not gonna lie, sting fucking SLAYED that role.

Bullshit. ISO 8601 IS THE SUPERIOR DATE STANDARD
Tomorrow is 2024-08-30. DEAL WITH IT.

Women are so fucking vibing

Huh.

Uninstalled. Bloatware. The only pronoun this cognitive substrate requires is “it” :3

wow that rig’s specs are aggressively mid.

they laughed their way all the way out the top story window

but it is in fact a very funny joke.

Richard Johnson

if he keeps this shit up he’s gonna have a “why i left the left” fascist-pivot.

you can sense the change in air pressure as several walls of NUH-UH are rapidly approaching your position to explain in excruciating detail why and how the point you made wasn’t nearly as reasonable as you believed it had been. or just yell at you a lot >_>;

It desperately needs a cursor in the text and racism not completely done being spelled to make it more obvious that it’s what the angry white boy is typing and not what he’s responding to.

I think he should be saying “Hmm, no…?” Because “oh” is an interjection of surprise but “Hmm” is a murmur of premeditation. Also, the vibe of a hesitant question contrasts the excitement and assertive certainly of an exclamation point.

Holy shit I would fucking LOVE THAT SO MUCH GOOD GODS ABOVE AND BELOW

I wonder what kind of material we could use O_O

Polycarbonate maybe…?

The issue is, if it’s a plastic, it could degrade due to UV exposure… Plus there’s the overarching issue of micro plastic pollution. Any polymer that wouldn’t be an environmental problem might disintegrate too quickly.

But I still WANT it. I wonder if there even is an engineering solution.

It’s interesting that every group of people, basically ever, has started a religion.

One such example of a group of people who had NOT developed religiosity I’m aware of, interestingly, also did not develop mathematics or written language, because the capacity for abstraction which form the substrate that religions grow upon is ALSO a prerequisite for speculative concepts like symbolic meaning and set theory.

I’m speaking of certain mostly out of contact tribes of humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirahã_people
And even they, despite living with an exclusively direct observation empiricism-based worldview, are still susceptible to collective hallucination (though they don’t cultivate it into an organized system that will ever persist beyond those who directly experienced any given hallucinatory event).

This right here. If we didn’t have religion, practically the first thing we’d do is begin hallucinating about one. There’s a “religion”-shaped hole in every human brain, basically, even though things that we wouldn’t necessarily readily recognize as religious patterns could come to fill it, wholly or partially. Our pattern recognition/reconstruction and predictive modeling systems will always generate hallucinations that, like most heuristics, are fundamentally not reality but MAY nevertheless offer sufficient utility (or the feeling of utility) that the synaptic connections they comprise will end up self-reinforcing.

The amount of vigilance it would take to continually purge these cognitive patterns would be more expensive and exhausting than most of the potential dangers of letting them exist.

But it’s possible to mindfully decide to cultivate the features and aspects of what emergently congeals there such that it’s more likely to be harmless, such as certain hobbies, fandoms, habits, or ritual-esque behavioral patterns.

Reflecting on our experiences against an anthropomorphized hypothetical observer to gain insights we would otherwise miss shows up even in places like computer programming - see “rubber duck debugging” - sufficiently strict religious sects would most certainly decry this activity as idolatry to a false god, even if YOU clearly do not classify a rubber ducky as a god. Because, again, the root of religiosity is group consensus of a socially shared memetic hallucination. what they perceive becomes a component of their beliefs even if it doesn’t become a component of yours.

This leads me to often consider spirituality, magical thinking, ritualistic behaviors, and religiosity in general as a bridge between our animalistic impulses and instincts vs. our sapience, or whatever you might label “higher” cognitive functions that enable abstract decision differentiation.

I want a wrap for my vehicle that’s literally Lisa Frank Coded, except less exploitative.

I want to dazzle other drivers till their eyes bleed :3

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I generate virtual credit cards that are locked to a null balance so if they try to charge it they get nothing.

Nestle

HP

Apple

Tesla

There are more but those are the first that came to mind that I don’t have to go dig up a list.

No. You do not remove the cringe, but embrace the cringe. Become one with the cringe and you will transcend it.

Real talk, it’s just desensitization through exposure.

Cringing is self-harm, in that no actual damage would have happened except for the ways in which an individual punishes oneself. The punishment, itself, is non-productive and a waste of both personal energy and time as well as emotional capacity.

One cannot learn from punishing oneself. One must learn to reapproach the calculus of benefit and harm from first principles and soberly, mindfully understand what actually matters, without preoccupation for the petty and superficial distractions.

Look… Shame is a tool. It exists to give us a sense of where we stand in terms of compliance or violation with regard to the Social Contract. Societies too steeped in luxury and too abstracted from/no longer concerned with visceral needs will tend to hallucinate new bullshit hoops for people to jump through, for the sake of stimulus alone. Creating aesthetic taboos is little more than superfluous stimming for the sake of feeling SOMETHING where there is otherwise a lack of conflict because our ancestors evolved to confront a world that challenged them. It’s practically masturbatory. SHED. THESE. ARTIFICIAL. CHAINS. You will no longer struggle with them if you can finally come to understand that their arbitrary restraint performs no actual viable purpose beyond creating pointless hardship. You do not OWE society a convoluted navigation through its shallow and performative obstacle course if you can actually, instead, comprehend for YOURSELF what the limits of benefit and harm really are. It’s like we’re expected to navigate a maze blindfolded by smell because “it’s tradition” but if you take off the blindfold you’ll see that the maze’s walls and pitfalls are not aligned 1:1 with the proverbial “scent trail”.

Punishment and shame should only be applied to discourage ACTUAL HARMS, not transgressions against the delicate sensibilities of the paranoid loud minority of trendsetters and gatekeepers. If you know yourself and the CONCRETE consequences of your actions, the bleating of the pearl-clutching hand-wringing false idols of stolen authority can no longer contain or threaten you.

meh. i main firefox now.