i'm perishing

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

Oppression olympics is a funny term to levy against trans women, who are banned from the olympics.

from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

Out of curiosity do you recall offhand any of the latter sources? I want to read medieval peasants hating on their rulers :)

funny thing about anxiety is sometimes it kind of breaks your sense of danger. like i am known for repeatedly putting myself in situations that make my friends go "bro you couldve died. werent you scared?" and the answer is 👍 yjeah. i did it scared. i do everything scared. i didnt know that was the actual important kind of scary because i usually have to ignore my fears to function in society. it will happen again. watch out.

#when you’re both gay and one of you is stuck at a family dinner so you plan an elaborate rescue mission

i truly can never fathom how many social media "influencers" exist and why anyone would ever want to watch these people. like these are people who are my age, living at the same time as me, who's conception of life and money is so fundamentally radically different that they might as well be from the planet jupiter

wait im just now realizing, these are just the types of people who were in sororities and fraternities in college, okay everything makes sense now

All my doubters become routers when I admin the network of success

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

I'm one of the people who've used large amounts of GPUs for research purposes, and it's way worse: A fraction of the power of many of these data centers could be used to power an entire PhD's worth of research, but they're being used to do This Bullshit instead.