your friendly neighbourhood vampire

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

Why is this impressive? Is it impressive that The Youth came up with the concept of using near-homophones in comparison to giving up on speech altogether? A language like English already has so many synonyms for each word or idea which convey the same meaning and allow for a wide breadth of expressive choices, this should make it fairly resistant to the effects of censoring specific words. I don't think it demonstrates intelligence to pass over using existing synonyms in favour of creating a silly sound-alike, it's think it demonstrates a very limited vocabulary and disinterest in expanding it. I think it does a great disservice to discussions of "important things" to say things like "sewer-slide" and "unalived" instead of more dignified euphamisms like "took their own life" and "passed away". It's also not very clever from the standpoint of avoiding detection by automated censors; "sewer-slide" sounds so similar to "suicide" that it will be far more easily flagged. I understand the desire to say "the kids are alright, actually" but they really aren't for the most part.

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url

rickrolling is an incredibly nice and gentle way of training you to be aware of what links you're clicking on

there are apparently a lot of mushrooms that are poisonous to some people and edible for others. unlike food allergies, it’s not an allergic immune reaction, it’s mushroom poisoning but only for some people

edibility is “delicious but maybe not worth it”

who up wasting their only shot at life through complete and utter inaction

this is NOT about not being productive, i cannot believe how many people in the notes are telling me that pursuing hobbies isn't a waste of time i KNOW that. what i mean by "complete and utter inaction" is doing nothing. not only am i not being productive or pursuing any goals, i'm also not doing any of the myriad things i know would bring me joy. i'm not doing hobbies, i'm not hanging out with friends, i'm just sitting around rotting away for no discernible reason

Reading this article was pretty depressing btw, everyone’s going to therapy allegedly but the emotional cowardice of this as a concept lmfao

guy in the excerpt is just a new spin on the guy who leaves for a pack of smokes and never comes back