mean anything to the universe.
I’d frame it more as ‘a comic artist is not spreading normative ideas. They’re just using the ideas people already have and juxtaposing them to get a laugh. They aren’t there for debate because no one should be taking a comic artist’s ideas that seriously. e.g. Dilbert guy’
Did the math on this when it was posted previously. No one is anywhere near 10000 hours.