does anyone else like wearing overly snug kitchen latex gloves and forming a fist to make fart noises
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I wear gloves daily. I don't think I have ever tried this.....
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Too Many Cooks isn't "funny" in the ha ha sense.
It is a rather genius take on 90s sitcoms, how they change over the years as they stay on the air, and then become monstrous, shambling corpses regurgitating the same shit only more extreme over time.
A couple of odd pacing issues aside, it is one of the better short films I have seen this year; would be awesome to see it get some recognition.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
well - at least in your (and mine?) intellectual circles, you should be prepared for the possibility that one writes "well it's obvious we shouldn't legally protect industries from automation, therefore by analogy we shouldn't protect neighbourhoods from technological shocks either" and then someone pounces and declares WAIT I THINK WE SHOULD LEGALLY PROTECT INDUSTRIES FROM AUTOMATION and then you're suddenly stuck with the horrible rhetorical terrain of defending capitalism qua capitalism, the capitalism of the luddites and the early industrial revolution, with enclosures and corporate armies and colonial genocide. Gandhi may show up. Anarcho-primitivism and other radical critiques of consumerism also make an appearance. Your opponent may perform a quickstep between quasi-Keynesian 1960s-flavoured demand-as-socially-unproductive-creation-of-makework and 1980s unemployment-as-the-prime-evil-of-evils, and it is extraordinarily difficult to pin them down. Especially since political scientists and philosophers tend to love the economics-as-a-salad-bar literary practice that I complain so much about.
What I'm saying is, your argument isn't wrong but it is rather flaunting its weaknesses and then not defending them.
The argument from inevitably corrupt political control over local government is plausible, but a little involved, and not obviously true either. You can set it forth, but for the relevant audiences, you have a duty to refute the obligation to defer to local government, rather having someone else refute the duty to defer to central government; this isn't the 1960s apogee of central comprehensive planning of local services. It also isn't Singapore (probably). You can't take it for granted that fellow vaguely-left-leaning intellectuals will agree that humanity has to defer to the Gosplan. Instead there's a lot of the opposite - local government assumed to be not only less corrupt, less rigid, more representative, more efficient etc. but also exercising some independent sovereignty. A human right to local government, so to speak.
If you say "but local government is inefficient then you are valuing economic efficiency over democratic sovereignty, which immediately discredits you - so the question of the level at which democratic mandates are granted needs to be tackled first.
The last argument from mobility walks you into a fight over neoliberalism in the most abstract sense. Easy mobility is one of those complicated economic goods where the extreme lowest and the extreme highest on the privilege curve arguably do not benefit (the former don't move, the latter move regardless), so you are stuck in terrible rhetorical terrain where it's not really clear whether your chosen horse in the Oppression tourney is the deserving working class or the undeserving petite-bourgeosie.
WHY IS EVERYTHING COMPLICATED
Most philosophers I know aren't going to stand up for out-and-out luddism, and are not that into the really radical critiques of capitalism. We're a pretty petty bougie bunch, and satisfied with that.
Even if mobility directly benefits the middle more than the bottom, can't you always redistribute benefits by transfer payments and get pareto improvement?
It seems to me like the hardest counter-argument (which connects to some of the corporate army etc stuff) is that even though a regime of transfer payments is more efficient and generates a larger surplus and higher quality of life for everyone, such a scheme will simply never in a million years happen. We have to settle for stuff like this not because it's better, but because it's possible and better than the actual alternative (which is pure rapacious development with no safety net). But I dunno what you think.
if you are arguing with someone who concedes the entire neoliberal artifice, both its neoclassical logic and its ethical abstractions, but exclusively argues that third-way New Labour compromise won't actually carry out any redistribution, then one can say well that's an empirical question at this point since New Labour has come and gone, and so:
but since 2007-2008 it has become much harder to get away with the Argument From New Labour, I trust you can guess why
(did I mention have fun it is to argue with people who cite the most insane contemporary American neo-austrianisms as to how easy credit made the financial crisis inevitable, then hop to the most unreconstructed 60s Keynesian assertions about the state imperative toward full employment from easy credit in the next breath, and see no contradiction whatosever?)
It is a rather genius take on 90s sitcoms, how they change over the years as they stay on the air, and then become monstrous, shambling corpses regurgitating the same shit only more extreme over time.
A couple of odd pacing issues aside, it is one of the better short films I have seen this year; would be awesome to see it get some recognition.
Rad's reply: No seriously, it was the stupidest piece of shit.
It is depressing, because I see what could be and it would look damn good on me, but I don't know if additional length is going to effectively fill this in or if I just don't have it in me.
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sarah has instructed me to take some gas-x to see if that will stop the bhole birth of these abominations
I didn't even know we had this medicine!
it's settled then
serial killers
Her response to the serial killer wasn't terror or that poor crazy person
It's: Yeah, he should kill them. He's the only cook.
"What I want to know is what idiot called your pig Prada instead of Piggie Smalls"
Feel better dude
My colitis has been acting up recently as well.
give it two weeks
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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It means it was time to abort eight days ago
It is a rather genius take on 90s sitcoms, how they change over the years as they stay on the air, and then become monstrous, shambling corpses regurgitating the same shit only more extreme over time.
A couple of odd pacing issues aside, it is one of the better short films I have seen this year; would be awesome to see it get some recognition.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
if you are arguing with someone who concedes the entire neoliberal artifice, both its neoclassical logic and its ethical abstractions, but exclusively argues that third-way New Labour compromise won't actually carry out any redistribution, then one can say well that's an empirical question at this point since New Labour has come and gone, and so:
but since 2007-2008 it has become much harder to get away with the Argument From New Labour, I trust you can guess why
(did I mention have fun it is to argue with people who cite the most insane contemporary American neo-austrianisms as to how easy credit made the financial crisis inevitable, then hop to the most unreconstructed 60s Keynesian assertions about the state imperative toward full employment from easy credit in the next breath, and see no contradiction whatosever?)
sign me up
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Also I asked her about the pig clothes
Hannah pls
I think it's brilliant and terrifying.
James Spader is a delight.
I have been trying to figure out what set it off.
I think it is stress from my new job and the fact I am not assigned anywhere.
Food changes haven't done anything.
I will have a long talk with my doc. The thing is this weekend it was pretty much okay and today I had no pain till tonight.
So rally I think it is a stress thing.
I'll post a pathetic beard attempt selfie if you do
0/10 disappointed
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Rad's reply: No seriously, it was the stupidest piece of shit.
the last while has been an exercise in keeping that trimmed while letting everything catch up
i am starting to get a really full stubble going, hopefully it will turn into beard
Now I'm wishing that all daps caused fart noises.
Would it then be "Farps," or could we say "Darps?"
P10 don't be ridiculous
I haven't been out in public
It kept fucking going.
I was like nope.
Not for me.
My wife and I are having a serious argument about the internet
WHAT THE FUCK FIRST THE BALD EAGLE THING AND NOW THIS
making fun of 90s TV is shooting fish in the barrel of circular swimming
and it is indeed not ha ha funny. And not non ha ha funny.
The only clever thing they do is put tits in it every so often so that I feel less annoyed and think I might try to stick it through after all.
Rad is excused, you are not
If it was like five minutes shorter I think itd have been perfect
Wait
That was the point all along
The disease is inside me