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2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Our Insolent Teen: Hap... · 1 reply · +7 points

I want to know where Balk is.

5 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Here We Go Again Open ... · 0 replies · +6 points

Twink blood just ain't what it used to be.

5 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Here We Go Again Open ... · 1 reply · +9 points

I don't even think it's really evangelicalism, but some sort of AI cult thing he's using the language of the Antichrist to sell. Man's brain is cooked with twink blood.

2 months ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Open Thread · 1 reply · +6 points

Good news: it was a hoax.

6 months ago @ Crasstalk - Weekend Open Thread · 2 replies · +7 points

I read the first volume, Swann's Way, which I think is what most people do. I liked it. Some of it was a slog, but a lot of it was actually rather funny. Proust was a catty bitch.

7 months ago @ Crasstalk - Weekend Happy Time · 0 replies · +2 points

Agita. Like agitation.

9 months ago @ Crasstalk - Book Pub, January 2025... · 0 replies · +4 points

Let me consult my reading spreadsheet for 2024!

Well, first, to flash forward to 2025, I'm currently reading The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel. I'm not finished, but so far recommended. Returning to 2024, but staying with underappreciated 20th century women scientists, Einstein's Tutor by Lee Phillips that I did finish is also highly recommended.

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera might very well be my favorite fiction of 2024. It's really hard to describe: it's weird, trippy, pansexual sci-fi/fantasy/postcolonial lit/family drama.

Guys, this Remains of the Day book that's a modern classic by a Nobel-winning writer? It's pretty good.

Perhaps my favorite book of the year full-stop, though I can't be impartial due to its being precisely targeted to my being, is Anxiety by Samir Chopra. It's what it says on the tin: a book about anxiety. He examines it from a bunch of different perspectives: Freudian, existentialist, psychiatry. I've never read a book that was so much about me that wasn't about me. I just nodded along with almost everything he describes.

11 months ago @ Crasstalk - Wind Up The Weekend Op... · 0 replies · +4 points

I always do that. I go through the little bios the proxy stuff has for each board candidate and vote against anyone who seems more obviously evil or I just don't like the vibes of. I try to always vote against anyone who is/was a hedge funder or McKinsey, for instance. I also like to vote for the shareholder proposals, because the company always wants you to vote against, but they're tricky: some of them are idiotic and/or bigoted. Not that my votes do anything at all, and everything the company wants voted up gets voted in, but it makes me feel like a "corporate citizen" with some agency.

1 year ago @ Crasstalk - Happy 14th Crassiversa... · 0 replies · +10 points

14?!!1!??? Wow. Congrats, YOU PEOPLE.

1 year ago @ Crasstalk - Zen Weekend Open Thread · 1 reply · +5 points

Even if she doesn't end up winning Iowa (and remember Obama won Iowa twice, and Tim Walz is from an area along the border with Iowa and very popular), if this is even just a signal of strong support and gaining ground in the Upper Midwest in general, it's still a good sign.

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