Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Curling is the sport of high human development countries because the fundamental activity of play requires a cultivation of fingerspitzengefuhl adequate to the chaotic interaction of micro-friction. Such a cultivation is time-intensive and emerges from environments that support similar fingerspitzengefuhl kinds of human development, such as open heart surgery or mastery of the violin.

Only the fully free and flourishing individual may truly respond to his or her fingertips' feeling.

I feel like I pierced through to some observations about Plato today that may be obvious to other people but which I was pretty pleased with.

"Thank you for expressing your engagement with our brand. We have not professionally contracted that particular influencer to connect with our products, but this is exactly the kind of organic, viral engagement that we see every day from across the web. People just love connecting with our brand, Terrorism™️."

When I was a child, I said I wouldn't learn to drive until EVs were introduced. And the grown-ups laughed at me. I said I was a silly monkey with a bongo butt, and they still laughed at me! Well now I'm in my 30s and I have a real bongo butt, so who's laughing now?

Biblically accurate angel.

7. Curling seems pretty receptive to mixed-gender competition. Tonight I played against a pregnant woman.

6. There is no dress code for curling, but shoes are probably a good idea.

5. I am not yet convinced that the sweeping does much of anything.

4. People will teach you curling if you show up, and they are nice.

3. Curling is the sport of high human development countries because of some reason I haven't finished making up yet.

2. The basic conflict engine for curling is derived from the obscure frictional effects of a technique applied to ice called pebbling. Pebbling is the application of fine water droplets to the ice in order to create minor, random imperfections.

1. Curling is for people who like the clacky sounds from croquet but wish they were chonkier.

7 observations about the sport of curling:

College yoga instructor: "You sit wrong. What you're doing is not sitting up straight. Go home and practice sitting."

Reddit comment: "When the knees are higher than the hips, shortness in the back of the pelvis or the hip joints tips the pelvis posteriorly and tips the weight of the body backward. To maintain balance and prevent falling, the spine rounds into flexion. When the hips are raised higher than the knees, the pelvis tips anteriorly and the weight tips forward. This allows for..."

There are reddit comments that have done more for me than entire college classes did on the same subject.

You are the sum of all the things that your friends seem to compulsively talk about around you.

All these stories from abuse support subreddits end with the families going NC (to North Carolina). Very mysterious choice of destination.

In the 2000s you could make obvious fuck-ups on email and act like it was this mysterious process and nobody could blame you.

My counter to both would be:
A. What if you're just a weird lil freak? and what if that's fine?
B. What if the conceptual basis for your entire inner life was arbitrarily assembled without any long-term interest in efficacy? and what if the people who made up "the rules" don't really give a shit about you?