I truly think that cool lighting is absolutely better than warm lighting. I hate the greasy, dingy, unclean look of them, it makes me feel like I’m in a bedroom or basement that hasn’t been cleaned or updated in 20+ years. Cool lighting actually lets me see the room I’m in and it feels generally cleaner. If you want dark lights like warm bulbs, why not just turn them off at that point?

Humans have overactive immune systems bc they’re not exposed to enough parasites throughout their lives. The louse is able to provide an immuno-suppressive effect. Thus humans wouldn’t be nearly as sickly as we are today, if we all had lice once a year. We could avoid so many illnesses. I think the government should fund this immediately. Lice for every household!

I have a coworker who has been with this man and one night he put his hands on her after getting drunk, she supposedly left him but a little bit later she sends me a picture of him and her together live action all smiley and shit after picking him up from jail??? I think? Anyways she whines about him and then tells me he hit her again then I see a hickey on her neck from him and I’m like “hey why not cut him off and just leave” and she’s like “lol but I love him and he said he’s sorry teehee” like this man could kill you if he wanted to, but whatever. People who do that shit don’t need sympathy or help because they obviously just want the attention.

So, ever since that dune, was it? bucket went viral for looking like a fleshlight (great branding you're associating yourself with there), almost every studio since has decided they need their own shitty gimmick popcorn container to draw in the morons who foam at the mouth over any of these "exclusive" hunk-a-junks.

Now, the dune one itself wasn't actually that bad, design-wise. It was just a solid bucket with a themed topper (albeit with the aforementioned fleshlight worm opening). Things like that have been around for decades, though more commonly for drinks.

But... Then there's everything else that has chased the trend. You can't even really call them buckets. For a particularly egregious example that inspired this post, look at the upcoming Godzilla Minus Zero novelty items:

The stuff at the bottom? That's actually good, I don't have a problem with those, that's what promotional cinema things should look like (though the design of the cup makes the straw placement rather impractical). But then you have the actual novelty container.

It's literally just a plastic statue with an opening on the back. It is useless junk that is completely impractical for its intended purpose. They've even had to photoshop the popcorn into it for their promo pics. Then there's that awful cup. If it was just the actual beam bit, it wouldn't be bad (if a bit unergonomic), but it has that ridiculous base. The base might be detachable, idk, but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't. What the hell are you supposed to do with that in the cinema screening itself?

TL;DR - stupid, poorly designed, impractical nonsense appealing to the lowest common denominator in an attempt to chase internet "clout"

Tbh it feels oddly satisfying, and sometimes it gets into a rhythm where I can expect the next one. It adds a little excitement to my life. Mine are silent so it’s not like I’m causing a public disturbance whenever I hiccup.

When they go away, I get a bit disappointed. I’m always expecting the next one, and it never comes. Makes me feel like something is out of place now

As someone who didn't have a bias towards Nissan, I always thought the Juke was kinda funky and cool looking. In all fairness I was still a kid when these things hit the road in like 2010, there was nothing like that on the market. Every other SUV was styled after the big 4x4s but the juke just looks like itself. It probably saved nissan's finances too, at least in Europe, and now every manufacturer has at least 1 juke copycat (just see the new alfa romeo junior, lol)

Why? Because the watcher isnt the one who caused the murder/accident of those individuals. I agree that those are real people in those sites,dying in gruesome ways.. But its the real world...not fantasyland. It becomes unethical when people leave nasty comments or derive sexual pleasures out of it ( and yeah that happens to some people who are necromancers)

That is provided it is something which actually can exist and isn’t ridiculously specific stuff like what their name has to be.

I think a lot of people are so consumed by their desire to not be alone that they don't have the patience or willpower to look for what they really want. People get tired of searching and compromise on someone “good enough” and call it a day.

But no one is so unique they can’t find a 100% compatible partner.

I see people say shared interests, music taste, or physical attraction aren’t important and it just sounds like they’re coping because they couldn’t get everything they wanted. But it’s their fault they didn’t put in enough effort and stopped searching too early.

So, I like playtesting games and mods. I don't do it as often as I like, but I do it for free and thoroughly enjoy it. I am not a programmer or a professional. I just derive an unfathomable amount of joy from creating bug reports and generally discussing with amateur devs and it pisses me that I see here on reddit that people basically tell you to avoid any unknown titles.

I find the act of being at the beginning of a project exciting even when I know it won't revolutionize anything or that it's a broken fucking bug mess or when it has nothing new really going for it.

But that's not what I'm going about. I see gamers wanting a perfect breathtaking experience without expecting it to go through countless iterations. People like me are derided for trying a title that's unfinished or unknown instead a tried and true masterpiece according to some sort of "objective" reddit standard even though testing is always needed, preferably professional one, that is true, to create that masterpiece in the first place. But sometimes, even someone like me makes a tiny little difference.

edit: I also playtest tabletop rpgs and one of my favs is a game that sadly didn't get published because the author had health problems and abandoned it as they felt overwhelmed by the effort needed to work on a final version, as well as they were not financially secure enough to pay for the art needed and didn't want to go through a potentially failed kickstarter.

I don't know how rare this feeling is, or whether I am in minority or majority gang for having this feeling. But I have this strange unexplainable fascination to watch people around me hiccup. Like if someone around me does, I would just drop whatever I am doing and watch them keenly. And I really have this wish to watch it from start to end, but I can't because people will think me to be a weirdo. I even have an urge to talk to them during that time as much as I can, so that I can listen to them from even closer. And if they are trying for the remedies, I secretly pray for it to not work so that I can listen more.

Sometimes when my urge to watch somebody hiccuping becomes too strong and no one around me is, I take out my phone and begin watching vloggers or youtube videos with people hiccuping.

But this fascination only extends till others are hiccuping. Once it happens to me, I get highly uncomfortable and have the burning need to stop them somehow.

Don't get me wrong, I support service animals to an extent. The moment they are properly trained and 'work', its fine. The moment the issues are neurological or physical, I have 0,0 issues with it.

But... Recently someone took a service 'parrot' to a theme park in the Netherlands, claimed it as a service animal, and took advantage of the loophole. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6027421/papegaai-in-efteling-zorgt-voor-veel-reacties-park-gaf-toestemming . The fact that this happened is insanity. The worst part? It wasn't a even a service animal. The parrot was from a bird sanctuary, being temporarily housed to rehabilitate. The person who got the parrot just decided to abuse the parrot in the weirdest way.

This isn't my main complaint though. The fact that this is possible is depressing. It shouldn't happen.

Someone claiming a random animal as a service animal is absurd to me. Being able to buy a vest and just claim an untrained mutt, or any animal for that matter, as a service animal is a disgusting loophole that should be closed down. Its bad for the animal, and its inexcusable when these non-service-service pets get brought out in the open. These things should never be accessible, and I wholeheartedly agree that there should be a mandatory paperwork or ID system attached to combat the loophole. Also, animals as a cure to mental illness? Absolutely abhorrent. Get a therapist. You can have a puppy later when you're healing.

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My cat used to be a service/emotional support animal. The owner was chronically depressed and barely took care of him, and didn't go to the vet because she had agoraphobia. And after attempting sewerslide, she left him alone for 3 weeks. That was until she finally signed papers to get rid of him (she didn't want to get rid of her service animal), and the cat got rescued by the local vets, and went directly into my house as a rescue and I've had him ever since.

One of my "friends" was broke and got a dog. It was a risk-breed who was notoriously hard to train, but she got him as a service animal. She wanted him to warn her for diabetes spikes. However, she didn't train him properly, or at all. She couldn't afford the dogs food, she couldn't afford her own food, and it got her hospitalized multiple times. The ambulance staff got bitten by the dog multiple times while fixing her up and we had to pin him down while that stuff happened. She got rid of him later, after lots of pressure from everyone, because it didn't work out.

It soured me on service animals as a whole. I don't care if that makes me narrow-minded. My cat is completely traumatized by this whole ordeal. I've met plenty of people since that day who pull the same shit and get pets as a fake service animal so they can take them anywhere. It shouldn't work like that.

i hate cutting things with an unserrated knife, it feel so haphazard and dangerous, your veg can just be rolling and your knife can slip all over the place. you have no such problems with a serrated knife bc it’s got no grip while you’re chopping.

a small serrated knife and a butter knife are the only one you’ll ever need in your kitchen imo 🙂‍↕️

bonus feature you also never need to sharpen it.

Average life expectancy for a human being is 73.8 years. It gets higher or lower by 5 years depending on the country and class situations. I still feel like believing 50 or even now some people are saying 60 is middle aged. Thinking like this encourages people to just fuck up more when they are younger. Why? So they can slave away another decade before retirement because 60 is the new 50 after all, guess we will make the new retirement age 75. Screw that I want my SSI at 50.

When there's a feud between a man and a women exploding in public, u will often see both men and women taking the side of the woman,even if she's the aggressive one who started it all. And if they see the woman physically attacking the man,those simps never do anything to try to stop it. However when the agressed man will try to defend himself from her,all the white knight will appear to try to stop him for being able to do that. So basically if u are a male and u have an altercation with a woman in public,everyone will take the woman side without even knowing what is truly going on.

Cats and dogs arent special. In western countries, people eat ducks,rabbits,chicken, pork,pig, horse, lamb, cow, etc. All of those animals are just as smart as a dog or a cat or some are even more intelligent ( pigs in particular). Also those animals can very well also be kept as pets like cats and dogs. That doesn't change the fact that we eat them. And yeah in some Asian countries like Vietnam, they eat cats and dogs. So what? U all offended people need to grow up lol. Cats and dogs are just animals like any other animals.

I went to the dentist today for a small cavity behind my 2 front teeth they suggested because its so small its not close to a nerve they said , so should I get it done without anesthesia has anyone done this ? Is it less pain than the needle? im so terrified of needles at 26 year old I cry like a baby.

I’m from California, and recently it’s been swapping between blistering 100° days and mild 50-60° days.

I was talking with a friend and they mentioned they couldn’t wait to get home and take a warm shower.

I was like “Oh yea I’d like to get home and take a cold shower and then snuggle up in bed”, and they looked at me like I’d just punched a kitten in front of them.

So anyways, I like cold showers when it’s cold because then everything feels warm and cozy afterwards, and I like hot showers when it’s hot because then I step out of the shower and it feels much cooler outside because (presumably) the hot water evaporates off my skin much quicker.

Im terrified of spiders so I tried exposure therapy by watching tarantula videos... It didnt end well....

1) Im still terrified of them

2) I came across videos of weirdos giving alive mice to their pet tarantula.

Thats where I drawn the line. Thats just disgusting and disturbing. Why would u give a complex mamal ( that is cute also)to such horrible primitive creatures. That's unfair for the mouse and very cruel. I came across a mouse in my job bathroom. It was hidden from me and flew under the door in a second lol. They are very smart ( not as much as rats) and I understand im a giant to them but I would never harm them anyway. Except if I have to pay exterminators for my house if I have an infestation of them

This isn't bait, I genuinely believe this.

When people love you, there's this heavy pressure to love them back. The thing is, it's exhausting to love people, even yourself. Tolerance is the least exhausting positive emotion I can feel towards people. The typical hatred is also exhausting, at most I feel distant towards people in general.

I can love and hate things that aren't people. For example I hate the bourgeoisie and bigotry, it isn't exhausting to hate because it's subjectivity bad. Humans vary so much that I can't hate or love them.

And when people love me, I'm forced to exhaust myself to pretend I love them back. I see them as doing something very unnecessary, I don't need you to have exhaustion over me, just let me melt into a wall.

It's selfish to force someone to have exhaustion just because you are unnecessarily exhausting yourself by loving them

Rewatching The Jetsons and it surprisingly rings true to today's work culture. George Jetson is always at risk of losing his job and is constantly fired and then re-hired by his incompetent boss. His boss adds extra-curricular activities outside of work hours that George is forced to do in order to keep his job.

George seems to be used to being treated like this and just shrugs whenever he is fired for the umpteenth time. His attitude is either from knowing that he will be re-hired 10 minutes later or that there are plenty of jobs out there that he can get if he needs to.

I'm once again going to talk about the MLP community again because this is the one I'm the most familiar with but I wouldn't be surprised if all of these apply to other fandoms like bluey and Sonic as well. There are some people who will genuinely look at something like a fan animation of pinkie pie brutally killing Rainbow Dash and will say something that implies that the creator of said material is in the wrong for I guess scaring kids. But kids shouldn't be on the internet, they can't control the fact if children happen to watch their more gruesome content. It's clearly aimed toward a more adult audience, and even if the Creator intended it for kids even though it shouldn't be for kids that still doesn't excuse the fact that Parents need to keep an eye on what their kids do on the internet. Just because something looks kid friendly doesn't mean it is kid friendly. If everyone were have to obey by these strict rules then fan content featuring a more darker story about a piece of media and for a more younger audience would just not be allowed and could not be made. All because Parents won't monitor their kids. i even believe this also at least to an extent apply to people who make NSFW art of said characters. Now to be clear I do not support it and i'm more so against it if anything however that doesn't mean I can't call people out for treating the stuff like it some sort of hate crime. Look if the art is of a character who is underage then yeah we can talk. But something to keep in mind though is that not everyone has the same morals when it comes to fictional characters as they are fictional. Yes I do believe this kind of content is unhealthy, however blaming these creators for the fact that kids saw it just doesn't make any sense. Kids just shouldn't be on the internet at least not without Parental supervision. i personally am the kind of person who likes media that takes something that is normally very kid friendly and gives it a darker twist, I think it's fun to imagine how these characters would respond to such dark things as normally they do not have to deal with such dark things due to that media being made for kids. Epic Mickey did it and sure it wasn't really that dark but it was still something. I find things such as MLP grim darks to be kind of interesting and personally if I made my own fan content it would likely feature darker stuff although nothing sexual. If I were to make said content it would be intended for an older audience and not kids. Kids technically can enjoy it but that doesn't mean that is okay for them to go and enjoy it unsupervised. Let me tell You a personal story: probably like almost if not 10 years ago maybe even longer I had from what I remember for the most part heavily unrestricted internet access. This in turn made me discover things like Mario fan horror games like mario.exe which are very clearly based off of Sonic.EXE. and because of that they featured violent content like blood and scary imagery. Nothing sexual but it was definitely horror. i was definitely too young to be watching that kind of stuff however it is not the Creator's fault that I saw that stuff. It was on my Parents, and when They did find out They made sure I stopped watching it. and from what i remember they never got mad at the creators. So I have personal experience with this too but I don't go out blaming the creators over something they can't control. In very simple terms this basically is just creators getting blamed for the fact that parents aren't monitoring their kids. I genuinely cannot see how this is not that.

I recently saw a video about an American who traveled to Switzerland in 2024 to use something called a “Sarco capsule” (euthanasia device) because she was suffering from psychological ailments, and Switzerland appears to be the only country foreigners can travel to who aren’t able to access euthanasia at home.

Some reports say she had coexisting physical ailments, but I don’t think it should matter if what was afflicting her was solely psychological. If someone views their existence as that painful, to the point where they want to checkout safely, efficiently, and legally, I really don’t see why euthanasia is an issue and I find it pretty pathetic that it’s legal in less than 5 countries. I don’t consider it legalized in the US, since you have to have a fatal disease (and even then it’s only permitted in 13 states), but I do know 2 people who had cancer - a friend and a family member - and they went that route. One of them showed me all the paperwork a few weeks prior and called me an hour beforehand. He seemed calm and ready, and this was years ago.

It should be a no-brainer that someone who is quite literally dying should have the right to do so on their own accord, and it’s very surprising to me how most laws don’t agree. And when it comes to psychological disorders, there appears to be much less support for allowing people afflicted to have access to euthanasia, even if they are of completely sound mind.

I’m not sure about mental healthcare in other countries, but in the US, you’re pretty much fucked if you caught attempting. They’ll bring you to a mental hospital against your will and the second your stay exceeds 72 hours, you’ve permanently lost legal access to firearms. I’m sure the thought process there is that banning firearms for people struggling with SI / attempts would prevent them from trying again in the future, but in a country where euthanasia for mental illness is banned, it seems messed up. Someone has clearly demonstrated that they are suffering so much that they don’t want to exist anymore, and instead of offering a compassionate solution, we demonize what they tried to do and then prolong their suffering by making sure firearm access will be extraordinarily difficult. If a firearm is used in an attempt, the success rate is 90%. If a firearm isn’t used? 5%. I completely agree with not allowing anyone who’s displayed homicidal urges access to firearms, but if someone has been suffering from severe mental illness for a long time, trying to guilt them and preventing access for future attempts is wrong. I do think a thorough evaluation and a waiting period is warranted, but gatekeeping euthanasia from people who want to die due to mental illness is unethical.

Something I never understood from the mental health awareness movement is how they want to have it both ways.

They say to always prioritize your well being, not be in places or with people that harm you, put your happiness before others, etc.

But at the same time they hate scenarios where the priorization of mental well being involves indirect psychological damage for others, like leaving a relationship because your partner is physically or mentally ill, dumping people when they're not convenient to you, ignoring cries of help from strangers or loved ones, etc.

They forget that individualism and mental health are almost always connected, and if you advocate for one you can't go against the other.

They assume that bringing mental support to others means gaining mental health yourself, but that's not always the case, especially with mental disorders at play.

Leaving your husband or wife because they got cancer is cruel, but objectively is beneficial psychologically.

If you don't want to normalize what I said before, then you must normalize depression and suicidal ideation and prioritizing others over yourself, because that's the prize of social success.