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- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 20 minutes ago:
yes
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 31 minutes ago:
I’ve been kinda going back and forth in my head on whether or not to respond to this, but I’ve landed on “respond and try to keep it pithy” (something I’m bad at)
you don’t really “get better” with alcoholism or addiction. you can be sober 20+ years and you’re still an alcoholic, just a sober one.
that said I’m hanging in there, one day at a time and whatnot
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 53 minutes ago:
worst thing I ever did was fuck your mom, but I did that sober
tell her I say hi 😘
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 5 hours ago:
very fun stuff. there’s a bit in an episode of Midnight Burger (audio drama about a time-travelling dimension-spanning diner) where they’re explaining it to someone and they say “there’s a world where mark david chapman missed and the beatles got back together! i like that world.” :)
what’s even crazier to me than the sci-fi stuff though is how often we encounter vanishingly impossible odds, 52! blew my fucking mind the first time I heard it explained.
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 8 hours ago:
you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I’ll reiterate, I’m glad you don’t
but you don’t
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 8 hours ago:
idk who downvoted you but this is hilarious. I’m very amused imagining that happening lol
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 1 day ago:
yeah, no hate. like I said I’m glad you don’t get it. it’s not a fun lesson to learn.
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 2 days ago:
it’s crazy how many people are confidently answering “you never lose control from alcohol” when they’ve obviously never been blackout drunk.
like, sure, there’s definitely a varying degree of effects to some point but when you black out (drink so much that you don’t remember it) you lose control of your actions. when you black out you do things that you would never do sober.
most people don’t black out more than a few times in their life because it happens, they go “wow that was awful I sure don’t want to do that again” and then don’t. they are the lucky ones. then you have people like me (alcoholics) who want to be anything but themselves and want to feel anything but what they’re feeling so desperately that it happens a lot.
no it’s not just “lowered inhibitions so you do what you want to do sober but stop yourself from doing,” your body goes into autopilot. it’s more like sleepwalking than staying up so late that you start feeling loopy once it hits that point. for an example, the first time I ever blacked out I tried to convince my mom that my dugout (block of wood for holding weed and pipe) would open the hotel room door… that’s not “lowered inhibitions” that’s a brain that’s not working
now I’m a little annoyed by the amount of confidently incorrect in this thread but on a serious note I’m glad so many of y’all don’t get it. alcoholism is a terrible affliction that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. it’s a bad time, through and through.
i think a part of why there are so many wrong answers though is because of the word “responsible.” you’re responsible for what you do while blackout drunk because you are the one who got blackout drunk. nobody else poured the booze down your throat for you. so, while what you do in that state is out of your control, you are entirely responsible for it.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 2 days ago:
that’s Cunningham’s Law, almost as good as Cole’s Law imo
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 2 days ago:
I completely understand the desire to ask other humans for help in this dystopian nightmare where human interaction is growing rarer and rarer.
i think it is a good thing.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 2 days ago:
yup
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 5 days ago:
why would you necro this just to show that you don’t understand how greentexts work
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 week ago:
you could play runescape, no kids in it these days :3
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
and that’s incorrect, domesticated cats have guaranteed food/shelter that keeps them unchecked in a way that natural predators are, thus making them invasive. they wreak havoc on local ecosystems worldwide.
(all European except the third from AP, couldn’t find their source so feel free to discount that one but I hope oxford and tilburg are good enough eu sources)
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
that’s not a domestic cat being let outside
an entirely different entity than an indoor/outdoor cat
- Comment on Anon's lil bro goes through his first break up 2 weeks ago:
one bad day?
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 3 weeks ago:
not necessarily disagreeing with you just providing my personal experience/perspective/knowledge, there is a very tangible sense of proprioception in VRChat. it kept me sane during lockdown.
there is also a study (I can dig up if anyone’s interested) that shows that your brain stores memories experienced in VR in a way that it doesn’t with flat screen gaming.
now meta horizons was an absolute disaster and I don’t know where that blame lies, it’s strange that despite everyone in VRChat being An Anime you can apply a level of suspension of disbelief and it really does feel like you’re sharing the space with other people.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 month ago:
i love Go
i also hate Go
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 4 months ago:
that last sentence is doin me 'ead in m8
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 4 months ago:
Pona mention!
pona o tawa sina :)
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 5 months ago:
anyone under 30 I do :)
but on a serious note I would chalk that up to post-WWII US influence, do you think that British colonialism was a bigger influence? or that it predates WWII?
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 5 months ago:
i mean sure initially and the same is true of why French and Spanish are spoken in so many places on the planet.
I don’t think it explains why it’s such a common backup language in so many parts of Europe today though. I think the majority of the internet being in English is probably the reason for that and I don’t think that can be chalked up to anything other than US influence
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 5 months ago:
yeah I heard it mentioned in passing in a video essay and looked it up to see it was the highest grossing domestic movie in China when it was released, definitely on my watchlist now
doesn’t sound like an arthouse masterpiece but fun action schlock I agree lol
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 5 months ago:
i think so, mrdown had a good point about science and business but I think another big point that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the internet. a quick Google search (proper citation needed) showed a bunch of numbers all over 50% of the internet being in English.
now I would be interested to hear positions arguing that’s not US influence… I can’t think of where they would place it but I’m interested to hear theories
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 5 months ago:
what about Wolf Warrior 2 tho
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
what was the subculture OP??
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 6 months ago:
comfortably.
i just spent a month and a half in El Salvador and it was lovely
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 6 months ago:
where does one find such a thing?
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 8 months ago:
I’m invested, no guesses but would probably have a few if a hum was added
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 8 months ago:
that’s true there’s a form you need to fill out but still, better than paying taxes to a place you’re not.