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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • I think you’re in a good state even if it doesn’t seem like it, Shirow. You know you’ll get through it just like you have before. That’s what keeps me going too. It’s knowing that while you feel like shit in that hole today, that tomorrow could be completely different, better even.

    And you only need to work on one of your problems at time. You don’t have to solve everything today. Feel your feelings and keep chipping away at the thinga make you a better person and eventually you will come to better days that make all the suffering worth it.









  • Sure, I’m not much of a critic, but I’ll write down some of my impressions.

    The show centers on a group of workers who willingly “sever” themselves to work for a corporation, so fundamentally it’s already based on loss. The loss of a part of yourself. Then there’s the reasons that they chose to become severed in the first place, and the consequences that severing places on a person. Really, I saw it as a commentary on unhealthy coping mechanisms.

    Apologies, I know that’s rather vague, but it really is a great show and I’d hate to spoil it for you. I highly recommend it.







  • That’s the read I got from it too. She asks what’s keeping her from being content with life without conventional markers of accomplishment. I don’t think she says outright that she wants to be like her husband, but the point she’s making is that women in tech feel more driven to accomplish things as a way to prove themselves in the industry while men don’t feel that same pressure or not to the same extent.