MelodiousFunk
@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Ow ow ow ow ow 2 days ago:
Natural selection gonna naturally select
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- Comment on Is The Penny *Finally* Dead? | CGP Grey [5:12] 3 days ago:
This was not what I was expecting from Grey’s first Trump 2.0-related video.
- Comment on Fact Check: Did protestors set ICE van on fire in Philadelphia? 3 days ago:
No. That doesn’t stop shitstains and their supplicants from being confidently incorrect, though.
This is terrorism!!!
Every accusation is confession.
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 4 days ago:
That sounds like the kind of thing I’d reply, “Oh, no thanks, I don’t like bowling” to.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 week ago:
Me: eagerly digs through a box of old AV cables to see if he has a GameCube component cable
Me only finding SVideo: ☹️
- Comment on Incoming!! 1 week ago:
Also you kinda just want to see what happens at that point.
The people behind you are also interested in seeing
what happens. - Comment on Always go go go. Never no no no. 1 week ago:
It takes time to process the dread of facing another day.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 week ago:
Thanks, I was wondering what a tiny bit of partially digested dinner would taste like.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 week ago:
- Comment on I'm rich and powerful so I can violate laws and brag about it on social media 2 weeks ago:
checks wildlife registry
I don’t see Trumps on the list of protected species.
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 2 weeks ago:
avoid things that are stressful and upsetting.
So, like… everything? I’ve read that one needs to be in the right frame of mind for things like this to work properly. I am not at all confident that I’m in that frame of mind. I’m on borrowed time for housing. Hate it here but have nowhere else to go, nor the means to pay for it. I can easily imagine coming “home” after treatment and just being obliterated by the tension and negativity.
In any case, I do appreciate the insight. When I discussed all of this with my doctors, shrooms were the option that seemed to make the most sense to me. TMS and ECT (ECT especially) feel like pseudoscience. It may all be a waste of time, but this is all Hail Mary territory anyway.
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 2 weeks ago:
Appreciate the perspective. I’ve been putting in the work. My psychiatrist is almost out of standard line treatments. My psychologist is confident that I’ve got the skills and support I need. He thinks I just need a push to break through.
It’s also not just depression. It’s trauma, executive dysfunction, crippling anxiety, and more, all filtered through AuDHD and capped with burnout. Trying to tease out a loose end in that knot just pulls everything tighter. I’m exhausted.
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 2 weeks ago:
Nice! I’m kind of wondering what kinds of effects any of this will have on me. They can’t cure material circumstances. So are they just going to let me see more clearly how utterly fucked I am? Expose some novel pathway for running away? It’s hard to imagine feeling anything but objectively depressed and/or rage.
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 2 weeks ago:
All good, I know many front ends hide the instance for local users by default. I went to .world to get a screenshot with both instance names in them lol.
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 3 weeks ago:
Thatsthejoke.jpg
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t the Venn diagram a circle?
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 3 weeks ago:
It’s on the short list of next steps, but the (legal) trial is the next state over. So I get to try magic magnets and homeopathic ketamine first. Wheeeee.
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, this is the happiest I’ve been in decades.* If it weren’t for the whole “you need to prove you’re allowed to exist by giving us money every month for the rest of your life” thing, I’d be pretty content.
\*
Granted, I’ve been in intensive therapy for almost a year and still suffer from debilitating depression (amongst other various maladies), so “happy” is a very relative term. Existence is hell.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
We were all tempted. It’s okay.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
Seconding Forbidden Island/Desert/Sky. Island is what I break out to introduce new folks to co-op gameplay, then switch to Desert once they get the hang of it.
Pandemic hits a lot of the same notes, and can get really hairy at the end.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
I see the app as the DM. Plus, you can tell it what expansions you own, and it includes it all when it makes the map — you can play the same scenario and get different layouts.
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 3 weeks ago:
And the MOVE bombings happened in my lifetime. It was all over the local news when it happened, and then off and on for years. And anniversaries.
- Comment on gee eye joooOOOOOOO 3 weeks ago:
Ah, ya know it’s funny… these people, they go to sleep, they think everything’s fine, everything’s good. They wake up the next day and they’re on fire.
- Comment on Yeet! 4 weeks ago:
“Fully restored.” Pffft.
- Comment on Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's *crazy*! 4 weeks ago:
(Theoretically) 7 days. One pair per day, even if you didn’t use em.
- Comment on Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's *crazy*! 4 weeks ago:
“I request line-item billing please.”
Grippy socks: 14 @ $87.61 ea
- Comment on The basics should be affordable. Yes even eggs. 4 weeks ago:
Some. Some had it good. It’s true that back in the day a single income could sustain a family. That stopped being true for many 50-some years ago. My parents were tail end boomers. In the 80s, they were able to buy a small house right next to a top-5 city for crime and raise 3 kids on a blue collar job supplemented with part time cashier work. In the 90s, expenses started needing two full time positions. In the early 2000s (after a move of necessity), I had to chip in for a third of the mortgage. Now that (refinanced) house is falling apart, my mom can no longer work, and my dad is dead. There are millions with similar stories.
Is my mom a racist piece of shit that nods along to Fox while blaming everyone else for her bad situation? Yup. But that’s not a boomer thing. It’s not a generational thing. That’s a culture war thing. The same culture war being propagated by the people who actually pulled up the ladders behind them. The same ones who have been waging a class war and winning handily in part because of the culture war distractions.
Some loony was going off the other day about how X was just as bad as the boomers because of Musk, Fuckerberg, etc. Same shit, different decade.
Society has bred sociopaths for countless generations. The most ruthless get the most rewards. The less successful sociopaths strive to be more sociopathic, so that one day they too can win harder. And this behavior gets modeled and tweaked over time until people grow up thinking it’s perfectly natural to crush others in pursuit of success. “Sucks to suck, I got mine.” All of this is very visible and only becoming more acute due to social Darwinism and the swamp of bullhorns that is the internet.
But for every greedy fuck that’s actively making things worse, they have countless peers that are just trying to live their lives. Some live them fighting the culture war. Some live them fighting back. They may hate each other. But they have more in common with each other than they ever will with those that have been waging class war since before any of us were born.
Forget the generational shit. Recognize the culture wars for what they are. And may every miserable psychopathic shit on the winning side of the class war find themselves staring at the inside of a wicker basket. Briefly.
