I'm at my mother's house and the TV is on. I just overheard what I think was a commercial about a treatment for men with irregularly bent penises. Did I hear that right? WTF is wrong with this country? (That was rhetorical.)

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:16 pm I'm at my mother's house and the TV is on. I just overheard what I think was a commercial about a treatment for men with irregularly bent penises. Did I hear that right? WTF is wrong with this country? (That was rhetorical.)

Well, now obviously we need a new thread to discuss what this fabled medication should be called. FM's Joe lmr and Chud Fusk I'm looking at you both...

speedie wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:24 am

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:16 pm I'm at my mother's house and the TV is on. I just overheard what I think was a commercial about a treatment for men with irregularly bent penises. Did I hear that right? WTF is wrong with this country? (That was rhetorical.)

Well, now obviously we need a new thread to discuss what this fabled medication should be called. FM's Joe lmr and Chud Fusk I'm looking at you both...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyronie%27s_disease (NSFW)

Apparently penile traction is a common remedy. From reading info on this seems like penile traction could just have easily been the cause.

The juxtaposition of the current state of abortion next to commercials about fixing crooked penises is just too much for me today. It's not even ironic, it makes perfect sense.

Vanillin was first synthesized 150 years ago today.

Just saw our eldest and his family off to the airport. The first time my siblings' families have been together and I made it over with the dog too. A proper houseful and a very special time of it.

Man, did I ever get lucky with my brothers. Diamonds.

Yesterday, while walking the dog, I saw that there was no line at the car wash. So once we were done with the walk, I went to get the car washed.

A new owner took over the local car wash a year or two ago. I thought it was odd that there was no line at the end of the work day. But hey, no line!

In the lobby, where the only people there are the owner, one other customer, and me, the owner has the pair of televisions tuned to NewsMax. The volume falls somewhere between jackhammer and 1970s Who concert.

I will be finding another car wash.

It’s been task after task after task here. Tasks rule everything around me! Lots of moving parts, lots of things to oversee.

Hungover

Ouchie

The term “late capitalism” used in the title of Jameson’s essay has proven to be extremely influential, yet is easily misunderstood. It is not a term of Jameson’s own coinage (it was first used by Ernest Mandel, a Belgian economist and activist).

It is often taken to mean something like “the latter stages of capitalism,” implying that the end of capitalism is near. In fact, for Mandel, it simply meant capitalism “of late” (that is, recently).

Oooooooohhhhhh


Also relevant:

The first edition of Lenin’s pamphlet was published in April 1917 in Petrograd, after the February Revolution, under the title Imperialism, the Latest Stage of Capitalism (A Popular Framework). In 1920, the term “latest stage” was replaced by the “highest stage” in the German and French editions

That explains it. Been annoyed with this buzzword for quite some time.


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kokorodoko wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:29 pm
That explains it. Been annoyed with this buzzword for quite some time.

Me too. It reminds me of an extreme thread in Marxist thinking (incidentally parodied well in the Coen brother's Hail Caesar) that presumes to be able to accurately predict the future based on current economics. It's not that I love capitalism so much that it offends me, it just seems terribly pretentious to carry on like you know specifically that this is part of the final act. It's like evangelists with the apocalypse. The end might not be near at all, this shit might carry on for two more centuries and just keep getting weirder and awful in ways we haven't imagined.