Because that show --the original, "Mayday", is the best, but the new bastardised version is fine too-- kicks ass!
Only the massive amounts of tritium produced by Chinese nuclear plants and indiscriminately dumped in the ocean every day is good enough for the Chinese patriots!
The tiny amounts safely released under the supervision of global nuclear safety agencies by Japan...that shit is toxic!
Mother nature as an old woman with large pendulous breasts, overseeing all her creatures in all their glory, lol.
#InkblotArt
I've written more on nostr today than I've written in my "book" today...
I did some editing, but it's hard to just jump right back in.
Maybe I should just write directly on nostr? A lot easier said than done. Respect to those who do!
Like they had such a great opportunity to explore how power corrupts, how capitalism encourages merchants of hype who profit off the manipulation of the masses, and how the specific subjectivity of someone who looks at others as pawns to be shuffled around is both a product of this system and a reinforcing, validating factor in its propagation.
Elon is a power-mad manchild, of course, but the story doesn't begin or end there, so framing the narrative around his personal descent into mental corruption and hypocrisy is so limiting.
Much better: this is where the corrupting effects of power will lead all autocrats, fascists, and would-be strong men whom the masses choose to follow.
In the absence of competing narratives that undermine the totalitarian, monopolising effects of capital, narratives that feed into Great Man theory just prop up the status quo, which is brutal, unrestricted, and asymmetrical class warfare.
Watching Frontline's docco on Musk and Twitter and it's so frustrating.
They are one of the best in the biz at using the documentary format to present a compelling narrative, but at the same they always just show the limits of the format in their attempt to present all sides of the story.
You can't really educate anyone about anything if you always have to meet them where they are, and carefully attempt to lead them to where they should be; you have to wholeheartedly present to the world where everyone should be and accept that many will not accede.
This is a lesson for Bitcoiners.
Day 12: Been off for two weeks; my mom and stepdad traveled halfway around the world to visit me and I was in pure vacation mode.
Now it's all over and I'm feeling all kinds of nostalgia and lethargy, trying to jump back into my routine.
So let's get back into it; it remains to be seen if I can get any work done today.
Thanks for taking the time to make a case for Liquid as a reply to a joke thread.
This is what nostr's all about!
I came in agreeing with the premise of the article because I have never heard of anyone actually using Liquid, and I came out with useful information that has shifted my perspective.
Day 11: Late again, but the work is done. Re-reading an old book and found support for my current line of reasoning at the particular point I just reached in it. Serendipity indicates...?
It's like having a whole bunch of conspiracy-loving right wing uncles, who are funny and into a bunch of kooky oddball shit you don't have any idea about but get annoying real fast if you spend too much time with them. Also, some of them are fucking rich and you can't help but respect them despite the fact that they live to lord their power over others.
Day 10: Was yesterday, but gotta keep up the updates (for whatever reason). Felt the strongest "writer's block" so far on this project, which has been going slowly but steadily.
I guess it's because I'm into some subject matter that I'm not super familiar with and the words aren't just flowing as easily as they would. Research should be a big component of my work but thus far I really haven't been getting very deep into any topic, mainly because I'm writing an introduction and the overall narrative takes precedence. Another day, another page (at best).
Day 9: The streak is alive. Didn't make a ton of progress but every day I manage to thread the needle, to dive back in where I left off and add something intelligible to the page, I consider it a win.
Day 8: Felt really good today. Lots of progress. Weather still shit, and will be well into the foreseeable future.
I'm doing these updates (for presumably no one) because I envisioned writing as a collaborative process, and who knows how it will eventually turn out, but that's kinda hard to imagine right now. Also I like just keeping a little record to keep myself invested in my work. I don't know, it's all so vague. Most importantly of all I think is actually completing enough work to qualify as 'writing a book' and not just ranting into a text file offline. I'm about ten pages in; not sure when it qualifies but I feel like once I finish the introduction I can confidently assert that.
Would anyone actually want to read my work? Could I actually get any constructive or useful feedback from nostr users? Am I providing any value at all to anyone by doing this?
I kinda prefer not answering these questions so that I can maintain the fantasy of my work having meaning, even though, sure, it has meaning to me regardless of whatever else you could say about it.
Damn Jimmy, get out of my head
Day 7: I got through. This weather is trash. Probably should start working on this over weekends as well because it's getting tough to just snap back into writing mode after zoning out for four days in a row.
I'm happy as long as I put some quality words down on the page every day that I've committed to do so, but putting a few more down wouldn't hurt either.
It's on Blockstream's "Liquid" network, which apparently is a Bitcoin layer 2 network, but which I've never heard of anyone using except on Blockstream's twitter
Day 6: Self-doubt is always one of the things people need to overcome to accomplish anything and it's typically considered wholly negative. However in actuality, it's such an important aspect of subjectivity, though like anything else, too much can be a huge problem.
I find myself constantly tossed around between waves of crippling self-doubt, and while it's always satisfying to break through and make some progress, I know that the next wave is coming. What's the alternative? Just riding high on your own hype forever and completely losing touch with the altitude that humanity usually sits at? Staying humble is important.
One of those days...managed to punch through and it feels good but I gotta keep reminding myself that staying disciplined and steadily working is the only way forward.
Going to bed earlier and not overdoing it on Starfield is a good first step wouldn't hurt either smh
Too many bitcoiners like that tbf, but yeah this guy is the king of the "spicy take" attention economy.
He really does think Bitcoin is about him.