Yeah I feel this. My dreams are usually very realistic and very mundane. It fucka me up because I'll dream about planning an event or doing a project at work or something, and then I wake up and feel like I have a bunch of stuff on my todo list, but none of it is actually real. It's not nightmare-bad, but it is goddamn annoying.
When I was a much more regular user, that mostly went away and it was great. Now I only rarely get to have any and it's boring-town dream city, basically every night. Looking forward to recreational sales in this area soon.
Tropical Fuck Storm's "Soft Power", from their wild LP "A Laughing Death in Meatspace".
So many good tracks from this album, but this one is particularly notable for the geopolitics angle. The titular refrain comes from Joseph Nye's concept of soft power, the cultural and social influence of a nation, posited as the other bilateral avenue of global hegemony distinct from its counterpart, hard power, representing military force and thereby influence.
This one's definitely got a little "orange man bad" flavor to it, but is a little bit less just about that and more about the geopolitical power vacuum left in the wake of the amerikkkan empire voluntarily slam-dunking itself into the shitter, particularly when it comes to having any meaningful influence on the world via culture or human rights or anything like that.
If the style grabs you at all, check out Gareth's other work with The Drones, really fantastic off-kilter aussie-rock, with some of the weirdest and wildest guitar tones out there.
Yeah I can't really stand the guy, haven't really like him since anything after "Snowball Fight", but I gotta admit his late night show is easily the best out of any of them right now. Notwithstanding of course previous goats like Conan (or Ferguson a little).
Definitely! They've got a lot of understated but really cool instrumentation on this one. I tried drumming along to a few of the tracks, and it's easy enough to get a decent groove, but the subtleties they're actually playing are just completely wild. Like a jazz drummer just going nuts and doing his own thing, but just softly and real gently mixed. It's pretty impressive.
They just dropped a new album, "Only God Was Above Us", and as much as I was totally ready to hate it, it's actually really good. Nowhere near as saccharine as this track, but just real nice, very chill.
Congratulations, you have a conscience, and are therefore unsuited for management.
Also the confrontation thing, yeah big time. Moving up means more crushing downwards, which feels bad no matter what. Either somebody genuinely fucked up, and it's some degree of your fault for not training them right or catching it sooner, or they really did what they thought was right (and may have actually been the right thing) but a customer is mad or your bosses are mad or another department is mad, and you have to discipline them anyways.
You also have to fire people, which is probably the worst interpersonal interaction you can ever have at work, let alone in most areas of life. Again sometimes it's fully justified, and it still sucks, but plenty of times it's something like a layoff where it's "nothing personal, just the bottom line ya know", or it's that the bosses decided that this person needs to be fired for some arbitrary reason you may not even agree with, but you still have to be the one to pull the trigger and ruin this person's day/year. Additionally, you usually can't talk about the reasons with anyone else, so you have to field questions from the rest of your team that are usually good and valid, but you have to explain the away with vague corpo-speak and can't really tell them what's up.
So ya know, if any of that sounds fun, I mean, get checked out, because yikes.
I could have written this exact post, down to most of the same numbers lol.
If you think you'll actually like management (which probably means a lot more meetings, reviewing other people's work and time sheets, and making high-level decisions instead of actually doing any of the work involved) (and also means taking the flak for any screw-ups your subordinates make, trying to implement new procedures in a desperate attempt to make things better but your underlings hate the changes and your bosses are never as impressed as you thought they'd be, and watching other people excel and grow and learn new things doing the stuff you probably got into your industry to do in the first place), then by all means go for it.
I fell for this trap a few times. I was desperate for the pay increase at the time, which go figure never feels like as much as it looked like on paper, but I still needed it anyways.
These days, I keep it very explicit with my bosses that I have no interest whatsoever in doing those roles any more. It might make me a slightly less attractive employee, and it might hamper my career growth to some extent, but it means I get to actually do the thing I've always wanted to do every single day, instead of getting sucked into a bullshit-conjuration position vaguely adjacent to that thing, and I am grateful every day for that.
It's just yummy, and the flavor is way more intense. I brew and drink some pretty fancy coffees sometimes, but even still I don't really care about the differences between anything above mid-tier, so that's where I usually live. It's just nice to have something to sip on that hurts ya back, ya know?
Though admittedly, I'll sometimes go for a brown sugar shaken espresso monstrosity, but those are on pretty rare occasions, and usually when I'm already making one for my spouse anyways.
Snap always seems to me like a red flag for poly/enm. Like, it usually seems like people insisting on that are often the ones looking for plausible deniability about their conversations and activities.
Like I guess if you're sending a lot of lewds, they are slightly less likely to be sitting in the storage of someone else's phone, but if you don't trust the person you're sending it to to keep it safe, then you better not care what happens with it after you send it anyways.
Beyond the disappearing thing, the rest if it kinda sucks to use. The only really good thing it has going for it is a super robust camera filter marketplace. They've got really good face swapping and image manipulation filters, and that shit is genuinely fun to use. I really wish they would just release the camera part on its own, with no connection to anyone else at all. But ofc that's jot their business so they won't.
Very yes! UTC-5 here. Got kids though so not a ton of availability, but this is something I'll make some room for.
Usually play edh and draft, but down for whatever.
Spelltable is is my usually haunt, and it's pretty cool for anyone that wants to do some paper. You can use OBS with something like Moxfield or similar to play webcam without having any paper. Maybe not so good for opsec I guess, but certainly fun.
Edit for *OBS.
Link is to the original 2006 release, a bedroom-indie track about how cool bears are. If you haven't heard it, give that a listen and let it stew for a while before checking out the new stuff, because there's a big tonal and perspective shift between them.
Apparently, the artist put out the original track, which is mostly pining about the simplicity of a bear's life compared to the difficulty of our own. The artist then immediately went on hiatus, got married, both of their fathers died, they had a kid, and then they decided to make this album together just this year.
It's extremely beautiful and heart-wrenching, and the contrast in perspective from the break in time is really astounding.
If you've got kids, this thing is probably gonna sucker-punch you pretty good, so find some private time to listen and strap in.
The 2006 track (the rest of the album is just ok, imo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXezSTOMRA
The new album ("the dreaming's what carries you through"):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n_mAIPScsjgdaUYvyIvvGP7S6lrAUJKvc
Rep. Gregory Meeks
Nominative determinism for cowardly shit-libs.
Right? If you ignore the dumb-looking decals, at least.
Edit: pretty dang low bar though, tbf.
Yeah they definitely get there. I miss their first album vibes fr though. "Tesselate" was a great ode to threesomes (well love triangles, at least) , and "Fitzpleasure" was just all horny, all day.
I feel like The Dream is the closest they've gotten back to that sound since then, but they went a little far with it and didn't have many catchy or groovy tracks, imo. Any recommendations for bands/albums with similar vibes to An Awesome Wave?
Oof, it's even the perfect shade of orange, the kind that evokes extreme citrus flavor. Crush orange soda levels of orange. Beautiful!
Shame that awesome cars are so often owned by awful people. Should get the exact same one and convert it to fuel cell just to spite him. ;P
Gotta be honest, as someone that really likes orange cars, that orange is very nicely applied and looks slick.
Obvs the rest of it (and super obvs the car itself) looks like trash, but that's no surprise.
My uniform! For outside of the house at least. Jammy shorts for inside time.
God this game looks so good. It's on my shortlist for sure.
Yeah but the thing is, there's a huge portion of the population out there that just flat-out refuses to eat any kind of "meat substitute". Some on a purely ideological ground, but plenty of otherwise well-meaning individuals that are just used to meat, and so anything else "just tastes weird".
To be fair, plenty of those same folks would still be against lab-meat for the same reasons, but I think it has the potential to bridge the gap a little and bring some more of those folks over, if you can say that this is "actually real meat", and particularly if the taste and texture are really on par.
I agree with your point though - soy proteins are about 90% as good as most meats (especially for something ground up like nuggets), and that's way more than enough to make it worth it imo. And it's even better when you're just not trying to replicate meat products in the first place - which I think is really the better approach - you can eat lots of great new things that aren't just burgers and nuggets and steaks! Being willing to eat meatless opens up such a huge new world of culinary space! It's wild that people that claim to be super invested in their food "tasting" just right are so unwilling to try the huge world of new flavors and experiences they are missing out on.
