the fat of the land voted “funniest album art” 24th year in a row
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Don’t forget the new cover they made for the expanded edition
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I've had a feeling for a while now that people are ruder now than they were before the pandemic. I did some googling and turns out I'm not crazy or alone in thinking people have gotten ruder and more aggressive over the past few years. The articles chalks it up to stress from the pandemic and the economy and other global situations, but I think it's deeper and more complicated than that. I don't think stress is a valid excuse to be rude to strangers who don't deserve it, even when I'm really upset or stressed out I don't use a random service industry employee, or any random undeserving stranger, as my punching bag because that's deplorable behavior.
I think one of if not the biggest contribution to the rise of rudeness comes down to people spending years inside getting little to no in person socialization and spending massive amounts of time online, and social rules online tend to be different than social rules in person. Online it tends to be more normal and acceptable to be aggressive and hostile to strangers, usually because there's not the same consequences (it's hard to punch someone through a computer screen) and also it's easier to not feel guilty about bad behavior when someone is just words and pictures on a screen, it tends to make the hostility and aggression spilled on others not feel as "real" or "bad" as treating someone like that in person. (and I'm not saying this is okay, I really think as a society we should address and work on the ease and acceptance of being a total raging sack of shit to strangers online) But I think if people spend years spending massive amounts of time online and little to no time actually in person with other people, it's going to affect their sense of how it's acceptable to behave and treat other people as they adopt the social norms of the internet.
I do like the point this article makes that rudeness and aggression are contagious. It is a social contagion, the more you're rude and aggressive to others the more tense and upset they'll feel and start behaving rudely and aggressively too. The good news is, kindness and courtesy are also contagious.
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Last night I had a dream I woke up to find that my house had been turned into a Smart House with every wall being a digital screen including the roof so I could see it even laying on bed and the Siri voice said “Don’t worry. You are perfectly safe in your Apple Smart Home™️” knowing I have a BIG phobia of intruders especially at night and it continued with “Let’s explore the neighborhood from the comfort of your home” so it opened google maps and accidentally zoomed past a shitty jpeg of the girl from The Ring standing outside my house and it said “ignore that”. woke up laughing
