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Yeah, it’s Cracked.com, but humor me and give these two a read. I think on these quite a bit, even after many years.
Explains much as to how we humans act towards one another:
https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
How the hell Trump supporters even exist:
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about
I read the first one. It was a very interesting read.
The guy who wrote those is very insightful. I also like his writing style. Thanks for sharing!
Wow excellent picks. Read both of these and enjoyed the perspective. Thanks for sharing!
Huh, these are really good! I admit I definitely didn’t see people born into rural poverty the same way I saw people born into urban poverty. That gives me a lot to think about!
Like 75% of my basic training division was either inner city poverty escapism or rural poverty escapism.
Ironically that became the uniting force of those people, something they could understand when everything else about the person is different.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Blue’s Clues. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Blue’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Blue’s Clues truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Blue’s existential catchphrase “a clue a clue,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Traci Paige Johnson’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Blue’s Clues tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
Can this comment become a legendary copy pasta of lemmy?
Why can’t they be of higher IQ than you?
And why 5 points, doesn’t communication gap theory push for 15?
I dislike 3 digit numbers
You fooled me, well played sir.
Thank you, glad this joke landed.
I like no-digit numbers best
Typing out the phrase “ninety-four IQ ladies only” in order to satisfy both conditions
Nice Rick&Morty copypasta you got there.
Blues Clues and “Scott’s Tots”. High IQ required or don’t even bother
The Truman Show fucked me up as a child
One of Jim Carrey’s best movies
Yeah, we all saw. Hope you’re doing better now though, Mr. Burbank.
What’s so fucked up is how well that simulated world thing matches the ideas coming out of my own head
Mr. Robot turned me into an introvert
geeknerdIt made me a lot more aware of how mental disorders & addiction can present
The Hubble Deep Field image struck the first major blow against my childhood indoctrination in young earth creationism.
I had a similar experience but with a book about Dinosaurs that contained scientifically accurate eons, etc.
I started to piece together that while we might not be 100% correct all the time, YEC doesn’t even have an alternative. They just try and debunk evolution but have no scientific method/knowledge that proves they’re correct.
Where’s all the geological science that shows a 6000 year old earth? None. There should be competing theories, but instead it’s just “you’re wrong, trust me bro.”
“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins
Daft Punk’s 1997 “Homework” album
“The Atomic Cafe” 1982 documentary film
Edit: Vonnegut, the far side and Calvin and Hobbes for making me feel like I’m not crazy and most people are peddling a tremendous amount of bullshit.
The Selfish Gene changed the way I see life itself. That and The Blind Watchmaker. I also love Unweaving the Rainbow.
Agreed on the Selfish Gene.
I started on Unweaving the Rainbow but didn’t make much progress.
Dawkins can be a proper tool, but at least that book was quite interesting.
I read Asimov’s Foundation series of books when I was 14 or so, and it made me a lifelong science fiction fan.
Morrowind because I’m one of those people. But for real, that game in part defined large parts of my life. I got frustrated with the limits of the game so I started making mods, then got frustrated with the limits of the engine so I learned how to make my own. Now I work adjacent to the game industry with plans to get back into the industry proper in a couple years. Making games is all I’ve ever wanted to do and I owe a big part of that to Morrowind and the construction kit.
Were you involved in making OpenMW? That’s so cool
No surprisingly, I haven’t managed to contribute to the project. Reminds me I should definitely look into that though
The Selfish Gene, 1976, by Richard Dawkins.
Midnight Gospel
https://youtu.be/xUiuVjX2ubQ?feature=shared
Transplant tourism in China 🇨🇳
There’s only one reason to make a device to give people an invisible lobotomy with that contraption. Transplant tourism is a real thing, if you need a kidney, they’ll find some poor Chinese citizen who’s broken some menial law or just pull some poor Uyghur, labotomize them, poof there’s your kidney match in short order.
Here’s a video of what these people are doing https://youtu.be/xUiuVjX2ubQ?feature=shared
It changed my life because after seeing this, for all practical purposes, I try my very best to avoid things from China because I don’t want one penny of my money going to support this barbaric inhumanity.
If I see “made in China” I will try my best to find an alternative. For example, I returned to razor mice because they were made in China and got one of the same model instead that was made in Taiwan. It was sort of a luck of the draw, I had to buy two of the same model before I got one from the country that I wanted it from and I returned the one that was made in China. It was about an extra hours worth of annoyance, but it’s important to me to keep doing things like that, because of this video. Fuck the Chinese Communist Party and their treating other human beings like animals.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that this happens everywhere in one form or another. For example Frontex, ICE, Solitary confinement and so on. I’m sure you’re aware of more examples.
I believe it can be quantified in some way. I live in a country that has no problem with solitary confinement of minors at an early age for decades at a time.
I think that’s deplorable and monstrous also. But something about government endorsed (don’t tell me the CCP doesn’t know about it) organ theft where they kill the donor and keep them alive through controlled brain damage so they can harvest more organs from them. Something about that seems worse to me than solitary confinement, enough that I changed my behavior.
Yes keep it in context, but whataboutism isn’t an excuse for objectively dehumanizing behavior from anyone.
(Note: I’m aware of companies and name brands that invest in private prisons, I do my best to avoid those brands, really I try to live my life but do what I can within reason)
Yes I agree it isn’t an excuse. Am I right to be worried about people’s frustrations and their resulting anger? Change in China and other places must come from within.
Urgh - MONSTEROUS behavior
Ugliness
Guitar Hero exposed me to the idea that there was great music that wasn’t on the radio and inspired me to pick up an instrument
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, it’s a collection of short stories with a light meta story connecting them. The man feared technology, thought it would ruin society. It was written in 1951 and some of his thoughts on how technology could ruin people are eerily spot on.
The “smart home” story in particular is oddly prescient.
It’s a bit early to say if it’s life changing, but Hi Ren made me reassess my thought patterns and negative self talk in ways therapy never could, which is pretty damn powerful for a musical performance.
How did it pull that off?
No health care professional ever told me that depression can be something that’s just a part of who I am, and that maybe there is no getting rid of it. Rens message in the video feels so genuine and real that instead of passing it over as just another piece of pop culture, I stopped to really listen and think about what he’s saying about managing your darker tendencies and learning to live with them. The song has maybe helped me accept myself a bit better, but as I said, it’s still a bit too early to call if it’s an actually permanent and useful effect.
Hi Ren is one of the only songs I will ever acknowledge as brave.
Mildy related, have you seen Sucker Punch? You may appreciate it more than the average movie goer (but it could also be off putting)
Haven’t seen, will add to the shortlist. Thanks for the recommendation!
Whats your home life like? Hows your sleep?
I myself dont associate with any of the personal struggles discussed in ‘Chalk Outlines’ but dammit if it doesnt make me feel something, almost tears every time.
Don’t laugh but Ariana Grande :)
That’s ok u/TacoButtPlug
