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it was almost comically hard to find a gif of the flag burning

lmao agreed. definitely not anywhere near as good but here’s a website i just found of ai herzog and ai zizek having an endless conversation that amused me for several minutes.

I’ll put it on google drive if you want, it’s like 150mb.

Werner Herzog: [On the jungle] Kinski always says it’s full of erotic elements. I don’t see it so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It’s just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn’t see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and… growing and… just rotting away. Of course, there’s a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they - they sing. They just screech in pain. It’s an unfinished country. It’s still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is - is the dinosaurs here. It’s like a curse weighing on an entire landscape. And whoever… goes too deep into this has his share of this curse. So we are cursed with what we are doing here. It’s a land that God, if he exists has - has created in anger. It’s the only land where - where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at - at what’s around us there - there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of… overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle - Uh, we in comparison to that enormous articulation - we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban… novel… a cheap novel. We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication… overwhelming growth and overwhelming lack of order. Even the - the stars up here in the - in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment.

The project they put me on concluded like two days after i finished the training (lmao) so now I’m waiting to be reassigned but hey i made $70 on the assessment tasks!

Good shit though, also I’ve never done a job that made me feel like I’m taking part in some cosmic eldritch ritual beyond my understanding quite like this one

They’re putting ads in the fortune cookies to make the frickin’ proles pay

lmao

I saw one in person for the first time a couple weeks ago around here and boy howdy they really do look dumb and extremely out of place in a way that i think cannot be fully captured by images.

Oh yeah that’s frustrating, similar case with one of my parents. Hope he feels better in any case

You could check out the epley maneuver. Basically there are crystals in your inner ear that allow you to balance and perceive acceleration and if they end up in the wrong place you feel vertigo. Rolling off a level surface in a very specific way can help get them back where they belong, you can watch demonstrations on youtube. It’s also amazing how much difference a sudafed can make sometimes, hayfever allergens have been really bad around here the last few weeks and sinus pressure can easily cause vertigo.

I’ve heard they lose their zap when stored ground but I haven’t tried. I’ve made hot oil with whole ones a few times and ground them to mix into chinese takeout. They grind easily in a mortar and pestel, probably more cost effective too. You should definitely try em out though. It’s a really interesting element to add into stuff. It’s like an electric version of capsaicin spicy.

Ayyyy thanks for mentioning that outlier link, really really appreciate it. I’ve been doing the training stuff the last few days. I did a few of the training tasks the first day i was accepted but since then it’s been a single (training) task per day, as if it only refreshes once every 24 hours. Is that what “onboarding” was like for you too?

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Did I mention that there are cash rewards and that you can get beads taken away too?

Brb getting a law degree so i can articulate what labor laws this simply must be somehow violating

Ayyy thanks! Something with the city parks would be pretty tight, also considering the post office. I’d definitely take any sort of remote work bookkeeping style computer job regardless of how boring/mind-numbingly pointless it was though. I hear electric companies have remote entry-level positions sometimes but I’ve yet to happen across one.

oh that looks real fun i might have to check that out too

Lmao hell yeah I’m glad you carved the plastic. It would be funny if you got your own beads and started giving them to your coworkers for fulfilling random mundane objectives, really throw a wrench into the work beadconomy.

I’m vacilating between doomlike anxiety and feeling just fine and kind of cool. On one hand i really need a real job because my costs of living outpace the sidework I’ve been doing and my savings will only last so long and also all my friends are getting married and/or becoming increasingly unrelatable treatlords… but on the other hand I found a lot of cool mushrooms on my last hike and I’ve lost ten pounds over the last month basically by binge drinking marginally less.

Congrats on the job dawg, can’t wait for you to catch up so you can take it at least a little easier. Good luck with the interviews too.

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