I just watched Blade for the first time. The computer model of the ascension chamber felt a lot like the visualization of the Gibson mainframe operated by that magician/skateboarder duo
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The one who sent me the hammer murder was normal. I don't know how he came across it, but I think he was in shock and pain and didn't know how else to process the emotions. I don't remember him being amused or excited, just kind of upset. I fully believe he was a good person then and believe he's still good, so of course I feel bad for him. I never sent it around, and I've never mentioned how it has stuck with me. But it makes me wonder about how such videos propogate across social media like that, going between healthy people, occasionally landing on someone who needs help, not a gateway to discovering the genre.
Humans are complex.
Not since the great skrillex carrington event that caused dubstep to diverge into two poles. The classic slower, 4-layer-max UK dubstep (wub wub) was forever polarized from the faster, ADHD-style, 30-layer, youtube-sample-ridden, Optimus Prime-sounding dubstep (varoo errrg gu gu errrg eeee paaaaaause didli didli skkrrrrrr). There's at least two songs on loop now.
The idea comes from the fact that there's multiple concurrent trends at any given time. But also the BTTF posters. Also consider how the monochrome movement made neon stand out even more than it did during the vibrant 60s and 70s. And yet, all of this varies greatly by region. We're all seemingly assuming USA, so an NYC/LA experience will not match Birmingham or Dallas
Same. I'm guessing such shock and gore videos have become too relatable along with a healthy increase of empathy. (edit: is that just frontal lobe development?) Plus, both of those were about sex acts, so if you were 15-25, horny brain dumb, horny brain no think deep, hormones raging.
2G1C, c2010: haha poop, ewww (edit: fixed the line break and all the "we're" mistakes2G1C, c2020: poop. Ew. Why are they doing this? Were they paid enough? Were they too desperate? Were they forced? Can you imagine the smell? Did they get sick? Severely ill?
I forget if Hands was the jar or the horse, but living in the /b/ world, I'm sure part of the punchline and disassociation was that it's gay. At the time, I was one of those "I don't hate gay people, but don't let me see it". Now I see how ridiculous that is, to demand the world conform to my viewing pleasure preferences (oooobbbviously, hot lesbians would be hot and NOT gay). Now I realize how only recently, LGBT+ have gotten rights, how they recently weren't even legally allowed to be public, how other parts of the world consider it a death sentence. Now I know everyone has their kinks and that safe sex knowledge and safe toy access should be human rights. So maybe, just maybe, it was a deeply misfortunate series of events that led him to injury/death, chasing something he couldn't discuss with knowledgeable people openly (either never inset hollow glass or no, you cannot handle the force of a horse). I'm not saying bestiality is fine, but there's clearly no shortage of horse cock dildos or other animals.
The one that I think started to change me was the hammer murder, pounding the guy's face in. I can still hear his dying breaths. There was no joke there, no humor, no real identifiable dissociative marks except the language. Just a murder on video, circulated all the same as 2G1C or Mr. Hands or... 1 Guy 1 Jar? Or waifu hentai , or heartfelt discussions on anime, or rape, or actual torture porn, or laughing at death videos from China/India. I have way too many empathetic considerations now for people to ignore all of that just because I liked the short format porn.
And then I think about the posters, too. I assume they're evil, but I of course know no one is born evil. What went wrong? Society, government, school, work, social media, manosphere influencers?
I'm tired, remember?
I'd disagree that the intent is reduce the population. Most things they do are meant to increase population but decrease quality of life, to put more distance between your life and the American dream. It's like Lucy pulling away the football every time, telling Charlie Brown to work harder because he's so close. They're criminalizing abortion, they're blaming millenials for not having enough kids to keep the social security pyramid scheme propped up, they're literally saying we need more Americans and less immigrants, and they're vilifying liberal women for hating men, reducing pregnancy rates.
I agree it's all through cruelty. Banning abortion disproportionately affects people of color, further trapping them in poverty cycles. They're promising more manufacturing jobs here, as if Americans ever had healthy lives doing so. Spoiler alert, that shit doesn't work, not when we can exploit China and India for 1/5th the cost, shipping included. So to bring it back to these vaccines, I would hope the goal is just to appease the uneducated voter base that thinks "vAcCiNeS bAd", but I'm sure the goal is to cause lifelong afflictions and drain money from the parents.
Throwing it out there. I have a significant orthodox Jewish community somewhat close. These same republicans used to blast them for getting vaccine exemptions for their children and then sending their kids to public schools. Multiple measles outbreaks occurred. Now suddenly these Republicans are all excited to reduce the vaccines because they believed every disease until the bill gates disease/microchip combo. Fucking insanity. Two-faced cunts.
I'm glad you're married but I'm concerned it was kept a secret. I guess if there's a personal/family history of miscarriages, someone might want to hold the news in...
The thumbnail is a picture of me, after work, doom scrolling, to deenergized to do anything else. My go-to is coffee as a pick me up. Then, 15 minutes later, the thumbnail is a picture of me, doom scrolling, but now on the toilet. I hate it here
It was probably full of reclaimed stormtroopers suits. We know the only way to have enough meat for the post-battle feast was by butchering them
Agreed. It's 1/100 with old panels at 1/300 with modern high performance panels, being up to 300w/m.
Edit: solar radiation is only 1.3kw/m2
Fuck all of this. Scapegoating some minority because math is hard and everything is a zero sum game, right? But first off, I hate the million/billion switch up. It's always a point of consuion because million/billion is a fundamentally unimaginable number for humans. 2.2mil looks like half of 5.1 billion, even though 2.2 million is closer to 1 billion than 5 billion, and is closer yet to zero.
They're always acting like a benefit to the other group is actively harming them. It's such a small amount per person. It's the tax on a $30k property value improvement. Just do the same then and get solar. Too many trees? I bet you don't need AC as much and run oil heat. But no, they'll be afraid to look like a librul.
Anyway, these are the same people reposting memes about cutting EV charging cords or denying fictional visitors to their homes a charge up. "If I don't get free gas, you don't get free electricity." If my friend was visiting and needed a charge, what would I do? They come in, I offer drink and food, entertainment, and commradery. Why wouldn't I give them an extension cord? I have gas cans and if they needed that, I'd give that, too. If I needed the favors in return, I'd expect them same of them because that's what friends do.
They were, factually, Indian. It says something about the exploitation of poorer labor to impress some San Franciscans with fraudulent tech
Yes. I did a brief search and got annoyed as I realized here was no way to reliably filter out c/3.5mm splitters and only find c/c. But I guess there's no real point trying to pick the best amazon option
Ma'am, I'm going to have to ask you to please stop doing wheels in the locomotive and return it to a 4-4-2 configurarion
Definitely agreed on good chargers, but, regrettably, standards keep changing, so here's my anecdotal experience/advice. I've had multiple issues - my pixel 3a charges faster than my Pixel 7 (comparable battery life) and my 7 doesn't rapid charge on my ~2020 bricks. I have great cables, too (finally) and after swapping bricks/phones/cables, the problem stays with the brick/7 combos. Same for my SO's S21 Ultra or whatever. So, after years of practice of reading wattage specs, I'm now stuck reading the bullshit product descriptions saying iphone 17/s24 compatible or whatever is contemporary to my devices. I charge slowly nightly, so the ability for proper fast charge is important for the random needs otherwise.
If you're using a type-c device, you need a C brick and C-C cable. But, what I've recently discovered with my latest pair of excellent bricks, is that "dumb" type-C devices may lack the negotiation ability to get C-C power. I must use A-C in that case to charge my flashlights. Probably why they all come with shitty A-C cables. I already carry A-micro for my older devices anyway
This felt life changing at first. I don't really know why. Maybe it was just the bulkier plug head that makes it feel more durable and the straight head style is more agreeable with today's device/pocket arrangements.
However, it means I can't charge and listen to my phone at the same time. This is more of a flaw of the phone design than headphone design and only really comes up during 2h+ phone calls. I suppose my laptop is also older, which is why it only has one C port. I can get a splitter, though it's harder to find dual-c than c+3.5mm. I can't plug it into non-C devices, since there are still 3.5mm jacks out there such as on planes and older phones (I carry my older phone as a dedicated movie/music device on said planes/travels). I carry Bluetooth headphones as well, but the latency is unbearable for movies. Probably a headphone issue more than a sole BT issue.
In summary of all my gripes, just review your devices for intended use. I still carry them when I travel and still use them for longer calls. It beats charge anxiety in most situations.
Map the physical area to a scale. Map the scale to the rainbow. Make chords a 2D representation of sound space. Make palm mutes drain the color. Make squealies vibrate the array. GIVE ME THE MUSIC VISUALIZER IN MY HANDS (and a blunt)
There is no significant loss in total skill with each newer generation. The paradigm is constantly shifting. Humans have always adapted and learned to manage whatever is readily available to them and how to maintain it. Your parents complain you don't know their vintage skills. You complain they aren't learning new skills. You complain younger people don't know your "necessary" (vintage) skills.
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise" - some guy in 1907 summarizing Greek beliefs.
The generation that can navigate whatever it is kids navigate (flipper zero?) can't modify an OS. The generation that can modify an OS probably can't tune a carburetor. The generation that can tune a carburetor probably can't change a horse shoe. Your skills are based on what you have to do every day. As technology removes the need to manage those things, the skill is lost and new skills replace it.
That's my favorite music video