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  • You have complete control over your franchise of choice, what are you retconning?

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  • The Legend of Korra spoilers:

    Korra doesn't stakelessly get her bending back 15 seconds after losing it to Amon. They had the opportunity to give her the self-discovery arc that they tried to shoehorn into the post-Zaheer poison recovery.

    The series could've had much better footing, in my opinion, if Korra had wrestle with that just a bit longer. Instead, a bunch of bald people show up and say, "I got you, Holmes," and then she's good as new.

    It's been a while, and I've lost some of my steam over this. But yeah, that's the only one I've got the energy to type out right now.

  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • I mean, in all of those circumstances I just hold my breath. I'm certainly not wanting to breath in a bad smell through my mouth.

    But if the question is can I elect to breath through my mouth without pinching my nose, the answer is yes. I wouldn't describe it as "shutting my nose," though, so maybe we're not talking about the same thing.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • I start next Monday, what now?

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • What's a non-traditional candle scent you would like?

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  • The smell you get when your mom runs the household vacuum cleaner from the late 2000s / early 2010s at noon on Sunday.

  • How do y'all feel joy without alcohol or weed?

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  • Never felt any impetus to drink, and I have a personal aversion to recreational drugs.

    Without thinking too hard about it, I probably get the most joy from learning stuff, especially when it's within a topic of interest and has any level of application to my interests or skills. Bonus points when I make the connection myself.

    I see other comments mentioning ADHD, so I'll add that I have a diagnosis for it as well.

    Good question, though. It's been a while since I asked myself this, and I'm overdue for a reassessment. Thanks.

  • I've recently turned into a blocker.

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  • I don't block unless it's excessive spam. Informational disadvantage, yadda yadda.

    I just exercise the same muscle I use to restrain myself from responding to bait on modern day Reddit, since my account there is still active but not posting (yes, even lurking is technically contribution, but there's too much useful information there for me to justify completely cutting it out).

    And for the record, I disagree with block features removing posts from the user on the other end. Public information -> only I get to decide what I do and don't see. Private information -> only I get to decide what I do and don't share. A bit idealistic, but we're talking about a web forum here.

  • If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country.

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  • I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with being proud of impersonal achievements. If one of your parents did something considered pretty great, I think it's generally fine to be proud of it, even though you had no agency in being born to them.

    As with anything, though, it's very possible to take it to the extreme. If an achievement or value becomes your entire personality and you begin to actively disparage others on the basis of not-being-that, as you said, that's when I call it one of the bad "-isms."

    I see nationalism as a range within that of patriotism, but starting at that extremist point.

  • Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules

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  • Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don't have access to unfederated information and educational outlets?

    The adults of next generation!

    Fuck this new world order.

  • AI Rule

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  • The thing is, AI doesn't need to take over the world if the BiG tHiNkErS are so eager to replace humans regardless of its merit.

  • songs where towards the end, they sing the opposite of what was originally said?

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  • That corny ass song from a few years back:

    "I don't wanna be alive, I just wanna die today"

    ->

    "I wanna be alive, I don't wanna die today"

  • WishUnderflow

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  • Didn't even get the joke here because this is how I always imagined genie wishes working.

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  • I wanted to make an ironic, exaggerated comment here, but irony doesn't really work when it is 100% in line with what these people would actually say.

    Change is so slow because this country has managed to form and propogate such a thoroughly oppressive system, that to call it out is to only reinforce what the people have been taught since day one.

    These "freedom people" want their privilege so bad that they are willing to keep a monarch/oligarch in office who will perpetuate an oppressive system under the guise of ignorance.

  • Do you experience smell or sound in your dreams?

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  • I've recently been trying to train myself to lucid dream frequently. The first thing anyone will tell you is to keep a dream journal, and holy shit does it help. Started journaling them on the 2nd of January, and even just a week later I started having very vivid dreams every night. All senses included; and as of a couple days ago, fairly critical thinking (mental math). I haven't managed to have a "lucid dream" yet, but I'll get there.

    For the sake of completeness, a lucid dream is a dream in which you've become aware that you are dreaming. Whether you can control the dream or feel that it's vivid is a separate concern.

    Pretty cool stuff.

  • Oddly overwhelmed while sick

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  • Although this wasn't really what I was asking at the time, it's good general advice, and I'll try it out. Thanks for your time and input.

  • Oddly overwhelmed while sick

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  • I've actually been off my meds for a minute. I haven't had serious issues, but I definitely need to go refill...

  • Oddly overwhelmed while sick

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  • Good analogy. Thank you for the thoughtful response!

  • What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?

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  • Only one in this thread willing to talk about the real problems.

  • What's the worst present you've ever received?

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  • All the computer mice, headphones, and keyboards...

    The connector cable it comes with will spend 10,000x as much time in my hand than the item you intended to give me.

  • What will always be cringe-inducing to you?

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  • Why are you conflating "ghetto", "gangsta," and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.

    There's plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it's like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the "gangsta" lifestyle.

    These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won't know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.