Update for Everyone VIII: He who laughs have the last laugh

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

So basically I can now add "going to the early Sunday Mass straight after a voluntarily sleepless night" to the list of stupid sh**t I have done in my life. Enjoy!

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Today marks our first 'engagement' anniversary

It's never clear to either one exactly how seriously that promise and our rings must be taken, that's why the scary quotes. The (much longer) count since we are a couple is more important.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

The shape of Peru is just so cool. It suggests youthfulness and joviality.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

The shape of Peru is just so cool. It suggests youthfulness and joviality.

Honestly love the shape.

It's much better than the shape of Italy. This is not a permanent avatar though.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Today I finally received my pay as a poll worker for the September elections, which was 145€. Pretty dunk.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

The shape of Peru is just so cool. It suggests youthfulness and joviality.

broke: choosing an avatar cuz of a meme
woke: choosing an avatar cuz u actually f**king live there
bespoke: choosing an avatar cuz it looks kinda cool

Broke: I should use Italy
Woke: I may change to Vatican City
Bespoke: I am actually waiting for San Marino

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

The shape of Peru is just so cool. It suggests youthfulness and joviality.

The shape is cool, but you're wasting it with an ugly-colored av. Dark green and maroon are the two ugliest avatar colors, while yellow, tan, and orange are the best-looking (no bias, just straight facts).

Yellow is pretty, tan is okay, but orange is kinda ugly. I don't know, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Then again, I'm a sucker for bright neon, sooo......

Neon green looks good on its own, but next to the red, maroon, and green avs it just looks hideous. Yellow is aesthetically pleasing in every color combination.

Yellow is my favourite colour but I don't like it really much on avatars. For the record I don't particularly like dark green avatars either in general, but for some reason I think it looks good on Peru.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

The shape of Peru is just so cool. It suggests youthfulness and joviality.

The shape is cool, but you're wasting it with an ugly-colored av. Dark green and maroon are the two ugliest avatar colors, while yellow, tan, and orange are the best-looking (no bias, just straight facts).

Yellow is pretty, tan is okay, but orange is kinda ugly. I don't know, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Then again, I'm a sucker for bright neon, sooo......

Neon green looks good on its own, but next to the red, maroon, and green avs it just looks hideous. Yellow is aesthetically pleasing in every color combination.

Yellow is my favourite colour but I don't like it really much on avatars. For the record I don't particularly like dark green avatars either in general, but for some reason I think it looks good on Peru.

I don’t think dark green is particularly ugly; it’s certainly better than light green. Orange is far and away the ugliest, and tan is the best aesthetically.

Nah. I think orange avatars look pretty cool actually. However it heavily depends on the shape of the avatar as well. There is an "I know it when I see it" element involved in all of this.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I spoke to a goat.
It was alone on a lawn, it was tied.
Sated with grass, wet
by the rain, it bleated.

That equal bleat was brotherly
to my sorrow. And I replied, at first
in jest, then because sorrow is eternal,
has one voice and it doesn't vary.
This voice I heard
groaning in a lonely goat.

In a goat with a semitic complexion
I heard bemoaning all other evils,
all other lives.

- Umberto Saba, The goat

(Translation by: yours truly)

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I just woke up to:
- I tested negative for COVID
- Legendary Italian actor Gigi Proietti has died

I'm all in for the second. I'm sad. Pray for his soul too.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Well, we’re at the hospital, with wife starting to have contractions half an hour or so ago. It’s happening! And what a night for it to happen!

Time for some election-themed baby names! I've got a few ideas...

1) Jo(e) Jorgensen (either gender); 
2) Bellwether (female);
3) Precinct (male);
4) 270towin (either gender);
5) Dave Leip's US Election Atlas Dot Org (either gender).

  A wether is a castrated ram, how can 'bellwether' be feminine?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Well, we’re at the hospital, with wife starting to have contractions half an hour or so ago. It’s happening! And what a night for it to happen!

Time for some election-themed baby names! I've got a few ideas...

1) Jo(e) Jorgensen (either gender); 
2) Bellwether (female);
3) Precinct (male);
4) 270towin (either gender);
5) Dave Leip's US Election Atlas Dot Org (either gender).

  A wether is a castrated ram, how can 'bellwether' be feminine?

Because it has no nuts, duhhhh

That's not how it works.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Well, we’re at the hospital, with wife starting to have contractions half an hour or so ago. It’s happening! And what a night for it to happen!

Time for some election-themed baby names! I've got a few ideas...

1) Jo(e) Jorgensen (either gender); 
2) Bellwether (female);
3) Precinct (male);
4) 270towin (either gender);
5) Dave Leip's US Election Atlas Dot Org (either gender).

  A wether is a castrated ram, how can 'bellwether' be feminine?

Because it has no nuts, duhhhh

That's not how it works.

you're talking to a trans person here

I knowww. Which spawns the question: can sheep be trans?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I had all of my immediately family take the Political Matrix test.

These are the rounded results.
Mother: Economic -3 / Social +3
Father: Economic -4 / Social +6
Sister: Economic +2 / Social -2

(I am around Economic - 6 / Social 0 of course)

So my sister is a libertarian born into a communitarian family confirmed.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I had all of my immediately family take the Political Matrix test.

These are the rounded results.
Mother: Economic -3 / Social +3
Father: Economic -4 / Social +6
Sister: Economic +2 / Social -2

(I am around Economic - 6 / Social 0 of course)

So my sister is a libertarian born into a communitarian family confirmed.

Rootless cosmopolitanism

I am not sure if she can actually be described as cosmopolitan, haha. I should also qualify that my father, my mother, and I are quite different versions of 'communitarian'.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Tonight I dreamt that the Election and History Games board was actually a real place, that is a square in my city had been furnished with tables, chairs and stands and game boxes and transformed into a place where to play election games, or something to that effect.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Today has been a much better birthday than the one I had four years ago.

Happy (de-Trumpified) birthday!

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I think I have just realized that my friends mostly constitute a non-religious white cis hetero early gen Z bubble. I'm truly sorry.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I think I have just realized that my friends mostly constitute a non-religious white cis hetero early gen Z bubble. I'm truly sorry.

Cringe

Edit for clarity: I meant apologizing for your friends, not your friends. It's okay to be white and cis. The SJW revolution is still in the early stages.

LOL

I was mostly tongue-in-cheek, although I actually would like my friends to be a more diverse group.

Too bad the only part of the bubble that is likely to burst any time soon is the first one... less wokeness, more popery.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I have just found out *this* Wikipedia page exists:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owning_the_libs

ROFL

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I think I have just realized that my friends mostly constitute a non-religious white cis hetero early gen Z bubble. I'm truly sorry.

I would be very surprised if the vast majority of your friends in Italy were not white.

Of course, but crossing data together, I'd expect ~15% of the early gen Z cohort in my city to be of non-European ancestry, and I'm pretty sure that percentage is much lower among my friends.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Why can't people just be civil sometimes? Why can't be people just be charitable sometimes?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I've found out that La Spezia, my city, differently from my expectations, is not the Italian main city with the highest share of Latin American immigrants, as it's second behind Bergamo.
They are both beaten by a number of Milan suburbs however.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Imagine unironically supporting Mike Madigan.

Imagine not wanting a 15-2 D gerrymander.

I would rather imprison all the Republicans on felony charges.

And Mike Madigan too.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Today I realized that my father can be described pretty well as a Karen.