This isn’t stagnation; I’m fermenting.
i think many people imagine themselves as non-agentic because they’re afraid of having to take responsibility for themselves. if you just do whatever everyone else does then our society sort of absolves you from responsibility for your actions
the “americans will measure with anything but the metric system” joke but it’s about astronomers and astronomical units, parsecs, and the masses of the earth, jupiter, and the sun
i get that i can expect to see the “unreality” tag a lot on my stuff. i post a lot of weird eldritch shit and even when i post something that isn’t it’s still deeply steeped in my nonsense.
but i’m fucking losing my mind at how even my posts that are correct and true will be tagged that. fatal incuriosity is inescapable when you’re me.
my “a coin is a three sided object. never forget that.” post earned an unreality tag at one point
i’m sorry but maybe you’re not the best watchdog for what’s real and what isn’t, champ. i think being the arbiter of reality requires at least a basic understanding of 3d space.
Selling yourself as the person/organization most likely to solve what is, in actuality, a fundamentally unsolvable problem is a great way to stay employed in perpetuity. The trick is convincing people that there is in fact a solution
Of course, another great way of staying employed forever is to make sure a solvable problem never gets solved
sporadic lib-gen and sci-hub appreciation post
Programming is very Kafkaesque. You’re dealing with this arbitrary system that no one will explain to you because no one actually understands all of it. There are bugs.
a good adult skill is recognizing when someone resents you for the power they’ve projected onto you