I was also thrown off by that.

I thought “damn died after only 1.5 rounds of sex. That’s rough buddy!”

Where’s my god particles without windows at?

You would love Erving Goffman

That’s why bezos keeps doing it.

“I’m testing the billionaire space tour bus with teachers, children, disabled folks with a story so YOU don’t wish my rockets explode and then someone can write an inspirational article about Katy Perry going to space on girl power or something”

I lucked out I think.

I got an APRN first for my referral and she told me one of two doctors will need to sign off on this and one of them is chill about young people getting vasectomies the other would want to see me personally to talk me out of it, but would still do it.

I got the chill guy. He made dick jokes mid ball snipping.

(You’re awake during a vasectomy)

I do not concern myself with their I’ll placed disgust as it means the honeydew supply is in contested.

That’s a crazy time frame.

I said in September “I would like a vascectomy”

And I got one in December. Insurance covered it. No questions.

Vasectomies aren’t reversible either apparently. They took a chunk of tube out of each ball and all I had to say was “Yes I’m sure. No no one is compelling me”

The sexism of the medical field is insane to me.

I argue that both are selfish decisions, but having a kid eventually drags someone else into that didn’t consent.

I wrote a blog post about it after I got a vasectomy. I’m not an anti-natalist but I think its a point to consider.

https://thinkstoomuch.net/post/selfishsnips/

“I’m very privacy focused which is why I use Apple products”

Is such an annoying and real thing

My boss is from a small town and, for religious reasons, doesn’t swear and is deeply uncomfortable with it.

But we asked one day if there’s a swear he does use he said

“I hate to admit it, but faggot rolls off my tongue too easily.”

Its the closest he’s ever come to swearing.

Shocked

SHOCKED

…

Well not that shocked

RedLetterMedia is so good.

Its just reaction content with mild reviews of movies. But I love that they’re reacting to media so old in most cases that it doesn’t feel gross.

Rossman does good work but I wouldn’t call his videos “High Quality”

He’s like Gamers Nexus, very rambly and angry. If you like that vibe and just want a techy “Grinds my gears” ass rant channel to put on while you do anything else, he’s fine.

The style is upsetting.

I love it

I don’t even think I wanna wake up tomorrow.

I’m actually in tears. Its been such a bad day home.

Thank you.

I recommend

“SPQR” by Mary Beard for a good comprehensive book on Roman history

If you prefer chronology for some reason

“The origin of empire” by David Potter is really good

Also “Inventing the Renaissance” By Ada Palmer

I went to college for this shit and these books, while very long, do basically smarize everything I learned on these two subjects. So I’ve saved you probably $10,000

You would love reading any Roman History book and then “Inventing the Renaissance” by Ada palmer.

You’re right. It really does feel like were in the death throws of the republic of rome and the Empire is forming.

Which, naturally, will fall eventually and will likely turn into a nationalist nostalgia and inspire a Renaissance.

You should also be aware that most modern authors have 1 boon and 1 bane. Their boon is significantly more evidence than any other surviving roman historian ever. Their bane is that they will have Tue biases of our modern issues.

Its my favorite thing how much historical interpretation gets done through the eyes of a contemporary. Historians love to go on and on about not having bias, but their human so they do. A good example of this is Edward Gibbons “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” which revitalization our modern tradition of Roman History studies. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you’re like me and wanted to study intellectual history) this whole series is often used as a criticism of the British Empire in the 17th century.

Of course a lot of it is good enough roman history, but whole stories within the book are complete fabrications. There is no evidence that they happened to Emperor X or Province Y, but the series of events and the alleged public disapprovals of them do match up with the events of his contemporary political moment for which it would have been illegal for Mr. Gibbon to criticize publicly.

And this means of using nostalgia around a long dead empire to affect contemporary politics is what happened in the Renaissance.

Ada Palmers book she effectively (and very accessibly) argues that the Renaissance was more or less just a massive propaganda campaign since by no measure was the “Renaissance” better or worse than the middle ages. In fact the span of the “renaissance” is so grand that it often includes the middle ages or it doesn’t depending on where you want to believe the renaissance started which is constantly redefined.

Anytime someone has genuinely said a kind thing to me has been such a massive boost.

That’s really it.

There’s a few options now, but you can get Intel N100 ITX boards Like this one from ASUS with a soldered on N100 CPU for the cost of a normal motherboard.

If its just a NAS, and I do recommend having a separate Just a NAS, that CPU fucks hard.