It didn’t expand my global music preferences but it did make my exercise playlist a very specific kind of vibe.

1 – 7 – 3 – 4 – 6 – 7 – 3 – 2 – 1 – 4 – 7 – 6 – Charlie – 3 – 2 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 6 – 4 – 3 – Tango – 7 – 3 – 2 – Victor – 7 – 3 – 1 – 1 – 7 – 8 – 8 – 8 – 7 – 3 – 2 – 4 – 7 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 7 – 6 – 4 – 3 – 7 – 6

Lock.

I think when I moved from not liking things younger people enjoyed to simply having no idea what they enjoy at all.

I’ve never been particularly with it on trends and such. When I was younger I knew the trends and rejected them in the spirit of youthful rebellion, aspects of my personality were defined by what and who I wasn’t.

Then I got a little older and rejected the things people slightly younger than me enjoyed. This came naturally, because I was no longer the target audience for these things it was easy to write them off as if I were.

Now I don’t even know enough to reject them. My knowledge of what younger people like seems to be about five years out of date. When something new comes along that seems irritating to me it seems to pass so quickly I don’t really have time to register it, and when I find something new I enjoy there’s apparently whole fandoms about it where (presumably… hopefully…) very young people fight about it, and they’re fighting about things I genuinely don’t have time to decipher. It’s like it all moves too fast for my vision to really gain focus, by the time I’m able to tell what I’m looking at everyone else seems to have already moved on.

We’re all going to heaven, the prophecy was about Lemmy it turns out

There’s a certain leftist opposition to structure in general.

I had a comrade who was actively trying to get out of jury duty because he has fair objections to the legal system. Others in our organization were encouraging him to wear communist pins and whatnot so he doesn’t get selected.

But like… what if some reactionary takes your place on the jury? Is that preferable to you being selected and needing to briefly take part in a deeply flawed system that you believe should be overhauled? Shouldn’t people who have dedicated their life to fixing these systems make it a point to operate within them in some capacity?

It’s as if they are worried participating in the system in any way will somehow taint you.

There were the occasional things like Star Wars Kid that would leak from containment into the mainstream, but nothing quite the scale of Gangnam Style.

Depends on the audience but I’ve found adding “it’s just common sense” to the end of my argument tends to be more effective than citing sources.

Not really. Sometimes I think about it but it’s sort of hard to find the time. My interests also just started to shift away from writing after high school.

That being said I remember in late high school feeling pretty frustrated because I had a good grip on the rules by now and wanted to try adding some zest to my writing.

But zest is difficult to grade, my teachers were not paid well enough to deal with ambiguity and to be honest most of them didn’t strike me as particularly imaginative in the first place.

Powdered dish detergent and running the water until it gets hot before starting the dishwasher seem to make a difference for me

It’s pretty much naive realism applied to politics.

My understanding is most do but it’s the subject of occasional controversy.

It’s an enjoyable way to engage with fiction and think critically. Everyone in the debate knows lightsabers aren’t real, but there’s established in universe rules and community-agreed principles you typically frame your arguments on. This can keep a piece of media alive for fans, if it was just about watching movies and not really examining them then there wouldn’t be much reason to revisit them, which I feel would be a shame after writers put so much work into creating a universe to explore.

It can give you a good reason to continue to engage with the content, or engage with a community of people who also enjoy the content. In my case watching Star Trek is fun and all but not if I’m just mindlessly consuming the show. Looking at a ship’s engine, liking engines in real life and saying “I wonder how that thing would work” is a good mental exercise, especially when you’ve found others who have the same questions.

I wouldn’t care one bit, nor do I know anyone who does.

The only time I notice someone’s order is if it’s ridiculously elaborate. Like I doubt you’re actually interested in drinking this but abusing a worker for content or entertainment. Otherwise yeah I not only don’t care I probably won’t even notice.

Moreover if I’m in “coffee person” mode I have a little list of cafés I go to. To me judging your order at Starbucks would be like judging your order at McDonald’s. None of this stuff is good so I can’t really be elitist that you ordered fish instead of a burger, we’re just here for convenience.

Mobile, in browser with desktop mode on.

I’m weird about apps. It’s not even a privacy thing really, I just never got into them as a concept.

The same people when I was trying to warn them in like 2012 - “They don’t want my data, I’m not that interesting”

I’m pretty sure this was what a couple of my substitutes were doing when I was in school.

Teeth

My wife probably wouldn’t come with me, my cat wouldn’t make it, I think I would struggle with finding suitable water sources that don’t count as part of the civilized world.

I go solo camping about once a year to remind myself I’d probably die out there but get it out of my system.

I’ve never seen a more accurate depiction of my typical experience in a professional environment. “Nobody wants to speak up or handle things correctly because someone senior with direct responsibility for your employment shouted down any dissent because they want to meet a metric” is apparently a timeless experience.