seeking_perhaps [he/him]

I remember The Dispossessed having a fairly optimistic view of an anarchist society.

This is what did it for me. Once you see that shit you stop seeing meat as food.

Skip Annapolis, or at least you only need like half a day there. Philly is really cool these days and has a great food scene. I also recommend stopping in Princeton, NJ on your way to NY since that's a train stop and has great history too. In New Haven get pizza. There's not much else there but you'll be happy you did that.

Lmk if anyone figures out wtf is going on in Asteroid City

Think its hilarious that Argentina is all messed up (does it exist?) in this one lol

Agreed, put cheese out of your brain and just eat and you'll enjoy it. (5 y.o. vegan)

A few of my favorites from the last yearish:

• The Stand
• The Forge of God + Anvil of Stars
• Dragon's Egg
• Dawn

Depending on what you consider old, I liked Brazil and Silent Running when I watched them recently.

I am so sick of the dream sequence scenes. They just aren't intriguing at all and waste so much of the runtime.

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In a similar boat. I decided I wanted to actually learn spanish, so a couple months ago I got serious about watching Comprehensible Input (Dreaming Spanish). Between that and self study and speaking practice I'm already well past where I was in high school, though I still have a long way to go to fluency.

It's frustrating that I have to find this all out years after my education. But I feel that way about most subjects I learned in school, so this is no different.

writing 07/13/24 as we speak

Shin has a vegan ramen. I have like 10 boxes in my pantry.

np! gl comrade

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I struggle to care about US soccer, but at this point it's hard not to blame the coaching. Unlike US teams of years past, all the talent you need to progress in tournaments is there. Sure, an individual red card against Panama is a blow, but it's still not a good excuse for crashing out against Panama followed by a tepid performance against Uruguay.

Just read this! Yes, the prose was beautiful and I found myself falling for both characters. Had a lot of trouble following the time travel elements but they were secondary anyway.

the rest of the book is actually quite (overly) optimistic, so it balances out

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That's dumb, sorry about that. If you want to smooth over the office politics, you could bring in an identical bag of chips (or equivalent item) and offer to share with coworkers. Obviously maybe cost prohibitive but might make your narc coworker relax a bit.