he would be proud

Thoughts?

I was laughing my ass off in almost every episode in season 11 because Dennis seemed to be at his absolute peak antisocial personality. Most of the show was coherent and flowed well. The characters were narcissistic, scratched libs and constantly concern trolling each other. Things were largely grounded in reality.

Then season 12 and up, things just got weird and tiresome to watch. Like things just happen back to back and everything is grandiose. The character development is undeserved because they cram in so much shit in 20 minutes (like the episode of Mac coming out as gay is just Frank yelling the same thing for 20 minutes then Mac dances. Come on. They had a whole season to build up to it and instead they just did this shit). It feels like I’m watching Uncut Gems but instead of being stressed out, I’m just annoyed by the wild stories and annoying characters. Like the one episode of season 16 parodies the anal vibrator chess scandal because the scheme is…?

And now the gang is soft as hell and actually getting offended as opposed to be socially conscious for their own agendas. And honestly, I think they could’ve dulled out the characters if they played it out right, like with how Dennis wanted to be a family man, that’s a valid path to make him less antisocial and misogynistic, and proceed to do this one by one for each character then ending the show.

I felt like the little commentary they had about the post-9/11 zeitgeist in the early seasons was funny and subtle at times. But it seems like the trump era really made everyone fucking annoying. Somehow they managed to fumble the plot line about the gang being responsible for the boater coup at the capitol which should’ve flowed naturally with the show.

How can you only assume you’ll win? It’s not like democrats are willing to play dirty against republicans so there’s no guarantee either. You demand my unquestioned loyalty yet you’re so bad at politicking. Of course, I’m not here to pretend democratic politicians are weak or dumb. They’re just evilly indifferent.

Can’t stop thinking about this one particular incident, but I’m sure there were worse that I’ve forgotten about. Let me explain

Several years ago, I was in a packed classroom of like 100 something students. Mostly female, some male. Anyway, the older professor made some reference to either Jerry Lewis or Jerry Lee Lewis, and said we probably don’t understand because we’re too young (it was a freshman class). Then he asked if anyone has heard of him.

I was the only one who raised my hand, thinking Jerry (Lee) Lewis was Richard Lewis from Curb Your Enthusiasm, which I have watched.

Immediately I started doubting myself because I wonder why his fame and influence was never referenced in the show, if he’s seemingly so important. I didn’t feel like a fraud because my confusion was honest, but I feel like other people thought I was a fraud or kiss ass. Sitting all the way in the front didn’t help either.

Or course, no one remembers except me. But I have a habit of misremembering things then saying I have done xyz or heard abc before when in reality we’re thinking of two different things.

Or, struggle session: give me your best electricity analogies

I passed my physics classes in high school from simply memorizing the formula. I never thought too deeply about electricity until now because I want to preserve the life of my electronics. The water hose somewhat makes sense to me, but I need something a bit more concrete.

• Amps/Current: the electrons; the thing that is actually powering electronics
• Volts/Voltage: the ~~"speed"~~ "pressure" of amps. ~~I know that it's not technically speed, but it's measuring the movement of amps right? Can we agree for layman's purposes that it's the speed?~~
• Watts: How much work is done, or a summary of your power situation

So, the analogy of an airport

• The charger: Security checkpoint
• The battery: The terminal
• The device: the plane

Charger: checkpoint

Input: 200V 5A

• At an urgency level of 200V (i.e. people want to rush home before weather cancels the flight), 5 customers arrive at the checkpoint waiting line at a time

Output: 100V 3A

• The checkpoint is operating at an urgency of 100V, and they process 3 customers then send them to the terminal

Checkpoint B can screen 6 customers an urgency level of 100 (100V 6A)

Terminal: battery

Input: 100V 3A

• The terminal can handle a level 100 urgency, and 3 passengers from the checkpoint enter
• You can have more than 3 passengers enter the terminal at an urgency level of 100 (e.g. 100V 6A), but it may overcrowd or the planes may take off sooner
• If the airport is advanced enough, it will always only let 3 passengers through no matter what the urgency level is
• You can let less than 3 passengers enter the terminal at an urgency level of 100, but it will take a longer time before the terminal is full, and perhaps a longer time before the plane can take off (or maybe the plane/device keeps losing money/power because not enough passengers/amps are entering)
• The terminal is not designed for an urgency level of over 100 because there's not enough room or resources to handle that pressure
• (What if you have 3V 100A?) - It's a busy, normal day. 100 passengers are slowly moving through the airport because there's no pressure compelling them to rush
• The terminal has a capacity of 500wH, so 500 max passengers?

Output: 25V 2A

• The terminal boarding area is not feeling much pressure, so they have an urgency of 25 and sending 2 customers in the plane at a time

Plane: device

Input: 25V 2A

• The plane is not feeling much pressure, so they have an urgency of 25 and accepting 2 customers at a time

And in the context of headphones, amplifiers would be... extra employees pushing more passengers into the plane?