O Children

Poor old Jim’s white as a ghost 
He’s found the answer that we lost 
We’re all weeping now, weeping because 
There ain’t nothing we can do to protect you

No better band to go to for truly heart wrenching songs.

Although I would have to say a better selection:

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong

If you guys haven’t seen the movie I Origins, you should watch it. That song plays as the outro and it’s amazing. Don’t watch any trailers though, it completely ruins the film

Man. My friend was a huge Pearl Jam fan back in the day. He would sing this song every time we went out to any place doing karaoke. I got my heart absolutely torn apart once, and he really helped me through it. When I just didn’t want to be alone he was down for me to come by every night and we’d sit in his garage and drink beers and smoke and talk, and he played me this song—now, I grew up on Pearl Jam in the 90s. Loved them. But I hadn’t kept listening to them.

But one night when I was avoiding being alone with my thoughts and he was there for me, he told me I needed to listen to that song again. He played it and Jesus Christ, man. I never felt so personally seen by a song I’d known my whole life.

Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.

I’m willing to bet this is Amazon. Because I work in production and last May I was hired to light something that turned out to be their June commercial—which is the kind of shit I try to avoid when I can. It felt…gross as fuck. So exploitative and we could all hear the LGBTQ creators they hired lamenting how shitty it felt between takes.

With he way people talk about it here you’d think they’re being asked to sacrifice a child to drive below 60th.

I want to see a closer photo of the calico in the bottom left corner of the first pic. Looks like she’s got raccoon eye spots

Ferguson

Everyone here has seen Mad God, rights. Talk about a stop motion masterpiece.

“What we said would be the consequences of climate are the exact consequences of climate change that we are experiencing. Weird, right? Yeah, we didn’t think they would be the consequences of climate change either (no, we did. We’ve been saying it for a really long time). Anyway, let’s keep making money for shareholders before this boat sinks! (You better hurry.)”

It’s a butthole on a bun of sorts

Yeah, it is absolutely crazy how much the tide has shifted with trump’s reelection. These so-called “woke” companies (it was always performative, but they performed for the more just side) have all turned 180 and dropped to their knees to kiss the ring.

And this is because of the very real feeling that trump will abuse his power and unconstitutionally stay in office. The guardrails seem to have come down, and these fuckers are rushing to get on the fascist’s good side.

That should alarm everyone, so I’ll say it again: these companies are positioning themselves on the side of fascism because they don’t think we can stop them anymore. They are making business decisions that bolster fascists because there’s a fuckin dollar in it.

With the power of these fucking megacorps behind the fascist movement, it’s like sticking a rocket engine on its ass.

I’m def no math person, but wouldn’t it take like 70x-800x that? Because halving the yearly emissions of someone who emits 15 metric tons in their entire lifetime vs the company emitting 50 MILLION tons every single year?

It’s early and I’m typically very bad at math, so maybe I’m wrong

Plenty of creators I watch have links instead of coupon codes. So it’s not just broadly one way

lol

So you’re not making any other point because you realized you’re wrong now, right? Because if you realized the latter can be anxious while not showing the same signs as the person in private, you’re basically saying an anchor can be panicked by showing the much more subtle signs I pointed out before. And that’s the entire point of the conversation.

lol that’s not “moving the goalposts,” that’s discussing an amorphous impression being relative. Because it is. Emotions are relative. I can’t believe I’m having to explain that. And expressions are relative. When you’re anxious at home, you pace, maybe cry, try to shake your arms to let out your anxious energy. If you’re on stage, waiting to give a presentation in front of an auditorium full of people and you’re anxious, you’re sitting there, trying to remain outwardly composed, but you’re probably looking around, fidgeting, all while trying to remain presentable.

So you’re saying the latter can’t be anxious because they’re not pacing around, crying?

Absolutely ridiculous logic.

Well, most of the Spanish speaking world calls Barcelona the same way we call it. With slightly different inflection, but only the castellanos have the “Spanish lisp.” Which derived from some king who had a lisp, if I’m remembering that correctly? So other Spanish speaking people—most of them, in fact, don’t call it “barth-elona.”

I learned Spanish in Spain, so I started speaking in that lispy Spanish. But as I continued to get way more fluent, living in the other parts of the Spanish speaking world, my accent changed.

Ugh! If I weren’t so straight I would clutch my pearls. Maybe I’ll have to go buy some pearls to clutch.

I dunno. Because when creators are pushing those affiliate links, they’re offering discounts. That’s why their users go there. And if honey was giving them a bigger discount, I’m sure that’s not illegal. But if it was just poaching the 10% 94 whatever the creator was already offering, giving them still 10%, but taking that “last click” because it checked?

Who knows, the company is bigger and has PayPal at its back. So might makes right in US law. I’m sure that will be the outcome. But I’ve been surprised before.