Putting philosophy talks at a music festival is one of those ideas you come up with to try and sound smart, cool, and edgy, but as a high schooler who has never done drugs nor been to a live show before.

Anyway I went through the lineup summaries on the wikipedia page, two notes:

1. No Jay Shetty! His particular brand of grift philosophy and thinly veiled clout chasing would fit in exactly at this sort of event. Then again, this festival might actually be beneath him, as he hangs out with hollywood a-listers.
2. The lineup noticeably hits its turning point into a nosedive when they start hosting Pinker in 2018.

I can only offer my solidarity and sympathies. If I were still living in the US, I’d probably have started taking firearms training and bought some by now.

I checked the link, the thread elaborates a bit more:

to which my understanding is: this is absolutely true as well.

Also, shit writing prompt. I haven’t seen a writing prompt online that I didn’t hate. “Hey wouldn’t it be neat if someone wrote about this premise???”

Writing prompt: Day one at the dildo factory

shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up

Not even venmo knows.

❌ “Why would you do this to me?” ↳ Why: Instantly creates tension. ↳ Instead: “What did I do wrong, and how can I do better next time?”

Just incredible that good leadership equals gaslighting yourself into an abusive relationship

and for 2032:

Hope is a mistake 2028!!!

OpenAI somehow managed to outdo Apple in vacuous increment based hype

“used to be” I mean that part tracks at least

dawg if I have to grok rat doublespeak I might just double plus unalive

I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,

“And that’s why I’m announcing project Kenjaku-Orochimaru, where I find twinks to transplant my brain into”