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wahai Dionysus, mengapa kau selalu bertingkah seperti bajingan, dengan sangat iseng membuka hansaplas orang-orang yang berisikan luka. HAHAHA. orang itu saking takutnya melihat luka, mereka cepat-cepat menutup luka mereka dengan hansaplas. mereka tidak mengerti lukanya itu sudah kering atau belum, tapi karena saking takutnya mereka melihat luka, mereka cepat-cepat menggunakan hansaplas. mereka tidak tau hansaplasnya itu higienis atau tidak, lukanya sudah kering atau belum. hanya orang tolol yang menggunakan hansaplas di saat lukanya masih basah....

budaya tidak perlu didewakan budaya itu adalah makhluk dan juga produk, maka ia mengikuti product life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, decline belum ada cara untuk melawan enthropy, maka matikanlah ia yang ingin mati. dengan digitalisasi, semuanya bisa hidup abadi, maka budaya perlu dimatikan dan diabadikan. jangan menghidupi ia yang ingin mati. matikanlah budaya-budaya itu, kecuali ia yang ingin terikat dengannya, kecuali ia yang beridentitas dengannya. biarkan mereka mati dengan budayanya. dengan digitalisasi kita semua tau mereka akan abadi....

the lesson learned from copper, uragawa, mizutani, kitami stories, and pram’s works in general, is that it projects that your kids can only choose to become: the bully, the one who is being bullied, and the one who only watches when a bullying event happens. when you see land seized, genocide, warfare in a certain place, how lifeless technologies snatch jobs from luddites, the ignorance of workers who feel irreplaceable not engaging in long-term solutions to encourage capital owners to implement aspects of justice, poor-quality food, unsanitary living conditions, working day after day, galactic collisions, tidal interactions....

forget about singularity or flying cars; a smartwatch or smartband is a pain in the ass. #zonauang i need a dot/point device that i can paste anywhere on my body, like on an indian woman’s forehead if you want to showcase the device, or those who prefer to hide their wealth; it can adhere anywhere on the body. the device can track all your movements and monitor the health of any part of your body....

Some gay people flee from Indonesia, and I strongly despise them. They accuse me of homophobia just because I’m Muslim, and we insult each other. Insulting each other is ‘fitrah’. A person mocking doesn’t realize they are doing so. Examples include: Javanese with a thick accent, Sundanese, Batak’s roughness, Malay style like Upin Ipin. Mocking each other is ‘fitrah’; we can’t stop it. Tolerance has never existed. The will to mock is the truth....

Orang utilitarian gini mirip komunis lemah syahwat, selalu cari silver bullet untuk melengkapi lobang ideologinya. Kalo ga sesuai tinggal potong2 minoritas dan buang outlier selayak procustes tentang apa2 yang ga sesuai sama mereka karena kurang bisa menerima diversitas dan buru-buru ingin perfect. That’s why I love them. Dengan prinsip macam itu, saat mereka ditanya, “What makes you happy?” Jawaban paling berakhlak dan ethical yang paling dapat diterima harusnya gini:...

I don’t understand depression, but when my friends say they are depressed, all I can do is try to practice cognitive empathy. From what I observe, depression is like driving a car in thick fog. You don’t know where the fog comes from. Sometimes it’s so light that you can still move forward, but in the worst conditions, you’re blinded by the fog. It makes you question whether you should wait or just keep pressing on the gas....

Everyone is so terrified to look inside because we’re indoctrinated to follow a general standard. In a distant land, a hikkikomori strives to create a game considered to live a fulfilling life. Everything needs to hustle until I lose enjoyment in traveling and riding a motorcycle, reading books, watching movies, engaging in small talks, dining in to try any kind of foods, playing games—I don’t enjoy them anymore. But I don’t wish to come back to enjoying those kinds of things again....

I simply want to know what makes people enjoy this. Is it because of the good music? Is it because of the sense of togetherness? How much do they really love their prophet? I suspect that all the people who gather there are proficient in Arabic, which allows them to truly enjoy it. But my hypothesis is that the combination of any of these factors gives them a sense of flow and perceived enjoyment....

When you throw away the concept and the dimension of time, you’ll find that the effort put into grooming yourself is a futile endeavor, contributing to the perpetuation of the “halo effect” ideology. We cannot be blind to the innovations in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, marketing, etc., that contribute to shaping our world in this way. Transforming someone from unattractive to beautiful is a form of empowerment. Much of the progress and growth appears empowering, until it becomes mainstream....