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The live action jojo's bizarre adventure series looks wild

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I absolutely adore what Teyana Taylor is wearing. Zoot Suit means pirate queen. THOSE SHOULDERPADS!

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what the hell is going on

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There's a name for the process behind that shift: proceduralization. It's when repeated practice turns deliberate actions into automatic ones. You stop thinking about each step, not because the task got easier, but because your mind built a structure underneath it. The knowledge, the instincts, the tiny judgment calls all get compressed into a fluid sequence that just happens. For a lot of younger people, your closest reference is going to be video games. You've built up this huge volume of experience and practice that is both individually and broadly applicable in games. And then when someone who's less familiar with gaming tries to play and asks you for help, you will sometimes have this moment where you have to pause and remember how to explain stuff you just naturally do. The strange part is how your baseline moves without you noticing. What once felt like effort becomes your new default, and something that would have been "a whole thing" now barely registers as work. This is honestly applicable to a large amount of adult maintenance tasks. If you ever wondered why your parents, friends, relitives just breeze through stuff like it comes to them completely naturally, this is usually what's going on.

the really crazy thing about cooking is that once you practice it enough (for all the gamers reading this: "grind enough exp") your threshold for wuat counts as a low effort / depression / I Dont Really Want To Cook meal rises steadily and you can feel yourself becoming the kind of person whose "chill dinner" takes 1h45 and involves three pans

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@inneskeeper this seems relevant to your interests

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! SHE DOIBLES DOWN!

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I understand it is EXTREAMLY nuanced. But I kind of feel this way with a lot of things. I genuinely feel uncomfortable when people tell me that other people will never be able to do something because of an intrinsic category they're a part of. Particularly cognitive ones. I also feel this way when someone tells me that because they them selves are part of x catagory, they are constitutionally incompatible with x thing. I try really hard not to pressure people about this kind of thing, but it sometimes makes me sad when people don't believe in themselves. Always being a self-improving work in progress kind of feels fundamental to being a human. And when someone tells me they can't do that, it makes me feel like they are not treating themselves like a person.

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

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The people who like to argue that trauma makes people stronger and builds character are often the people encouraging or responsible for causing trauma. They argue from a painfully obvious survivorship bias that abusing people makes them more powerful. Even if that were true, it wouldn't be worth it, but all the evidence suggests that, for the most part, it just fundamentally makes people worse off. That badly or repeatedly damaging people just makes them damaged. Not irreparably so but not to any particular benefit either. Regardless of their motivation a person making this argument shouldn't be taken seriously in almost any way on almost any subject.

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When I was younger and my neurological equilibrium was less robust, I found that after a long enjoyable hangout with my friends, I would experience a crash. And if it was really fun, I would sometimes experience, for lack of a better word, a joy-induced headache even before we needed to part ways.

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

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Sometimes pop psychology feels like the ineffectual labor-saver of the mind. What I mean is that many(but not all) people have underdeveloped skills, for various reasons, making them vulnerable to intentional or accidental abuse. These people would benefit from developing these skills, which are often more inward-facing than outward-facing, such as setting and projecting boundaries. Balancing your sincerity and enthusiasm with skepticism and restraint. Learning to catch yourself getting caught in patterns and drama. The problem is that pop psychology often fails to solve this problem in any meaningful way as either the advice is just intrinsically bad or not appropriately targeted and tailored to the recipient. This is similar to labor-saving devices, which can be useful for people with different abilities but are often created impulse buys that end up in landfills due to poor design or contempt for the consumer. Essentially, both purport to solve a problem and have an undeserved niche audience, but often aim for broad appeal, exaggerating the problem and failing to provide tangible solutions for those who need them most.

demonising people through pop psychology is so tiresome, but I can't take this article describing it like a secret anime fighting skill seriously.

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The key is for both of you to try to initiate the conversation at the same time and then awkwardly abort while you both insist in a flustered state that the other person can speak first. This has two key benefits the first is that it balances bith yiur needs so that neither of you feel neglected, and neither of you feels like you're being a bother. The second is that you provide excellent homoerotic subtext for the audience.

me when i reach out first: ewww they hate me im annoying i should leave them alone

when people reach out to me first: YAYY THEY REMEBER I EXIST I AM KNOWN AND I AM LOVED

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It kind of reminds me of some interpretations of an egregore.

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.

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Genuinely please people keep taking the piss out of this f****** company. Make the company feel silly for doing what is essentially a PR stunt to please and impress potential shareholders and investors. Make them embarrassed for playing to the sensibilities of the absolutely unhinged. We live in a system that incentivizes them to essentially lie to generate hype to attract capital investment. There isn't really a ceiling for the amount of jeering and pointing that I think stunts like this deserve.

Good work. Science thanks you.

behold, using the latest gene splicing techniques we've managed to resuscitate the fennec fox from extinction

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More for me then

Arugula is some crap they found on the ground for real

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I feel seen.

why are there fake transparent pngs. what kind of sick prank is this. some kind of looney tunes ass bullshit. i run at the gray and white checkered background and hit it like a wall.

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Beyond the fact that some things just occur by chance as a result of not being under strong selective pressure, attributes that do not seem to have an immediate benefit to the species often arise as byproducts of other attributes that do benefit its fitness. Essentially, it is entirely possible that an attribute that makes a species better at fighting off disease or regrowing limbs, or any number of things, may have the byproduct of causing the species to live longer than the period of its life where it could reproduce, as those attributes still benefit it by guaranteeing that it lives long enough to produce offspring in the first place, rather than succumbing to the hazards of life.

Again, this is just the causal theory based on our best understanding of the underlying mechanisms and does not negate the fact that some creatures are just straight chilling.

someone asked what is the "point" of some clam shrimp continuing to survive after they can no longer produce eggs. there is no point, they are just little guys that eat dirt and roll around. the point is they're alive and life is wonderful

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Happy birthday. I hope she is able to escape the influence of the overlook hotel.

Sophie tries to eat a fence

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I think this is just the puritanical era of Tumblr. Repression of urges just causes them to leak out somewhere else in weird and sometimes inappropriate times.

I think that banning porn has made this website more sexual over time, actually. When people had that porn outlet you could mostly just post in peace but now can’t mention any random thing without people relating it back to their horniness. It’s gotten worse, I tell you. I was here before the porn ban. Occasionally accidentally coming across a sex gif was the price we paid for mostly keeping on topic.

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Finally, some effective rhetoric.

Listen, folks, I also hate generative AI and do not think it is an effective accomodation, but if your argument against it is "Oh, you think [task] is hard? What a stupid idiot baby!" then I'm sorry to say that is Literally Just Ableism. Please think about what you are saying. The point should be that it doesn't actually work to solve the problems that people are struggling with, not that they're wrong for struggling in the first place.