moistclump
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- Comment on Immunity 2 days ago:
Hmm looks like you might be on to something academic.oup.com/emph/article/9/1/26/5998648
- Comment on if you had to choose one 2 days ago:
Fuck, marry, kill. In that order.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Where are you from? London. No. Where were you born? 6th Avenue.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 1 week ago:
I’ve tried SO hard, why’s it not worked? Despite “perfect” the sight?
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 1 week ago:
Why have I spent so much time staring at these things and never been able to see what people see. I have good eyesight.
- Comment on Clenching fists 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! Yes. But i couldn’t figure out what the circle was.
- Comment on Clenching fists 2 weeks ago:
Ohh. I thought maybe it was a political quadrants (what are they called? Alignment charts?) meme.
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
I always pay attention to how people feel about either the astrology or MBTI, that does give you some helpful information about them. And if they don’t agree, that also gives some information. They’re just tools to help us understand each other or ourselves, I don’t think we have to be negative about that.
- Comment on A congressman left his phone number on a prank website, so I became his right hand man 2 weeks ago:
Well worth the watch. If you’re not sure… watch!
- Comment on UFOs - John Oliver 2 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed this one. I was a bit skeptical going in. But of course, it’s John. He had a balanced, noncrazy approach that didn’t belittle anyone’s particular views on the matter.
- Comment on When a congressman left his phone number on a prank website, I became his right hand man 2 weeks ago:
That was very funny. That’s impressive.
- Comment on The Phantom Island of Google Maps - Map Men 2 weeks ago:
I thoroughly enjoyed that start to finish. Guess there’s a new channel for me to get lost in!
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- Comment on C'mon Charlie! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve used this description to explain to people how I felt going to two jobs in a row where they promised the same thing and pulled it out from under me a few months in. I’m now in third of such role and we’ll see. My trust is pretty thin note these days.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 4 weeks ago:
And GMOs
- Comment on he's coming for you 4 weeks ago:
Thank you I was trying to think of the term for those and all I could think of was “evil inventor glasses”
- Comment on Face / Off? 4 weeks ago:
Layered, with aspects of past and present culture, intertwined. Truly one for the 2050s textbooks.
- Comment on A moment can be fleeting 5 weeks ago:
Can you imagine getting named the red-backed fairywren when your fellow bird species are getting named stuff like that?
- Comment on the internet 1 month ago:
It’s hard because… you don’t want to dismiss legitimate concerns from uneducated populations. But then there’s a flip side to that where… do you have to hear them out if they’re too far wrong. Maybe it’s less about education and more about someone’s self awareness of the limitations of their own knowledge and willingness to defer to experts. I don’t think you have to be educated to be self aware and curious, and also express things and be heard.
- Comment on Flight of the Conchords- Albi (racist dragon) 1 month ago:
Love FooC
- Comment on Plans for Parliament Station to become much more fun! 1 month ago:
Why don’t we use more slides.
- Comment on How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk 1 month ago:
Um, she texted WHAT?
The Thomases and Ms. Clanton, a 29-year-old conservative organizer turned lawyer, have built such a close relationship that the couple informally refer to her as their “nearly adopted daughter.” Ms. Clanton, who was previously accused of sending racist text messages, including one that read “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE,” has lived in the Thomas home, assisted Ms. Thomas in her political consulting business and joined her in a “girls trip” to New York.
- Comment on based and graber pilled 1 month ago:
There is nothing about neoliberalism that is deserving of our respect, and so in concert with a prefigurative politics of creation, mymessage is quite simply ‘fuck it’. Fuck the hold that it has on our political imaginations. Fuck the violence it engenders. Fuck the inequality it extols as a virtue. Fuck the way it has ravaged the environment. Fuck the endless cycle of accumulation and the cult of growth. Fuck the Mont Pelerin society and all the think tanks that continue to prop it up and promote it. Fuck Friedrich HayekandMilton Friedman for saddling us with their ideas. Fuck the Thatchers, the Reagans, and all the cowardly, self-interested politicians who seek only to scratch the back of avarice. Fuck the fear-mongering exclusion that sees ‘others’ as worthy of cleaning our toilets and mopping our floors, but not as members of our communities. Fuck the ever-intensifying move towards metrics and the failure to appreciate that not everything that counts can be counted. Fuck the desire for profit over the needs of community. Fuck absolutely everything neoliberalism stands for, and fuck the Trojan horse that it rode in on! For far too long we’ve been told that ‘there is no alternative’, that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’, that we live in a Darwinian nightmare world of all against all ‘survival of the fittest’. We’ve swallowed the idea of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ hook, line and sinker; when in reality this is a ruse that actually reflects the ‘tragedy of capitalism’ and its endless wars of plunder (Le Billon 2012).
- Comment on based and graber pilled 1 month ago:
And so I settled on ‘Fuck Neoliberalism’because I think it conveys most of what I actually want to say. The argument I want to make is slightly more nuanced than that, which had me thinking more about the term ‘fuck’ than I probably have at any other time in my life. What a fantastically colorful word! It works as a noun or a verb, and as an adjective it is perhaps the most used point of exclamation in the English language. It can be employed to express anger, contempt, annoyance, indifference, surprise, impatience, or even as a meaningless emphasis because it just rolls off of the tongue. You can ‘fuck something up’, ‘fuck someone over’, ‘fuck around’, ‘not give a fuck’, and there is a decidedly geographical point of reference to the word insofar as you can be instructed to ‘go fuck yourself’. At this point you might even be thinking ‘ok, but who gives a fuck?’ Well, I do, and if you’re interested in ending neoliberalism so should you. The powerful capacities that come with the word offer a potential challenge to neoliberalism. To dig down and unpack these abilities we need to appreciate the nuances of what could be meant by the phrase ‘fuck neoliberalism’. Yet at the same time, fuck nuance. As Kieran Healy (2016: 1) has recently argued, it “typically obstructs the development of theory that is intellectually interesting, empirically generative, or practically successful”.
- Comment on based and graber pilled 1 month ago:
Excellent read, thank you.
- Comment on Placebo Méme Forte, now twice as efficient 1 month ago:
This is a placebo comment.
- Comment on What if I ever need it? 1 month ago:
Double team it?
- Comment on meow_irl 1 month ago:
Their crown.
- Comment on back to the drawing board 2 months ago:
I was pissing on the acorn on your car.
- Comment on octopus stinkhorn 2 months ago:
Gah. Looks like forest floor rotting star fish.