I Am Not Hopeful. I Am Not Optimistic. I AM Sure.

I'm sorry but this is the exact thing I was talking about when I said "convenience does not rot your soul."

You talking to a person over the counter to order food at a restaurant is not an anymore meaningful interaction than talking to someone who delivered that food. Delivery and take-out have always existed. That option to pay more for that convenience has always existed. The major difference now is that most restaurants no longer employ people in-house to do delivery, because it's being done by contracted gig workers who get absolutely no benefits or protections. The major difference now are the working conditions.

I agree societal connections are good, but you just going outside to order food and the coming back is not meaningfullly participating in society. Removing deliveries or any sort of accesibility service (cafes not having wifi for example) will not force people to interact with strangers if they don't want to do that. Convenience facilitates people who already don't want to interact with others, but convenience isn't what's making people lonely! You cannot passively consume your way to community.

2026 on the Hard Launch podcast + 2011 on Vyou

bonus:

Both of them saying if the other person said they were breaking up they'd laugh 'cause they'd know it wasn't serious.

Phil looking at a guy he'd known for months and knowing that he would do whatever he needed to do. He would WORK FOR THIS. And god has he. God have they both.

Thinking about Dan thanking Phil for being patient. Thinking about how Dan was safe with Phil for so many years and Phil knew that together as a team they would make it work. Thinking about both the effort and devotion in took to get through the trauma they went through with the internet and homophobia (which went beyond the internet as it started out there). The love and support and patience. Like yeah it's a christian traditional marriage phrase which i'm kind of like dan on, but truly, love is patient and love is kind.

I already cleared up the confusion about the per diem conversation. I told you that if Gemma starts being besties with Zoe, it means there was an "ultimatum situation." It seems pretty clear that Zoe made things so impossible for Harry for the weeks he was in Amsterdam that Gemma had to step in and help. Given that he's been back in London for a week now and has yet to be seen with Zoe, it seems there was a trade-off made.

And I got this today.

Hi anon, the link is this, I took it from this audio on twitter seems a better quality than the one in the livestream. Let me know if you see this.

Is a permanent link so you can download it whenever.

I hope you have a lovely day/afternoon/night.