Conspiracy theories about “sissy hypno” are so funny to me like. Just imagine the world presented here.
It is possible to be mind controlled into completely derailing your life by videos of pink spirals on the internet.
This is the primary source of trans people.
For some reason, this is only used to make trans people.
Nobody, not one person, is exploiting this for any other end, for some reason.
Like. If this was a genuine way to influence people, literally all porn available anywhere would be telling you who to vote for in american elections and buy products.
I do like the implication that if provably successful behavior modification via subliminal pornographic messaging existed it would primarily be used for brand loyalty.
Because that’s actually 100% true, that is pretty much what most US evil boils down to and is structured around.
“You want to suck A NICE COLD COCA-COLA WITH ICE THROUGH A STRAW.”
the wheel trend is so much better than the uquiz one. no more favourite lyrics from songs that tell you a little too much about how spotify-poisoned op is. you click the button and now you’re assigned water deer. just like in real life.
each of the main three sentences in this post prompted an entirely distinct strain of person to send me death threats when it escaped target audience and that’s kind of impressive even by my standards
I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.
‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.
‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.
‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.
So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT
Somebody actually made something close to a full decision tree map for Slay the Princess.
1. Can’t wait to see how much messier this gets in a week. This doesn’t even include optional or exploratory dialogue! 2. See, this is why we didn’t build a timeline for you to jump into.
officially-cool youtuber Tech Tangents was working on an old Tandy machine and discovered the most hilarious quit menu in all of software, buried in an obscure astrology program for DOS:
THE “MAYBE QUIT” OPTION!
For too long, computer programs have been asking if we’re sure we want to quit, and only giving us a binary yes/no option. Finally we can leave whether we quit or not up to fate.
And yeah. When he tried it out, it failed to quit a few times and then quit. It seems it just flips a coin when you select it and either quits/does nothing based on it.
the way the ipad has undone literal decades of tech literacy is actually unforgiveable
and I truly do mean the ipad having an effect on EVERYONE, not just kids or the elderly. the technological trend to rely on a dedicated app on a touch screen mobile device for seemingly everything has been active sabotage to your own technological freedom, perpetuated by corporations.
like do you have any idea how many people don’t even know that adblockers exists? That you can download other browsers?
Ever think about the active verbal campaign against Android devices? Like “haha funny,android cameras bad and android tablets are ugly!” Even among the popularity of touch screen mobile devices you have people talking about how iPhone and iPad are better than Android to the point where it has ruined Android devices. This is to close off your tech environment!!! You used to be able to sideload anything you want on Android, and pirate programs, customize the data you are willing to give out, debug mode your own device, and way way more! Now unless you have a rooted phone and some PC knowledge you’re stuck in yet another closed tech environment controlled by marketplace apps riddled with ads and malicious data practices.
you’re right to be this upset, especially when this stems from companies making money off this kind of manufactured struggle.
If you weren’t someone who knew file storage solutions imagine how easy it would be to fall victim to some silicon valley ass app advertising some garbage like
“Can’t get all your files in one place educators? Try ProjectStream! Keep all your class files in a remotely accessible server with built in AI assistant! 99.99 per month or 599.99 per year!”
The obfuscation of basic computer functionality is basically a predatory market all on its own, actively hindering the lives of people everywhere in every field.
If you’re finding that this is you: just get some Windows XP or Windows 7 era shitbox machine and poke around it. Try to install Linux on something. You’ll probably fail but it’ll teach you a lot about the underpinnings of computers. And most important: if you don’t know how something works, or if you’re curious, or if you’re confused, look it up. Figure out how to formulate a good search engine query and wade through the crap in the results. (Skip any AI generated result entirely: the sources will be further down in the results and it’s better to get things from the source).
Just… experiment. Poke around. And, most importantly, remember it’s not your fault that you don’t know things. The industry is actively hostile to users.
also while im waiting for my tea to steep, since im petty, and they cant fire me any more than they already have i can tell you about the Button That Makes You Lie To People because i CANNOT stop thinking about it and its driving me fucking nuts
i worked at a fancy gourmet coffee shop, but not everyone who came in knew that or cared, so we’d occasionally get ppl who got all their coffee knowledge from starbuckses. starbuckae? starbukakke
anyway sbux has this thing where they’re literally just wrong about what they call some drinks. for example, a cappuccino is traditionally a double shot of espresso with milk foam, like a few sips of drink, but at starbucks the smallest possible “cappuccino” is 8oz and espresso with that much milk? is really just a bastard latte.
but to explain that to someone who doesnt know better takes time, and there a line forming, and a latte… is close enough to what someone who thinks of a cappuccino as a 16oz drink is expecting.
so if someone asked for a “large cappuccino” we were instructed to go “okay :)”, plug in a large latte, and then, before they could see, scroll down to the secret buttons, the forbidden buttons, the deceit buttons, and press the one called “cappuccino”, in “quotes”, which would not only put a cappuccino on their receipt, but would send a message to the barista, across the room, who would then make a latte, see the pink “cappuccino” indicator, and go
“large cappuccino? :)”
and i just, like, that’s just, i love how, food is made up and not real
I got too excited while playing chess and told my opponent that I was going to slit his throat and slaughter him like a hog. something to work on for next time
in retrospect, this actually got me laid so maybe take notes
This week, over 350 rabbis, together with some Jewish creatives and activists, took a full-page ad in the New York Times to oppose Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.
Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things
Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, it’s called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! It’s the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.
had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”
what the people want, the people get
you see
my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.
evidence as explained:
victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world
his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression
he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest
henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces
afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?
Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational
the book does not otherwise have central female characters
Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.
in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature
abled ppl love the aesthetics of disability but they’re so scared of actual disability
the angst of a panic attack or meltdown or seizure, the visual of scars and braces and crutches and nasal cannulas and hospital monitors beeping away, the idea of overcoming struggle and the limits of the human body. it’s all beautiful whump for their gifs and fics and comics.
but the second they see someone needing an EMG or bronchoscopy, someone using a power chair and needing help getting into a building and advocating for their accessibility, someone using their inhaler, someone with stumps or disproportionate limbs, the mere idea of an ostomy bag or incontinence? you need to tag that, that’s disgusting, that’s triggering, nobody wants to see all of that.
fucking get with it. accept every aspect of it or don’t even think about writing it.
Dentist confessional. Like, forgive me doctor for I have sinned. I have partaken of the wine. Not only that, but the coffee and the tea. I consume carbonated beverages regularly. I eat sweets such as saltwater taffy and caramels. On the weekend, if I sleep in, I only brush my teeth at night. And then the dentist is like, “and are you flossing, my child?” and they just have to look away
why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh
“It is the story of their becoming human together.”
This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.
This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.
We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.
And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.
Sure, you could see the Epic of Gilgamesh as a beautiful story about becoming human together. Or you could see it as the most helpless-giggle-inducingly absurd section of a review of an 850-horsepower station wagon. I really hope the timestamp works, but if not, the relevant part starts at 10:26. Please watch it and please support this channel, even if you don’t like cars it will still make you laugh. They’re a couple of queers, one of whom is a furry and a former professor of English at the University of Alaska, and their “reviews” more often delve into the sociological landscape that the cars were born into and the philosophical implications of their design than boring shit like 0-60 times. It is maybe my favorite YouTube channel, and certainly my favorite car channel.
sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”
it sucks that even todo lists get affected by the adhd ‘absorption of stationary objects into their environment thus leading to effective invisibility’ thing
yeah my to-do list is empty. what do you mean “what about those five items?” those are just part of the ui obviously
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