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...you know that scene in 30 Rock where Liz and Jenna are hashing out their issues in front of Jack Donaghy, and he's like "This is boring. I'm bored now"? I wonder if that phenomenon explains men being bored by the Neapolitan novels. sorry if that makes me an asshole to wonder; i do genuinely wonder it.

Dmac what u do w those thugs is u put them in some dirty/trashy/poor neighbourhood or somewhere where the murder rate is high and they do community service (pick up trash/sweep)

Second attempt and u incarcerate them

Third attempt and u give em the death penalty

Theyre already a burden to the tax system as it is, might as well make them work for the glorious prison food they so eagerly want

ouch! i wasn't bored by My Brilliant Friend, far from it. but DoA was one of the best reading experiences i've had; stayed up all night to read the final scene, felt it reverberate for days. never read anything so dripping with rage and frustration, i can only imagine what it's like in the original italian! so naturally that's the one i would recommend to Mordy (or anyone)

It was unfair of me to speculate. I don't doubt that Days of Abandonment is great! The neapolitan novels are the most remarkable recent fiction I have read. But female friendship is intrinsically fascinating to me.

who is most conservative ilxor poster btwn me flopson + deems

― Mordy, Sunday, April 2, 2017 2:02 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

deems > you > flopson

poll

Ya but who is most conservative

poll

― flopson, Sunday, April 2, 2017 1:50 PM (forty minutes ago)

^ classic neo-liberal response

the correct answer is "duel"

Markets will decide

The word "truel" was introduced in Martin Shubik's 1964 book Game Theory and Related Approaches to Social Behavior, page 43, and independently in Richard Epstein's 1967 book Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, page 343.

Disappointed that's not a cruel truth tbb

How does Game Theory and Related Approaches to Social Behavior compare to those Ferrante books?

Maybe this would be better for "controversial opinion" thread than here, but since we're talking fidelity/infidelity: I think people mostly don't cheat from healthy relationships.

Nobody "steals" anybody's man, or woman. If you got "stolen," it's because you were stealable. If you're monogamously minded and your relationship is working for you, you can generally resist temptation. If you're not monogamously minded, you probably shouldn't enter into monogamous situations.

idk. sometimes people lose sight of their priorities and do selfish things.

if you're in a committed relationship it's probably a good idea not to spend a lot of alone time w/ someone who shares your spouse's gender

sorry, this isn't the argue with uncool conservative beliefs thread

where do we keep that one

Literally every other thread iirc

Ha truthbomb

I'm sure there's been quite a bit of arguing above.

I didn't oppose Rudy Giuliani's Times Square "clean up," or, rather, I saw it as inevitability.

Watching Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman today made me think of Mordys claim about no good literature after 1945. Because once upon a time, Farhadi would be one of the worlds biggest writers, but people like him now work in cinema. And The Salesman could really have been a very good book, great plot, interesting characters, an intriguing meta-layer. And cinematically, it's ok as well, and a worthy Oscar-winner. It would have been a better book, though, of a kind that isn't there anymore.

Those books are there, just not being written in English for the most part

Well, my example is Iranian, so... :)

The difference between untreated ADHD and incompetence + stupidity is unimportant for practical purposes.

if I read you right that isn't far from my professional position

i have adhd and i agree with that

practical = success in school, especially in the workplace

It's impressive reading the symptoms of ADHD and how closely they align with symptoms of stupidity

this is why my work group switched to a task system we can check -- people request things, we have a window to respond, and any communication is captured there instead of emailing a single person, them saying "oh yeah I'll look at that" and then completely brushing it off

setting up shit like that is, to me, also proactively creating a way to work around ADHD-style lack of focus

I am phenomenally bad at using systems like this, and I know I've looked like an idiot in the past for doing that exact email thing and completely forgetting their request. On a personal level instead of institutional, there's an entire cult of "getting things done" tools and books and I swear, half of it is just forcing people who can't concentrate on shit to organize

can't these people just be eliminated from the workforce and given jobs that are the equivalent of cows grazing in a field?

^ need to keep with the spirit of the thread here

would love to graze in a field tbh

you can reasonably adjust so far, but when the problem is people's inability to function as efficient machine tools then the problem is clearly the machine imo

Even when the prospective tools don't recognize this

you can reasonably adjust so far, but when the problem is people's inability to function as efficient machine tools then the problem is clearly the machine imo

― more polls about food and reactionary art (Noodle Vague), Thursday, June 29, 2017 1:39 PM (fifty-two minutes ago)

another problem is they fuck things up for everyone else.

However, maybe they are the perfect tools to support an authoritarian fascist state as they seem amazingly capable of holding two conflicting ideas in their head, and accepting that 2+2=5 -- I mean, the ability to commit to having people come at 5 to remove their artwork, and simultaneously promote that the gallery will be open for people to view said artwork until 6 ... very impressive.

oh, this is properly ordering things, not forgetting to do things entirely

tools can only do so much, the only thing that is going to make them learn is to show up promptly at 5 and remove all artwork as stated

it is amazing how this person fails to learn basic things

can't these people just be eliminated from the workforce and given jobs that are the equivalent of cows grazing in a field?

― sarahell

my grandfather used to have some variety of pun based around the phrase "outstanding in his field". i can't remember precisely how it went but i'm assuming that since it was a pun it wasn't supposed to be funny anyway. (i thought it was hilarious but i was eight.)

democracy now is bad

democracy is bad now

computer games make you feel fuzzy headed and detached from the world.

marcos when are we gonna hang irl smoke some fat blunts and talk about how bad amy goodman is

ha mordy I would love that

Plato was right about some stuff.

Popular culture actually does have negative affects on youth, just in more complex ways than heavy metal = your kid becomes a satanic murderer etc.

I've been really into comics most of my life but a lot less so in the past few years. Walked into a comic shop recently and thought "it can't be healthy to be so immersed in 95% of this stuff."
I've had this feeling creeping on me for years, a lot of it is the roteness of the drawing but I think a big part of it is the computer colouring. So much computer imagery just grows sickening somehow. Part of why I don't pay much attention to videogames anymore.
I don't think this quality is an unavoidable part of computer art, I like some of it very much but it's difficult to say why some things don't create this feeling.

Too much photography and film with this unpleasantness.

A lot of this might be down to my taste but I think there are types of visual artificiality that are harmful after too much. And yes, think of the children taking it all in.

Plato was right about some stuff.

― .oO (silby),

he was right about findng lasting satisfaction with men :)

Ayooo