Average Goth Meetup?

Average goth meetup?

@bettinalevyisdetermined this post is crazy af

glad google ai is on top of this

Aaand cue the flamewars in the notes

Regarding pride flags

Correct me if I am wrong, but pride flags are a way for someone to identify with something they're proud of, right? So for example:

The gay pride flag (Shown above as figure 1) is used by people that are proud to be gay.

Here's the thing: If a flag is a pride flag because the flag represents something people are proud to be, then that means that being proud of a cultural identity would consequently make a flag associated with that culture a pride flag. For example:

The St. Andrews Cross (Shown above as figure 2) is more commonly known as the flag of Scotland. Scotland is a well-known distinct cultural region in the British Isles - a region in Europe - wherein there are the people known as the Scots.

If their efforts at an independence referendum are any indication, the Scots are rather proud of being Scottish. Ergo therefore, since a pride flag represents a concept that some group of people proudly identify as - such as being gay or being Scottish - then that makes the St. Andrews Cross a pride flag, in a way.

Since cultural pride can reasonably be made as an argument for a flag related to that culture to thus be a pride flag, I propose the following:

The American South is populated by a distinct culture known as Dixie culture. This region does (as geographically distinct cultures tend to do) have people that are proud of being Southern - of being Dixie. The thing is, there is a flag associated with Dixie culture:

The Stars and Bars (shown above as figure 3) is commonly known as the first flag of the long-gong Confederate States of America - a breakaway nation whose legacy is nowadays associated with slavery, and with being punctuated by northern Union troops landing in Galveston Bay. This is a historical event that as of the time of writing, occurred exactly 159 years ago to the day.

What is not as well known about the Stars and Bars is that in those 159 years since the end of the Confederacy, the meaning of the flag has shifted. It no longer is the flag of a country long dead. Nowadays, it is a flag representing the Dixie culture of the American South. As mentioned before, there are doubtless people in the South that are proud to be Dixie.

Therefore, if we accept that some people are proud to be of the American South, that the Stars and Bars nowadays represents said region's main distinct cultural identity, and that a flag can be a pride flag because it represents a culture people are proud of, then we reach an inescapable conclusion: The Stars and Bars is a pride flag.

Dream leading to severe existential crisis

I just woke up? from a dream where I was back at the place I grew up, in the wake of trying to use a coffee machine but water was permanently running from the faucet no matter what? But i don't drink coffee? Also this old guy told me I'd been in a simulation for 2,000 years?? Also I saw the innards of a device comprised of stacked circuit boards forming one large compact block of circuitry, but the circuit board layers look normal? Was that dream? world real at all, or created by my brain? Is the waking world real? Are we all in a simulation I briefly escaped from somehow? Am I real? Is any of this real? Why did the dream? world briefly seem much more vibrant/real than the waking world ever did?

Y o u h a v e d I s c o v e r e d y o u r s p I r I t g u I d e

so last night i was struggling with a difficult section in a game, and when i woke up this morning i got it on my first try. this reminded me of a documentary i saw as a kid about how mice have maze-exploration brain activity in their dreams after a maze task, and have better performance after, so dreaming is maybe "practice" of daily activities.

anyway, i mention this because i noticed myself conceiving of this sleep-skill-benefit as a "mouse ability", and feeling gratitude towards Mouse (the abstract spirit of mice) for granting me this boon. this is the gator's aid all over again

You're telling me that the Vikings were more civilized than the English? Huh.