ALoafOfBread
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- Comment on Hmmmm 4 days ago:
¡Hola, compañeros perritos!
- Comment on But why 1 week ago:
Stephen King is not a good writer. He has good story ideas. But his actual writing is poor and he does weird things that are unsupported by the narrative - like writing in sewer gangbang scenes with children so that they can defeat the bad guy with the power of eskimo brotherhood.
You can explain that in a less derisive way that sounds a bit more reasonable, but it doesn’t make it a good narrative choice.
Another example is 11/22/63. People on reddit cream their pants over the book, but it’s literally just King writing himself in as the main character so he can (totally uncritically) reminisce over how great small town America was in the 50s/60s and have a fantasy relationship with this incredibly weak/badly written female character and repeatedly “make poundcake” with her. It’s an 800+ page book supposedly about time traveling to stop the Kennedy assassination, but like 700+ pages are filled with asinine garbage and the actual plot is thin and pretty bad.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 1 week ago:
Mormon Jesus made this deal too. LDS church gives tons of bibles to hotels worldwide to put their fanfic right next to the original boring version.
- Comment on ... huh... 2 weeks ago:
🅱️ U S S Y
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Although way fewer than I’d expect. Would recommend.
- Comment on Will Ivermectin Help? 5 weeks ago:
Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ad hominem fallacy. The person who has been exposed for various things, instead of trying to refute the argument of the accuser (e.g. “they’re misrepresenting the facts”, “I couldn’t have done that here’s an alibi”)
Instead, they are just accusing the accuser of something to make others distrust them. All of the examples youblisted were ad hominem attacks against your friend.
- Comment on The only Charlie Kirk quote worth sharing 1 month ago:
Wait is that shopped to make his face bigger?
- Comment on Happens to us all 1 month ago:
Welcome to the garden, please respect the rules. We have a modest assortment, old chap, of delightful curios.
We are esteemed gentlemen, curators of shrubbery; If you enjoy strolling, splendid! The weather is lovely.
It’s a garden. Welcome to the garden. It’s blooms bring one to one’s n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees, knees Oh ah, how lovely in Spring
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 2 months ago:
The 9th circle of Hell may be cold, but we promise your asshole won’t be!
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 2 months ago:
It’s not Dante’s inferno, it’s DiGiorno
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Death’s Door on switch. It’s a cute little soulslike where you play a crow who reaps souls. It has good gameplay and a nice style.
- Comment on Final wishes 3 months ago:
oh no why shreks dick in the toothpaste
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 4 months ago:
Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It really depends, but ultimately a lot of social interactions can only happen between two people at once. Say you and your wife get into a fight. Instead of fighting it out & making up. She now has the option to stop fighting you and go hang out with your co-husband - and you aren’t invited. She also has the option to emotionally strong arm you to get her way by not only stonewalling you/withholding affection, but also by threatening to push you out of your marriage for another guy who literally lives with you both.
You’d need to have a lot of trust in your wife - she’d need to have a tremendous amount of emotional stability and be non-manipulative. She’d suddenly have a lot more power in the relationship in a very inequitable way.
My wife and I are very into monogamy. But she has a serious temper and can be very manipulative when she’s angry (she’s gotten better about this, but it’s a known issue). It’d be very easy for her to do something hurtful. I’m not talking about sex, just the emotional threat of turning to someone else for relief from me - and the implied threat of pushing me out.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Fake: is living a lie Gay: jerks off to guys
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 4 months ago:
Sorry that happened. I get relatively minor tinnitus, but these exercises have helped. Dude’s a chiropractor, but this particular stuff is not chiropractic and is legit. The thing that helps me is the palms on ears and drumming with fingers on the back of your head (like 50% through the video or so)
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 4 months ago:
I have gone off a few times over the years and didn’t experience many side effects/withdrawals, but that is definitely not always the case - I’ve heard that it reeeaaally does not work for some people. Ymmv
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 4 months ago:
If you have depression anxiety and find that Prozac (an ssri) doesnt work well, you might consider something that directly works on dopamine - like Buproprion (brand name = wellbutrin, a NDRI, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor).
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 months ago:
Yep doesn’t work anymore. There’s probably some series of buttons you can push to put it into settings mode, but I imagine it’s different by model.
If you can’t mute it with software, then the only remaining way is via hardware. Carry some packing tape in your car and slap it over the speaker - wipe fingerprints off just in case.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 5 months ago:
I guess, if they answer “No” or “Yeah your simple rebuttal has made me realize the problem of free will is nbd actually”.
But if they say “Yes. It does matter.” Then suddenly it isn’t defeated and you’d need to provide a compelling argument for it not mattering.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 5 months ago:
I only watched the first season (big fan of the books as a kid). Imo, it is not worth your time. They took out what makes WoT special and produced some extremely generic, bland fantasy.
- Comment on what language would be best for me to learn? 5 months ago:
Depends on your goals. I’d say learn the one you have the most use for personally. If you don’t have a use and are just learning for fun, then pick the most interesting one. If you’re learning intending to acquire the language as quickly as possible, then either Italian or French would be good choices.
I am learning Chinese (mandarin, aka 汉语, aka 普通话) and I personally find it very logical, interesting, and fun as a native english speaker who used to be conversationally fluent in Spanish. There are definite difficulties with the language (soooooo many homonyms, characters (汉子) take some getting used to, tones, etc) but if you learn it, there is a lot of reading material and media that will become accessible to you. Also, I think that it provides more cognitive benefits necause of how different it is to romance languages (for native speakers of romance languages).
汉语是很酷。我推荐你！
- Comment on Got any grapes? 5 months ago:
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- Comment on quick health tip 5 months ago:
Pro-tip: if you replace the water in your instant ramen with coffee, it’ll have coffee in it.
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 5 months ago:
AFAIK you can literally mail anything (except these things) as long as you pay the right postage and address it.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 6 months ago:
I largely analyze data and create software to automate business tasks. This allows people in my company to make informed decisions about the business, how money is or should be spent, who & where to hire people, etc. And then I present that data in a way they can understand.
This might mean creating forecasts. Automating data analysis with reports. Building data sources (gathering and manipulating data from different places and compiling it). Building interactive software or excel sheets for non-technical users.
I use excel, google sheets, google app script (basically javascript), tableau, python, and SQL.
- Comment on What's a highly-rated, critically acclaimed TV series that you couldn't get into, or have no interest in? 6 months ago:
Some of the early episodes really show their age. It’s definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.
- Comment on I dont know where to put this, no 6 months ago:
Yee