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- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 1 week ago:
I learned programming with Java and then thankfully never had to use it since CS102. HATRED
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 1 week ago:
youtu.be/pL9o_BwSN-o?si=864pFkuGqjr4TTIY
He’s coming for you
- Comment on Please cancel all my meetings 1 week ago:
I got fired 6 months ago and it’s been a crazy journey. I got super strong, biked over a thousand miles, traveled, and started an unsuccessful business. But also started some pretty bad habits and got depressed, and spent the majority of my savings. It’s a trade off.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting he refuses to transfer power?
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
The Fifth Risk is a very good read for anyone who might be interested in a finer grained look into the lesser-known functions of our government 👍
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
“kaleesi”
- Comment on Piss™ 5 weeks ago:
Alchemists would collect piss to make DMT
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
Lemmy.world users generally hold ridiculous, unrealistic leftist positions and do not have any concept of people who might have any other more moderate left positions
- Comment on Octopus Bones 1 month ago:
I glide through the silent void, the water heavy around me. Darkness presses in from all sides, comforting, familiar. My arms ripple outward, feeling the currents, tasting the sea. A pulse, a thrum that echoes deep in my being, guides me. I am drawn toward it, though I do not know why. I only know that I must.
The glow appears, faint at first, like a distant star glimmering through the ocean’s eternal night. It grows as I approach, pulsing with the rhythm of something alive—yet alien. My arms curl inward in hesitation, my body shrinking into the safety of myself, but the thrum in my mind is too strong. It commands me forward.
There, among the rocks that jut like jagged teeth, I see them. Creatures unlike any I have ever known, not of the fluid and soft-fleshed kind, but rigid, brittle, caged in something—unnatural. They do not sway with the currents, do not flow with the tides. They move—but not like us. They walk on limbs, as though the water does not hold them. How can they do this?
I watch from a crevice, my skin shifting to match the coral beside me. They do not see me, these beasts with the cages. I taste the water they disturb with their awkward movements. It is wrong. They are wrong. Something inside them is… broken.
I watch as one of them falls, its legs folding in a strange, disjointed way. The others gather around it, making low sounds that vibrate through the water. I move closer, cautiously unfurling an arm to probe the boundary of my hiding place.
And then, I see it.
The one that fell is not like the others anymore. The soft outer layer that holds its form—its skin—has been torn, revealing something beneath. Something hard, sharp. I recoil. There, inside the creature, where flesh should flow and shift, is a structure—a thing, white and jagged. A bloody coral grows inside this person.
I blink, confused. I do not understand. There should be nothing inside but fluid and muscle, yet this—this is a prison, a fortress of bone and death. How can they live with such a thing inside them? My arms twitch with unease.
I dare to touch the fallen one, just a gentle brush, a taste. The surface is smooth, cold, lifeless. The thrum inside my mind grows louder, a warning, but I cannot pull away. The hard, white thing—the skeleton, the word comes to me from the thrum—stares back at me, empty sockets where eyes should be, mocking my ignorance.
These creatures are not alive, not in the way I am. They are something else. Something ancient and wrong. The coral that grows inside them is not natural, not of the sea. It speaks of things beyond the depths, things I cannot comprehend.
I retreat, faster now, my arms spiraling through the water in panic. The thrum chases me, growing louder, sharper. I can feel it clawing at the edges of my mind, filling me with visions of towering structures of bone and stone, of beings that defy the natural order. Creatures with skeletons.
I do not belong here.
I dive deeper, into the safety of the blackness below, but I can still feel it—the thrum of the bone-caged creatures. They walk where they should not. They live where nothing should live. And they are coming.
The deep will not be safe for much longer.
- Comment on Don't do it. 1 month ago:
They’re called leaves because you’re supposed to LEAVE THEM!
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 1 month ago:
Waiting on Brighter Shores to come out!
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 1 month ago:
High fructose corn syrup
- Comment on Anon is an example 2 months ago:
Today I get to be the token guy that reminds people that this is fake
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
This is great suff and I agree for the most part.
I have not been occupying right spaces online. Don’t have the time / energy. And I don’t really put in the effort to try to change anyone’s mind Online because people are change resistant online.
But
I do argue politely IRL for things that would help. Better infrastructure, trains, good jobs, love everyone, let people do what they want, and made in America. Still unlikely to change minds but at least making friendships with people different from me.
I guess my overall thesis would be: online discourse is has proven unproductive. I’m tired of reading vitriol and “other side is so dumb wow.”
Disappointed to see the echoiness of the echo chamber on Lemmy
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
Thanks! Good response. I think it is always worth the effort to try and understand and talk to people and use words to convince them. I think everyone can be convinced, we just have to pull the right levers.
But if it’s the community’s opinion that that is not an option, and only violence is the answer. I have very low hopes for our country’s future.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
I would be cautious about writing off an entire side’s viewpoint as overdramatic. When they do that to the left, does anyone change their mind?
This is all about division.
We need to work on understanding the root cause of issues and working towards fixing that.
I think economics is actually at the core of the problem.
A lot of people don’t have the basics right now, and they lash out at anything they can to try to fix it.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
The Overton window has shifted dramatically in the last 10 years. He represents aversion to that
- Comment on Coming down your chimney 3 months ago:
I haven’t laughed this hard in a while, thank you, I needed this ❤️
- Comment on Never believe the hype. 3 months ago:
Off topic, but I feel like I hopped timelines to where people started using, “gifted” instead of “gave.” When did that start?
- Comment on Somewhere at the bottom is a Mandalorian having a very bad day 4 months ago:
Title of your sex tape
- Comment on What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)? 4 months ago:
One definitely seemed more likely to die than the other 😂
- Comment on Our Shirts Are Garbage | Climate Town 5 months ago:
I’m considering making my own t shirts at this point. A high quality real cotton or linen shirt is like $80 now
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 6 months ago:
People on Lemmy don’t get jokes
- Comment on land shrimp 7 months ago:
Where can I find this fungus?