Do what thou wilt.

Barely legal, some would say

I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.

I dunno, that sounds like a fast track to being the subject of a murder mystery. I think I’m good.

You’ve never heard of the Trans Siberian Railroad Orchestra?

I feel like usually when I hear about some experiment that changes our perception, the time to adapt is typically about 2 weeks, but that number is almost entirely vibes-based.

I’m talking about editing a backlog, like if you record hours upon hours of content, then spend weeks editing them. Think of those hour-long video essays with animations and stuff. If you live alone and stocked up on groceries, you could easily go quite a while without actually having to leave the house.

Again, a pretty specific scenario, but not exactly hard. Not even that farfetched for some niche video essay creator.

I think it would be an unusual occurrence, but not really “hard”. Imagine a YouTuber who edits their own videos. If they live alone and spend an extended period of time editing their backlog, they might not talk at all and only hear recordings.

I can see that, but you can always focus on meeting in person. Just use tech to vaguely call meetings.

Locally

Civilization is basically just bureaucracy integrated over population. Some people figure out how to game the system via the chasm of abstraction between; that’s a function of any sufficiently complex system, look at the speed running community

But ultimately, civilization is just people. All the bureaucracy placed on top of it is just a collection of systems made by people to coordinate themselves. A lot of the dark theatrics are the result of the population becoming so vast that even at the lowest levels, the bureaucracy is distant and abstract. That abstraction alienates people from one another, so they only really know how to interact through the lens of that bureaucracy

The optimism is that you can engage your community. You can meet your neighbors, learn their trades and share yours, start a group chat. You can organize barter networks, childcare rotations, handyman services, mutual aid.

You can join local political groups. Start local political groups. Go to protests and meet people in neighboring areas. Network.

You can promote candidates for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. You can run for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. We’ve seen what the other side is offering so far as administrative competence, you think you’re worse?

Go to local events. Talk to your neighbors. Organize with your neighbors. The big system is very top down in its perspective, but it’s really ultimately dependent on the composite people. You can organize the people from the bottom up, and get your friends in nearby neighborhoods to do the same.

If all the neighborhoods are organized, bloodless revolution slides quite comfortably into the realm of plausible futures.

Certainly, but it’s the only real starting place

That’s the entire point of citation, repeatable experiment, and peer review. The only way we can ever touch at reliability is cross-referential consensus.

Y’know, if it had ham in it, it’s closer to a British carbonara

Bookmark the stuff that warrants a bookmark.

Close the stuff I’m not as interested in as I thought I’d be.

Group remaining tabs by subject (books, articles, products, etc. I have a system).

Close redundant tabs in groups.

Ah, respect. Though I think you could slip “or by the trigger” without much fuss.

My point is that the song is topical enough to warrant practical commentary.

What’s your point?

a CaR iS a DeAdLy WeApOn

Practice appropriate trigger safety. Come with a readied weapon obviously, but keep that finger off the trigger until the split second before it’s necessary.

Eh, Hanlon’s Razor. There are certainly plenty of dirty neo-libs, but I also think the Democratic party is where passionate, practical minded, progressive political science types wind up, and I think that demographic is well-meaning but caught up in metrics.

Metrics rely on historical data. Obviously Biden should be the candidate, he’s an incumbent, and incumbents have an advantage. The problem is the sample size is too low (n = 47) to really control for most variables. Especially since when you consider the study longitudinally, n = 1.

Anyway, politics is hard, and I’m willing to give a little grace to those who are least trying to be smart. Strategists seem like the smart move, but the big paradox of analyzing a quickly-changing subject is that the more data-backed your strategy, the more outdated it is. The world moves too fast now.

I suspect a not-insignificant segment of the caucus has been been just sincerely trying to play the right moves.

Look into the kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum, it’s an interesting take.