doug

I know it’s been four days, but I just wanted to circle back to this and say this is great/I still’ve been thinking about it.

I just like how it brackets everything I said into two sentences. Love it.

I said I WASN’T in a rush…

(…but thank you! 🙏)

There was an article I read somewhere about steering people with negative traits into careers that might benefit society despite their negativity.

The example they used with narcissism in healthcare can blend in quite well because the importance and appreciation put on doctors and nurses for by (some of) the patients they’ve helped encourages them to do the same saving for others.

If someone’s negative trait is they derive pleasure from inflicting pain on others, what career would be good for them? Slaughterhouse employee? I have no idea where to “steer” these people.

However part of me wonders how many more of them would be out in the real world affecting real people if certain multiplayer games didn’t have them addicted…

…looking at you, Dead by Daylight.

IMO ACAB is great on a behavioral science level: it sets the anchor/starts the conversation with a statement as an absolute, which the defense then has to find exceptions to. While they do that grunt work, the catchy phrase enables confirmation bias in the fence-sitters and people who already agreed with it.

It’s like starting a barter at an exorbitantly high price so the buyer is primed to offer a price higher than they would’ve before hearing the anchor.

Jfc. I’m going to go listen to that it I can find it… but I won’t be in a rush.

I haven’t watched Andor yet but from what I’ve seen it seems to be a bit of an antifascist playbook? How on-the-nose we talkin’ here?

Whenever I entertain the idea of us being in a simulation and think what the purpose of the simulation would be, I could see the goal being to make… like… t-cell souls that are willing to stave off the disease that is greedy, selfish bigoted souls. Y’know?

…brb gonna take another bong hit.

Trump is cancer manifest. Every time he gets any of its iterations he just absorbs it like osmosis.

EAT THE RICH flavored foods.

🙄 is that why you’re in the military? to detain unarmed protesters on your own soil?

get fucked.

Dangerous for you, maybe, you fucking ghoul.

Knowing why I’m weird was so enlightening, to finally have answers for myself on why I get hung up on small details and can’t let them go, it’s akin to having a song stuck in my head that I can’t place.