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weddingPTA Conference.I don't get it either.
There are tons of cheap, decent slip on shoes, in mens womens and neutral styles, with substantial padding... and you can just put an off the shelf ortho pad in em, if you want them to be even more comfy/supportive.
I guess some people just don't mind looking goofy as hell.
Like, they make sense as beach shoes... but... you can just... maintain shoes, you can clean them... I don't see why you need the literal holes for venting.
... It is much funnier to imagine the evil step sisters cutting off chunks of their feet, to try to fit into a croc.
No.
Because an actual therapist would teach you skills in the way of being able to learn and recognize your triggers, help coach you into calmly but firmly asserting your boundaries, to thus lessen the chance of you being triggered, and would also teach you skills for recognizing and managing when you flip over into that pure fight or flight, rage and terror mode.
If there isn't anything like that, you're not experiencieng therapy.
You're just paying too much money to vent at someone.
Also just fyi I guess at this point, the original usage of 'triggered' and 'triggering' was specifically in reference to people being flipped back into that state of essentially aggrevated panic, as a result of being reminded, either consciously or subconsciously, or previously experienced extreme trauma.
Thats... actually what the term means, not ... what the internet / social media has turned it into, basically just meaning 'angry/embarassed'.
Ah! The lyrics page I copied from must have messed that up, hah!
... the verses get increasingly ridiculous.
By the end, you have:
And I've never licked a spark plug
And I've never sniffed a stink bug
And I've never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball
And I've never bathed in yogurt
And I don't look good in leggings
...
And we've never been to Boston in the fall!
... this is all being sung by a 90s CGI/cartoon cucumber with a face, amongst a bunch of other CGI fruits and vegetables, dressed as pirates, basically on beach lounge chairs, on a moored like, galleass or something.
I think ostensibly the joke for the adults is supposed to be like, a guy or some guys who just own a boat, but never actually take it out, just use it as an excuse to get away from the house.
I feel like the "raised fairly extreme Christian -> fuck basically all that noise" demographic is uh, kinda either underrepresented or unacknowledged on lemmy.
I may no longer be religious, but, goddamnit, that song is a banger.
I've previously ... apparently just completely introduced a fair amount of people to the NRA's uh Eddie Eagle, the gun safety mascot.
I'm guessing there is actually a fairly large amount of nerds who were raised American Christian in the 90s, who also basically had dysfunctional families, and thus spent a lot of time on their computers and the internet, trying to escape that.
Well, I've never been [to] Greenland
And I've never been to Denver
And I've never buried treasure in St. Louis or St. Paul
And I've never been to Moscow
And I've never been to Tampa
And I've never been to Boston in the fall
'Cause we're the Pirates
Who don't do anything
We just stay home and lie around
And if you ask us to do anything
We'll just tell you:
...
We don't do anything.
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Viking Hippie found a typo!
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You should check out the radio stations from Streets of Sim City, for a more thorough blast from the past.
They actually did the whole 'in universe nonsense/gag advertisements' thing before GTA did.
Also just goddamn, that bass riff on the title screen.
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... Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that... actually tries to model the effects of an AMOC shutdown?
Or maybe 'signifcant weakening' or 'decoherence' would be a more accurate way to out it?
Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith's roughly weekly videos and uh... the SMOC ain't doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two... well, the artctic polar vortex has ... more or less been destabilizing... to a rather extreme amount...
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We used all the easy to use fuel.
Any civilization that comes after us, human or not, will have a much tougher time sustaining a technological society capable of spaceflight.
We also might cause Kessler syndrome, which may also be fairly problematic for a future wannabe spacefaring society.
Our own current society, even if it wasn't as unstable as it is, well, its literally burning through all the good stuff, which creates an inescapable problem of energy just getting more and more expensive over time, unless you manage to use the 'buff' from carbon based fuel sources to actually develop a civilization that can keep working once all thats left is too expensive to access.
If you don't clear that hurdle, and/or blow yourselvs up in the process... whatever comes afterward has relics of advanced manufacturing processes, and has a very, very hard time getting all the links in those chains to work again.
This applies to things beyond oil... they're called non-renewable resources for a reason.
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No, that's an articulated mandible that makes that noise.
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Ahem.
Whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you...
... stranger.
The Arthropod timeline used to regularly check in on the Vertebrate timeline, but it just got to be too ridiculous.
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Personally, I'm excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I'm not pessimistic enough to think I'll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh... a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
Maybe in a 100-200 years we have enough glacial loss and icemelt that West Antarctica might have parts where actual soil is regularly facing the sun.
I think this is a 'what if all the ice was gone' map:
I mean, my point in saying its a literal physical form of etiquette that is systemitized is to ... differentiate it from many other cultures, where its mostly just linguistic.
Not too many other cultures have a whole system of physical manuevers that also comprise part of how respect is culturally conveyed.
Microexpressions? Nah, this is a macroexpression.
Tons of broader Japanese culture also has systemitized, physical rituals... essentially, complex dances, that either accompany or just literally are an actual ancient tradition.
There is an extreme amount of emphasis on physical control of your own body, compared to other cultures I have interacted with, have studied.
Of course, not everyone takes all of that so seriously, is so formal... culture changes over time and is never totally homogenous... Japan is also rather famous for its extremely expressive and distinctive fashion/lifestyle sub cultures.
There is differentiation, but its... its sort of like the Overton window for etiquette is in a significantly different position as for many other cultures, if that makes sense.
Elon Musk is such a goddamned literal supervillain that he managed to make the theme of Firefly wrong.
Apparently, they can take the sky from you.