ANITINSTITUTIONALISM [any]

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Cake day: June 6th, 2021

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  • The financial markets are 100% a scam, like tax-advantaged retirement plans are entirely to make your average joe align their interests with the stock market and then use their own money against them. Take advantage of them since they're free money if offered, but on average they're not going to make you rich. Invest in making your labor more valuable to capitalists, as that's going to be your best ROI until you've got a job where you're not living paycheck-to-paycheck.









  • That area west of Columbus OH (Marysville, Dublin, Hilliard) genuinely has one of the highest Japanese populations in the country due to Honda and their various suppliers. Having worked in that ecosystem, I can sort of see where this is coming from.





  • Something about this rubs me the wrong way. I don't know enough about their references to say anything, but the strain of "The Frankfurt School and French Philosophers are CIA plants and are a pure diversion" is kinda short sighted. Yeah they're western navel gazing academics and carry that baggage, but they do as a cannon provide useful lenses through which to analyze neoliberal capitalism. Adorno's schtick as I recall was being against positivism - i.e. hyper-rationalist thinking that ditches any kind of broader sense of the metaphysical social subject. Like hyperfocusing on the "materialism" in "dialectical materialism", missing the forrest for the trees in reading Marx.





  • What ended up working for my depression was Modafinil. Stuff's wonderful, it gave me the ability to function like a normal person, without the depression lethargy, breaking a lot of the depressive feedback loops.

    Unlike amphetamines / methylphenidate - it's only addictive in the sense that its a nice quality of life improvement, it doesn't form a chemical dependency, its effects don't scale with higher doses, and you don't feel compelled to take it.

    Beyond my anecdotal experience, it has been shown to work well with treatment resistant depression in case studies when supplementing treatment. Not your psychiatrist, but it works for me.