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you think YOU could kill marth????? You're probably all skinny frail weak bones like you drink so much soda and it gets all fizzy around your bones eroding away the calcium. Marth has a sword and extensive experience on the battlefield whereas to you its just a game like you think you could actually parry him in real life by pressing the z button on a controller or something. You have no idea the reaction speed, hand eye coordination, and strength it would take to hold your own against marth, those are all just things you take for granted because a character does it all for you with the press of a button and you have so little experience in a real fight that you just imagine your own body moving and reacting like a video game character. Why are you so smug to actually wear a hat like that when you and everyone around you knows that in a real fair contest Marth would deal tons of damage to you before you could even lift you soda bones off the ground. Do you think it's cool? Do you think people will actually see that and be like wow Marth killer. That's such a sad fantasy like you need to feel good about yourself or something. You probably went to a school where people talked about real stuff like it's fake and fake stuff like it's real. Imagine just wearing a regular hat and having fun with games normally, if you even can, which I doubt.

he’ll never see it coming

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Things are happening on reddit

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Flew. Tired. Idk. Watched the downtown abbey movie by accidnet thinking it was the first episode. One star. Who even are these people and why are they being so nice to one another?

Then watched venom. All on plane. Movie also sucked. One star.

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Matt McCreary

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The couple days of work in between these posts were some of the most obnoxious I have experienced in my short career.

I also didn't do anything fun except plays some double dash with my friend.

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Really shitty couple of work days (they continue) half a star.

Also watched the yard but was levitating several feet above my own body and staring out the window so I didn't hear any of it. Two Stars.

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Sister Wives, Monkey Ball

Watched Sister Wives with my friend and his wife. Very stupid show but good to make catty remarks about. Three stars

Played some gamecube games (Monkey Ball, Double Dash, Melee) Five Stars.

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Master Quest and Melee

I watched my friend play master quest and I payed some melee. And climbed. 5.10+ and a v3. New milestone very nice.

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Drinking on Jan 24th 2025

never drinking again

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Melee and Bouldering

I didn't watch anything yesterday that I remember, but I did play melee and go climbing.

Melee -- first session back after a break of a few months. Four and a Half Stars.

Bouldering -- think I can do some v3 climbs at this place, but was very tired in my body. Four Stars

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You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. "No feeding the birds." "Stop swimming in this drainage pond." That kind of thing.

Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They've covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they're working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means "stop bothering this particular goose, Sven." I don't know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.

Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There's no law against it, except perhaps "littering," and the municipal sign factory doesn't have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.

Is this wrong? I don't think so. It's a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn't get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.

What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the "no trucks" sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I'm not entirely sure if he's actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.

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Love Lies Bleeding, WarGames, The Ecology of Freedom

Love Lies Bleeding was okay. Characters were irredeemable. Two and a Half Stars for the outfits.

WarGames is a good movie. Four Stars

First Chapter of The Ecology of Freedom

seems like he's not super well informed on the Norse mythology. I don't see any other sources for the assertion that this Gullveig is the creator of gold. It is specifically mentioned that she practices seidr (magic). Her name means something along the lines of "Golddrunk" or "intoxicated with gold." That might be a strong enough connection for Bookchin, and it certainly underscores his point, but I don't find it particularly compelling. Perhaps he was reading an older translation?

he takes issue with the view that beehives are hierarchical. The queen is just performing a function -- an important one -- but a function nonetheless. Much like the other bees in the hive. More of a mutualistic relationship.

To expand on the above point and move into his analogies of the great apes: I get the impression Bookchin is very widely and shallowly read outside of his specific field of study.

He's getting caught up in what words and phrases mean. As in, he is getting caught up in how those words and phrases are interpreted differently by different groups. Some of it seems necessary (his definition of "ecology" for example) but some of it is merely dull and pointless (his reluctant and tortured use of the term "historical materialism").

" Spontaneity enters into social ecology in much the same way as it enters into natural ecology-as a function of diversity and complexity. Ecosystems are much too variegated to be delivered over completely to what Ernst Bloch called the regnum hominis or, at least, to humanity's claim of sovereignty over nature."

The above quote strikes me. I studied economics at school, so the idea that there is a system that humans believe they have mastered, but is really in a constant state of flux, moved great distances and in unpredictable directions by mere chance, is starkly reminiscent of a capitalist organization of the economy.

Or even of any organization of the economy. There is a belief among economists of all ideologies and political persuasions that the economy is solvable. Many economists will claim that is not so. They will hem and haw and say that kind of thinking went out in the middle of the 20th century, but in their secret heats they all believe that their favorite economic model is just a few tweaks away from being true. Then, many of them believe that they can apply that model to the world in service of the Greater Good of Mankind. Bookchin himself, despite not being an economist, is susceptible to this line of thinking. (See Post-Scarcity Anarchism for details, perhaps you will be convinced)

The problem, of course, is that people are small-minded, cruel, self-sabotaging, petty, violent pieces of garbage. However, exactly the same people are compassionate, empathetic, rational, just, generous angels. If everyone contains all of these things within themselves all at once, how are you supposed to predict their economic behavior? The whole of human society is an attempt to minimize the first set of traits and maximize the second. Agreeing on exactly which traits fall into which category is an impossible task, so all the systems end up imperfect. They are reflections of the least horrible traits from the first categories and paragons of the least controversial traits from the second.

To my mind the best way to maximize the second set of traits is to remove as much power from a single person as possible. That is to say, not allow structures that elevate any single person to a position where they are speaking on behalf of the rest. That is where the least offensive petty small-mindedness scrapes its insidious finger-hold, and what follows is a endless series of cascading failures.

Okay I'm going to keep reading now but here is a tangentially relevant meme.

Again, his interpretation of Norse mythology is not exactly how I would interpret it. He sees Odin's loss of an eye as a penalty for his dominion over the natural order of things. I don't think I'd say Odin's powers are above and beyond the control over the natural world that all the rest of the god enjoy. They moreso allow control over his various subjects and enemies. The idea that the natural world the Norse gods enjoy is quite the same as our own, and their relationship to it is very different. Generally speaking they don't have to make choices about how to live in concert with the natural order. They have dominion over it. In fact, these kinds of stories any myths speak to the human impulse to control and dominate nature as the gods control and dominate existence.

Most of my counterpoints are minor. I'll let Bookchin speak for himself here:

"Thus, the past must be dissected in order to exorcise it and to acquire a new integrity of vision. We must reexamine the cleavages that separated humanity from nature, and the splits within the human community that originally produced this cleavage, if the concept of wholeness is to become intelligible and the reopened eye to glimpse a fresh image of freedom."

Bookending the chapter with Norse mythology is a great tool, and it really draws you in, but if you have some knowledge of the subject or do a little research his interpretation is distracting.

I really like this quote though: "History dominates us all the more when we are ignorant of it."

I think Four and a Half Stars

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A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.

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Spy Kids and Climb on Wall

I watched Spy Kids and it was p good still. Maybe three and a half stars?

Also went climbing on a wall with ropes. I've been bouldering for a while but was too scared to do the bigger stuff. Very scared of heights. It went great and was great. Huge accomplishment. Five stars

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Matilda, Football (American), Zain's Luigi

I was forced to watch some more playoff football (american), but made a very tasty beef stew, so not a total loss. The beef stew was three and a half stars (no demi glace). (I would have just used better than bullion anyway)

Matilda is an off the wall movie. I forgot about the cartoonish child abuse and over the top evil schoolmaster. Reminded me of middle school. I recall when one of our assistant principals shotputted some girl over a fence for having pigtails. I do also think that the shotput distance in Matilda was probably a world record. Four Stars.

Fell asleep watching Zain get GM with Luigi. At the beginning of the video he said luigi is kinda lame and boring. I feel that way when I play luigi, but all the top luigi mains are very cool and good. I don't think I would enjoy this challenge. Ness and mewtwo would kill any motivation for playing the game. Three Stars.

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CDC says it's safe for vaccinated people to double laser from ledge