i've been seeing a lot more sundresses lately with the hot weather coming in suddenly which is really cool, they look really nice and the variety in patterns makes the great masses seem less homogeneous. unless i wasn't paying attention before i really didn't see them much in previous summers

I saw a younger lady (about my age or a little younger) at our store the other day wearing a pleated skirt I have to hope that less vulgar fashion is coming back in style but I've seen no indication of this from men

"i've been seeing a lot more sundresses lately with the hot weather coming in suddenly which is really cool, they look really nice and the variety in patterns makes the great masses seem less homogeneous. unless i wasn't paying attention before i really didn't see them much in previous summers"

Sundresses have always been a thing, it is possible they were temporarily out of trend due to the dissuasion of outdoor activity during covid but they've never truly gone away. I definitely intend on picking a few up, I already have one dress that I'm not sure if it counts as a sundress but it is one of my favorite things to wear currently so....

PS: flash make quoting a thing, having to do this manually fucking blows

it should be legally required for anything made to smell like something else also must taste how it smells, that way i can eat strawberry scented erasers

would it taste like strawberry or would it taste like things that are supposed to taste like strawberry? there's a difference between these, just like how real strawberries smell different from things that are supposed to smell like strawberry

i could go for some fake strawberry flavor waffles rn honestly

in this case i think the fake flavor would make more sense because it would be really weird if you bit into an eraser and it was wet like an actual strawberry

The one that disgusts me the most is probably methyl anthranilate. Everyone knows what it tastes like, but it DEFINITELY doesn't taste like real grapes. Just go and get a gallon of grape juice and compare it to grape Kool-Aid. It's like night and day when compared to the real thing.

do you know where i could get a decent hand fan sangui? i like to use one on my porch during very hot days but mine broke last summer and the antique store in town doesn't have any. i prefer the ones that fold up and floral patterns but i'm fine with anything really

bought a pound of coffee before work today since i ran out this morning and noticed that the price of it was just shy of an hour's wages at my current rate. spent a good chunk of time reflecting on that while working, that an hour of my life is worth a pound of standard ground coffee, and it really makes me think that anyone that can manage to go their entire lives without ever having to work for anyone other than themselves is truly brilliant

i've been selling my time for money since i was twelve and i've worked in so many different positions and configurations at this point, been paid like royalty and paid like a peasant, and ultimately at this point i genuinely don't think there's any virtue or wisdom that is gained from doing this that could not be better learned through some other method. it isn't a matter of pay or position, if you're selling your time towards something you genuinely do not care about it all ends up feeling the same in the end

in this regard i respect a man like kp who has gone into business creating something genuinely interesting and laudable, as to me it seems like such a thing is actually worth the use of time necessary in its creation. in my dealings however pretty much everything i have found myself actually interested in pursuing is either a skill out-of-time, considered useless, or so heavily bastardized in the modern world that it is no longer appealing. as a result i've been slowly but surely trying to reduce my need for money at all over time as it coincides with not needing to forfeit my time in its making, but it always leaves me wondering if things have to be this way. i'm inclined to say no as the whims of the market seem totally arbitrary and often fabricated, but at the same time if such things are fabricated that would imply they could be redirected towards positive, wholesome ends rather than the stupid bullshit minmaxed retardation it is currently

i think a goal in my 30s coming up here may be heavily reducing or eliminating my need to sell my time for money, as it seems like an interesting obstacle to tackle

I've been thinking about whether some forms of utilitarianism suggest that justice as we know it should not be served, paradoxically as the state becomes more powerful the potential for farcical justice may increase. In particular, if we list out the goods from punishment it seems most, if not all of them may be obtained by a sufficiently powerful judge without actually administering the punishment by deceiving others into believing it occurred. A system with all power might be able to trick even the judge and the guilty party into believing they are sentencing or being sentenced, respectively, without those events actually occurring.
One response here might be to just accept this is what justice might look like, but that isn't as strange as it seems assuming consequentialism is true. Another is to argue there are some bads that the guilty may always continue unless they are punished, so punishment is still necessary. This seems unlikely to me. Perhaps one might argue as long as the judge is powerful but not omnipotent that there are some states of affairs that cannot be actualised in lieu of punishing (i.e. if a criminal steals a car, it's not financially viable to give the wronged party an exact copy of the vehicle to deceive them) but my response here is to say it still may be provable that the difference between the utility of the punishment and the utility of the deception minus their bads approaches 0 as the power of the judge goes to infinity. Well this isn't a super developed thought so I invite responses to it