UniversalBasicJustice

I reserve ‘cunt’ and ‘dumb bitch’ as especially strong, disrespectful expletives to call a woman.

When I say “Fuck that dumb bitch TERF cunt JK Rowling” it carries the hurt and ire of a broken childhood love of Harry Potter. The series itself was incredibly important to me and provided a world I could escape to when the real world was overwhelming. The hate and bigotry that cunt has shown breaks my heart and sullies too many childhood memories to describe.

I was deeply inspired to pursue engineering after watching the first Falcon 9 boosters land themselves. I was enamored by the idea of using my little blip in humanity’s timeline to assist our expansion to another planet. I wanted to contribute to something important, something that turned many brilliant minds towards an achievement that would eventually benefit the entirety of mankind.

I even hopped on the Tesla train; I recognized the existential threat that carbon emissions bore as well as the damaging, restrictive nature of building a society that scorns public transportation and promotes individual car ownership.

I didn’t worship Elon so much as admired the causes he was advancing. That admiration withered over the years but my dream of contributing to the colonization of Mars helped me push through the ten years it took to earn my four year engineering degree. As details of his derangement came out, as he acquired twitter and more overtly spread his billionaire propaganda, that dream started to fade. The fascist salutes at Trump’s inauguration crushed those dreams and ground them into a dust too fine to even attempt a rebuild.

My jaded ass still wants to benefit humanity so I’ve set my eyes on climate science, even as the country I was born in denies the havoc and damage our relentless consumption has wrought. Not just denial, but outright derision and contempt for the future of our world. Thus I hope to take my dreams elsewhere, hoping to find a culture with a clearer view of the consequences we must face and the changes we must make to preserve our planet.

This is actually incredibly relevant to me. I’m anti-“It is what it is” and instead say “Such is life,” “So it goes,” “C’est la vie” and an additional alternative is great. Won’t eliminate C’est la vie entirely because it’s a Protest the Hero song, but thanks for another ‘tired acknowledgment of the absurdity of reality’ phrase!

I want to learn French so I can refuse to speak it rather than not know how.

Just want to chime in with something; this is one of the most respectful, mutually considerate discussions I’ve seen on the internet in recent memory and y’all should be proud.

https://othersbynoone.bandcamp.com/album/book-i-dr-breacher

https://othersbynoone.bandcamp.com/album/book-ii-where-stories-come-from

Primo theater nerd progessive rock sprinkled with metal. My taste heavily leans towards exceptional instrumentation and harsh vocals, but this band’s vocalist blew me away. It is immediately obvious that he was the lead in one to several of his high school’s musicals and likely went on to study and train in a conservatory or university program. His delivery is nuanced and theatrical without going overboard.

The instrumentation is stellar with an arrangement that accentuates and complements the vocals without fighting for space. Impressively, the combined runtime beats out Between the Buried and Me’s Parallax 1&2 by 6 minutes. Like Parallax, the Breacher saga has enough variety in composition that the 2+ hours isn’t a slog but an enjoyable journey that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.

FFO: Native Construct, Coheed and Cambria, Ludo’s Broken Bride EP, BTBAM-like zaniness