Category: Me Myself&I

I was more thinking 70s muscle cars, but okay. The Goku one at the bottom left cracks me up.

I dislike the glacial interior, but the outside is quite remarkable.

The idea that we can renovate ruins and make them cozy, is great.

Watched this little documentary about the walled city. It’s pretty wild.

No wonder why it was romanticized in the past 20 years.

LMAOOO

The world is global since WWII, we’re interdependent to no end, and mfers are still not comprehending.

I see folks online treating China like it’s an enemy, you mean the enemy that builds everything for this country since 1995 and owns such a big chunk of the US debt that it would economically be suicidal for them to do anything against America?

Yeah, that’s not an enemy. That’s a partner.

Bomboclaat?

Basically,

It’s currently super wild over there. Barely any government governing, left Europe (this has so many consequences, holy macaroni), unprecedented energy crisis right before fall and winter. It’s a spiral down.

I have no idea what’s going to happen then, but it’s about to get very ugly.

One of my best friend in LA is from there. If you love music, you probably love something from the UK. As a musician when I look back… Just the 80s and 90s UK innovated and invented like no one else. It’s amazing.

Then I went there, ate “food”, got horizontal rain in the face and thought to myself, “I’ll enjoy them from far away now”. But still!

Feel better, dear UK. Sending sunshine from Cali wait, I guess you’ve had enough sunshine this summer, I meant, dry HEAT.

The game of basketball was invented in 1891.

Women’s basketball started in 1892.

Basketball courts are the same for all.

Court dimensions were designed for the average height in America, 5 feet and 9 inches.

Therefore, men’s basketball is full of cheaters: Giannis basically plays on a baby hoop! You are disgusting, my brother. Meanwhile Isaiah Thomas (5’9) is the best NBA player ever.

The WNBA’s average height?

Therefore unlike the NBA, the WNBA is playing the game of basketball as it was intended. The dimensions of the court —especially the basket’s height at 10 feet/3 meters—were designed for people 5 feet and 9 inches tall, to provide enough challenge and demand more effort from players.

When I see all those 6’6 and up dudes dunk, I don’t feel anything. They cheatin’! Gross.

Meanwhile the WNBA is full of shooters, ball movement is necessary and actions are more enjoyable, knowing that this person has not won the genetic lottery with a 8’14 wingspan.

Just average height for a great game. Anyway, the WNBA playoffs have started.

At the start of the pandemic, I thought we would see them everywhere:

I didn’t —thank God and also, weird?— see any, at all. Never. I imagined that here in 2020s L.A. full of tech, in this world of hashtags and other acronyms, with some Cyberpunk cred and Same-Half-Hour Delivery thanks to Pervasive Amazon, it would be popular. Nope.

This is good.

As I have written before, this is the dilemma and dichotomy of our increasingly complicated and conflicted relationships with modern technologies – especially those that rely on networks, data, and personalization.

It is a dichotomy if you make the choice of deciding that it is.

There’s no dichotomy here: you don’t have to use those AirTags to live properly. Technology’s convenience is just that, convenience. It is not necessary.

The problem of tech folks is that their business relies on selling tech therefore, they can’t question any of it, even personally. It’s driving our world to the ground.

Be assertive, and question the fuck out of technology that enables terrible behavior.

A laptop, -an absolutely amazing tool- is not making you question potential issues. AirTags IMMEDIATELY scream “uh, this might totally be used for nefarious activities lol”. The 96MB of L3 cache on the new AMD CPU? That’s safe! Everyone glued on their phones? That’s bad!

“But I need my AirTags because I forget my stuff around”

Have less stuff, focus and practice not losing your stuff, get your shit together, practice mindfulness or try to remember when it was 2003 and that you didn’t need this tech. You still managed to live a decent life.

Question your habits and be ruthless about it.