theangryseal
@theangryseal@lemmy.world
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 day ago:
CDs are cheap as fuck now.
I’d cancel my Spotify but my teenager would drop dead.
- Comment on Honeypot 2 days ago:
Three commies don’t think you’re very funny.
- Comment on Passions. 3 days ago:
Make folks hallucinate. It doesn’t do that, not really. A person who is hallucinating is unaware that they are hallucinating. They see things in their environment, which aren’t there, or here things which aren’t there.
LSD can produce stunning visuals, but there is never a moment where you are unaware that those visuals are being caused by the drug. As for the auditory side of it, it enhances music kind of like thc does, but on a much larger scale. I would say that’s the wildest part. For me, with very slow, subtle movements of my body, I could feel like I was moving into and around the music. Still though, I was fully aware that the drug was behind it.
There are no pink elephants, not really. Though, I would say that my imagination was a lot more vivid and my mind more likely to wander. Still, I knew it was my imagination.
I’ve heard some fake ass stories about people being surrounded by fuzzy bunnies and all kinds of stuff.
I will say, I haven’t taken an absurd amount of it at once. I haven’t taken it in more than a decade either.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 week ago:
We the shareholders trust Musk completely. He is, after all, a genius.
Nah, I’m playing! Only thing I ever had shares of was ex wife, and I wasn’t even aware she was publicly traded until I accidentally dropped in on a shareholder meeting. I gave mine away. :p
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 week ago:
I’m going to go with a degoogled version of the OS (LineageOS is my current plan).
The only way I’ll back out is if Apple allows an ad blocker that will cover any app I’m using. I’m currently paying for one that only works on Safari and YouTube videos take a thousand years to load up.
Now if a legit version of Firefox makes its way to iPhone in the US with ublock, I’ll be happy with that.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 week ago:
Ads never bothered me on YouTube.
They’re bothering me enough now that I’m going with an android phone after more than a decade on iPhones just so I can get back to YouTube the way it used to be with a decent and blocker.
I can’t fucking stand it.
Want to show someone a short clip? Nah. Gotta skip two fucking ads first while you stand there looking stupid and waiting.
I’m fucking done.
- Comment on Showing appreciation for hard work. 3 weeks ago:
You know they’re not sending their best. 🙄
- Comment on sleep paralysis 3 weeks ago:
Man…
For me it happens when I’m under extreme stress, like my 3 year long “come back, I love you. I don’t love you anymore. I’m not cheating, he’s just a guy I snuck out with for no reason while I thought you were gonna be at work” divorce.
You said wiggling a toe got you out of it. For me it was tapping my pinky and trying to scream.
I even learned to control it and it was like an acid trip. Well, more like I learned to ride it and not be afraid.
One of the wildest ones I experienced though, I had recently purchased a hamster for my daughter that turned out to be a pregnant female. I tried to give the babies away, no one would take them. They slaughtered each other. I didn’t know they did that.
I was laying in bed watching my comfort food, Star Trek TOS. Suddenly the hamster cage appeared on my stomach with the gate opened. 40-50 hamsters crawled out and started eating my fingers and burrowing into my chest and stomach. I couldn’t move. My ex appeared at the foot of the bed as a shadowy creature with wild hair rocking back and forth laughing at me and hissing. I tapped my pinky and tried to scream once I was aware it was sleep paralysis. A hamster crawled up on my face and started eating my nose. I finally managed to mumble scream enough to get my exes attention and she reached out and touched me. As soon as she did I snapped back to reality.
The last time it happened I wasn’t expecting it. I was in a decent place in my personal life, work was chaotic though. I thought my house was full of distant relatives and they were killing people from outside of the family in my living room.
I hate that shit when it takes me by surprise. When it happens regularly I take control and I don’t mind it.
- Comment on Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online 3 weeks ago:
As sad as this makes the little kid in me who sat in awe of Super Metroid and Ocarina of Time, you’re right.
What a bummer.
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 4 weeks ago:
We don’t got no pictures. I guess I need to dig out my Spock in drag pic.
I didn’t even know you could have a profile pic. I’ve never seen one on here.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 4 weeks ago:
Freezing in the shower because the hot water heater took a shit.
- Comment on Are you as smart as Ben? 4 weeks ago:
How bizarre!
- Comment on 400,000 species 4 weeks ago:
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band is an intro to an album. It isn’t meant to be played as a standalone song. I have never once listened to the intro track and thought, “Ooh, this is fantastic. One of the greats from the Beatles.” It set the stage for the band to throw away the image the world expected of them as the so called “fab 4” and explore sound while pretending to be people they weren’t.
What you have said here is like watching the opening theme to a television show and then throwing your hands up and saying, “that’s it guys! Second worst tv show ever! Just behind this tv show I actually watched, and just ahead another I actually watched.”
If you’d actually like a chance to be critical of an actual piece of music meant to be consumed on its own from Sgt Pepper, check out A Day in the Life and get back with me.
- Comment on 400,000 species 4 weeks ago:
38 here. I absolutely love the Beatles. I didn’t like their earlier stuff when I was younger but I’ve worked my way backwards from Help as I’ve got older.
I love all of it.
- Comment on 400,000 species 4 weeks ago:
I love the Beatles. I guess I am a middle aged white guy now, but they’ve been my favorite band since I was a kid.
- Comment on So sad 5 weeks ago:
Nah it’s my wife. She knows.
- Comment on I feel so old. 5 weeks ago:
Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.
I replied to the right comment this time. Finally got a clue.
- Comment on I feel so old. 5 weeks ago:
Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.
- Comment on Yep, defintely not a bad person 1 month ago:
It sounds too extreme to be real.
That said, my mother lost her mother when she was 4 years old. Her mom took her own life, my mom witnessed the aftermath and was already traumatized as hell.
My grandfather remarried and that woman did everything she could to get rid of my mom.
People can become better, and my step grandmother did. She apologized to my mom and owned what she did, and she was pretty good with me and my siblings when we were growing up.
The shit she put my mom through was insane. She told my mom that her mom was in hell burning because she killed herself. My mom and her step siblings got lice at school and she shaved my mom’s head but not theirs (12 years old too, so she got bullied on top of that humiliation), told my mom she looked too much like her mom and was ugly (and honestly, my mother was one of the most beautiful people around. When I was growing up I heard comments constantly, “Bro! Your sister is hot!” “That’s my mom jackass!”)
The list goes on and on. She succeeded in getting rid of my mom when she hit about 13. My mom’s youngest sibling was more than 10 years older than her, so she spent her teens moving around between her older brother and sisters until she married at 16, and has been on her own since.
- Comment on Trump reportedly asked Musk to buy Truth Social last year 1 month ago:
I feel like I seen that photo way before deepfake was a thing.
Reminds me of Pentecostal church as a kid.
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 2 months ago:
Oooh, me too.
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 2 months ago:
Good to know. Explains a lot.
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 2 months ago:
That’s what my brother did. He done ROTC and then joined the marines. He spent a decade as an aviation technician and never left the states. This was at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was buff as hell when he left the military. He moved back in with my dad and step mom when he left and sat on the money he had piled up in the bank for years playing World of Warcraft and getting fat.
I envied him so much during that time (the part where he played WoW and got fat for years), but I wouldn’t have joined the military for any reason. That kind of thing just isn’t for me. I absolutely love reading about Napoleon and his soldiers trekking around Europe and fighting. I love reading about WWII and all of the combat stories I can gobble up, but there’s no way in hell I’d give any of my body for the ambitions of men who view their fellow man as figures on a board game.
Like, hoorah to the people who don’t mind. I just want to live in a world where we don’t need shit like that anymore.
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 2 months ago:
I would imagine that behind closed doors, men in positions of power have had conversations about the potential recruits the military is losing with easy access to abortion, but I agree with you.
For the most part there is no grand conspiracy, just passionate nuts who believe they’re going to live forever who found a shortcut to what they imagine is God’s approval. Like that nut who climbs buildings to raise awareness or whatever it is he’s doing. They believe when they die, they’ll wake up on a cloud and hear “Jesus Loves the Little Children” playing in the background. Their lord will walk up to them and embrace them, tell them what a good job they did shouting about saving babies as he pets their hair.
I grew up in that world. So glad I don’t still live in it.
- Comment on Altered Carbon 2 months ago:
Bro, you should have been there. I’m telling you. I’ve never seen anyone go to town on a gourd bass ocarina like she did.
She said that she’d never played one before, but I’ve heard that one before too.
- Comment on Altered Carbon 2 months ago:
I played bass for ur mom. It was the old one string gourd bass.
- Comment on Her training has been a struggle 2 months ago:
- Comment on Her training has been a struggle 2 months ago:
My toddlers play dress up with him haha. He’s always wearing something.
- Comment on Her training has been a struggle 2 months ago:
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 2 months ago:
My daughter just started high school this year. It has became very clear to me that she’s dealing with that. I’m standing outside at her first mental health appointment now.
I’m hoping she gets what she needs here. I’m sorry you got missed. I did too, big time. So did my mother though, and her mother.
Maybe today breaks the chain.