just me
as much as i believe languages are living tools, cannot be constrained by rules, and will evolve no matter how much old timers complain
if you tell me about a “venomous mushroom” I’ll freak out at the possibility of such a being existing faster than you can explain how you don’t really see a reason for the distinction between venomous and poisonous and that other languages don’t even have it
seagulls are spirits of mischief and chaos, i’m pretty sure they’d intentionally fuck with the data
nonono, that’s the point, you don’t have to be an expert to notice that. In fact, you can be pretty stupid and still notice that rather easily
more and more people are beginning to notice. In the years past the ruling class at least tried to be subtle, but as their arrogance rises the masks are coming off, let’s hope we still have the spirit of the french, because the wage gap charts are starting to look oddly similar
to the lizards - they probably wouldn’t call themselves females if they could
to humans - our definition of female is producing the large gamete so if all those lizards do that then, from our human perspective, they’re female
Every work of artistic expression, from painting, through photography, all the way to fantasy improv, is a little window into who you are
the imaginary you is being put in various situations, mysteries, plots, and they have to figure out their way to victory! (and at the same time reveal exactly how you appraoch problem solving, how your logic works, and what assumptions you make)
it’s like the random shapes test but you don’t even realise you’re doing it
though it could get significantly harder to see through the layers of fantasy if you’re dealing with experienced roleplayers playing their 50th character
PhD grads? My guys, I’m in the same situation with a flipping Bachelor of Arts in my pocket.
I recently got rejected from a shop that sells cheap and poor quality items for being “underqualified” (the listing required 0 experience and basic education so I’ll go ahead and assume this is the only rejection email template they use and it’s actually the opposite)
i know you’re joking but fuck, sometimes it do be like that.
Obviously nobody should infantalise people suffering from depression by telling them to “just be happy”, “go outside” etc. but if you’re malnourished, have vitamin deficiencies, don’t go out to hang out with the human tribe, and sit in your home the entire day without moving - you’re going to feel like shite. Fixing those problems won’t cure clinical depression, but the other way round is true too - getting meds for depression won’t cure you of feeling like shit if you don’t use the chance they give you to try to improve your life yourself.
jeeze, welcome to my blocklist, you sound like an ever furious dickhead who attacks anyone that doesn’t instantly agree with them.
You wave around your peer reviewed social theory, but when someone else presents you a different view on something you already agree with you go “i’m not reading that because i’m too angry”?
chill
no i think that’s religious brainwashing
religious people living away from a place where everyone follows the same religion might become borderline fanatics as they feel the need to perform their religion for everyone around them, so they try hard to become what they believe is an exemplary muslim/christian/Buddhist/Hindu
similar thing can be seen with religion converts, they’re often way more orthodox and conservative about their new religion’s rules than people who were born into it
bruh you have no idea how correct you are on that
“By the mid-1960s the backlash against the use of LSD and its perceived corrosive effects on cultural values resulted in governmental action to restrict the availability of the drug by making use of it illegal.[29]”
now let’s all have a sit down and think about the state of the “cultural values” if feeling love towards your fellow human beings, and jamming to music is somehow corrosive to them… just- i have no idea how people fell for that bullshit
lsd my beloved :( ostracised because they had to put hippies in prison for something. schedule I with no medical uses my ass too, that ban stopped every ongoing research into how lsd could help in psychiatry, and though research wasn’t finished it sure as hell didn’t look like it was useless. The US drug enforcement administration lied in nearly every single part of their statement following the ban
just eat some psychedelics like a normal person the worst those can do is shatter your image of self and then rebuild it, oh and sometimes your muscles can ache a little afterwards because flexing them felt amazing
hey that sounds great! :) for me it was suddenly being capable of saying no to people
i will never forget the moment it happened. it was (i think) slightly before ego death, but as my eyes were closed i saw myself looking at myself in the void of my mind, and the other me looked me in the eyes and said “love yourself more”. Then couple days later i realised i was capable of saying no to people, and prioritising my own wellbeing over people pleasing!
goodness, the few days after a psychadelic trip feel so refreshing. Temporarily free of executive dysfunction, temporarily free of anxiety, temporarily just purely happy with a positive outlook ahhh, wish it lasted longer :(
so far no psychiatrist prescribed drug even compared to that feeling for me, well mostly because all those anti-anxiety meds either didn’t work or turned my anxiety into panic attacks lol
put down the phone when you get the message and all that, but dang is it a good way to break out of the usual struggle once in a while
dang, sorry i should’ve given more context to that, as a regular picture drawer i referred to image editing without realising others might not have the same point of reference for what opacity is
imagine you have a picture of pure white, you then add a layer of pure black, but you change the opacity of the black layer to 50%, which then shows your final picture as grey. Using more specific terms you changed the value of the alpha channel of the black layer to only be halfway visible.
This is what i was referring to as “opacity”. Now with your example it’d work in the opposite way, at the risk of making it more confusing (i apologise in advance).
A CD song wouldn’t be wet or dry.
You can take your CD song and apply an equaliser filter effect and make it sound like radio.
Now that filter has a wet to dry slider.
If you slide it all the way to dry you won’t hear the changes the filter has made and you’ll hear the original CD release quality. If you slide it all the way to wet you’ll hear a modified version that sounds like radio, if you put it halfway through you’ll hear, in a way, half of the effect you applied.
it’s much easier to explain when you just have the thing in front of you and can hear the difference hah
sound effects, or more properly audio effects - are things like pitch shifts or reverb, you apply them onto a clip and they modify how said clip sounds. If you later decide you added too much of say reverb you can always lower the wetness of that effect, in the same way you’d see a layer of a picture halfway through you can now hear the sound effect halfway through!
fun fact! the opacity of audio effects is instead described by a scale from wet to dry, with full wet being 100% “opacity” and dry being 0% “opacity”
rats are simply too smart man, I recently became an owner of two rat boys and in two months they learnt to open their cage (first two weeks actually), foiled my ratproofing 5 separate times, learnt they get farther into the forbidden zone (the bin) if i’m not looking and redecorated their cage too many times to count. All those smarts and they’re using so much of it for crimes
hell yeah let’s upcast washing dishes to level 8 by accident wooo! well, at least the kitchen is extra clean now
monopolies are the same as dictators, generally really bad, but a great dictator can get so much shit done and change things for the better much faster than great democracy could (i’m not dictator-apologising here, i’ll take democracy any day, just stating a fact here)