Eating Turkey With Boomers On This Fine Thursday

The Unscheduled Life

Start by saying no to everything. I say no to everything. I don't have a calendar. When people say, how about such and such time? I say, “hmm, well, I would have to either set an alarm for it or I would have to remember it.” That way, unless I really, really badly want to do it, I just can't even do it. The maximum number of meetings I can have per day is one, because that's all I can remember or all I'm going to set an alarm for.

Second, I push everything asynchronous and unscheduled. My mottos are, “better bored than busy,” and “the overscheduled life isn't worth living.” The world is full of opportunity. You just have to be available and have time and mental space to grab it. And when you grab it, you're going to be sorry you grabbed it because now there's a thousand other things you can't grab. So you only want to grab the ones that really, really, really appeal to you. It has to bring you out of retirement, essentially. But you do need something to focus on because if you don't, what are you going to do all day? You'll just drink yourself to death or do stupid things.

It does mean that you have to unschedule your entire life around you. I see many parents whose children's lives are scheduled and then they try to live an unscheduled life. It doesn't work. If your children have school times, nap times, play times, times when they have to eat, times when they have to go to bed, then your own life will be scheduled as well. Nothing wrong with that. Most of us don't have the luxury of being unscheduled, but if you do, your entire life around you has to be unscheduled. It also means every single event is voluntary. You never commit to showing up and speaking at an event. You never commit to a birthday party. You never commit to a wedding. You never commit to a bar mitzvah. It means you never commit, you never let your wife commit you to anything. You never commit her to anything. If somebody asks, is he available for X? She doesn't even ask on their behalf. If somebody asks me, is she available for X? I don't even ask her on their behalf. So, completely free and unscheduled. It's about as hard as it sounds, but it's about ten times more rewarding than it sounds. It means you have to break the heart of every person who expects you to be in a specific place at a specific time. That's their expectation. It's their problem, not yours. You have to get comfortable ghosting people who become too familiar. They text you too much. They Airchat you too much. They email you too much. Just stop responding. The monkey on their back that they're trying to put on yours is not your problem. You just have to be comfortable walking away with no remorse. When you look back on your life in that final moment, you will wish that you'd spent more time on the timeless and less time on the temporary and there are very, very few timeless things.

(Naval)

There is something to this idea of being a pissant. It deals with being insignificant or even contempable. I don't feel that way but obviously I do if it comes out in my writing like that. I don't feel empowered in this season of unemployment. Maybe I did when I was on the vacation in the midwest at times. When I was tearing through Baudrillard. No. I don't actually need a meaning of life. Some power overarching meaning.

The thing is I am not coming out of retirement. I am coming out of unemployment but I do feel this pressure to pick the right thing. If it's not great it's another 2 years down the shitter and I find myself in the same situation. But what am I going to do all day? Well, I can do my best to make this trip sober. I don't know what naval means when he says "stupid things." How much trouble can I get into if I am reading and going on walks with the dog?

I will say is that one advantage the Boomers have is that they are not on their phones at all during conversation. That is a huge plus.

This Stephen King experiment has been interesting but it is keeping me from reading The Brothers Karamazov or In Search of Lost Time.

On November 24 2023 03:00 RiKD wrote: I will say is that one advantage the Boomers have is that they are not on their phones at all during conversation. That is a huge plus.

very much so.

I'm mostly just chiming in to say that I enjoy your musings thanks for keeping the blog section alive

Millenials will be the new boomers soon. Not sure if people care about generation X.

Flip phones > Smart phones imo.

On November 26 2023 19:13 Liquid`Drone wrote: Show nested quote + On November 24 2023 03:00 RiKD wrote: I will say is that one advantage the Boomers have is that they are not on their phones at all during conversation. That is a huge plus. very much so. I'm mostly just chiming in to say that I enjoy your musings thanks for keeping the blog section alive

I don't think I need encouragement ;P

I am still not sure if they are a vice or a virtue. Thanks though.

On November 26 2023 21:46 Stroggoz wrote: Millenials will be the new boomers soon. Not sure if people care about generation X. Flip phones > Smart phones imo.

A lot of people already hate on millenialls. Count me in the I don't care about generation x crowd.

smart phones > flip phones but it's close

I prefer getting used smart phones and limiting screen time to bare min levels

I'm not even going to watch Napoleon. It sounds like a ridiculous movie made by a ridiculous director. I'm going straight to the best biography Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Part of this is I can't get over Hegel calling Napoleon a perfect man but Hegel was kind of weird. I just have to get to the bottom of this.

So I bought Tiny Tina's Wonderlands instead of Alan Wake 2 and have been playing that. I play a bit of poker too at nl5, nl10 level. 1 buyin at nl10 is almost one pizza delivered home. Also, buy that Control game.

I bought Baileys last weekend and drank it with vodka. So fucking good but one shot (4cl) is like 150 calories. I have given up on being fit/thin, but I don't wanna turn into boogie2988 either.

On November 28 2023 05:13 RiKD wrote: I'm not even going to watch Napoleon. It sounds like a ridiculous movie made by a ridiculous director. I'm going straight to the best biography Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Part of this is I can't get over Hegel calling Napoleon a perfect man but Hegel was kind of weird. I just have to get to the bottom of this.

You ever read crime and punishment? The main character spends part of the book justifying his crime by comparing his axe murder to the actions of great men like Napoleon; i.e a guy who "gets shit done", for the "greater good".
Main character syndrome plus a total edge lord.

On November 28 2023 04:37 RiKD wrote: Show nested quote + On November 26 2023 21:46 Stroggoz wrote: Millenials will be the new boomers soon. Not sure if people care about generation X. Flip phones > Smart phones imo. A lot of people already hate on millenialls. Count me in the I don't care about generation x crowd. smart phones > flip phones but it's close I prefer getting used smart phones and limiting screen time to bare min levels

No one hates the silent generation. They endured the great depression, fought ww2 and created the new deal, and rebuilt it afterwards. Made the world better off so that boomers could enjoy it and shit on gen X and millenials. People have good reason to hate millenials, although the intergenerational warfare is some culture war bs.

On November 28 2023 22:54 Stroggoz wrote: Show nested quote + On November 28 2023 05:13 RiKD wrote: I'm not even going to watch Napoleon. It sounds like a ridiculous movie made by a ridiculous director. I'm going straight to the best biography Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Part of this is I can't get over Hegel calling Napoleon a perfect man but Hegel was kind of weird. I just have to get to the bottom of this. You ever read crime and punishment? The main character spends part of the book justifying his crime by comparing his axe murder to the actions of great men like Napoleon; i.e a guy who "gets shit done", for the "greater good". Main character syndrome plus a total edge lord.

Yeah, I have read Crime and Punishment. Looking back probably my least favorite Dosteovsky but it was my first Dostoevsky so I also covet it still. I read it while I was still greiving my bankroll loss and lying about it so it actually helped me a lot in that regard although I didn't find Christ.

On November 28 2023 06:34 CurbStomp2 wrote: So I bought Tiny Tina's Wonderlands instead of Alan Wake 2 and have been playing that. I play a bit of poker too at nl5, nl10 level. 1 buyin at nl10 is almost one pizza delivered home. Also, buy that Control game. I bought Baileys last weekend and drank it with vodka. So fucking good but one shot (4cl) is like 150 calories. I have given up on being fit/thin, but I don't wanna turn into boogie2988 either.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands????

I don't know if I am going to get Control. It's still like $39.99 and the trailer didn't really entice me.

I think my alchy friend from back in the day had it somewhat right. He would just go lots of ice, shit tons of vodka, fair amount pink lemonade and little bit sierra mist in a giant ass cup it may as well have been an iv drip. The downside is he would play facebook slots all day / all night which was kind of pathetic. I mean he did win some cool prizes but he was a bricklayer making shit pot loads of money anyway. Facebook slots is a heinous way to spend one's time. He was comfortable / functional at 1 litre of vodka / day.

On November 28 2023 23:40 RiKD wrote: Show nested quote + On November 28 2023 22:54 Stroggoz wrote:   On November 28 2023 05:13 RiKD wrote: I'm not even going to watch Napoleon. It sounds like a ridiculous movie made by a ridiculous director. I'm going straight to the best biography Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Part of this is I can't get over Hegel calling Napoleon a perfect man but Hegel was kind of weird. I just have to get to the bottom of this. You ever read crime and punishment? The main character spends part of the book justifying his crime by comparing his axe murder to the actions of great men like Napoleon; i.e a guy who "gets shit done", for the "greater good". Main character syndrome plus a total edge lord. Yeah, I have read Crime and Punishment. Looking back probably my least favorite Dosteovsky but it was my first Dostoevsky so I also covet it still. I read it while I was still greiving my bankroll loss and lying about it so it actually helped me a lot in that regard although I didn't find Christ.

Yeah my least fav as well. Kinda enjoyed his short novellas like white nights and notes from underground the most. And ofc there is the gambler. Dostoevsky kinda reminds me of you a little bit. He comes across as highly neurotic.

Control was given free on Epic before. It is also easy to pirate. There's no reason to buy such old games. Alan Wake 2 is also out on torrent sites btw, you are unemployed, you have every reason to not give a shit and pirate things.

On November 29 2023 00:03 RiKD wrote: Show nested quote + On November 28 2023 06:34 CurbStomp2 wrote: So I bought Tiny Tina's Wonderlands instead of Alan Wake 2 and have been playing that. I play a bit of poker too at nl5, nl10 level. 1 buyin at nl10 is almost one pizza delivered home. Also, buy that Control game. I bought Baileys last weekend and drank it with vodka. So fucking good but one shot (4cl) is like 150 calories. I have given up on being fit/thin, but I don't wanna turn into boogie2988 either. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands???? I don't know if I am going to get Control. It's still like $39.99 and the trailer didn't really entice me. I think my alchy friend from back in the day had it somewhat right. He would just go lots of ice, shit tons of vodka, fair amount pink lemonade and little bit sierra mist in a giant ass cup it may as well have been an iv drip. The downside is he would play facebook slots all day / all night which was kind of pathetic. I mean he did win some cool prizes but he was a bricklayer making shit pot loads of money anyway. Facebook slots is a heinous way to spend one's time. He was comfortable / functional at 1 litre of vodka / day.

That's a ridiculous amount of booze. I drink 1,5 litres a week.

I woke up today with my upper back all fucked up. I can barely turn my head. Maybe it's Karma from being a Nazi.

Tiny Tina's is a le meme tier Borderlands game. So an entertaining mindless shooter. I can't really justify 60 for a game that is only 20 hours even if it is a Remedy game. I also got Disco Elysium, you must heard of it.

On November 29 2023 04:07 Loco wrote: Control was given free on Epic before. It is also easy to pirate. There's no reason to buy such old games. Alan Wake 2 is also out on torrent sites btw, you are unemployed, you have every reason to not give a shit and pirate things.

I would if I knew where to go and how to use it.

Last Saturday

I wake up early to get to the bar early. It is the day of the fabled Ohio State Buckeyes versus Michigan Wolverines College Football Game. I run an experiment and wear all black with a dark green hat with a sad cougar on it that my mom got at the Flagstaff Arizona National Park. I don't have any Ohio State clothing and don't particular support them even though they are my Alma Mater. We get there early to hold seats. Some lady in charge of the Ohio State Alumni group wants us to do networking tasks. Basically, everyone entering has Ohio State gear on. It is an Ohio State backers bar afterall. Some people during the networking cheese ask if I am a Michigan fan. The place gets packed. Standing room only. I am not very excitable. I feel weird in that I don't cheer. I won't turn down high fives or anything like that but I just sit. It is like life and death for some of these people in the bar. It gets worse as people get more drunk. I mean I don't mind the energy. What if we took that community and energy to an activist event. On the other side of the coin, thank goodness we did not take that energy to go after a black man and lynch him. Bodies are bodies. Bodies are awkward and many times let us down especially as we get older. There is something to be said about the beauty of an athlete in their prime performing at an elite level. Even given all of this College Football just does not excite me so much. It was a close game the whole game and Ohio State Buckeyes had a chance to win it in the end but they could not do it and so they lost the big rivalry game. I was not particularly that sad and just went on with my day.

I think it's impossible for me to manufacture Team Spirit.

I'm sure it's more fun to yell and cheer and put your hand up in the air at every 8 yard gain.

Maybe this is what I am talking about being a stoic versus the aliveness of existential passionista.

My therapist brought up a good point about stoics. They seem to let things build up and build up and that is not healthy either. I don't know if that's true. Even so it might be true of me which is the point she was making. Where does it all go that is building and building? A stoic cannot not just hold everything or convert everything to nothing or can they? I am not sure if I can do that. Watching an Ohio State University Football Game I can more or less do it only because I'm more or less unperturbed. I want Ohio State to win because people around me will be happy and I try to feel something more in these situations. I generally feel more than nothing but maybe it's so close to nothing it may as well be nothing. Well, it's a part of life that generally follows the rest of my life. I don't want to be a nihilist but I don't know how I get out of being a nihilist. Also, I realize I am not a full blown nihilist so perhaps call it nihilist lite. I do think there can be meaning in life although I don't know what that is. Although, I do reject all religious and moral guidelines. I think I would be better off if I was grounded in something like a meaning(s) of life. Ohio State University Football isn't it.

I feel like there is a new show out now that people might like. The show is called A Murder At The End Of The World. It is a Brit Marling joint. Some may know that name from The OA. I don't know yet which one I like more but The OA was stupidly cancelled by Netflix. Now, Brit brings her new show to HULU and besides maybe some bad acting here and there I am really enjoying it. I would have watched it all by now but I can't because the next episodes does not come out until Dec 5 and Dec 12 respectively.

I am pretty picky with tv shows but if anyone has some suggestions I would be interested in that too. Tv shows / movies make the day go by faster than just reading and going on walks. Also, I don't want to go back to Classic WoW even with the recent updates. I'm trying to stay away from doing that.

I tried to watch that show but it was too... current. I can't handle many shows that are made nowadays. It's either some feminist nonsense or then it's some over the top macho cringe fest like Reacher or Tulsa King. Bring early 2000's back.

What do you mean you reject all moral guidelines? There are some reasonable stuff in ten commandments.

On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality - Nietzsche

I'm nihilist lite though so if I take online courses on Justice at Harvard and learn about Kant and Rawls and tend to be stimulated and open to discourse.

Full nihilism would be examples of people killing random people for no reason or because it does not matter.

It's not that the 10 commandments are terrible it is just that something better could easily be built.

Actually, I just read the 10 commandments they are terrible. Something like The Golden Rule is easily much better.

I understand existential nihilism, but moral nihilism is just retarded and I can't really come up with a person who would be one. I thought maybe serial killers could be, but they are not. Many kill women, because they think women are whores, which they find morally wrong.

Or maybe i don't really get the concept.

On November 29 2023 19:36 RiKD wrote: Show nested quote + On November 29 2023 04:07 Loco wrote: Control was given free on Epic before. It is also easy to pirate. There's no reason to buy such old games. Alan Wake 2 is also out on torrent sites btw, you are unemployed, you have every reason to not give a shit and pirate things. I would if I knew where to go and how to use it.

You don't only eat turkey with boomers you also have a lot of them in you eh

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On December 01 2023 22:19 RiKD wrote: I feel like there is a new show out now that people might like. The show is called A Murder At The End Of The World. It is a Brit Marling joint. Some may know that name from The OA. I don't know yet which one I like more but The OA was stupidly cancelled by Netflix. Now, Brit brings her new show to HULU and besides maybe some bad acting here and there I am really enjoying it. I would have watched it all by now but I can't because the next episodes does not come out until Dec 5 and Dec 12 respectively. I am pretty picky with tv shows but if anyone has some suggestions I would be interested in that too. Tv shows / movies make the day go by faster than just reading and going on walks. Also, I don't want to go back to Classic WoW even with the recent updates. I'm trying to stay away from doing that.

I am watching it too just because it was made by Brit (and she acts in it) but I'm thoroughly disappointed. The plot is so thin, the "tech billionaire will save us" trope is overdone and we need less of it. Of course she ends up marrying the guy and having children with him, she's friends with Grimes and puts her music in the show, no coincidence. It's like Brit covertly admitting she's jealous and would like to bone Elon, ew.

On December 03 2023 10:51 CurbStomp2 wrote: I understand existential nihilism, but moral nihilism is just retarded and I can't really come up with a person who would be one. I thought maybe serial killers could be, but they are not. Many kill women, because they think women are whores, which they find morally wrong. Or maybe i don't really get the concept.

Nietzsche lays it out in Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. So, you would have to read and comprehend those two works to get the concept.

Do people actually know why men serial killers mostly kill women? Is that piece of information even true?

On December 03 2023 17:43 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On November 29 2023 19:36 RiKD wrote:   On November 29 2023 04:07 Loco wrote: Control was given free on Epic before. It is also easy to pirate. There's no reason to buy such old games. Alan Wake 2 is also out on torrent sites btw, you are unemployed, you have every reason to not give a shit and pirate things. I would if I knew where to go and how to use it. You don't only eat turkey with boomers you also have a lot of them in you eh https://www.1377x.to/ It's not complicated. Write what you want > find a file with a lot of downloads/seeders, check the comments to make sure everything's legit. Usually there are instructions, but you don't need them, the installation process if pretty straight-forward, and often has an option to copy the crack automatically in the game folder. Otherwise, Google is your friend.   On December 01 2023 22:19 RiKD wrote: I feel like there is a new show out now that people might like. The show is called A Murder At The End Of The World. It is a Brit Marling joint. Some may know that name from The OA. I don't know yet which one I like more but The OA was stupidly cancelled by Netflix. Now, Brit brings her new show to HULU and besides maybe some bad acting here and there I am really enjoying it. I would have watched it all by now but I can't because the next episodes does not come out until Dec 5 and Dec 12 respectively. I am pretty picky with tv shows but if anyone has some suggestions I would be interested in that too. Tv shows / movies make the day go by faster than just reading and going on walks. Also, I don't want to go back to Classic WoW even with the recent updates. I'm trying to stay away from doing that. I am watching it too just because it was made by Brit (and she acts in it) but I'm thoroughly disappointed. The plot is so thin, the "tech billionaire will save us" trope is overdone and we need less of it. Of course she ends up marrying the guy and having children with him, she's friends with Grimes and puts her music in the show, no coincidence. It's like Brit covertly admitting she's jealous and would like to bone Elon, ew.

Thank you for the tips on getting all that I desire for free. It's too bad I can't dl a soul or a spirit.

Plot is thin is true. The only charachters that get developed are Darby and Bill + Show Spoiler +

I will defend the use of Genesis in that scene because I thought it fit perfectly and anyways, I like Visions Grimes.

I meant that Brit's character is married to the billionaire in the show. This is known very early on, so I didn't think it was a spoiler. It makes 0 sense considering her background, a cool elite hacker girl would want to take a shit on a billionaire. Also it's claimed earlier on that people don't know where she is, she disappeared herself, but you can bet people would know if she was married to the world's greatest billionaire, there's no way that could be kept a secret. I think Genesis is a great song but it was an odd placement, it didn't really fit. It's like this whole show was thought up by Grimes herself.

I thought you meant Darby gets married to Andy and has a bunch of kids. Brit's character Lee being married to Andy makes 0 sense too.

Re: Genesis

It was the genesis of the retreat and the song has a xanax'y / ambien'y feel to it. The good feeling of a druggy reverie is countered by the nightmare.

Speaking of Grimes I happened to see that debate on the sexual revolution hosted by Bari Weiss. When you are unemployed you tend to watch things like that. It wasn't great but Anna Kachiyan was amusing. I keep meaning to watch some podcasts with her. Grimes was out of her mind yet she kept getting the most cheers.

On December 03 2023 17:53 RiKD wrote: Show nested quote + On December 03 2023 10:51 CurbStomp2 wrote: I understand existential nihilism, but moral nihilism is just retarded and I can't really come up with a person who would be one. I thought maybe serial killers could be, but they are not. Many kill women, because they think women are whores, which they find morally wrong. Or maybe i don't really get the concept. Nietzsche lays it out in Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. So, you would have to read and comprehend those two works to get the concept. Do people actually know why men serial killers mostly kill women? Is that piece of information even true?

I don't know, but the reason a man physically hurts a woman seems to be often along those lines. I think it's also the reason sand people make their women wear those bags. Wasn't Dahmer a fag and he killed men?

Maybe I try reading philosophy. I tried reading Schopenhauer once because I was looking for some kind of validation for my depression. It was hard to internalize at the time. I later on listened some biography of him and he was definitely an incel who was upset that a strong jawline gets you more pussy than intelligence.

Before I saw the picture of Loco flexing, that Bill dude from the series was exactly how I imagined him to look like. A skinny guy affiliated with antifa, rocking a mullet and random tattoos meant to project his confidence and indifference to social norms.

Also, in the series "Lee Andersen" is pronounced the same way as "Li Andersson", who is the most prominent left wing figure in Finnish politics and the leader of the Left Alliance. It was funny hearing the name. I assume the hacker was a commie too before marrying the billionare.

Curbed,

I just can't with you right now.

Grimes was on the top 100 most influential people in AI on Time magazine cover. I had to laugh. What does she do exactly? Apparently she likes when people use DL models to copy her voice to make music or something. That makes her a top 100 influencer in AI. LMAO. She was on the cover and OpenAI cheif scientist Illya Sutskever, the most important figure behind chatgpt wasn't on the cover from what I saw. HAHAHAHA. Perhaps its because he's balding?

Its like if they had a top 100 most influential physicist list and put bill nye's wife on the cover but didn't put Einstein on it.

God time magazine is just the worst.

Realistically, the most influential people in AI are actually the people who make computers run faster. The ones making better and better graphics cards and cpus.

The only cool elite hacker girl I know is Alexandra Elbakyan and she worships stalin as a god. Hackers are usually about 3 std deviations from the norm when it comes to political views. They seem to either be anarcho capitalist crypto shills or commies. Centrism is a virus. Cannot seeing her marry a billionaire, but she'd definitely have Stalins babies.

On December 04 2023 17:28 CurbStomp2 wrote: Show nested quote + On December 03 2023 17:53 RiKD wrote:   On December 03 2023 10:51 CurbStomp2 wrote: I understand existential nihilism, but moral nihilism is just retarded and I can't really come up with a person who would be one. I thought maybe serial killers could be, but they are not. Many kill women, because they think women are whores, which they find morally wrong. Or maybe i don't really get the concept. Nietzsche lays it out in Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. So, you would have to read and comprehend those two works to get the concept. Do people actually know why men serial killers mostly kill women? Is that piece of information even true? I don't know, but the reason a man physically hurts a woman seems to be often along those lines. I think it's also the reason sand people make their women wear those bags. Wasn't Dahmer a fag and he killed men? Maybe I try reading philosophy. I tried reading Schopenhauer once because I was looking for some kind of validation for my depression. It was hard to internalize at the time. I later on listened some biography of him and he was definitely an incel who was upset that a strong jawline gets you more pussy than intelligence.

Try Kant, he was voluntarily celibate, and did no fap for his entire adult life possible.
Masturbation is immoral because it violates the categorical imperative. You are using yourself as a means to an end.

It's independence day here! that means drunk commies and nazis fighting on the streets of Helsinki while the elite are celebrating in the presidential palace (the building doesn't look like how it sounds). I myself might have a few.