No matter what you think of Rush Limbaugh, his quote of "Politics is Hollywood for ugly people" gets harder to argue with each passing year.

Current mood.

I know life is worse in some places, times have been tougher, but never has your entire life been upended while everyone around you told you "you're crazy, everything is fine." What weighs most is the psyop that the ship isn't sinking so go ahead and file those taxes and keep applying for jobs; you have to get one soon. In clear wartime, you know it's kill or be killed. You can start or join a gang. You can steal to survive. But this halfway in, halfway out where your mind and actions are not in sync at all, for years at a time, is enough to drive anyone mad.

Banger.

Current Mood.

touching the electric fence just to feel something again

Great point. Crickets.

Why do we learn math in school? Beyond our formal educational years, we rarely need to integrate functions or "solve for x." But this is not why we learn it. Math shapes one's understanding of the nature of our world. It teaches that the universe is intelligible and knowable — it has an inherent structure that can be understood by the beings living within it. 2500 years ago, the Greek polymath Pythagoras intuited that the universe is governed and formulated by math. When strolling past a blacksmith’s forge, he noticed that two hammers clanging at the same time sound harmonious together if one is twice as heavy as the other. Following this logic, he later realized that the length of a string is inversely proportional to the pitch of the musical note it produces. Thus, music is math, and beauty can be created by arranging things mathematically… If music and math are essentially the same thing, what if the mathematical structure of the entire universe could also be understood as a work of music? This worldview permeated Europe for 2000 years, as educators in the Middle Ages believed that each discipline of the quadrivium — arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy — readied the mind (and soul) for the next discipline. Later on, music and math would become preparations for learning philosophy. Math and music, in this sense, were understood as the tools you need to begin to contemplate truth. If the universe is inherently mathematical, then a mathematical education forms the kind of person who can see reality as meaningful. Math gives structure to your thinking, and invites you to contemplate the mystery of this reality we inhabit.

Will there ever be a day a scottish woman becomes leader of a Pakistani region and creates a video where she proudly in a thick Glasweigan accent surrounded by tartans and scottish stuff...announces she is the first Scottish mayor in Pakistan and it's been long long overdue and she will overcome the tyranny of Pakistan only ever electing Pakistanis to represent them ? why is the opposite happening here not considered as absurd?

H/t @Coyotl2021

We are more slaves to the bottom 1/3 of society than we are to billionaires.

If we don’t suspend the fake elections democracy will die in darkness.

It was never about Donald Trump. It was always about who’s gonna come after Donald Trump.

Honestly, minimum wage is still too much money for a lot of people.

Elections are more secure than ever before. Also, elections are easier than ever before. Only one of these things can be true.

Can confirm.

Can confirm.

My new Spirit Animal.

It’s insane that labor unions are against ICE deporting illegal laborers. I know this because as a member of 2 labor unions, I get emails screaming about “fighting ICE” all the time. They should be serving the officers refreshments during their raids.

"Congratulations, world. You've re-invented Generation X then gave it rabies" Watching them devour all in their path will give me joy in my twilight years.