Cracks_InTheWalls
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 1 week ago:
On a CRT? Sure, probably a lot haven’t seen it. On a modern TV? Still possible for some - mine does this if I hit the channel button rather than volume accidentally.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 weeks ago:
Huh. Can’t help but wonder if this is connected to why a significant amount of people find asses sexually attractive across gender lines - something about signs of a good persistance hunter (likely quite overstated by base monkey brain), and therefore ability to provide for spawn.
Probably not, but makes ya think. I also accept that I’m thinking about it from a heteronormative, sex as biological imperative for spreading genes POV - so limited and overall probably wrong.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 3 weeks ago:
Listening to a folk punk song that uses the word fuck to great effect on Spotify yesterday, wondering why the fuck the line ‘If you fuck up I will still be your friend’ reads ‘If you f up’.
I just don’t get it. Fuck is a valid, if vulgar, part of the common English lexicon. It serves a purpose.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 4 weeks ago:
Two choices:
- Medical mask and sunglasses (preferably those boxy ones people wear over regular glasses). Few people question medical masks these days.
- Embrace the lunacy, and wear whatever mask/facial covering you think is cool/funny. Life’s short and a lot of people would do well with embracing harmless weirdness.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
Break falls are the only skill I’ve kept from my martial arts training, but it’s literally the most useful one.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
“@!#?@!, motherfucker!”
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
It’s a term that’s taken on some additional baggage/meaning. Originally it simply meant someone who was involuntarily celibate - wants to have sexual relationships, but doesn’t. Now it usually refers to someone adhering to a kind of peculiar set of ideologies around that (see: social value theories taken to some often ridiculous extremes; good ol’ fashioned misogyny/perhaps misanthropy; etc.).
There’s a kneejerk reaction to incels in the latter sense because so much that comes out of that is pretty awful. That and it’s often folks who engage with the latter stuff who are more inclined to identify with the term incel - most others who just fit the former definition just say they’re single.
IMO the latter usage is just more proof that we are failing and continuing to fail men, badly, in terms of community and mental health supports.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
I’d ask how you define evil in this case. To me, an act is evil when the net detriment to the planet and its contents (including humans) is greater than the net benefit it creates, and the actor pursues said act knowing this. I’d argue it scales with the nature and context of the act. It’s hard to say this isn’t real. But yes, we all have the capacity for evil, and also can be complicit in other evils by dint of normalized behaviours (without necessarily being ‘evil’ ourselves)
I do agree that an absolute Evil doesn’t exist, the same way an absolute Good doesn’t exist. But we’re a pile of writhing meat puppets on a moist, moldy rock - we don’t exist on that level in the first place.
- Comment on Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring? 4 months ago:
True, but you can meet in the middle re: this kind of thing with the ring. Having established that it’s going to happen at some point, take a trip to a jewelers ‘for fun’. Pay attention to what she goes ‘oooh’ over - style, stone, cut, etc. Write this information down to search separately.
It’s a bit of a stereotype I suppose, but trust that your future wife knows what she’s doing on that visit (particularly if y’all don’t browse jewelry frequently - it’s kind of an anvil of a hint). This way there’s still an element of surprise, but you’re not just picking something random in hopes it pleases.
- Comment on Man of Hard Principles 4 months ago:
The only thing that’s weird to me about this is, why divorce in that case? There’s no law that says you need to live in the same domicile as your spouse. Could’ve lived separately and kept stuff like shared insurance benefits and whatnot.
It’s rare, granted, but it is a thing. Unless they wanted to separate their financial lives entirely and keep getting down, I guess.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 4 months ago:
In an age of LLM, Seaman needs a remake.
- Comment on The internet connects people 4 months ago:
No need to apologize, was just curious - figured folks is gender-neutral as is, never saw an alternate form of it before.
Sincerely, thanks! Didn’t know this was a thing for anyone.
- Comment on The internet connects people 4 months ago:
Off-topic, but if you don’t mind me asking, why folx over folks?
- Comment on I don't get how people can become depressed, when we live in the century of Fentanyl, easy access to alcohol and amusement arcades. 4 months ago:
There are people trying pretty hard to make that happen though mostly in the context of supervised medical interventions.
Which I’m here for - while a lot of people do OK, (fantastically even) with less structured psychedelic experiences, many do not. A really bad trip can do a number on you, sometimes for a long while.
- Comment on Get sorted... 4 months ago:
You may not be into the music and culture - and that’s cool - but you definitely get it.
Thank you for sharing this - sounds like it was hard, but necessary, thing for you to write. Send your cousin that text man, I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
- Comment on Get sorted... 4 months ago:
A lot of Juggalos take the Juggalo Family thing very seriously.
Doesn’t describe all of the fans, but think about it for a sec - think like the biggest stereotype of a Juggalo. Fucked up home life, outcast at school, not well educated, hopeless feeling, more than average chance they’ve been homeless or dangerously close to it, etc. Then offer them some semblance of feeling like they belong to something, as they are, and are part of something like a family.
For a lot of people, that’s powerful fucking stuff, and most of the Juggalos I know are there for it (whether these were their circumstances, or not) and act accordingly.
Fuckin’ love Juggalos. There’s a demo cd or something for The Great Milenko album that has a track that pretty much sums this stuff up, imo, if I find it I’ll leave the link.
- Comment on From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction 4 months ago:
Did a unit on interactive fiction for a grad seminar once, and sent a link to the Infocom Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game as an optional primer.
I mean, that was fun for me…
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
Brain - Candied Tapeworm - Fed Heads - Crushed Chicken- Ladied
Take that, atheists 😎
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 6 months ago:
That sounds wonderful. Makes me wish I had made more of an effort to keep up with my old friends/make more in adulthood.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 6 months ago:
Thanks! Started off as a one-shot goal, but I’m now taking a look at multiple legs, starting from Sunday’s turn-around point, in the near future.
Will be arranging a ride back for those future stops, though :)
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 6 months ago:
Good on you for doing the right thing and prioritizing your safety. You’re right, there are other jobs out there better suited to where you’re at.
Takes some sand to recognize the danger here and adjusting as necessary, even if it create temporary difficulties. This, my friends, is manning up.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 6 months ago:
Started off with a 40 km there-and-back walk from my home to a town on the outskirts of my city on Sunday. One of the weird little goals on my bucket list, been riding that high through the rest of my week so far.
- Comment on Progress! 7 months ago:
I agree - figuring out how to take advantage of time dilation for therapeutic purposes would be very cool, snd potentially quite useful. This is kind of what I hope comes from renewed research into psychedelics, being able to pick out the mechanisms for all the different effects and developing techniques to cherrypick just a few with therapeutic benefit with a much reduced risk of freak out. We may already be there re:time dilation alone with TCMS or something, idk.
But real talk - which do you see getting funded for wider use first, 5 year retreat in an hour, or psychic prison?
(Actually, saying it at loud it might be even odds, depending on the price tag folks can assign to the retreat)
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 7 months ago:
Man, fuck society’s outdated edicts - as long as you’re able to feed yourself, you’re doing amazing in my book.
What now? A lot of options still on the table, but here’s something to think about: one element of the whole fatherhood thing is passing down the knowledge you’ve gathered from all of this for your child’s benefit/enrichment. But you aren’t going to have kids, which is fine. So - are there any other means to share your knowledge/experience with the next generation? Preferably in meatspace?
- Comment on Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean 8 months ago:
Nope. sh.it.heads (or sh.itheads, if you’re swine)
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 9 months ago:
I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it’s pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use-case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ 9 months ago:
As a cannabis enjoyer, I feel in this case, as is usually the case in my world, quad claims are bullshit.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
What about patronising as in ‘patronising this business’? A little archaic, but I do hear it from time to time, usually with the ‘pay’ pronounciation.
Then again, if someone is accusing me of being patronizing (which happens a lot for reasons I don’t quite understand, but I digress), it’s split odds whether I’m “pah-trun-ising” or “pay-trun-ising”.
English is weird (perhaps this is its wyrd?)
- Comment on Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism 11 months ago:
Yep - magic can mean a lot of things depending on context. You usually hear about spells and such when it’s an exercise in intent projection - trying to send some signal into the universe or whatever to align with your personal goals. The other definition you mention is more about unexplained phenonena. There’s definitely others, too.
I probably should have asked this first - when you say getting more into witchy stuff, what does that look like? Say you decide to start tomorrow - what does tomorrow look like for you?
- Comment on Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism 11 months ago:
It’d probably be best for OP to flesh out what they mean, but when I responded I took it to mean occult ideas - magick, correspondences, projecting personal intent via ritual activities, etc.
An example I’ve seen in the Tiktok world is manifesting, where you do some sort of ritual or whatever activity with the goal of trying to obtain some boon (money, romantic interest, whatever).
Quite a few people dismiss this stuff out of hand, which I get - I personally don’t think a manifestation ritual, for instance, will get you much by itself- but I think these things can be useful for some people in a limited sense. My opinion is activities like this can put you in a state of readiness to notice real things you might otherwise pass over, or provide you with some sense of solace or control over your personal circumstances.
This isn’t getting into things like high magick and other activities, which again I feel have a place so long as you keep yourself grounded.