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Brandish your sewing needle and thread in defiant opposition to the whims of the clothing industry.

Me looking at the shelf full of compressed freeze dried potato flakes with MSG, trying to imagine what the diffrence between “Philly cheese steak flavor pringles” and “cheese burger flavor pringles” could possibly be.

Or trying to figure out why this glass jar of tomatoes with basil is worth twice as much as this can of high quality tomatoes and a bottle of dried basil.

Or why there are 7 brands of paper towel, each with 2 varieties, each in 2 sizes of role, and with each coming in 5 different package sizes. Then looking at the system and realizing they all come from the same factory.

… it doesn’t have to be, but there is a strong correlation between increases in hormones normally elevated in women and a craving for pickles… so like… probably an enhanced demographic overlap.

Picklez is any food preserved in an acidic solution. But that acidity can be generated in many ways. Such as by adding stuff to an existing acidic solution, like vinegar, but also by creating an environment that consistently breeds safe microorganisms that will create an acidic environment and outcompete the icky microorganisms that make my tummy hort.

Truly you are the coolest though.

Pickles are so good. Been experiment with pickling all sorts of things lately. Turns out, home pickling is shockingly easy, safe and versatile. It seems a bit sussy at first, but, assuming you got the salt to weight right, it’s basically bullet proof. And these pickles are so much tastier than the stuff at the store. Like, the lacto fermented stuff is just so much more complex than the vinegar stuff at the store.

Lmao, damn, trump seems really scared of this guy.

All the conservatives seem really scared of this guy.

Wonder why republicans might be scared of Democratic candidates left of dead center. Almost like a real alternative not slobbering out neoliberal, Chicago school of economics, nonsense could sweep them in a lot of traditional safe seats.

Or at least be really hard to rally their base against if their base actually hears what the policies are.

if that happened then usage number would drop, and that would undermine the narrative that these tools have mass appeal that can be monetized for huge revenue. That would then raise some uncomfortable questions about the absurd amounts of money being spent on developing them, building data centers to run them, and buying the glorified graphics cards needed for all that.

Like, all the people making money selling the shovels for the gold rush would have to explain why no one is finding any gold.

“Or, hear me out, we tax that billionaire 100 million dollars, you get to keep a million of that as public campaign finance, and the other 99% goes to building public housing and rent subsidies.”

“But that will make the billionaire angry!”

“Fuck ‘em, were the government, they’ve violated the social contract and thrown in with fascism, they’re lucky we’re not throwing them in jail for all the laws they’ve broken. “

Thank

The second trilogy also leaned in to the kid stuff to a painful degree. I imagine because leaning in to kids was a good idea from a commercial standpoint, which helps pay for the massive unconstrained budget.

For me it’s more a distributed smoldering rage at the systems that make such outcomes inevitable, and at those who refuse to consider these things critically because they’re personally benefiting from it in some way. Whether that benefit be in the form of personal social and financial success, or in the form of emotional comfort at the idea that there is an inevitable march of progress that will solve problems.

Like, honestly, I’m not even really angry at the individuals, mainly at the dynamics that create the shitty behavior. It’s hard for me to be furiously angry at concepts though.

I think also, that with the first trilogy, he had a lot of other people around him contributing and building with him, he had some genuine inspiration and interesting ideas, but that team being on equal footing with him allowed the that all to be executed properly.

There is a cultural issue where people tend to ascribe success of projects to lone individuals who lead projects, even while acknowledging the contributions of others, there is still this underlying assumption that a director is responsible for the sum of the parts. That the director is the one slotting the contributions together in a way that makes it work.

I think much of the same inspiration and ideas that he brought to the table in the first trilogy were still there in the later films, but the team around him was less empowered to contribute and shape the final product. How much of that was him having developed an ego, and how much of that was a result of the projects being conceptualized as belonging to him, and thus everyone else just working to fulfill his vision, rather than constructing a collective vision. And how much of that ego was foisted upon him due to how the culture at large conceptualizes the role of the director as singular author.