Other than Bill callahan, who else sounds like Mark kozelek?

apparently when somali soldiers run out of artillery shells they strap themselves to catapults and use their foreheads as the warhead, absolutely brilliant

Since we're on the topic of betrayal by teachers. This happened a couple of years ago, years after I graduated. My friend texts me a link and I open it half asleep and see his face on the Washington Post. They were apparently on vacation in her hometown.

He taught social studies and his wife taught me French. They seemed like such a happy couple. She was an absolute sweetheart and no student wanted to upset her. He was by far one of the best teachers I've ever had. One of those teachers who cared about his students thinking for themselves and was always open to having class discussions and debates. Genuinely changed how I viewed the world and made me question fundamental beliefs I was brought up to have at such a young age.

If you had asked me before the news broke which teacher had the most influence on me, it would've been him no question. It feels disingenuous to change that answer now. He ultimately put me on the path of abandoning my belief in god as a kid in a deeply religious society. I've been putting off any reflection on that fact in light of his actions.

The details of the crime are so gruesome I can't process that it actually happened.

Humans are a miserable lot.

It's been a serious obstacle in my search for work—by keeping me from cultivating a network of connections, and limiting the jobs I am willing to work. I'm ashamed of this perceived lack of work experience/opportunities, which creates a feedback loop that reinforces my tendency to keep to myself.

Seeing people appreciate my artwork is what's brought me the most joy, so I want more of that. But I'm practically as avoidant of posting non-anonymously on social media as I am of socializing IRL.

It's not clear to me how to approach this problem. Any ideas?

a lot of posters on here frequently complain about music being not as exciting or novel now as it was in the past. that is true, but i've never seen anyone address the cause of the issue. music will never be as boundary-pushing as it was during the 20th century, and that's just a natural consequence of the technology around it reaching it's zenith.

a band like the beatles cannot exist without mass produced records. kraftwerk could not exist without the synthesizer. hip-hop as a genre could not exist without drum machines. the most innovative musicians did not invent their own tools - instead, they were the first to use them.

but now that everyone can download a cracked copy of fl studio for free, what's left? the amount of tools a 2025 producer has access to is virtually identical to the amount of tools a 2015 producer had access to. you can create any type of sound you want to - which means that all sounds imaginable have been created by now. there are no frontiers left to push. everything is played out, and there won't be anything new.

it's somewhat similar to what happened to painting after the invention of the camera, with the exception being that paintings have never been consumed by the general public the way music is. i can't imagine what might happen next.

According to Redditors, you can’t keep rice for more than 2 days leftover, throw everything out in the fridge after 5 days, don’t even THINK about making a stew or soup and keeping it out til morning with a lid on….

Personally I don’t think my grandmother ever fed me anything that wasn’t made with expired food and I never got food poisoning. If something still smells and looks ok even if I made it over a week ago I’ll eat it and I’m fine.

Obviously if you’re working in a restaurant you should follow these guidelines to avoid liability, but most people aren’t, they’re just cooking at home. The conspiratorial side of my brain starts to wonder whether this is some sort of plot to increase food waste so people have to buy more more regularly. Also a lot of stuff does not need to be refrigerated, if you’re going to eat a nice cheese you can keep it out for a day or two and it’s better, for stinky cheeses the “best by” date is actually what you should wait until to eat it because otherwise it will not be ripe enough…

Also I don’t wash my chicken but they go around saying it will contaminate your sink with salmonella. There’s only 1.35 million salmonella cases a year and only like 20k hospitalizations which seems pretty low. Don’t most people wash their sinks regularly? Especially if you don’t have a dishwasher it’s getting filled up with soap. Idk. Maybe I’m playing this fast and loose but it all sounds like overkill.

It's easy to make fun of channer basement dweller types, especially if you live in one of the American libtopias where progressivism appears as the consensus, but if you're in a red or purple area, these people are just walking around among you - ppl that literally brag about wanting to gut you alive and kill your family.

Maybe desensitization has led us to believe that this is all bark and no bite - the sub is essentially a 4chan retirement community after all - but to be honest if I were one of their visible targets I would take them as seriously as a homeless person shrieking "I'm gonna fucking kill you" to me in a schizoid rage. Sure the ppl saying these things are pathetic but it's still a pretty threatening state of affairs.

Not saying that accusations of bigotry can't be thrown around flippantly and obnoxiously but it ultimately stems from a fear which is very real.

Why do they do it???