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sp3ctr4l

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as alive as you need me to be

  • How do you stop arguing with people on social media?

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  • Quite literally, you need to learn self-control, how to pick your fights, manage your emotions.

    You really wanna let a bunch of random asshats on the internet live rent free in your head, dictate the emotional course of your day, your evening, your week?

    This is where the 'touch grass' meme partially comes from.

    Sometimes, you need to let go, walk away, pet a kitty, hug a dog, admire a tree... or more ideally, work on some hobby that you find fun and fulfilling, and is at least potentially 'useful' in some very broad kind of practical way.

    Also, a lot of people are beyond wrong/misinformed; they're actively committed to denying that they're wrong, even after its been shown that they are wrong.

    You can just block people who are unwilling to admit fault or learn.

    Its doesn't need to be your responsibility to personally deal with every dumb idiot asshole on the internet.

  • What are some foods that LOOK awful but TASTE great?

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  • You know, it had never occured to me to do cheese and nutella, but that actually does sound like exactly the kind of snack that hits a wide range of flavor notes, that I would make.

    Like, I've done something kind of comparable, maybe:

    An everything bagel, toasted, cream cheese, strawberry jam.

    Most people would probably do that on a plain bagel, and find the salty and oniony/garlicy bits and such to be nonconformant with the rest of it being basically smooth and sweet... but i like the whole package of flavors approach, as long as they're well balanced.

  • What are some foods that LOOK awful but TASTE great?

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  • Yep, I was gonna post this.

    Split pea soup just actually looks like literal vomit or diarrhea, has a very, very weird texture to it visually...

    ... but if you do it right, it just tastes amazing.

  • Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping

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  • Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping

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  • Oh so we are mass producing punchable faces now eh?

    Having just one wasn't enough, Sam?

    Hope the next molotov finds its mark.

  • ‘The President Is Right, The Pope Is Wrong’: Hannity Suggests Leo Has ‘Totally Lost Sight of the Bible and Its Teachings’

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  • Hatred is Love.

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  • The Truman Show has expanded to essentially the entire planet, following the proliferation of black box social media algorithms.

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  • Before he died suddenly of an aneurysm, my former psychiatrist was fascinated with me.

    "I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me."

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  • May not be a smooth criminal, but I'm always thrilled to see 'em.

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  • Frog and Toad get Alpine Divorced

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  • It's 'think for your self'. Its a command, an open ended command.

    Which they say with authority, because they fashion themselves as thought leaders (cough cult leaders cough) and have literally delusional levels of self confidence and ego.

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  • Its ok to just laugh in someone's face and call them an uneducated idiot, who has no idea what they're talking about.

    You know how just can ban/block morons on social media, so you don't have to hear from them any more?

    You do can that in real life too.

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  • "Well bless your heart."

    Granted, if you use that phrase regularly / come from a dialect where that's common, you'll probably understand that that's an insult, but if you don't, you very well may think its a genuine compliment.

  • FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

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  • ... Has anyone attempted to turn an old android smart phone into a router?

  • FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

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  • Yeah, ding ding ding, this answer.

  • Fetterman is only Democrat to join Senate Republicans to again reject effort to halt Iran war

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  • Fetterman is literally an exemplar case study in the idea that brain damage causes conservatism.

  • The United States is destroying itself

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  • ....sonuvabitch stole my hat...

  • Trump apparently thinks soda kills cancer cells because ‘it kills grass’

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  • I've known older folks, dumb older folks, who have thought this, and things like this.

  • Trump apparently thinks soda kills cancer cells because ‘it kills grass’

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  • Freshy Squeezed Fanta is an extremely cursed phrase/concept, goddamn you lol.

  • Trump apparently thinks soda kills cancer cells because ‘it kills grass’

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  • I mean, developing cancer of some kind is just broadly more likely as you age.

    If you're ~60+, the chances of cancer being what kills you go up significantly

    So, the general idea of wanting to not have cancer, and trying to do things that will make it more likely you will not develop cancer, is not particularly odd or specific in itself.

    Of course... soda consumption as a means of doing this is dubious, it would make much more sense to basically develop a healthy diet, and stick to that, as a means of staving off cancer.

    Trump is notoriously a bit of a germaphobe, and also famously doesn't drink. Or at least he says he doesn't drink.

    He's just generally concerned about his health... but he's a fucking idiot, he so does that by way of essentially superstitions.

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    Oh!

    You mean... he thinks it 'kills' cancer in the sense of 'he already has cancer, so it must be elimated from within him'.

    Yeah ok so this is hard to explain factually, but basically, if you know older Boomers or Silent Gen, they very often just use 'kills' in that context to functionally mean 'keep you clean inside' or 'prevent'.

    Its... kind of a muddled and not totally literal use of the word.