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- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 1 week ago:
I live in the southern US and I see them daily. They seem to be more common than squirrels. They run away from you though so they don’t bother anyone. At my old apartment, there was a period of time somehow lizards kept getting inside my place. I kept trying to free them but I would accidentally kill them when trying to handle them. They are super fragile.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
I hear this but I don’t understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I’ve had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.
I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go sparkling water. I can’t do that fake sugar shit. It’s nasty.
But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.
- Comment on Got kicked out of Hell for harshing the vibe 1 week ago:
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- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 week ago:
Thank you very much
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 week ago:
That’s where I’ve always been confused. Every living being wants to propogate their species through innate biological urges and behaviors, whether they realize it or not. Obviously humans recognize these behaviors and are able to choose whether or not to actually have children or to simply act on these urges without procreating (condoms, birth control, etc.). But the innate biological inclinations are still there.
It’s odd for me because I’ve never had these urges or inclinations for sex. Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m not human or something. Because every living being seems to experience this. Even when I discovered the concept of asexuality, I found that a very significant number of these individuals either oddly still had a sex drive or they were sexually traumatized in some way which blocked it. I have never had a sex drive and was never sexually traumatized. I was not a “late bloomer”, as I’m in my 30s with the same lack of normal human feelings.
- Comment on Peepee poopoo 1 week ago:
It could be that the first message was automated, but the second message was not.
It seems nowadays, when I get appointment reminder texts from various places, the initial text is automated. But then you can reply whatever you want and a human looks at the message and can respond to you.
- Comment on Beans 1 week ago:
I’m reminded of this classic from MadTV:
- Comment on Unfortunately happens too often I think 2 weeks ago:
If you lived alone I’d say it would be a terrible idea to get a dog. But if your wife is home a lot then it sounds like a much more doable situation imo.
- Comment on Unfortunately happens too often I think 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I love alone and have a career where I cannot work at home. Sometimes I think about getting a pet, but I just can’t see it as being ethical in my situation. Sometimes I do ponder getting a cat though as they seem more independent, but I don’t have much experience with them.
- Comment on Rev up those 3D printers! 2 weeks ago:
I know people with kids and they always seem like they are perpetually exhausted and barely hanging on. They talk about not sleeping and conflicts and issues and it just honestly makes it sound horrendous and really looks like they are all suffering from an outsider’s perspective. But then they tell me that it’s worth it because it’s “fulfilling” like you said. I don’t know. From an outsider’s perspective, parents’ words don’t seem to correlate with what I see and hear.
I have a feeling that when people talk about things being “fulfilling” or “worth it” despite seeming to objectively be suffering must be some combination of strange hormones with coping mechanisms.
Idk. That’s just my thoughts as a confused outsider. I’m happy that people are able to raise children. Someone has to. But I don’t think I could make myself suffer to that extreme for a being that will never truly understand what you’re doing for them until decades later.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for helping to validate my comment haha. I do appreciate it.
Is there anything specific you’ve done and would recommend to help swing in the other direction like you’ve stated?
Was curious as to what you might have found helpful. I had tried the beginnings of CBT in the past, but it just makes me feel bad and frustrated. I have always been taught that my thoughts and feelings are wrong, and that’s effectively the core of CBT. I don’t like it because it just propagates how everything I think and feel is invalid. Yet it’s the “trendy” thing to do nowadays so every therapist and their mother uses it as their modality.
Interestingly though I don’t think that this issue necessarily stems from deliberately toxic parents. My mom did the best she could and is very loving and nurturing but I was just too much for her to know how to deal with in this way.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 3 weeks ago:
When I was a kid, I would always get in trouble for getting upset. No one ever wanted to know why I was upset. They just wanted me to shut the fuck up. I really wish things would have been handled the way you describe. My siblings didn’t have the same problems as me in this way so it has always made me feel alone in feeling what I feel. Now as an adult, I never know if what I’m feeling is real and valid… usually I think it isn’t.
Anyway sorry that was only tangentially related.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 3 weeks ago:
I thought the normal way was to crawl up on all fours like an animal
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure who out here is randomly posting that information to ChatGPT. But even if they were, your address and personal details are unfortunately readily publicly available on the web. It’s 2025.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 3 weeks ago:
Lmao. I’m curious on what about my post history makes me sound like a Russian bot.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 3 weeks ago:
Goddamn you guys are the most paranoid people I’ve ever witnessed. What in the world do you think mega corps are going to do to me for babbling incoherent nonsense to ChatGPT?
No, it’s not a substitute for a real therapist. But therapy is goddamn expensive and sometimes you just need to vent about something and you don’t necessarily have someone to vent to. It doesn’t yield anything useful, but it can help a bit mentally do to do.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 3 weeks ago:
Wow I love this!
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 3 weeks ago:
Right?? One of the first things I do when getting a new phone is disabling all the useless notifications and keeping the ones I care about. My phone doesn’t spam with notifications all day.
- Comment on The real questions 4 weeks ago:
Should…should mine not???
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 4 weeks ago:
Wow! I love red bell peppers but I’ve never ate enough of them to do this! I’m impressed!
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 4 weeks ago:
Yes and no. It just depends where along your GI tract the cancer is.
If the cancer is further up in your colon, the bleeding can turn your poo a dark color. BUT if you have cancer near to the “exit hole” (in your rectum or anus), it absolutely can involve bright red bleeding.
- Comment on Anyone remember Courage? 4 weeks ago:
What the fuck even is this? I’m not familiar with whatever horrifying episode this is lol.
- Comment on Anyone remember Courage? 4 weeks ago:
Return the slab
- Comment on flamin 4 weeks ago:
Ouch
- Comment on Do this and enjoy life and stop being a victim 5 weeks ago:
People tell me this but it just doesn’t feel good when people say/do mean things, even if they are someone that isn’t worth my time.
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 5 weeks ago:
Idk…I slept through history class in high school because I just didn’t give a shit about the class. It just wasn’t a subject that interested me and I was a sleepy kid lol. I don’t blame the teacher for not being engaging enough. I just wasn’t interested in the subject like I was with my science classes. I still did fine in school too even though I slept through quite a few subject haha.
- Comment on As tempting as it is 5 weeks ago:
Ok this mouse is amazing I need it
- Comment on :'( 1 month ago:
I mean things used to make more “sense” time and energy wise when you were able to have one parent work and one parent stay home. But it’s just not really financially feasible nowadays. The people I know with kids are absolutely fucking drowning right now trying to both work and take care of the home life. I feel bad for them but there’s not much I can do about it. It’s not my family.
- Comment on it happens to the best of us... 1 month ago:
I don’t blame them. I hate working out but I do it anyway. Also I love junk food. What am I really doing
- Comment on The Voices 1 month ago:
I am amused but I also don’t really think I get it. Am I dumb