I really like (most of) game of thrones, but it’s a tough watch at times for sure. Breaking Bad on the other hand seemed to be nothing but a tough watch. Stopped watching when the mom starts smoking while pregnant. It was just too much, unrelenting misery for me. I can see it’s a really well made show, that deserves the praise, but I just can’t stomach it.

I think it’s hissing like noises in general that cats find upsetting

I recommend Radio Paradise! It’s an independent online radio stream with a great, eclectic selection and no ads, except the occasional reminder that they are donation financed. It’s honestly one if not the best radio stream there is.

What’s going on with that bottle? It’s ai generated, isn’t it?

Just randomly got this recommended today. Really enjoyed it and now I have a new channel to binge through :D

Baggy pants are back, baby!

I mean Ubisoft has probably tens of thousands of ex employees

I think this is a good definition: http://shitpost.urbanup.com/11938797

Honestly, I don’t understand people who post “normal” stuff here. Aren’t there more suitable places? Or is it to maximize reach or fake internet point gathering?

I feel like your title, text and spoiler are talking about three different things. There are many types of anxiety that can be tackled differently.

You already got good tips for most, so I’m going to concentrate on your spoiler text: When you are too high, I recommend chewing coffee beans. They act calming on those cases.

As for your existential anxiety: You might want to continue that train of thought to it’s conclusion: Eventually everything ceases to exist. Nothing is permanent. Everything is in flow. All that is, all that matters, is now. This moment. And all you need to do is live it.

I don’t think you can say anything to him that will convince him. The more you will try to convince him the more resistance you’ll get. That’s just how it is with media. You can’t make people like it, if they aren’t up for it. Maybe try again in a year or two

Sounds like a good time to start your own business, creating a stable, no-bullshit version of whatever these companies produce

Yeah, the power scaling broke it for me, too. The magic system is certainly imaginative, but it feels so arbitrary! It’s so stylish, but I just can’t get invested in anything that happens, because it never feels like it was earned.

Solo Leveling. I think after seeing so many recommendations (and better animes) I expected too much of it. It’s just a very basic Isekai with flat, tropey characters and boring art style. It has some really cool fight scenes, I’ll give it that. Forced myself to watch the first season to the end in the faint hope it’ll do something interesting, but nope.

I guess it’s watchable if you’re looking for a simple power fantasy and don’t mind tropes.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Yes, officially “everything goes”, but I feel something shouldn’t be considered a shitpost if it’s just something funny. For me a shitpost needs to be deliberately low quality and/or dumb in itself. This is just an arguably funny post, that I’d expect to find in funny or politicalhumor.

Liu worked with professors at Princeton to test how people responded to two different graphs. One showed winter temperatures of a fictional town gradually rising over time, while the other presented the same warming trend in a black-or-white manner: The lake either froze in any given year, or it didn’t. People who saw the second chart perceived climate change as causing more abrupt changes.

The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities canceled because of wildfire smoke.

Previous research has found that as the climate warms, people adjust their sense of what seems normal based on weather from the past two to eight years, a phenomenon known as “shifting baselines.”

not a shitpost

edit: This seems to split the community here. Yes, officially “everything goes”, but I feel something shouldn’t be considered a shitpost if it’s just something funny. For me a shitpost needs to be deliberately low quality and/or dumb in itself. This is just an arguably funny post, that I’d expect to find in funny or politicalhumor.

Someone called it “soft eugenics” and that makes the most sense to me. It’s probably too much bad press and effort to do the old school active eugenics of preventing undesirable peoples from reproducing. So instead you remove health and safety services so “nature” will take care of them. While you simultaneously make it “easier” for the others to reproduce by handing out benefits and preventing birth control.

I’m sure that makes sense to the “utilitarian” crowd or whatever they are called, that believe that the goal of humanity’s survival against whatever hypothetical future scenario they think of justifies any means today. Well, except to those who paid attention in biology and know that diversity is actually our best strategy to do just that.

I had the same issue just a week ago after resetting my phone. As was said here I had to deregister my device in Google, because they didn’t know that I had reset that device. For Google it was a complete new device in my hand, despite it still being the same phone after reset. That’s why Google tried to make me F2A on what it thought was my old device.

Only after removing the old device in Google on my computer was I able to login on it again.

It’s not Super-Mega FOSS-prioritizing, but there are some efforts into that direction.