It’s worse than that. Iirc everytime republicans gain 2 out of 3 of Congress / Senate / president, they rip up enough regulations to cause a global recession.

Thanks, America for taking a shit on the world. Again.

Same. I don’t agree with Starmer on everything (eg his cannabis policy), but it’s nice to have a grownup in charge again. Instead of a performing monkey desperate for a new sound bite so we forget last week’s disaster.

It’s very basic ‘think of the children’ rhetoric.

Our emotions are more easily manipulated in this way, because generally people are hard wired to protect babies and children.

So by associating trans people with paedophiles, right wingers are able to more easily hijack into what would otherwise be rational people. It also makes it more difficult to debate against because nobody wants to be labelled as someone who wants to hurt kids.

“Don’t say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn’t be prepared to say it to their face”

I’ve had this before, except I was drunk, and it was a kebab.

I really, really do not like kebabs… my friend convinced me to get one. This kebab was like it had been sent from the heavens, I was in shock, never had I experienced a kebab like this.

The next day, I messaged my friend asking where we had the kebab… neither of us could remember. I had a vague idea of what the door looked like, we searched every time we were in the city centre for many years, but in vain.

A thought I had yesterday playing Starfield, sighing with frustration as janky, broken system after janky, broken system sucked the fun out of my session…

All these different game devs, pouring all these funds & resources / hours into each creating their own special little bespoke game systems, mostly I assume to avoid paying licensing fees to Unity / Unreal. Imagine if they all pooled their resources and knowhow into making one stable, insanely-powerful, insanely-well-funded engine with limitless creative possibilities.

Starfield looks like a game from 10 years ago. Shitty character animations and weird-looking ‘people’. CDPR are, imo, making the smart decision moving over to Unreal for future games. It works, it looks fantastic, it’s very stable. More money and resources to put into the actual process of game dev rather than reinventing the wheel each time.

I got an inversion device couple of years back during the throes of an insanely-painful suspected herniated disc. The instructions were very clear that full inversion was not to last any longer than 5 minutes as it could be extremely dangerous.

Can’t imagine doing 30 mins, with no previous exposure or training, fuuuuuck.

“And where were you while I was fighting for one of my lives, hmm? WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!”

It can actually get so distracting that I have to play a trick to get it to stop. I need to find a piece of interesting music that I’ve never heard before. I can play that enough times to “drive out” the other one but not enough to “light up” the new one and I’m fine.

Ahhh finally I have met someone who understands the curse of an eidetic memory for sounds. Earworms can be absolutely maddening when your brain is playing the Cheeky Girls song on a loop for days.

Very interesting that you have a good visual mind but still struggle to remember names and faces. Have you ever tried using mnemonic techniques for memory, eg linking a name to something amusing, or a memory palace? Can’t remember the whole string anymore but about a decade ago I memorised the 8-digit alphanumeric code for my train ticket to prove a point. BG96 is all I have these days (big goat with 9 horns and 6 legs). Apparently the sillier the story, the easier it is to remember (something to do with brain responding to novelty).

I’m so fucked. But I’ll wedge myself in deep, if I’m going down I’m taking it with me!

(reality would be it’d surface and blow me out like a floppy ragdoll)

The idea of giving passport / ID info to porn (or other adult-oriented) sites is not appealing. Imagine if it gets leaked, it’d be a massive blackmail trove.

Maybe a workable solution would be something similar to how it works for most mobile internet providers? So you confirm your age to the ISP and then your entire connection has adult service interaction enabled.

Fucking ridiculous though that this has been approved in such a vague state. I wonder if the tories will find a way to weaponise it before election next year to maintain power. Fuuuuuuck a whole more year of these fucking privileged thieving incompetent fuckheads. Sorry for all the fucks, these are my last fucks to give.

Sit in its blowhole until it suffocates?

Obviously I am not advocating for these beautiful majestic giant beasts to be killed but if it was a life or death thing… I’d be getting in that blowhole like a big old human tampon.

There’s probably more productive ways you can help people in the real world. Soup kitchens & charity shops are almost always looking for volunteers!

flips, etc across the x or y axis are also super difficult for me to grasp

Very familiar with this. It doesn’t matter how many times I use a vertical / horizontal flip in programs like photoshop / after effects, I rarely pick the right one first go.

The “noise” of my own thoughts overpowered everything. If I could imagine sound (and by extension, voices) beyond my own I might have actually gone farther than a 2 second peak of “I want to die”

That’s the negative side (everlasting earworms are another for me, as I have eidetic memory for sounds). I use inner sound to help me sleep, as I can’t visualise numbers as suggested. Instead I try my hardest to visualise them and make a boring computer voice in my head say the number out loud. Also having Morgan Freeman as a temporary internal narrator was pretty cool while it lasted!

Always looking for new funny shows to watch so I’ll give it a go, thanks for the rec.

Honesty compels me to inform you that this ending sentence was shamelessly stolen from It’s Always Sunny. Highly recommend it, first season is a bit ropey as they are literally filming, writing, scripting themselves with no experience and at the start of their acting careers. An incredible show though imo!

I’ve been meaning to watch this show but I was put off by the evangelical-ness of it… worth watching then? This happened in the UK about 8 yrs ago!

Hey, blobs is infinitely better than the back of your eyelids. Good job!

Isn’t the brain an incredible organ. It creates a rich inner world despite the difficulties we may have with the way our senses connect to it.

As far as tips, I think you have to stop repeating this thought to yourself that you’re limited in ability or unable to do something.

This is very key and thanks for mentioning it. I’m constantly fascinated by the subject of placebo (and the related nocebo effect). Our brains seem to be able to control far more than we realise; apparently, even when told they are taking a placebo, a placebo can still be effective!