Philosophy Now Forum

promethean75 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:09 am They're grilling all the social media platform CEOs now becuz a few depressed bullied kids are killin themselves or being stalked by pervs on snapchat.

Okay but why is that the platform's fault? If a kid finds a copy of the Turner Diaries in a library and then shoots up his school, are u gonna arrest the author? Or what if a perv hooks up with a minor on a public transit bus. Are u gonna indict public transportation?

The whole thing misses the point. It's not social media that's the problem. China has social media platforms and their kids aren't all fucked up, so what's the deal? It's sumthin else, sumthin systemic about the entire american culture. These kids aren't being fucked up by this media. They're already fucked up... the social media platform just facilitates that fuckedupedness and opens more avenues to be further fucked up.

The problem is coming from the immense seductive power of consumer advertising that normalizes impossible standards of beauty which causes all the girls to go nutts and hang themselves. The problem is coming from the class conflict between upper, middle and lower class kids competing in school for status recognition. The problem is coming from the hypersexualization of females then perceived by unattractive, unsuccessful, unconfident men wearing very thick glasses without the financial status to attract adult women (epstein types are an exception here), who then become pervs and tryda hook up with teenagers.

It's not the social media, man. It's the superstructure in which the social media exists that permits the social media to become platforms of expression for all the fuckedupedness that superstructure creates. That cacophony of noise created by a neurotic society that's racist, broke, overworked, sexually repressed, in massive debt and made insane by religion.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:41 pm A little of both. I've been workin the wood for about twenty five years now, i reckon. mm-hmm

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:06 am 'pends on how bad'a shape it's in. If u have unstained wood with mildew on it, u can power wash it and then use a stain/sealant combo. If the wood is in fairly good cosmetic condition - not cracked and with ugly knots everywhere - a transparent or semi-transparent stain is decent. If it's old and ugly (but still structurally sound), use a solid stain so u don't see all the blemishes in the wood. Solid stain also protects the wood a little better. People normally use transparent stuff when the wood looks good and they wanna be able to see the natural grain.

If it's been stained already and the shit's peeling everywhere, u have to strip the old stuff (which is a bitch) before u put the new stain down. But sometimes, if the peeling is more like a fading and paint isn't literally curling up off the wood, u can stain right over it with a solid and it'll cover everything; you'd not see the ridges of the old stain underneath.

If u power wash, be careful not to get to close to the wood with the wand or you'll cut lines in it which won't be concealed by the new stain u put down. Many a deck board has been ruined becuz the sonsabitch doesn't know how to power wash right.

Valspar and Behr are decent brands.These are single coat stains too... long as u put down a good thick coat. Don't wanna pass the roller over the same spots more than twice or you'll pick the stain back up, mm-hmm.

If u replace any wood before u stain, allow a couple days for it to 'cure' before u stain it. The chemical treatment creates excess moisture that, unless allowed to dry, will be trapped in the wood under the stain and can cause bubbling weeks or months later.