andros_rex
@andros_rex@lemmy.world
- Comment on Had to look this up 4 days ago:
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
Give him a nice shiny statue, then take it away and give it to Obama after further consideration, because Obama has admitted to fantasizing about men.
Guarantee it would lead to him raving about how much better he is at having sex with men.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 1 week ago:
I guess what always melted my brain was putting everything in terms of the dr dtheta etc of the surface.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 1 week ago:
Peter Thiel recently put on a four talk series, sponsored by a “Christian” organization, where he suggested that anti-AI people are the Antichrist.
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- Comment on Oh, that's... umm.... 1 week ago:
During the 70’s, outlets like Soldier of Forture recruited US and UK citizens to go slaughter black people in Rhodesia.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 1 week ago:
I only managed a “D” in E&M (why are surface integrals). Do I have to detransition?
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- Comment on Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward? 1 week ago:
I found out my mom had spent three decades of my life lying about who my biological father was.
She has always spun some romantic bullshit story about a specific guy. Like I’m talking there was a whole ass story of her life leading up to my conception that she liked to tell me. A pretty fucked up story - she was a teenager, this guy was in his twenties. But still, a mostly normal and consensual story barring the statuary aspect, not at all shocking where we live. He knocks her up, chickens out immediately, dumps her, etc. There was even a cathartic story about her being a then abandoned pregnant Sonic carhop, discovering the guy as a customer and throwing fries at his face. She describes my eyes and hair as his.
I reach out to the guy as a teenager with help from family, who keep track of this guy throughout the years in case I’d want to ever make connection. I reach out, he denies that he’s my father. Well, sucks, but nothing too unexpected.
As a lark, I get genetics testing kit one year. It’s on Amazon prime (back when that was a good deal and back before I realized how problematic that giving my DNA to a random company.)
I take the test. A woman reaches out. My aunt. And she’s not the sister of my “father.”
My biological father was a different adult man (mid twenties) who raped a teenager he met at a party. Even told me to my face that he hadn’t been interested in her, but more in her older sister.
When I confronted her with this. It was a non reaction. It was “oh.” She’s told so many lies throughout her life, but this was finally the one she couldn’t bullshit her way out of. She lied to me for thirty years, and unlike any other lie she’s told, there‘s no “oh you’re just remembering it differently” or “I didn’t really mean that.”
The most difficult thing is that maybe it was traumatic for her. Maybe it was violent. I’ve met him twice, and neither experience was really pleasant. He has a history. Maybe she did block it out, repress it in that Freudian way and did convince herself that some guy she had a crush on and her had some secret little trust. Realizing maybe the hell of my childhood had an explanation - that she was trying to punish me, that she hated me as a symbol of rape. Can I forgive her for that?
It’s just such a complicated and difficult thing to wrap my head around. Nothing about her as a person has ever made any sense.
- Comment on turing completeness 1 week ago:
Every update decreases the amount of people you can see. Frequent, full page ads that cannot be closed out and will open up a webpage/the App Store as you try to hit the “x.” You’ll “accidentally” hit the $99.99 monthly purchase somehow because everything moves around after your conversations load and have to exit out of the confirmation for that. There are a ridiculous amount of Only Fans and bots. Often the app would rather connect you to people hundreds of miles away rather than the people in your immediate area.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 2 weeks ago:
A mix. You will get bombarded with the poor quality photos and “u party?” (Code for meth). But I’ve enjoyed some late night conversations about everything from anime to French philosophy, and met some nice men to have a good time with. Even have made some friends (and a few would self identify as “freaks”). You’ll meet everyone from closeted self hated conservative businessmen to van living hippies.
It’s a very direct space. When someone asks “what are you looking for?” you don’t have to beat around the bush. If they aren’t interested, they’ll block and move on.
The app is absolutely garbage though. The ads are some of the most obtrusive and obnoxious ads any mobile app has ever had.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 2 weeks ago:
If you download Grindr, you too can have an inbox full of poorly lit bathroom dick pics and people asking you if you know where they can get hard drugs!
It’s less a “dating” app, and more a way for “straight” men in denial of their sexuality to find dl fun.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Apple ][e was my first. We also had an XP machine for internet (Neopets) but I didn’t have to fight for turns on the Apple.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 3 weeks ago:
Teaching is being ridiculously underpaid and used as a punching bag.
Parents don’t want to parent - you call them and say little Timmy beat the shit out of a classmate today - it’s your fault. Neveah is failing because she’s refused to even lift up a pencil the entire year - it’s your fault. Don’t forget, you need to spend an extra several hours after your “contract time” to do all of the meaningless bullshit that admin gives you - lesson plans that have to follow a format and will never get read, referrals where you have to have months of documentation of a student cussing you out and breaking things during class, so that you usually are working 60 hours a week at minimum.
My first year teaching was $2200/month, in 2019. I would get to work at 6 am - often had “duty” where I had to search students bags like a fucking mall cop. I usually had to stay until 6 pm cleaning. I repaired my own cabinets, bought my own lab supplies (how much do you think enough vinegar and baking soda to run 6 class periods of labs cost? Going to spend $50/week so that chemistry class isn’t just lectures and notes?)
So yeah, it’s shitty to shit on teachers. Teachers get treated like dogshit in American society, and there’s no need to contribute to that because you’re mad Ms. Brooks got onto you for passing notes in class twenty years ago.
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
Gotta be wearing a kynodesme to be modest.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 weeks ago:
The second Klan was formally disbanded for tax reasons in 1944, a couple of years before The Clan of the Fiery Cross. I think the argument might be more that the Superman episode kept the Klan from rising again. It was already profoundly unpopular in the war era due to some connections with the American Bund.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 weeks ago:
It’s credited pretty heavily with weakening the Klan
That’s interesting, because the Klan was fairly weak by the 40’s. It peaked in the 1920s (something like 1 in 3 white Indianans were members in its heyday, to the point where Klan chapters would have baseball teams), but there were some huge political scandals and infighting over embezzlement that absolutely demolished the Second Klan.
- Comment on Pronouns history 3 weeks ago:
“I’m not angry” “[entirely made up person I’ve never encountered] can go fuck themselves”
Usually, when I say someone can go fuck themselves, they’re being actively shitty. You’re just mad at someone asking you to use certain words describe them. If that pisses you off, you must have a really short temper.
Also, the “control” aspect remains. You want to decide what people be called. That’s just weird - how does it matter to you? Maybe consider DBT therapy, that’s all about dealing with how the world doesn’t have to be your way all of the time.
- Comment on Pronouns history 3 weeks ago:
Has anyone ever asked you to call them a neopronoun? Like I’ve been in some queer as fuck spaces and I’ve never encountered someone with neopronouns. I don’t most people have. So it seems the anger is more at an entirely imagined scenario where someone might ask you to call them (oh wow, so confusing) a neopronoun?
It’s just so fucking weird, to be upset at a scenario where someone might ask you to refer to them in a way that you personally think is silly. It has literally zero impact on your life. It gives weird control freak vibes - that other people need to live their lives in a way that makes you comfortable.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 3 weeks ago:
Years later, a friend of mine worked there as a summer job and told the friend group to avoid the fountain drinks so we did, and probably all still do.
Fountain drink dispensers just don’t get cleaned. I worked at a fast food restaurant for 3 years; I think I saw someone go after the ice maker once. The nozzles get soaked overnight, but the inside might as well as been a black box.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 3 weeks ago:
The real trick is to buy the sauces at the supermarket. Ranchero sauce and Diablo sauce on some tortillas with cheese and canned chicken in the microwave is pretty good.
Otherwise, a beefy five layer and make sure to leave with several sauce packets stuff in your pockets.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 3 weeks ago:
“Tex Mex.” Folks shit on it for not being “authentic” Mexican food, but that’s not what it’s trying to be. It’s fusion.
- Comment on Getting Taco Bell 4 weeks ago:
In Oklahoma, to get your drivers license you need to be in line at the DMV by about 4 am. If you aren’t in line by 6, you aren’t getting a test today. (This is absolutely so amazing if you are a young adult trapped in a sexually and physically abusive household, and can’t drive yourself to the DMV!)
Don’t you love “small government” red states?
- Comment on And now it's time for your favorite segment: Sex Tips w/ Mike!!! 4 weeks ago:
Ben Shapiro on “Wet Ass Pussy”
When I first saw the lyrics to this song, my first concern… is that these women are describing a serious gynecological condition. I’m serious. I mean, a bucket and a mop? There’s something going on here that is not biologically normal … there’s a problem. There’s water pouring out of the front door.
Fortunately, I know a doctor, who is my wife, and I asked her for her medical diagnosis. And she looked at the lyrics herself, and after being kind of appalled by them, obviously, she had a few indicators on how she could diagnose the vaginal condition these women are apparently suffering from.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 4 weeks ago:
It’s achingly frustratingly clear that the dumbasses at ClearLabs accidentally contaminated their samples. This is horseshit.
- Comment on bingo 5 weeks ago:
The sims don’t really build anything on their own. I play the Sims 2, because it’s got decades of mods available at this point. The newer games don’t really seem worth it - the Sims 4 is very much focused on parcelling our everything as DLC.
Basically, I have a bunch of STALKER and Fallout 3 assets ported into the game and use them to decorate my little post apocalyptic setting. I try to destroy/rebuild in a way that looks sorta organic - having them squat in abandoned bowling alleys and the like.
Imho the Sims 2 is worth getting into. We’ve reached the point in the nostalgia cycle where the ridiculous early 00’s clothing is endearing. It’s a really open ended story telling tool, and with modding you can do things like historical simulations or weird sim cults or prisons… but even just playing the vanilla game has a lot of charm of its own.
- Comment on bingo 5 weeks ago:
My favorite thing to do in the Sims is to use a bomb mod to bomb pre made neighborhoods, and institute a post apocalyptic “Handmaid’s Tale” setting where most of the women are put into re-education camps.
- Comment on What a welcoming party 5 weeks ago:
Not a splatter movie, but Stalker was a hell of a movie on shrooms. 11/10 experience
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 1 month ago:
The documentary Marjoe is a really good exploration of this. Former child preacher who stopped believing, and invites a documentary crew as he does a tour.
It’s in the public domain - they forget to register it, so you should be able to find the full movie online.
- Comment on Spokesperson 1 month ago:
Emmanuel Macron enters the chat
