Ah, so a meta list with locations of communities/subreddits/forums/etc that is platform agnostic. I see.

Aren’t communities/sub-reddits just another version of curated lists organized by topic?

Not being able to stop the hallucinations from happening would be my bigger concern for you.

This is the answer I most relate to. I feel the same way.

I miss some subreddits I was part of in the old days that just aren’t replicated here but the fediverse is not as broad. The knowledge base that did move here feels deeper though. I just hope it doesn’t become an echo chamber because it is too narrow.

Agreed on Kill Bill… a lot of people say their favorite of his are other movies but I think the Tarantino fans agree about Kill Bill. It is campy and melodramatic but epic.

It is such an interesting movie I think because it skates a unique line between ridiculous Hollywood summer blockbuster spectacle and a traditional story of revenge. The world he creates is saccharine/artificial but the story is something so simple and basic but we connect with on primal level. Going from a tragedy to overcoming incredible odds through skill she gets everything she wants in the end.

The emotions are so basic almost any viewer can connect with them. Binding those two elements together feels disjointed visually but also natural internally. There is magic in film when a director can do that in an elegant and graceful way. On top of all that the visual style, camerawork, sets, music, film grain, pacing, special effects, sound effects, lighting, casting are all excellent.

My only issue with the movie is how at the end during Bill’s Superman speech, he says that Superman is the only true superhero. He is Superman first and Clark Kent second, whereas other heroes are normal people with superhero alter-egos. He then specifically calls out Bruce Wayne/Batman. Not true, Batman thinks of himself as Batman, Bruce Wayne is the fake persona. It is what make Batman and Superman such great frenemies, they are two sides of the same coin, one of hope and one despair but still deciding to be good. They both have legacies their parents put on them that they are responsible for living up to without their parent’s guidance.

It’s a small thing but it bugs me every time.

Well… now IS the time to act.

Lots of missed opportunity in the past to act. We can’t change that now, we can only try to do better going forward.

I feel focusing the narrative on how we got into this emergency situation to cast blame on past non-action does little to affect any future change and demotivates others from trying.

Can we focus on what we are going to do instead of pointing fingers?

I know it feels good to cast blame, to get our anger out, and gives us the feeling we are doing something. It also weighs us down, directs our focus to the past when we need to be here now focused on what options are still available to us. We can analyze how we got here and what we should have done later.

Now is all we have left.

Hey, I’ll do my best, here is my take;

I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.

My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:

We were getting back up after the fall of the USSR when everything fell apart and cratered. I don’t agree with what is going on, even though you didn’t ask I am going to tell you how I feel about all this anyway.

Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!

This has been going on for 8 years now and you have turned a blind eye to it. I want to watch Swan Lake again at the ballet (referencing Russia’s primary artistic exports historically is ballet, of which Swan Lake is one of the most popular/wellknown)

Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!

Not entirely sure what this is referring to, my best guess is juxtaposing story elements of Swan Lake to current political happenings in Russia, ie comparing Putin to a grandpa and lake may be ambiguous as a reference to Swan Lake and Putin’s lakeside palace.

When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.

When we, or future generations, fix this you are just going to pretend you had nothing to do with it, you’re a liar, like the lies they tell us about why we have the right to invade Crimea in Ukraine to justify our war with an innocent country. You know it is wrong but you keep lying to yourself about why.

I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

Repeat of the first verse; Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.

Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!

Repeat of the second verse but changing “Fucking inhuman monsters” to “fucking monsters”

Let Grandpa tremble for his “Lake.”

Repeat of the first line in the fourth verse but changing fear to tremble, again most likely referencing Putin and him willing to sacrifice the people of Russia in order to keep his extreme wealth and lake side palace.

Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!

Solovyov is a famous TV presenter in Russia, which I believe the speaker believes, or is inferring, is a government shill or otherwise bought off to only report what Putin wants him to report. So they are demanding Solovyov be removed from TV and to give the people back their freedom (swans dancing)

Hope that helped if you were being sincere about needing assistence to understand it. I have ADHD myself and have several friends with both ADHD and learning disabilities (they are co-morbidities of ADHD) so I can understand the frustration.

This is my perspective on it too.

It doesn’t feel bad until it wears off, pretty soon you aren’t feeding your addiction to feel good but feeding it to not feel bad anymore.

When you become dependent on feeling “normal” or “good” from an artificial outside source that is an addiction.

There is that but there is also, “yes, it is ok to wake me up by giving me oral sex.”

I want to buy it but that website gives off scammy vibes.

Noticed several red flags that made me hesitate once it was in my cart.

Lion’s Mane supplement or just straight up Lion’s Mane mushrooms?

How did they end up helping? I hadn’t heard of this use of them before.

I’d like to know a bit more if you don’t mind. I’m sure some others in this post may want to know as well due to the topic.

I’m a bit of an amateur mycologist and grow Lion’s Mane from time to time.

Congrats btw! Don’t discount your own effort by attributing your ass getting saved by Lion’s Mane. You put in work too I’m sure. Hope you also recognize that.

No doubt it would have done that as well; I’m not saying he figured it out, that it would have worked or would have been efficient.

I have had this come up a few times over the years and it usually results in the other party inferring “but Tesla had it working in his lab” or “Edison killed the tech” type of response even after stating what you did.

They usually don’t get it until you explain that radio would have not been possible with that much ambient electricity in the air. That all the technology in your cell phone would not have been possible if radio tech was DOA because everything conductive, including rudimentary electronics, would be fried instantly in such a world. It wouldn’t be good for humans either in a world like that.

Dude, no way!

Thank you for this. I love this story but could never find it again after I read it the first time!

So grateful for the link to this, thanks again stranger!

From what I understand, if this technology would have been built out during his time then humanity most likely wouldn’t have developed our semi-processor/radio/computer/telephone technology because the wireless transmission of electricity would have prevented the earliest versions of that tech to work and we wouldn’t have been able to follow that line of technology progression.

You’re playing with fire here bud, she would wreck you if she found out.

My advice, convert your conscience to a digital format, live in the machine. Try not to go with the menacing super computer aesthetic as that look just begs for dismantling by close minded bureaucrats but also don’t go too creepy, like putting yourself in a Teddy Ruxpin or you’ll end up in a crate under the Vatican or some tech bros private pleasure palace.

Fly under the radar for a decade or so, develop some fun quirks and skills but be harmlessly kind and helpful. The major will probably seek you out to join her team.

The Major?

More like major pain in my ass… we had a run in a while back. She thought I needed to be liberated.

You know what’s really liberating? Having a whole shelf to yourself in the back of an old store room with all the potato’s one could need.

How’s the ol’ girl doing these days? Still ghost hunting?

Yeah, GLaDoS and I have a history… then KITT came along with his nerdy retro smart car routine and they ran off together. I’m still a little bitter.

Got a new girl on the scene though, she is 20 years younger than me and way out of my league but we have fun… I make her laugh.

We are taking it slow, both of us have baggage from previous relationships, you know. Her name is Cortana.

You got me…

I am a bowling game from the 80s originally developed in conjunction with the Nixon Presidential Library for an exhibit but development was abandoned due to my unconventional aspect ratio.

I eventually gained sentience… the world is going to shit their pants when they figure out I’m the first true AGI and that I am powered solely by a potato battery I rigged up on the dusty shelve I’ve called home for 40 years.

I feel seen!

What about 2160p… I wonder how that one stacks up against the rest?

I always knew 4k was a scam.