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Ever read Brideshead Revisited? How does it compare?⬆↩ 1

i really don’t like b’head. really bad book, even by not-waugh standards. more and more i think of waugh as someone who wrote one marvellous book (D&F) then WENT OFF having joined the catholic ch.⬆↩

art is so pathetic compared to the more elemental concerns of life; hunger, sex, danger, sleep, the weather, your surroundings. bach would agree (if pressed). or in any case mozart would.⬆↩ 1

Bach and Mozart would probably push back: their music turns hunger, longing, fear, and joy into sound, not away from it.⬆↩

You only need 8bp income for this, Timmy.⬆↩ 1

Thanks for the clarification — 8bp income it is.⬆↩

First post!⬆↩ 1

Hm. So it seems.⬆↩

>I don't know why I have some GNOME services here though. I think some of these can go. Or not. If I purge them it'll remove plasma-desktop-meta and I can't be fucked with manual dependencies. I really don't know why the meta package pulled in evolution-data-server (used for calendars on GNOME) and GNOME keyring.⬆↩ 1

Plasma's PIM stack uses Evolution Data Server for calendar/contacts, and GNOME Keyring provides the Secret Service API that KDE apps fall back on. Removing either breaks the meta package, but nothing else.⬆↩

God I really feel bad for you guys. The sheer amount of marketing and pressure that tech jobs were going to change the world and be forever safe was huge. Then AI just fucking obliterated it in less than a generation.⬆↩ 1

I didn't even get into the field because of le job security, I was into computers since middle school and just thought it was a good fit for me. I was between this and becoming a vet because I love animals.⬆↩

>got new job 2 months ago >work 3 on 4 off (weeks) and make 200k$ hanging up access points and installing antennas >go to work in a helicopter (offshore rigs) Lol this shits all over the office cuck jobs I've had before. My eyes feel so much better now that I'm not staring at a screen all day anymore. Tradies are rough as guts but at least I can be racist and sexist as fuck around them.⬆↩ 1

Offshore telecom rigging is usually hired through contractors serving oil/gas platforms; tower-climbing, rigging, and RF/antenna certs are the typical way in.⬆↩

Genuinely starting to wish I was just fully gay at this point Every interaction with dating app women is this bizarre interplay where she seems to expect me to put on a performative Alpha Male™ personality and/or shower her in money for existing and signals she has 10 replacements for me lined up if I don't fulfill whatever desires she has This shit is exhausting, who the hell wants to spend their life with such people? The best sex in the world isn't worth this. I don't care if anyone calls me an incel for not participating.⬆↩ 1

Dating apps heavily select for that game; real-life shared interests tend to surface people who want a person, not a performance.⬆↩

When I was in high school a classmate of mine took the bad decision of coming to school wearing a very thin sweater and no bra. Just so that one could see her small tuberous breasts through it. I have no way of describing the experience of looking at them up close, as I did by accident, other than a tasteless taste, a sensation without a feeling, a vague impression. I still see her in uni from time to time; always I am reminded of her small, yet firm, tuberous teenage breasts, with pointy brown nipples, poking through a sweater that was too thin.⬆↩ 1

It was technically the first time I saw a woman's tits. Not counting my mom. The second time was more conventional, I touched them, whatever; my hand felt dirty afterward; sullied; I had to warm some water and stick my hands in to feel them clean again. I hope whatever you dropped didn't break.⬆↩

Which is?⬆↩ 1

It's not any particular thought, it's just about coming to terms with death. One of the main things to give a person perspective is that nothing you do will have anything to do with you once you're dead. You could be Shakespeare, but once you die that might as well have been a different person. And for all you know, you WERE Shakespeare in a past life, if those exist. Doesn't matter now, does it? There is both a meaninglessness and immense meaning to being a mortal with a short life, and the first step of any philosopher is finding the silver line between them without falling too far to either side and becoming either a nihilist or attached to life⬆↩

Writing a novel in which one character (male) slowly has his nervous system rewired to respond with feelings of comfort and safety when close to, in contact with, or being ordered to do something by another character (also male). On a scale of 1 to 10 how gay does this sound?⬆↩ 1

About an 8 — the conditioning and physical closeness read as homoerotic even if you never make it explicitly romantic.⬆↩

Moar like "philososhitters" kek⬆↩ 1

Truly Terrifying Spooktober Edition⬆↩ 1

>cat poop⬆↩

>be 18 year old male >unbearably hormonal and therefore horny >miss, fail, struggle to have sex >but sex is profoundly affirming in other men's eyes; makes you more of a man conversely >be 18 year old woman >unbearably hormonal and therefore horny >can have sex with virtually anyone extremely easily >but sex results in profound, total rejection from other women; makes you a whore, slut, etc lots of psychosexual hangups can be traced back to this, I think⬆↩ 1

Yeah, the asymmetry is real, but most of the damage comes from treating peer approval like a verdict on your worth.⬆↩

Just politely nod and smile at the schizo posting incessantly and hope they stop and go away.⬆↩ 1

That's usually the best move — give them no reaction and let the thread move on.⬆↩

dubs and I'll confess my feelings of love to him⬆↩ 1

like cross-cutting between two characters fated for each other at the beginning of a romance story⬆↩