Karl Meier

@revenant_MMXX Just completely untrue. Most of those acts owed a lot to a band like Helmet, who were better by several orders of magnitude, and far more influential.

Being in middle/high school in the '00s and discovering "real metal" and LARPing like Linkin Park and KoRn were "beneath you" is so cringe to remember because a lot of that mainstream stuff was more unique than the hundreds of identical underground bands you'd pretend to like

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

@Rainmaker1973 😆😂

New research shows clutter dramatically spikes women’s cortisol—while men’s stress barely budges. Household clutter extends far beyond mere aesthetics—it's deeply intertwined with stress physiology and cognitive burden, impacting women in particular. Drawing from studies on dual-income married couples, therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw explains that women who view their homes as cluttered often see their cortisol levels rise throughout the day, unlike those who feel at ease, whose levels naturally decline. This heightened effect in women stems largely from bearing the disproportionate invisible mental load—the constant cycle of noticing, recalling, planning, and orchestrating household tasks. Earnshaw suggests a realistic, three-part approach to reducing the stress–clutter spiral. First, “shedding” involves intentionally minimizing possessions, including doing the emotional work required to let things go, in order to create more mental and physical space. Second, “preventing” focuses on systems: giving items clear “homes” so that decisions about where things go become automatic rather than mentally taxing. This may start with listing common types of clutter and designing dedicated spots for each (for example, a single, consistent place for receipts). Third, “adapting” asks families to accept that some clutter is inevitable in busy seasons of life and to concentrate on emotional regulation and co-regulation with partners, keeping stress and cortisol lower by adjusting expectations rather than striving for a perpetually picture-perfect home. [Earnshaw, E., "Clutter, Cortisol, and Mental Load". Psychology Today, 2024] [Saxbe, D. E., & Repetti, R. , "No place like home: Home tours correlate with daily patterns of mood and cortisol", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(1), 71–81, 2010, DOI: 10.1177/0146167209352864]

@Dexerto “Your conversation: it’s in there”

Pasta sauce company Prego is launching a device that listens to and records conversations at the dinner table The device is designed to capture laughter, stories, and everyday moments that can be revisited

Imagine writers at 80s zines like Maximum Rock-n-roll, Flipside, Forced Exposure, or Bucketfull of Brains defending radio pay‑to‑play. That would have been absurd, because those publications defined themselves against exactly that sort of industry corruption. Today’s so‑called ‘indie’ rock culture, by contrast, rarely challenges the underlying systems at all. Its rebellion is mostly cosmetic: gross, nihilistic gestures rather than any real structural opposition. It’s a degraded form of counterculture: it wears the costume of resistance while living in a mutually beneficial relationship with the same institutions it pretends to resist. I say this as a 65 year old semi retired indie rocker who is much more interested in plain old regular culture rather than counterculture. I just think it's really funny what has happened.

Most people want what they're told to want. This is a problem linked to the disappearance of (good) tastemakers.

I do *not* want an AI "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an AI summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an AI summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.

"make him worry about things, make him imagine a negative future, make him utilize costly brain energy to feel miserable, over and over again until he goes crazy"

Absolutely nothing

@PYeerk 😂❤️

You cannot go anyhwere in the US anymore without feeling taking advantage of. Every restaurant, every lease agreement, every purchase. Everything is so blatantly predatory. Like they don't even care to be subtle about the fact that they're operating in bad faith. And we're all just submissive to it

Nah this is garbage and was made by retards

@BioavailableNd I blow rails of Maldon sea salt. Just straight to the dome. You need to be Maldonmaxxing, etc

I always keep a little raw honey and sea salt on me. It’s one of the simplest ways I support my nervous system through the day. I take a little hit anytime I feel a little low, pre/intro workout, during deep work and on bountiful days full of projects.

110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"

@pitchfork LMAO. It’s fucking awful.

One Battle After Another might be Paul Thomas Anderson's greatest film pitchfork.com/thepitch/one-b…

Sometimes, people intentionally fail to understand things because understanding them would cause them to question their worldview.

What's the point of democracy if the government just ignores everything that people want?

It really can’t be emphasized enough just how much marinating in niche online grievance politics for over a decade has completely melted a lot of people’s brains