Opinions, art, debate
This happens daily, many times over:
Once again, the cucks who were whining about a Russian soldier killed by a drone have zero reaction to this.
Most importantly though, let’s wonder about this:
How do you tell the people who entertain themselves with murdering civilians in these human safaris to go home? To do what? These are not Ukrainians with their businesses, restaurants, and coffee-makers. These are people who barely saw an indoor toilet before they invaded a country that has them.
Once, just once I bought at Walmart, and the shrimp turned out to be radioactive.
God is trying to tell me something.
The new Cracker Barrel logo:
Those who have been to the place even once know that the minimalist aesthetic of the new logo is pretty much the exact opposite of what Cracker Barrel is.
A rebrand should express something, instead of stupidly modeling the logo on five trillion other identical logos.
In the USSR, scholars had to find proof that all scientific discoveries had been made by Russians. Gravity, electricity, the telephone. The idea was that the evil West had stolen and appropriated all of these Russian discoveries.
We all knew it was stupid but not in our wildest dreams could we imagine that this idea of evil West victimizing poor Russia would become accepted as The Truth in the West. “Russia invaded Ukraine because of the NATO expansion” is the equivalent of the Soviet-era “Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea of the telephone from a Russian Okhriutka Milkhriutka because that’s how the evil West always keeps Russia down.” Few things are as constant in the Russian narrative of its history as the idea that the West keeps Russia down on purpose because it wouldn’t win an honest competition.
Winning the Cold War has somehow brought us an uncritical adoption of every Soviet ideological invention. We now have people proudly calling themselves Socialists and winning elections on the strength of that identification. The left and the right are competing in who out-rubbishes the West. Postcolonial theory invented in the USSR is embraced by the left and the right. It’s hard to figure out what exactly was won in the Cold War and by whom.
Segmenting also works for large projects. Let’s say your apartment is a mess but you don’t have time to clean. Break the task into many small pieces. Walk around the apartment counting the pieces.
You are doing your step challenge in the process, so that’s good already. And maybe you are naming the parts of the apartment aloud in German (or whatever language you are learning). Three goals at once.
That’s what I call maximizing for time.
Make a list, draw a game board, decorate it if you are into that kind of thing. That’s art therapy plus meditation. Two more goals knocked out. Then sneak those bite-sized little pieces of cleaning into your day. Don’t clean your apartment. Clean the left side of the bathroom sink. And do it between other things like you are sneaking it in.
OK, OK, it’s not for everybody, I get it. But I got a lot of enthusiasm and actual requests on Anonymous Questions from people who want to know. If you are not into it, that’s fantastic. Read this as a glimpse into the lives of aliens from another galaxy.
As promised, here’s an insight into the workings of a neoliberal mind.
Gamify everything.
Break the day up into segments and use every segment to advance your individual goals. What those are, I don’t know. Everybody has their own. Maybe you are writing a novel. Or learning a language. Or trying to become a better parent, achieve inner peace, improve your health, increase your earning potential. I don’t know what it is but each segment of your day should include something that brings you closer to that goal.
I have a meeting at two. I’ll bring a list of German words and work on memorizing them while everybody is dying of boredom, listening to a bureaucrat du jour drone one about paperwork. Then I’ll conjugate some words and write a little composition in German. I’ll leave the meeting wide awake and intellectually ready for something more challenging.
Afterwards, I have to talk on the phone to an elderly relative and listen to her 20-minute description of her medical procedure. I’ll use that time to get in a couple thousand steps for my step challenge. I’ll be much more patient with the elderly relative and more eager to hear all the details because I’m doing something for myself during the conversation. Something health-related, which makes it less anxiety-inducing to hear about medical procedures.
Stop between segments and ask, what did I do for myself in the past hour? What will I do in the next? What benefit can I derive from this next activity? How can I make it into a game?
This shit is so engrossing, I was at the dentist’s yesterday for a long procedure, and they had to tell me several times they were done and I could leave.
By the way, have you tried saying “überqueren Sie die Straße” after several shots of anaesthetic into the roof of your mouth? If that’s not a fun, unusual challenge, I don’t know what is.
To my earlier point, I just saw on Twitter that in America it’s the Right that demands to drag “children from Gaza” into this country for “lifesaving surgeries.” In those same words. It’s extraordinary.
We have the left and the right promoting the exact same measures that lead to the exact same result of undermining the nation-state.
It’s got to be all sorts of funny that the left and the right both clobber the nation-state with these utterly imaginary “children from Gaza who need surgeries.” It’s like they are reading from the same script. Couldn’t even be assed to come up with something original. Fascinating.
Tomorrow I will be posting suggestions on how successfully to neoliberalize ourselves because it’s now clearly inevitable.
She thought that with a name like Miriam Krinsky she can be in charge of a leftist organization? Poor naive fool.
It’s not only the left. A significant portion of the right is like this, too. Helping hasten the collapse of the USSR was bad. Why? Because America did it. Winning World War 2 was bad. Because America did it. Listen to Tucker Carlson. His interpretation of the US history in the twentieth century is identical to that of a Berkeley professor. I mean this in a literal sense, having talked to several Berkeley professors. There’s nothing that America did well in these people’s opinion. Every bastard dictator on the planet is better than the US.
Since people are talking about libraries, I want to post these photos I took at our university library last week. This is since books were ejected:
I didn’t choose a particularly weird corner for the photos. It’s all like this now.
This entire idea that young people can’t survive if they aren’t horizontal much of the time is counterproductive. A young man in his late twenties came to my office completely winded because he walked 3 flights of stairs to get there. He remained winded and heaving for the next 15 minutes of our conversation. I’m… not in my late twenties, let’s put it that way, but I walk these stairs all the time and don’t notice it.
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