Nangijala

Yeah. Kinda feels like being at a nonstop spa. Hope you and everyone else either have or will soon have this zen mode available to you too, because sheesh, it is so nice to feel like this.

I have reached a sort of zen-mode inside. After almost 2 years of near nonstop stress, I have finally found some calm in the middle of everything. Things are still chaotic and uncertain and all that, but I just don't really worry about it right now. I don't know how long I'll feel this way, but I intent to ride this wave and nurture it for as long as possible, because this calm is like a glass of water in a desert.

It's pretty cool to see that the changes I have implemented have already paid off.

I feel so free and I hope it lasts longer than a week.

Jeg går ud fra at du bruger sarkasme når du siger "uforudsigeligt" xD

Som forventet.

Oh man, we had so many weird movies.

While my mom was in charge of nurturing a broad taste in music, my dad was in charge of taping movies of all kinds and showing them to us.

He waited for me to turn 13 to watch Seven Samurai and several other Kurosawa movies. We watched all the old Pink Panther movies, a couple of Jacques Tati films (Mon Uncle being our favourite when we had the flu), Le Ballon Rouge, multiple Soviet animated movies, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush, Gloria, The Blues Brothers and on and on and on.

I owe a lot to my parents for instilling a broad music and movie taste in me super early.

I'm sure kids of today form their own valuable memories, but their reality is so foreign to us that we only see it as a threat.

I'm a pretty big fan of the podcast Creepcast on youtube and one of the cohosts grew up on creepypastas online which is very interesting to listen to whenever he talks about the nostalgia for him and many others. I was already in my 20s when creepypastas became a thing online so to me, it is interesting to hear what childhood was like for the 20somethings of today, who all grew up on the internet and have fond memories of it.

The kids of today will have their stories too and they will also be interesting to listen to, I'm sure. It is differnet than growing up on worn out cassette and VHS tapes, but it doesn't make it all bad. Things just change over time.

Det er nok sådan noget. Måske også et forsøg på at holde stemmer på midten så de ekstreme ydrefløje ikke bliver mere populære eller sådan noget. Dansk politik i moderne tider er en sjov størrelse. Det bliver spændende at se hvordan det former sig når vi kommer ud på den anden side af disse turbulente år.

For mig at se er det totalt selvmål, men jeg har jo kun min lille boks at stå på ovre i mit lille hjørne og måske er der en genial logik jeg bare ikke kan spotte i samme dur som at jeg ikke kan forstå at skattelettelser skulle give mere velfærd osv.

Der er nu noget ironisk i at man i et forsøg på at bekæmpe kvindeundertrykkelse i muslimsk kultur udelukkende straffer kvinderne for noget de med meget stor sandsynlighed ikke har den fulde kontrol over.

Tillykke, nu har I blot hjulpet deres familier til at isolere dem yderligere fra det bredere samfund. Good job 👍

Langt de fleste tilfælde jeg har hørt om med muslimske kvinder, der er helt tildækkede, der er det næsten altid deres ægtemænd og svigerfamilie, der bestemmer det. Har ikke kendt nogle af dem personligt, men min tætteste veninde, der selv er Muslim, arbejder sammen med en del af dem i sit hjemland og der er ingen af dem, der slev har valgt det. Det er 100% svigerfamiliens og ægtemandens værk hver gang.

Når vi indfører sådanne forbud i Danmark er det for mig næsten det samme som hvis en kvinde dukker op med et blåt øje og en flækket læbe hjemmefra og får at vide at hun ikke må komme på sin uddannelse før hun ser normal ud fordi hendes udseende er stødende for andre og uddannelsen støtter ikke op om kvindeundertrykkelse.

Alt imens kan mændene vade ind og ud uden problemer fordi de for det meste ikke bærer religiøse klæder i hverdagen.

Men altså skidt med de kvinder der. Vi kan alligevel ikke se dem, så hvorfor skulle vi forsøge at komme dem i møde hvor de er?

This is like saying that everything is religious and that everyone is religious and then making arguments for why everything can be turned into religious doctrin.

You're technically not wrong if you choose to have that lens on for everything, but it is a very limiting way of viewing the world and to someone like me, borderline madness.

It is also more of an uhm actually argument rather than engaging with the point I was making that I think most of us are aware of. When someone says they would like to avoid politics they are more often than not referring to the aggressive and argumentative stupidity that occurs between people when certain inflamed topics - usually current events in politics - are brought up. It is pretty easy to discern that from anyone who says "can we just not talk about politics right now?"

Much like dicks and religion, some people just don't want that shit shoved down their fucking throats constantly because it is rarely if ever productive and beneficial to anyone. It is, at most a passing contest or an attempt to shame and attack people who sees the world differently from yourself.

For what it's worth, I am very appreciative of you making me aware of Knockout as an alternative. 🤗

Anything that fits into ideological screeching.

There are plenty of topics out there that are political in nature that I do not mind, but I do mind the combative, aggressive, reductive and unintelligent discourse that has become the norm online. To me it is not actual discussion nor is it people wishing for a better world. It is just angry people screeching into the void and attacking anyone who disagrees with them and calling them whatever slur they can come up with.

I find it childish, unproductive and stupid and I don't want to see or hear it. If I wanted to rot my brain I could just drill a hole in my skull and pour some feces in there. It's the same effect that political screeching has.

I'll try and check it out when I have the time to dive in. I'm honestly leaning more and one toward just cutting the chord and not using the internet for anything other than work related stuff and watching youtube on the DuckDuckGo player. The current state of the internet is for bots and hysterical political people and I'm honestly over it at this point. Even on this knockout place from the brief glance I had, it also looked like a very political place so eh.