TheMinister
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- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 4 days ago:
The two butt plugs should be self explanatory
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever smoked?
- Comment on Clowns be clowning 2 weeks ago:
Same
- Comment on Protect yourselves! 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes honk don’t feel like it should
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 weeks ago:
Like zim zimma? That kind of bimma?
- Comment on Lasagnaius 3 weeks ago:
Sconius. Ain’t bad
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
You too
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
You kill me
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
Cloppy
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
What do you call it when cloggers copy things?
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
haven’t figured out a new gimmick to vopy, huh?
Is that what you call it when vloggers copy things?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Did you guys know Fred durst now runs a jazz club or something like that?
- Comment on Political discourse 1 month ago:
Say what. No one I know has ever gone down that route. Anarchism is the furthest reach from ancap or sovcit.
I guess I and my friends have the antidote: read some actual theory. You couldn’t possibly agree with theory then go ancap. Sounds like you’re describing YouTube anarchists.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 month ago:
Trying anarchism. Goes down smooth
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 month ago:
But this kind of sounds exactly like the rationale these tech bros use to claim they know more than everyone and “these plebs just don’t understand”
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 month ago:
Mainly my music. I’ve long thought about a dumb phone to avoid gps tracking everywhere as well as the spyware built in and the needless looking at it all the time. But music and podcasts need to come with me wherever I go. So I’d be carrying something akin to a smart phone around anyway. Doesn’t really side step the problem effectively.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 1 month ago:
With the right tools, yes. I could vape you.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 month ago:
I work in the lighting department! It’s pretty fun work. It’s a little wild and I don’t think it’s for everyone, but I’ve had a lot of way harder jobs that didn’t pay 10% of what I get paid now. The downsides are the incredibly long days, the strange way it works with getting hired; you basically get hired day by day by whomever you made relationships with. Like I’ve never had to “network” before but if you’re competent, pleasant, and willing to work hard, the networking mostly does itself. It’s definitely interesting work. Sometimes I’m in some really swanky private apartment of some really famous person, the next I’m lighting naked models as they writhe around in a bathtub, the next I could be on the street in the rain handling disgusting cables sitting in NYC gutter water, the next I’m working 22hrs in the park on a 100 degree day. It’s wild, but it works for me. I couldn’t go to the same place with the same people everyday. Whenever I did that I was never happy, but I’m pretty content with the amount of variety this work brings
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
Well I dunno your tastes, but some newer music that isn’t shit (I’m an album listener myself, so I judge by the whole album):
Black MIDI - Hellfire Adult Jazz - Gist Is Billy Woods - all three of his newest (one is under “Armand Hammer”) Shellac - To All Trains Fiona Apple - Fetch the Boltcutters
Those few albums span some genres and should cover a lot of tastes. I can add some more if you’re interested, those were just off the top of my head
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 months ago:
There is so much music today. To say new music sucks is wild
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 2 months ago:
As someone who works in film, I don’t understand how people would be down with that. Our days are stupid long and exhausting. Everyone usually just wants to get home by the time we finally finish
- Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel 2 months ago:
No you’re just stupid or intentionally misunderstanding because either you’re a troll or your argument is so backwards and rotten that you can’t refute the point with anything legitimate
- Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel 2 months ago:
See, this is where the vitriol crosses the line into wrong. Oppose the genocide, speak out against Zionism. But when you start saying shit like this, you’re just as wrong as anyone who says they dont trust, say, Black people to handle their food.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 months ago:
Is Johann’s the German version of Joanne’s?
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 2 months ago:
There’s always meth.
And if you get bored of that, opioids
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 2 months ago:
See, you do understand. The farce that you don’t so you can label yourself ND is idiotic
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 2 months ago:
Spoiler alert: none of us actually care about how anyone else’s weekends were or how the other person’s kids are doing. You’re just being intentionally obtuse and tedious
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 2 months ago:
We all have to interact with people. That’s living in a community. But when you do, being nice is all it takes. “He’s a really nice guy, he’s just kinda quiet.” This isn’t an uncommon thing to hear about others. It’s literally a common type of person. But then there are assholes. The way you’re describing it you just don’t care to be nice and you’ve found an excuse in neurodivergence that you’re latching onto.
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 2 months ago:
I guess it’s ‘good’ I can ‘change’ if I so decide? but really, change, for what?
Read some ethics philosophers, not a book about whether you being rude and off putting means you’re neurodivergent.
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 2 months ago:
I’ve been accused behind my back of being manipulative, uncaring, rude, and also a sociopath. Once this impression is given, it is impossible to make people change their minds, including management. I usually don’t fight it because, really, fighting gossip? that’s sticking to 5 year old level politics and what’s the point?
Welcome to being an adult. We all think it’s asinine. Some people get wrapped up and completely engrossed in it. They make petty office politics their entire existence. Some people play the game but only to rise through the ranks. Some people stay out of it. You don’t really fit into any of these categories, it seems. It kinda just sounds like you’re a bit of a dick. That doesn’t make you ND, some people are just kinda dicks.
And I don’t mean that as a slight. Some of my best friends I would classify as being dicks. But it’s everything else you bring to the table that matters. Are you so good at what you do that people put up with it? Or are you just kind of a dick with no redeeming qualities?
Finding reasons for being unlikeable or off-putting doesn’t change the fact that that’s how people see you. You don’t sound ND, you just sound like you don’t care to change. That’s different