laser light has this way of enhancing interference patterns as it spreads out, this is why it has weird looking patterns when projected in a wide angle.
This is also probably what the person in this post was seeing and tripping on, staring directly into a laser pointer while high as balls.
Memory is one of the weirdest things about the human experience, it’s still relatively unknown how we store and “revisit” memories on some levels, and our memories are not records like photographs or data on a hard-drive, they’re really more like saved simulations that you rerun every time you bring them up, this is why they can be so radically wrong or distorted from actual events. Every time you run that simulation your brain will “smooth out the edges” and fill in gaps with whatever it predicts should be there.
Your brain is so good at doing this, that you can easily wire yourself to have false memories. Most people are unsettled by this prospect but you can use it for fun! Example: I have altered my own memory of the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow” to also include Frankenstein’s Monster as one of the dangers of the frozen world, and have clear memories of Frankenstein’s Monster clomping around with his pack of wolves looking for the protagonist. Great movie, highly recommend you watch and re-write in your mind.
Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?
Yeah.
They’re not wrong necessarily that it’s not strictly necessary to shower every day, depending on a variety of things like your daily habits and work, your overall environment and how clean you keep everything around you, how often you change your clothes, if you sweat a lot or have a lot of body oils, if you cook a lot, and so on. You can get by fine with light cleaning and a shower every other day if you have a simple, inactive lifestyle that doesn’t make for conditions that make your body smell, and it might be healthier for your skin.
But jeez, always shower before going out to socialize, that’s the part that baffles me… sure you can live fine with… once a week(?!) if you’re at home and not expecting company, but to use that as a rationalization for being that lazy is just a sad glimpse into people with problems.
The general rule of thumb is to assume you can’t smell yourself but others can, and if you CAN smell yourself a little bit, others can smell you a LOT.
That said, I wouldn’t use this as a rule, people have very different sensitivities and you may never get a whiff of yourself even if you’re fermenting. Your nose is particularly good at tuning out regular smells like your own room, clothes, bedding, and most of all your own BO. It’s better to take preventative actions than trust that you will be able to tell when something is bad.
I think a lot of it has to do with the hobby itself being of escapism. People who delve into things like miniature or card gaming or tabletop RPG’s are rarely people with strong social lives, athleticism or stable home lives. (No Henry Cavill, you sit the fuck down)
So you’re going to see more people with crappy lives trying to escape or have some kind of social connection with others. Kids who were never taught by a parent figure how to properly maintain their lives and bodies, neurodivergent people who have a very hard time with some personal care, people with particular kinds of anxiety or depression.
My father was a big, wealthy narcissist a lot like Trump, he had “people” under him, he owned land and restaurants and all that, was always the drunk, coked-up “big man in charge” and grifted people out of millions of dollars in his life. He could barely read and was incapable of telling the truth, he was obviously neurodivergent in some way but was a literal baby boomer and never got any kind of care as a child other than regular beatings, so he was a mess. One thing that was particularly weird was his aversion to showering and wearing clean clothes. He hated cleaning, he often smelled like livestock, people pretended not to notice because they wanted to stay in his good graces but it was rancid.
He only made one comment ever about it that stuck to me, because he rarely said anything with any level of honesty but this seemed to have a kernel of reality. “I don’t like being in the shower because I feel like I might miss something.”
And that led me to realize that being in a shower or maintaining yourself means being alone with your own thoughts, being focused on yourself as a person, paying attention to your body in space and separating yourself from the environment and world around you, thinking carefully about how others view you, looking in the mirror… If you’re someone constantly escaping those kinds of potentially existential moments of self-examination, self-care can feel like emotional torture, a laborious exercise in trying to revalidate all of your decisions and feelings.
I used to have a job adjacent to the gaming industry, I went in a number of gaming stores to try to find partners for the products we were selling.
I could talk at length how sad and strange gaming stores are, but I just wanted to share one incident where I was in Phoenix in August and entered a small shop in a business plaza that looked relatively clean and new on the outside.
On opening the door I was hit with the worst BO wave that has ever crashed over me, and having been in gaming stores before, this says a lot. There were some young guys sitting at tables surrounded by backpacks, which I can only assume were full of fermented roadkill, and playing various games, looking up curiously as I tried my best to smile and nod a greeting. My eyes watered and I left immediately because I felt like I was going to vomit.
I checked up on the store 6 months later and it had closed doors pretty fast. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t get business.
The memes and jokes are not an exaggeration. Gamer boys are TERRIBLE at self-care and hygiene. I don’t know why it’s so hard to reinforce the concept to people that just because you can’t smell yourself, it doesn’t mean you don’t smell, you NEED to shower, change clothes, all of them, including and especially socks and underwear, and you need to clean your fucking rooms, your rooms are stink nests and that smell seeps into EVERYTHING.
You know how angry incels will vomit spiels online how frustrated they are that they get the advice to “just shower?” I love this common exchange because I know for a fact that probably more than half of these boys screaming online how nobody wants to touch their weewee are also completely disgusting and do nothing to maintain and manage themselves.
I mean, I’m sure there’s some folks who are really into that, but I’ll pass.
I’ll stick to my close-ups of aardvark noses wrapped in lace chokers, tyvm.
He should have printed copies of Trump’s letter to Epstein on the shells, that way not even the justice department could look at them for evidence.
Most motor proteins use brownian motion (the random vibration of particles) to “move” and make other actions, but you rarely see any rendering showing what it looks like in real-time because it’s too fast and wiggly. All of these mechanical “clockwork” animations are super-slowed and clarified for better understanding.
There are hundreds of variations of this animation out there which are very similar, some made by major science organizations, so while you’re right that it’s not “true to life” it’s the standard, acceptable model, and not entirely a product of a church. Although I’ve seen plenty of creation-science groups use all kinds of biomechanical motor motion to justify creationism, so it’s hardly matters. They will believe what they want and interpret what they want no mater what.
And yet we still can’t get anyone to use “they’re” “their” and “there” properly.
“evidence for a war crimes trial”
I do so love the liberal idea that there’s such a thing as “law.”
The only way we’re going to end the richest countries supporting the most openly genocidal country is if we cut off the funding that is making all of this profitable. There’s no one, simple “boycott target” we just all have to get better about not pouring money in our country’s corporations and monoliths who are always trying to make line go up.
Stop spending money on things like food delivery, fast food, games, movies, electronics and gadgets you don’t need. Start hoarding the wealth away from the liches and oligarchs. Back up your activism by taking away the thing they want most.
Both perspectives are equally valid. The universe has no right answer. There is no correct way to live, experience or perceive anything.
You don’t owe the universe anything, it doesn’t owe you anything. It may very well be inherently unknowable at some levels. Live your life the best you can, everything you experience, from joy to despair, pleasure and pain, it’s all just your own qualia and it’s all you’re here to do, so you might as well try to live in those moments instead of always looking for what’s next or what the meaning is.
Conservatives hate pedophiles
I wish this was really a blanket rule.
Yah while I’m aware of the situation and what’s been said, what has been said wasn’t exactly from a highly reputable source, it wasn’t even from the DHHS, it was someone who “talked to” RFK, and somehow every news outlet picked it up.
That all said, it could indeed happen, the administration is unhinged and a spike in covid deaths would be great for their plan of manufactured chaos, but they also have a much longer track-record of leaking crazy implications in order to fuck with the valuation of stocks.
They may also be planning to do the Chairman Trump thing again and leverage their threats for a 10% cut of Moderna and Pfizer’s profits. I just don’t see them cutting off a profitable company for no other reason than an-anti vax narrative they never really cared about, and just pushed to fleece the country’s stupidest fucks.
All in all, it’s way too unverified and unpredictable to know for sure what’s going to happen, however this infographic/poster thing is really terrible. It’s framed like an announcement, posted in first-person, and has no links or sources. It’s so terrible I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone in the administration made it and leaked it also.
Go get your boosters/vaccines and your kid’s vaccines anyway, it shouldn’t take this to do the right thing.
edit after regretting checking bio: really guys, you can roleplay as colony organisms and refrigerators and small planets and whatever else all you want, at least try to sound like you’re having fun doing it. Have some self awareness and make your alternative identity a source of joy for yourself and others and you will get a lot more acceptance.
Okay go play your games. Hopefully mommy and daddy figure out all the grown-up problems and keep affording your tendies.
My so-called government just canceled nearly every space probe and scientific endeavor planned for the next decade, de-orbited two climate monitoring satellites for no reason other than performative politics, put a stop to windmill energy farms, effectively pardoned one of the worst sex traffickers in the world to avoid being found complicit, armed a genocide, and the supreme court is deciding on how legal it is to arrest someone for not being white.
I’mma say naw dog. The only way I could possibly condone uplifting any non-human creatures at this point is if they’re designed to surpass us in every way and utterly overpower our species almost immediately so that we don’t make it out into the stars. We are a scourge, a pox upon our world. I didn’t even get into factory farming and what we’re doing every day to animals for profit.
I say this as someone who grew up watching Star Trek and reading Sagan. The stars are not for us. We are the same horrible primates who smashed each others heads in with rocks for a million years before we discovered agriculture and money. Same creature, more complicated excuses to smash heads.
TY, I learned a lot in the two decades I was stuck in that world.