Someone explain to me like a child

Thursday 2/19/26

"Serious question..."

Can all but guarantee that it isn't.

"Honestly asking..."

You aren't.

"Need a new show to watch."

You don't.

Artifice is exhausting, realness is refreshing. Even just in terms of witnessing.

Maybe posting 100 more photos of yourself would help?

Usually it's women who do this. Twenties through fifties. Their social media page will be nothing but photo after photo of themselves. How unwell do you have to be to do this? How dead inside? I always want to ask these people, "Is there anything in this world you are interested besides yourself?" No passions, thoughts, dreams. People. A hobby. Just themselves. Their uninteresting, vapid selves. With almost all the comments being from guys who look like the offspring of a brother and sister that lived on the banks of creek behind a 7-Eleven in Georgia.

When there's nothing there and you do nothing you will be depressed. You can be depressed for other reasons, too.

So-called "hype" videos are for the infantile.

Very few Americans know what the word "satire" means, including the overwhelming majority of those who use it. It'd be quite the experience to ask, "What do you think the word 'satire' means?" and receive the answer that followed. A wrist-slitter of an experience if you were to continue with these interviews and not cap them at a handful.

You have to be pretty dumb to use the term "head canon" two dozens times every week. Dumber still when it's "head cannon."

How can people not know the things they don't know unless they're trying not to know them? And yet they do.

People will even perform forehead ash. What do you mean that they perform having ash on their forehead, Colin, they really do have ash on their forehead. The posted "Me! Me! Me! MEEEEEEEEEEEE! photo is what I mean. The lines of scripture with the words whose meaning they don't know, which they'd never seen before, or else saw before for last year's photo-op and then immediately forgot having seen them. But get those points! Get those points! Get those points! Heaven here I come!!!!!!

Actually, it's not altogether that. Christians who aren't Catholics fixate on heaven to a far greater than Catholics because they're more cartoonish and they look at the world in very simple cartoon terms. (Sky Dad, Trump as Earth Sky Dad, etc.) The latter tend to be more educated. A Catholic is likelier to be a democrat than a Christian that isn't Catholic. All people suck pretty much equally, though sometimes for different reasons that have more thematic overlap despite those differences than most people would think, so I'm not saying a group is better than another. Most people are pretty much just horseshit without the value to the soil.

These photos are posted for internet clout. That's the Kingdom of Heaven in this instance. Likes and follows and performing decency and never doing anything actually decent simply because it is the right thing to do and/or helps someone. Because if you can't broadcast something, what's the point? What percentage of those people do you think did a kindness for someone else that day? Something kind that they didn't have to? To help someone? Of their own initiative? Probably few to none, right?

People have no idea what the term "real time" means and I doubt that there are many people currently alive who could understand what it means if you sat next to them for an hour trying to explain it, but they are using it more and more. They do so in the same manner as they use "objectively"; that is, by using this term, they believe that whatever they're saying automatically becomes true.

God we are so fucking stupid. But that in and of itself isn't the biggest issue. It's that we're so complacently stupid. We don't give a fuck how dumb we are. We won't do anything about it. Take no initiative, make any effort. Seldomly will we even type a few words into a search field. And if we do, rarely are we looking past the AI text field that shows up first in the results. (Which is almost never completely accurate. We could sit down together and run Beatles searches, as just one example, and I can tell point out things that are wrong in the AI-generated result every time.) We're perfectly willing to be absolute fucking morons. No shame about it. Then we just complain about the world and others, with no clue that we're why the world is the way it is, and we're exactly like almost everyone else.

Someone explain to me like a child what the difference is between advice and advise.

I grab these in real time. Woah. See how that worked. I don't save them. I'm writing here, I refresh another screen, and there's the likes of the above. This person is even stupider than most of the people who'll think they're stupid solely because of the advice/advise thing on account that they aren't smart enough themselves to understand that "explain to me like a child" means that the explainer would the child in this instance, not the intended recipient of the explanation.

Every time (and despite the millions who think otherwise, "everytime" isn't a word) I see a video of a beaver, I'm confident that that beaver can go out into its day and do its beaver stuff well, like a beaver should, whereas I never think a person could do the same as a person. What the beaver does each day is harder, too.