existentialterror

People talk about the difficult of having quality discussion on Twitter, Tumblr, leftbook, academic articles, youtube comments. But at least these things are, generally, dynamic. So they fulfill the basic minimum standard of being discussion at all, or at the least, not pretending to try.

As such, the lowest discourse there is is professor-required discussion boards for online classes.

“Hi Light,
I appreciated what you said about the capybara being the largest rodent. You noted that…”

“Hi Light,
Wow, I also said that the capybara is the largest rodent. Like the textbook says, the capybara weighs…”

“Hi Light,
I agree with your point that there are no rodents larger than the capybara. The second largest rodent…”

I spent a couple weeks in Seattle with my friends, staying at their group house, spending all day surrounded by some of my favorite people.

I worried that once I got back, I'd instantly be consumed by regret that I left their company at all.

But I got off the plane this morning, went through the cold cold air to my house, opened the door, smelled it, saw my whiteboards and my books and my art and my cooking supplies and my couch, and let out a relaxed "aahhhhhhhh."

Now I ran errands and am back with everything set up for me going to a conference, food on the shelves, discount christmas candy, tea, some boxes recycled, cockroaches haven't taken over the house, my parents sent me new headphones and a nice blanket. My arms are sore and I'm tired from the red-eye flight and a nap during the day, so I'm out of it, but... in a pleasant way.

When I was in England, I got the phrase stuck in my head, "you get to keep coming home".

Home doesn't have to be one single place. I can go to Seattle, and come home, and drive to my favorite coffee shop in my college town and walk in, and come home, and see my partner, and come home, and go back to the place I actually have a lease signed, and come home, and go on discord, and come home, and -

I don't know. I get to keep coming home.

Current Music: Young Man in America - Anais Mitchell

Approximate chronological order:

BEING DONE WITH CLASS
NYC megameetup
Seeing Ant Man!
NYC solstice
Reading a god damned book
S E A T T L E
Seeing Shadow, the Doom Patrol, the Bottomless Void crew, Rock Star
Seeing ALL OTHER EXCELLENT FRIENDS (even if you do not have a cool nick name it does not mean I am not very much looking forward to seeing you and may even have imagined hugging you already)
Friends!
Friends!
Friends!
Seattle Solstice!
Cooking food with people I like
Writing blog posts
Focusing on special interest projects (can I call them that?)
Revamping my website!
Minecraft server with internet friends
Study strategies + setup for next semester!
Looking at cool things to apply to!
friend
book

2019: Let's bring back sparkledogs.

https://scp-wiki.dreamwidth.org/ Go forth and find other Hot Singles Looking for Euclid-Class Anomalies in Your Area Today.

Is it time to abandon our spread-out web of various social media sites, and unite all discussion under a group minecraft server?

Consider:

Consolidation of discussion.
Solving complex group problems together.
Tracking people through logs is even more difficult and inscrutable - privacy through obscurity.
If you don't like someone's opinions, you can kill them or set their house on fire.
Did you know minecraft has sea turtles now?

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The lowest discourse there is

You get to keep coming home

Things I am looking forward to over break:

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I made an SCP Foundation community on dreamwidth.

A serious topic we all need to consider.

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