latenightnoir
@latenightnoir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Victim Anon 1 day ago:
Aaah, good point, I forgot they started with that spammy shit early on…
- Comment on Victim Anon 1 day ago:
To be fair, I wouldn’t have a nice day if someone decided to install a significant update/upgrade/fork of an OS on the family machine without prior notice, either…
Nowhere near corporal punishment levels, but most certainly “clean uninstall your programs daily” levels. Would still make a backup of any saved games/projects, I’m not a monster…
- Comment on Anon's lacking pissing habits 2 weeks ago:
Try hearing all of your neighbors pissing…
I swear to Christ, I think I’ve stumbled onto the one apartment building with both paper-thin walls and filled to the brim with neighbors who aim straight for the water…
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
That is beyond admirable! I’m sincerely keeping my fingers crossed for you, hope with all my heart things’ll go your way!
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Again, it is well within your prerogative to not accept such behaviour! I honestly view it as yet another traumatic maladaptation and treat it as such - even though it’s causally not their fault that they believe/behave thusly, it is their responsibility to keep it in check.
But I’ll be straight with you, I think you may be underestimating yourself and overestimating the average person. Critical Thinking really isn’t innate, it’s a skill. A skill which a lot (I’d even go as far as to say a large majority) of people thoroughly lack, because it is a skill which needs training from very early on, as it builds upon itself. I don’t think there’s a general educational schema on Earth at the moment which in any way truly encourages Critical Thinking, if there ever has been one. From what I’ve seen, it tends to come into play way later, which means there’s a lot of catching up to do by that point, so the horizon it affects tends to remain narrow.
Not to mention the utterly insidious and imperceptible nature of ideological corruption. It’s incredibly hard to see the brainwashing if one’s been going through it since before one started forming coherent throughts. It permeates even the subconscious.
I’m not trying to play the perfect being over here, I’ve seen myself being as dumb as a rock at times and I know that I have a llllot of learning left in front of me. But realistically speaking, just because we’re dumb doesn’t mean others aren’t even dumber…
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Oh, noo… Oooh, fuuuuck… I honestly don’t even know what to say, I’m just so very sorry you went through that… Hell, that you’re still thoroughly going through it, I imagine! Jeesus, what a fucking mess!
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Oh, man, I’m sorry… Only ever got as far as “engaged,” but it was bad enough when it went to shit. Can’t even imagine how it must feel after a commitment of that magnitude…
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Wholeheartedly agree! But if one can have both love and infatuation, why not take advantage of it?
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Not to downplay the value of infatuation, I’d say! Free drugs’re always nice, and infatuation is an especially exquisite drug in and of itself! Its relative rarity also adds to its refinement!
All that’s needed is an understanding that it is just that, a drug, and like with every other drug, the high inevitably fades.
I also think people tend to forget that infatuation can be reignited! It’s not necessarily an easy process, nor is it an unpleasant one! Taking a nice trip somewhere romantic (thoroughly recommend a beach resort during late autumn if you’re partial to cold, the sparsity of people and melancholy of the time and place have done wonders so far!), a cozy date - basically any shared experience can lead to it, as long as it’s the right one for everyone involved!
Love and infatuation can feed into each other with a little bit of patience and curiosity!
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
I get what you mean, stress for the cortisol, anxiety for the adrenaline type deal. And, yeah, I do agree that such a temperament/character/neurochemical inclination seeks these situations for different reasons.
But I’ve also seen plenty of cases where it was just based on a belief, they were convinced that a relationship reached a breaking point once the chemical ecstasy started to die down. The people holding it were obviously suffering because of it (though not fully aware of this relationship) and genuinely wanted to find a fix. Unfortunately, they went from disappointment to disappointment when the inevitable kept happening.
It’s also why I only have questions, there are layers upon layers of nuance with subjects like this…
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, sorry if it came out abstractly, I have an unfortunate flair for needlessly complicated sentences…
That’s what I meant, that it’s a gender-/sex-/hormonally-/identity-neutral mentality.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
You speak undiluted truth. That’s my thinking as well, growth is, for better or worse, a collective effort even when talking individually. It is unreasonable for us to expect a single person to figure everything out by themselves, especially when societal conditions are heavily biased toward romanticising everything down to friggin’ toilet paper. This also applies to larger groups in my opinion - thinking about how many languages have entirely unique words for concepts which basically don’t even exist within other, that’s a clear sign to me.
Speaking from personal experience, the only reason why I reached the opposite conclusion about love is because I had the (mis)fortune of being an awkward bookworm from the start, which meant I got an extra dose of information and managed to develop relatively robust critical thinking (at least enough to know not to trust everything which pops into my head by default). But I can clearly see every point where things could’ve gone very differently in my development. Which is also why, as frustrating as it is, I cannot blame an individual for this. Not until they demonstrate that they’re in wilful and fully cognisant contempt of the truth.
We really need to up our game in terms of education and the standards we choose to promote - not saying “we” as though you and I have a say in this matter, appealing to the collective yet again.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Real talk: I’ve had this happen a couple of times, and know of many other people who both went through this and believed the same nonsense, with all types and permutations of identities and Southern plumbing between them. And all I’m left with after trying to wrap my head around this thing is a question: can we really blame the people who are doing stuff like this considering Mass Media’s been force-feeding us this nonsense from the beginning?
I’m not saying this should imply forgiving the behaviour, not in a million years! I’m just questioning where our collective frustration should be directed.
- Comment on Anon wipes his ass 3 weeks ago:
Now, THIS is min-maxing!
- Comment on Anon wipes his ass 3 weeks ago:
Now, THIS is min-maxing!
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, would’ve used my Nokia 3220 for the same purpose had it more than 6 pixels:))
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
Honestly wouldn’t know, never tried TikTok and I still don’t feel tempted:))
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
Pocket porn!
- Comment on Anon like lava lamps 4 weeks ago:
Everyone loses their minds!
- Comment on Anon makes an impression 5 weeks ago:
I, too, am thankful, because all reason left me the instant I saw the teacher in there. I wasn’t mentally prepared for anyone’s presence, let alone… that:)) The only thought which crossed my mind was “smells like none of my business is in here.”
- Comment on Anon makes an impression 5 weeks ago:
I remember there was this one Lit. teacher in high-school who was randomly aggressive toward the students (always making a fuss if the kids were having fun in the hallways, accosting you if you didn’t greet her even though most of us had no idea who she was at the time, etc.).
One fated day, it was my turn to wash the blackboard erasers. All of the student bathrooms had been relegated to the upper levels, with the ones on the ground floor being assigned to the teachers. Class was about to start, I realised I couldn’t make it up the stairs and back again with clean erasers, so I bit the bullet and decided to stealth through it in the teachers’ bathroom.
I zipped across the empty hallway, opened the bathroom door, and there was the aforementioned teacher just finishing a hefty rail of either coke, or speed (or chalk dust! she was VERY weird) - all I got to see was the movement and the snort. She looks up at me, touches up her nose, and says: “there’s no more privacy in this world…” I slowly pull a Homer Simpson and slink into the bushes.
She didn’t say another word to me for the next 4 years I was in high-school.
- Comment on Splat 1 month ago:
Heeey, now I don’t feel so bad about my University days, thanks!
- Comment on Anon pretends to be sick 1 month ago:
Knowing my folks, they’d, no joke, probably question the possibility of my quickly learning to write with my feet before calling it a day… Maybe for a second, but they certainly would!
- Comment on Heavy Metals 1 month ago:
Oh, Ability Strength, definitely! Slap an Ironclad Charge on there, and you’ll start a global iron deficit!
But, uuh… I think these wee buddies would also need a significant Sprint boost:))
- Comment on Heavy Metals 1 month ago:
Nice Warframe!
- Comment on Anon pretends to be sick 1 month ago:
Broke both of them? Perfect time to start developing photographic memory!
- Comment on Anon pretends to be sick 1 month ago:
Did you break your arm just now? - Yes. - Is it the one with which you write? - No. - Going to school!
Running a fever? - Yes. - How high? - 39.9°C - Yeah, not fatal, going to school!
Can relate, I’m Balkan…
- Comment on Anon has the spirit 1 month ago:
Always and forever, Google can suck it big time.
- Comment on Anon has the spirit 1 month ago:
I completely agree with this, we’ve made everything disposable and thus removed intrinsic meaning in favour of space for projection, to make everything as lowest common denominator as possible.
Watched a poignant discussion between Fantano and F.D Signifier recently (link here for those interested) where they focused on the Right’s media illiteracy (their co-opting of RaTM to fuel reactionary and regressive movements is an example which they dissected) and they hit upon an aspect which I found very relevant to this subject, namely that music had an almost completely different dynamic “back then.”
What they point out is that, with the absence of Social Media and the internet still relatively in its infancy, music used to be more of an event and a social marker than it is now. Songs used to be packed with more and more specific meaning considering they had a much harder time at delivering the ideological payload to the masses, people used to form communities around the bands’ messages, and through said communities, the message was made entirely unambiguous - nobody in the 90s would have mistaken RaTM’s almost Anarchic messaging for Right Wing chest pumping, for instance, as their message was solidified in culture by the very communities which formed around them.