OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe @ OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe @lemmy.world

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I like to think of it as this super huge structure, with all these mysterious facets and faces cut into it. We found it, have no idea how to properly measure or capture it. We started as blind men, groping their eay through the dark, and now we've found ways to light a flame and to see the surface before us, but it's so huge and there's so many patterns layered over patterns that it's uncomprehendingly beautiful and we have to continue to invent new tools and methods of processing what's before us.

I like to think this was your brain trying really really hard to remember her name too. Put her right in front of you in the dream and just cobbled together whatever sound clicked when all your neurons tried to focus on her at once. Brains are so silly

I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of 'The Classics' gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you're likely to strike more points with it than without.

I'm still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.

And my neighbors are rural Trumpers. I still don't grasp what the hell it is they're after.

Big data, plot points from individuals, statistical regressions. That's what you need to make those claims. If not, it's personal anecdotes, personal anecdotes from someone who lived in the geographical region, yes, but just anecdotes.

Yeah I'd agree with the idea that a society historically repressed would slingshot to nude beaches right away. I just wouldn't make commentary on how likely a populace of oppressed people might seek freedoms and make the same mistake of assuming what their culture is when neither of us has heard what the people of said country wants.

I don't labor under the belief that anyone operating in an area that fraught with fundamentalist religious groups controlling all key functions of society actually KNOW what their own culture is. If half your population can't speak freely, you don't have an accurate view of your people's beliefs.

Words vs Actions kind of thing.

You can say you love me, but your actions speak only to harming me and people like me.

Had a similar relationship, dad regretted how much he didn't talk to his dad (his dad was a bigger asshole, hated that grandparent). But he didn't do the stuff necessary to be much better at being a father, and happens to have fallen to the MAGA horseshit.

Fuck him. I'm 30 too.

I'm with the other commenter. There are people in this world born without empathy, and within that group, there is another two subsets, those that can learn it, and those that can not. It gets broken down further to people who can learn it and use it for good and learn it and use it to manipulate.

People born without these emotions aren't common, but there really are 'psychopaths' out there that don't/can't/won't feel things for other people. The only hope for these people is therapy, and even then, therapy is a double edged sword that also teaches them the tools to manipulate. And to a group that already is predisposed to not care how others feel, that's a risky move.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

I've had good luck with Sunshine/Moonlight, though I haven't tried it in the last 6 months or so. Was using it to stream my much beefier desktop to my Rog Ally while in bed when I hurt my back.

There was a slight latency, like, enough to notice that I notice, but hardly enough to catch when fully engaged. But the PC was getting like 200 frames in the games I was playing and that was limited to the 120fps limit I set for Moonlight (i think it let's you bypass this to go higher, but I didn't want to at the time).

Full warning, I like that movie.

I don't think it celebrates abuse so much as it does point to the nature of abuse and self abuse between artists and their art, both from those that hold the keys to the kingdom of your success and from within as you bend yourself to meet those needs entirely of your own free choosing and obsession.

The protagonist gets everything going for him. His family does love him, but can't connect with his musical obsession even though they're proud of him. He meets a girl he really likes, wants to get serious about, but to do that would mean to choose between her and his obsession. J. K. Simmons character has churned out success by holding himself, and by extension his band, to an extreme standard that requires that obsession to keep up with. He sees the potential in the protagonist, pushes him to reach those heights but also demands in very plain language that he be subservient to the craft. And every time the movie makes it clear that the protagonist is given a choice between regular, healthy life and the rigors imposed by his dedication, he chooses art every time.

The reason I don't think it celebrates abuse is because he isn't 'winning' at the end of the story. He's doggedly pursuing his dream and giving his all to the band, the music. He's sweating profusely, his relationship with his parents is estranged, the girl of his dreams left him, and he's just told his idol of an instructor that he'll cue the instructor in and with that he gives in and gives the ultimate solo. It cost him everything, but it did pay into incredible music and the culmination of his efforts. Give it your all and you can have what you sought but if you give it your all and you'll have nothing left.

Lemmings don't drink, party, have friends, boot and rally?

I don't, but I thought you guys might

Where's the 'baby Jesus' in this post?

Loops...kind of sucks. I get the point of it, but I tried using it like 15 minutes a day for a couple weeks to get used to it, but the features are lacking and the content is...well it's filled with people who would abandon tiktok and other apps, so, it's kind of boring.

Not in a 'there's no brainrot' way, in a 'this is the third video in a row of just random AI slop and then it's just some dude filming a tree for 20 seconds'.

Yeah I saw a great one about how there's a new book in a series my partner and I read that we thought was done for...saw the date, had a quick laugh about how silly we were to believe it so fast.

Chili con Carne is a way I've heard in 'tex-mex' (Texas mexican American cuisine) that's essentially Spanish for 'Chili, with meat'

God-Emperor (mostly dead sitting on a cybernetic throne preserving his life, requires like 100 psychics a day to feed on to live) wants to spread his Religious-no-religion religion across the cosmos, and the brutality with which is required is a small price to pay for industry.

And then they choose to like the guy unironically. But if they're really into Slaneesh then they just get a special brand of weird.

They were saying that, if you at least voted, you've lifted a finger.

I feel you though. Being a lone voice in a county that went like 93% Trump, it definitely feels like my vote doesn't matter. Hell, our mayor at the time was caught drunk driving with his niece in the car after a fundraiser, told the cop 'do you know who i am' and threatened his job, and he STILL won by a lot.

Looks sick! But .. why are the z and the y switched?

Not silly, that's a common cleaning technique from janitor/cleaning staff i was told a while back. Use a little bit of what causes the stain/gunk and it helps break down the bonds by binding with the already-solidified object and trying to mix with it, weakening/changing the concentration of the 'stuck' substance