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I've been sleeping very little lately, something like 4-5 hours per day, not always contiguous. Well, I did sleep for six continuous hours today so I guess that's good.
Also I've been watching lots of PC hardware porn recently, doing that thing where you daydream about having things you can't afford. Imagine all the real-time PBR modeling one could do with all that.
Actually, "doing that thing where you daydream about having things you can't afford" would be a pretty good description in either case.
My sort of post-graduation experience: you get paid about as much as a cashier in retail store, but at least you don't have to be as polite.
Yeah that's happened quite a few times.
I used to browse the Saks Fifth Avenue site at least once a week for years, but I haven't done it since I started being more conscious of pricing.
This is probably one of the biggest things I'd consider before doing anything too. Working with a group that can take/give a few punches without it becoming a thing. I feel like when it comes to intellectual stuff IRL I can be unknowingly, needlessly abrasive.
I didn't know this until a supervisor mentioned that people can mistake such things for personal attacks. I try to be more conscious of it, but that just means I speak less than usual because I'm afraid of starting and then never stopping.
Anyways, I have no idea if this is justifiable conflation, but a few days after I posted about that blackface sweater I had the unfortunate luck to find myself in front of an article that claimed Ariana Grande's new album used 'blaccent' and also her latest music video was queer-baiting.
So I'd like to clarify, even if this isn't a very popular opinion and in certain circles would most certainly get me called a bigot. When I talk about fashion being racist, it's a just a thing I find funny. Fashion is dumb, and fashion conglomerates deciding what's in or out is as silly as heck, but I do subscribe to it to quite a degree. However, I don't find their behaviour pervasive or [a thousand other words that describe modern scare language]. In fact, I'd totally miss stuff like this if it stopped happening.
As for Ariana Grande... the first thing isn't even a thing (though I do find the term 'blaccent' stupid and offensive so yay twitter) and pop stars literally thrive on queer-baiting and they will never stop doing it and I don't think it's ever genuinely hurt anyone? Like last year it was Rita Ora and this year it's someone else? As such, why can't we just hand her a giant 'who cares'?
But the lyrics to the song seem pretty much to be generic "I'm obsessed with this boy" stuff. To be fair, they don't specify the gender if any of the person she wants to break up with their girlfriend but come on.
Cranky Old Man 14w says: Pop music has so much swearing nowadays...
This is the appropriate approach towards everything.
1. Florida Man Breaks Into Home To Fry Chicken
2. Florida Woman Picks Up Florida Man And Throws Him Out
3. Florida Woman Shares Well-Seasoned Fried Chicken With Friend
The plot is officially lost. I will be checking out of what passes for reality nowadays for a while, starting now.
I took pictures
Mia says Hello!
Moved the Rabbit Hutch under the tree.
Moved the carrots to make an impromptu hanging garden for Andrea.
New Daniel with his unfortunately large smile is reading scary stories by the window. It was a nightmare to get him into this position and he kept falling over whenever I managed it. One time I managed to do it and I ended up putting the book into his arms upside down.
I have no idea why I'd positioned Mia like that outside the door in the first shot but it reeked of mischief so here's Mia scaring the life out of her brother. Andrea's not too bothered. She knows how these siblings are.
I still don't know why this lightning warning sticker is in this set, to be honest.
My allergies are acting up and they are making it hard to focus on how awesome Toy Fair 2019 is.
Besides that:
On Valentine's Day a few years ago, superstar athlete Oscar Pistorious shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Her friends and family grieved.
On Valentine's Day this year, Reeva's best friend entered the inaugural season of South Africa's The Bachelor?
I've heard of moving on from trauma but come on.
No matter how hard twitter tries, it will never beat real life at ????
I understand that the main repercussion of this is that he's massively hurt the credibility of any following hate crimes in the eyes of many, but I think this is part of the problem when we expect celebrities to not just be fancy acting/singing people wearing clothing we (or possibly even they) can't afford.
My main ideas of celebrity are built from the cynical self-inserts of the late 90s, when everybody in the serious bits of the industry was more jaded and not slightly embarrassed about the horrifying amounts of drugs they were all on. I mean, this continued into the early 00s with the Lohans and Britneys but at some point people suddenly expected celebrities to be actual role-models and to reflect real philosophies.
Personally, outside of the very very serious issue he's created, I'd personally like to thank Jussie Smollett for being this year's top celebrity. I mean, unless Lindsay Lohan tries to kidnap even more Muslim children from their parents there's nothing that'll beat this story. I bet E! will literally bring back The True Hollywood Story just to cover this and I'll be #1 in line to watch it.
Anyways, the Atlantic did a fantastic article on this.
I think I may have heard of this issue, but from, well, our particular brand of Reddit where ~75% of the content is r/TheDonald. I guess that serves well as an example of what happens when such stories are faked, and what kind of people sees that as the validation of their views.
Similarly, not long ago, I've read of a case where after a two-year battle to clean his name, a dude decided not to press charges against the woman who, in the end, admitted that her accusation of him raping her was actually a lie. There were voices, from the left side of the net-based media mind you, that he did well and that it will help the real victims to come forward and seek justice for themselves. My own opinion is that, well, it's upside-down. It's a classic boy-cried-wolf case. Woman should've been punished so that when a real victim comes forward, she won't be dismissed. That, so to say, the fact of her coming forward speaks in her favour.
Yeah, I think rapid unfiltered reactions on social media don't help these sort of cases where you aren't even playing with facts until two weeks in. I don't blame the people who showed their support for him. Though most of them (especially those not close to him) could have held on the trigger finger for a bit, they were irrelevant to the overall story. They didn't do anything wrong.
The main problem here I guess I'd agree is with looking to validate your own point of view.
I would agree. I mean I'm all for understanding somebody's circumstances, but I feel when it comes to areas like this where we're all a bit more sensitive due to the nature of the crime. We can easily miss the fundamentals of what was done. I'm betting there aren't many copycats out there, but I'm sure this bolsters whatever future case there is for one to carry out a similar crime.
Luckily, in this case, the police are surely going to throw the book at him.
I am not glad that anyone else on social media that has no connection to it has expressed any opinion on it, either way. In my opinion, they should all shut up and let the police do their job (and to hold up their end of the bargain, the police should do their job well and comprehensively and without bias). Truth is not (and should never be) determined by who has the bigger megaphone.
Meanwhile, in Florida: how to screw up government-approved digital music download sales
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/florida-inmate-says-prison-sold-him-569-of-music-then-took-it-away/
This is really sad, but I also wonder if there are legitimate reasons from banning criminals from the iStore aside from "we can make more money that way".
I mean, yeah, there is an element of this they bank on. [Celebrity X] puts out a line of perfumes, insisting this is how you should smell. [Celebrity X] is in a car commercial, insisting this is how you should drive.
These old (possibly current) instances were places where they leveraged their image and success to influence people. Now, not only is it their image they must leverage, it's their very moral compass and opinion on every issue too.
Which is a bit much, I'd think.
I think this is the double-edged sword. The most important part of celebrity is to self-promote and get whatever thing you're selling out there, but if you don't participate in certain things you might be the one person who is singled out as not caring about the issues.
If we insisted on more media literacy, I think we'd see less of this. When you see a celebrity on TV at an event or an awards show, it's good to remember that they are there promoting a product and part of that is seeming as relatable as possible. Plus, most of the are professionally trained actors who will possibly say anything to achieve that goal.
Without getting into specifics: The main issue is that when many people talk politics, they talk with respect to their norms -- what should happen, or what they want to see happen. Intent is key, intent is gold. However, when I talk politics I often talk about observations, objectives, and means. Intent is but a tiny piece of this; a much bigger part of what I think of is basically ignoring intent and assessing the situation.
So I'll get into problems where I will observe stuff that I don't even necessarily agree with, but people think that by saying those things I mean that I like them.
I like to play devil's advocate when I argue, which people seem to not get is a thing anymore.
Anyways arguing politics on the internet has become an emotionally charged minefield, so I guess it's best to just be wary of that in the future. In my experience, you have a tendency to just go straight in without prefacing stuff with the relevant pretext. To be honest I don't think my advice will help in most circumstances, but some people might get it.
For me this was going to be the year of buying more stuff. Mostly dolls, because I always covet them online and then never get any. Then I watched a video from The Atlantic about how much pointless stuff people tend to have.
It's made me rethink how I approach physical stuff at the very least. It's really fun to collect lots of things, but I've found that you have way less physical space to store things in and even less brainspace to appreciate the things you do have.
So I'm going to put a lot of thought into things, or even if I'm going to go on with this year of more stuff at all.
The video also covered something called 'Capsule Closets', which is when you reduce your entire closet to 36 pieces.
I think you all know how far from that I am but I really wish I could pull it off. The worst thing about trying to clear up your stuff, for me at least, is that if you cave once that's it, everything's going back.
I've began placing way too much emphasis on making sure my YouTube Watch Later list is at 0.
Related; I hate to be a broken record but it has been raining for three days straight.