Absolutely, you stop measuring the passage of time in days and years and start measuring it in experiences. When you’re young and everything is new it’s absolutely full. The 10th or hundredth time you’ve done something you handle it more easily but it also starts to seem like one ‘thing’.

Routine is the quickest way to looking back on life and feeling like it was the blink of an eye.

Not voting because it’s not a good harm reduction strategy is just another way of saying it won’t do any good so don’t bother.

If you are trying to present a nuanced argument against some specific reason ‘for’ voting, more power to you, but you are seriously coming across as a worthless bot put in place to recommend not voting wherever possible.

Still, go out and vote

Fair points, though i disagree on the majority of objectively bad content being harmless. Anything on the Internet that leads people to feeling marginalized or ashamed or less than someone else is harmful. Even weight loss and beauty product ads are harmful in measurable ways. Having popularity and young kids looking up to you and using that admiration to to put people down and normalizing it is the worst kind of character and just because it’s freedom of speech and some content creators don’t do it still results in something equating to a cesspool where the less thoughtful creators can thrive.

I think it’s close to equal parts jealousy and legitimate distaste for rewarding popularity for popularity sake. So much of the toxic behavior of the popular cliche in high school makes it into the environment that it dilutes the legitimate utilization of the platform for making actually good content.

That, and the possibly justifiable hated for what some people are now considering, by extension, ‘good content’ when it all just ends up being reaction videos and meta content about content about content to the point where it’s just a bunch of rich assholes acting like rich assholes and that’s literally the content.

Honestly the worse trend I’ve seen are the channels that are effectively ‘bum fights’ with marginally less crude concepts. Let’s see how humiliated we can make my friends act for a tiny bit of money compared to how much I’m making is not, and has never been, a nice thing to do, and the platform has turned it into a lucrative job.

I don’t know, i mean he does have range, but i don’t think I’ve over seen him in a role where i was immersed in the character he was playing more than i consistently see it being Nick Cage playing the character as Nick Cage would play him.

I mean a lot of actors get typecast into specific roles you can’t unsee them as, but Nick is like a character that can’t seem to un-overlay his acting style from the character. Not unlike someone with an accent they can’t hide will always bring something potentially unintended to the character, he brings a ‘this is what this character would be like if we were in a universe where his personality was painted over the intended character’.

Good or bad, i don’t think he has a role where he can leave himself out of it, and i think he would have failed as an actor a long time ago if he was forced to.

Nicholas cage

Have you watched the Stephen King movie about that?

Frank Zappa and Christopher Hitchens. Maybe not personally, but i really feel like there are some losses that the world doesn’t realize.