How about we vote in a law that puts a cap on how long a government shut down can happen… say 20 days… before the president has to agree to a budget solution or else the 21st day congress begins the process of impreachment because civilian jobs and salaries and livelihoods are not a bargaining tool for the president to abuse is order to get their way
If you aren’t serving the people then you aren’t doing the job of the presidency and you need to be replaced
AMEN
civilian jobs and salaries and livelihoods are not a bargaining tool for the president to abuse is order to get their way
they should remake breaking bad but instead of making and dealing meth it’s a suburban white mom who makes soap and the same levels of violence, gore, and drama remain
The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.
Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.
Checkmate, nihilism.
This is a powerful positive message..
I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.
There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.
No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.
Knit a sock.
If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.
Memes have become so heavily context-dependent that they briefly spawned a side-phenomenon of corporations mistakenly assuming that the image combinations are simply random, and that “randomness” is what the new generation finds humorous, and then deliberately creating nonsense ads in a desperate attempt to appeal to the youth, which went on for several years before they finally started hiring younger social media managers.
speedrunner: ok coming up is a skip that saves about 7 seconds (does a completely incomprehensible frame-perfect blink-and-you’ll-miss-it skip without batting an eye) alright cool
Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
I mean, we literally have research that says this. With TV it works because shows are DESIGNED to have segues/scenes where advertising can go, so we perceive it as less disruptive. You can’t just drop advertising in any old where. Shockingly, people fucking HATE that.
Jack Black: makes vids where he’s having fun with his kid
Youtuber Academics:
this is one of the exact types of youtubers i hoped jack black would piss off
really good channel names going on here
i mean, to be fair, while these guys should chill out (and probably close their channels cause holy shit these handles and the Type of Content ™ they make are mad embarrassing), jack black making a let’s play youtube channel that gets a million subscribers in a week is probably a sign of a problem with youtube making their system entirely untenable to people besides a populace of protected golden boy vloggers like the sociopathic brothers paul types that seem to emerge fully formed with 5 million subscribers out of the ether and stumble into a controversy and already established celebrities they can safely sell to advertisers like will smith and jack black himself
it’s becoming a system of attrition and constant automated takedowns and copyright hassling that screws over the people with less than a million subscribers or that don’t have some sort of network or pull with youtube and can call someone and be like “hey what the hell, one of my videos got claimed by a company that doesn’t seem to exist, can you help?”
Shut the FUCK up and let the man have fun with his son, Tril.
i like the guy but i’m not gonna shut up about this issue going on with youtube for some time and have him and others like him get favored over the content creators i like, and i’m someone that LIKES almost all of jack black’s work!
if you wanna fuckin support jack black fine, but do it by watching his fucking movies or something, he doesn’t gotta be on youtube with this