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I appreciate this measured take. Whenever generational differences get brought up, they oftentimes seemed framed as if generations are biologically different creatures or willfully choosing to be stupid in some sector. In all, or at least must cases, it’s what you suggest: people responding and developing based on what the environment has presented them.

I place the limit of acceptability somewhere around Soul Man (1986).

I’m not sure what year blackface became for reals not okay. Definitely after the mid80s but also definitely before 2000

You know, I can go with that. I was just reflecting how her response to all this is a beacon of light in what is otherwise an absolutely grim, disgusting event.

What is scene music?

Protestors threw rainbow confetti on the neo-nazis

Way more of this please

wtf. You’d think that’s be the end of his candidacy

Are there currently any viable examples of this out there? “Viable” in this case meaning you can find stuff on there and it’s easy to set up, I guess

Kindred spirits! I log ‘to check out’ lists and call it a day

That bit was regarding why they wouldn’t do the same thing regarding one’s father

Personally I think it’d be a power move to say I fucked you’re dad

The whatever reason bring that they’d have played themselves because homophobia.

I imagine the potency of yo mama jokes that focus on banging her, as opposed to accentuating how ugly she is, comes from the discomfort of sexualizing someone that you want to not have sexualized given your intimacy with her. Reframing your mom as a sexual being rewrites the experience of affection with her, for example.

The ugliness piece devalues someone precious to you.

I also thinks it’s just a rules of the game that people decide on and then forget. Participating in a game about who will gets upset, everyone implicitly agrees that this is something they can fall prey to having a reaction about. Sort of social game theory

I make a peanut butter concoction subbing a whole grain like spelt for the bread and using pb that is just peanuts. Would that be considered any better?

I hear you on the resources needed for computers being scarcer. But this might still fall overall under human induced scarcity. If we lived in more communal ways, the whole approach to personal computers could change, for instance, in a way that increased access in a more sustainable way. In no way do I believe that will happen, ofc. Just as we’re not likely going to go from every household owning one or more televisions to having, say, a shared theater in every neighborhood

There is definitely human induced scarcity. I debated including that distinction.

I appreciate the analogy

Going back far enough, scarcity is the answer. We technically live in a post-scarcity world now. But we are bound by the models we developed when it existed.

There’s a comic book for that: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/we-stand-on-guard

Yup. At the end of the day, YouTube provides two resources: entertainment and information. Given that I’m willing to drop any particular creator or show, which I am, entertainment can always be found elsewhere. Worst case, I suffer a little bit of FOMO. And information in the internet ecosystem is like water in nature; it finds a way to keep flowing around

Ditto with red pandas

That was a cool read, thank you