I was laughing. Now I feel personally attacked. 😅

You’re not wrong tho

There’s actually some studies starting up that are trying to confirm a theory on if the restless leg and other hyperactive movements are a means of self treatment for ADHD. Seems plausible to me, tbh.

They think lactic acid might play a role in the brain, and ADHD people are lacking as a symptom of ADHD. And since lactic acid can be produced in the muscles through exercise/movement, the theory is that by being hyper active, it creates the lactic acid which gets transported to the brain as a type of subconscious self treatment.

Kinda fascinating, tbh. Especially so, given that my body is currently twitching/bouncing from restless legs in my chair as I type this. Lol The best I’ve ever felt in my brain (and body) was when I used to heavily workout 6 days a week and was constantly sore from the lactic acid buildup. I think these kinds of studies are an interesting premise.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30550949/

I’m actually on my own path and trying to figure out a means to sorta deal with how my thoughts have been turning dark over current politics, in a way. I have yet to read your full post, as I’m at work, but I’ll circle back to it after work if I can.

I quite literally just had a 50min phonecall with a priest this afternoon to discuss attending an episcopal church. Which, turns out, is super chill with a lot of stuff and don’t take things so literal in a lot of cases. In my case, the church I would attend is very affirming and accepting. Some episcopal churches might not be on an individual basis, but the stance of episcopal as a while, far as I have seen, is LGBT accepting.

It’s an offshoot of Catholic, kinda born out of the church of England and Lutheran? I guess. How he explained it to me is that they sorta take the things that make sense and leave the rest. He even said he had no issues with piercings or tattoos, and I’d be welcome as a pierced, tatted trans woman.

As for the biblical sense, there’s a passage I read recently, Galatians 3:28, that felt good enough for me as a tatted up, many pierced trans woman. It reads: Edit: I see you had used this in an argument. My bad. It still seems valid for my overall comment.

28: There is no Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29: And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.

I dunno if I even believe in any of it, tbh, as I’m agnostic. But lately agnostic and figuring out my place in the world and internally hasn’t been enough on my own and I’ve been furious at the world for being awful and furious at myself for being furious at the world. It’s been a weird sort of place for me.

I dunno if this helps you any, but episcopal is gearing up to maybe be where I need to go to just figure some stuff out. At the very least, it’s a church that has a lot of volunteering and that’s important to me as someone who has a hard time leaving the house.

Not to mention the chip in the brain stuff. I mean, tech-wise, it’s amazing and helped that paralyzed guy… But conspiracy theory-wise?? Like, where are the idiots who flipped out about the 5g cellular stuff? A computer chip implant to the brain could be interpreted as mind control, for sure!

Which reminds me that scientists just altered a baby’s genes to fix some sort of disease in the womb and that’s an extremely fkn slippery slope to eugenics. Tech-wise, amazing. Conspircy-wise, what the FUCK

Well, it worked tho! Lol

Oh, and I agree. I understand that. It’s also the first film to piss me off, in my formative years.

Still fkn hate it! ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Agreed. Still hate it.

I’m not your buddy, pal! (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯

(⁠ﾉﾟ⁠0ﾟ⁠)⁠ﾉ Oh no! A ghost!

I said what I said! ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

I respect it, appreciate it even. But my God, I hate that film.

Oh valid, my bad. I saw it in passing when I googled him and put two and two together to make eight lol

Hmm, I did some quick googles. Wiki didn’t have much on his finances, just his work. But from few sites, it seems he definitely was blacklisted but made a return throughout the 70s and 80s but nothing big took off and he still ended up broke doing commercials because he lived too loud with his money. So it seems it started with being blacklisted but he also was spending too much money? I dunno. I’d have to read more, but sounds about right from what I remember of a film appreciation course I took a decade ago that started with fkn citizen cane.

At least you had the common courtesy not to comment with the panic (⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•⁠)

Thank you thank you! I panic commented because it was driving me nuts. Then realized I could Google old man wine commercial and got the answer.

But I appreciate you! Thank you!

That guy is someone famous and lost all his money so he did ads, right? I cannot remember his name and it’s driving me insane. I think he like… Directed films? If I recall correctly, he was a bit of an ass.

I cannot remember his name. 😭

Edit: I googled old man wine commercial.

It’s Orson Welles. The author of War of the Worlds and I think Citizen Cane. Itch scratched!

Side note, citizen cane is awful. I don’t care that it’s said to be top cinema. I hate that boring waste of 3hrs.

Our current ‘AI’ is not AI. It is not.

It is a corporate entity to shirk labor costs and lie to the public.

It is an algorithm designed to lie and the shills who made it are soulless liars, too.

It only exists for corporations and people to cut corners and think they did it right because of the lies.

And again, it is NOT artificial intelligence by the standard I hold to myself.

And it pisses me off to no fucking end.

I personally would love an AI personal assistant that wasn’t tied to a corporation listening to every fkin thing I say or do. I would absolutely love it.

I’m a huge Sci-Fi fan, so sure I fear it to a degree. But, if I’m being honest, AI would be amazing if it could analyze how I learned math wrong as a kid and provide ways to fix it. It would be amazing if it could help me routinely create schedules for exercise and food and grocery lists with steps to cook and how all of those combine to effect my body. It would be fantastic if it could point me to novels and have a critical debate about the inner works with a setting of being a contrarian or not so I can seek to deeply understand the novels.

It sounds like what our current state of AI has right? No. The current state is a lying machine. It cannot have critical thought. Sure, it can give me a schedule of food/exercise, but it might tell me I need to lift 400lbs and eat a thousand turkeys to meet a goal of being 0.02grams heavy. It might tell me 5+7 equals 547,032.

It doesn’t know what the fuck it’s talking about!

Like, ultimately, I want a machine friend who pushes me to better myself and helps me understand my own shortcomings.

I don’t want a lying brick bullshit machine that gives me all the answers but they are all wrong because it’s just a guesswork framework full of ‘whats the next best word?’

Edit: and don’t even get me fucking started on the shady practices of stealing art. Those bastards trained it on people’s hard work and are selling it as their own. And it can’t even do it right, yet people are still buying it and using it at every turn. I don’t want to see another shitty doodle with 8 fingers and overly contrasted bullshit in an ad or in a video game. I don’t want to ever hear that fucking computer voice on YouTube again. I stopped using shortform videos because of how fucking annoying that voice is. It’s low effort nonsense and infuriates the hell out of me.

I like NHL and MLB. Both my teams are on the other side of the country, though. I cannot watch unless I pay out the wazoo. It ain’t worth it. Plus, cable? No thanks. Can’t afford it anyways, really. I used to listen to MLB radio at my old job with the AtBat app but they changed the subscription and it got too expensive.

Plus, it’s just not accommodating to people like me. I mention liking a team and I get bombarded with questions like “who was the 2nd baseman during 1998?” Or “what’s the current batting average for the designated hitter?” Or “who’s the coach right now?”

Like I have to prove I’m a ‘true fan.’ I don’t care about that. I see ball go fast, and get hit out the park, it is fun. I see a hockey player toss a puck across the ice, it is fun. I love games but I don’t know who the developer is by name. Just the company. Dunno where the best loot chest was in the dungeons of Oblivion/Skyrim/whatever. I just enjoy things the way I enjoy them.

After work, I’d rather spend time reading or playing video games or playing an instrument. Watching ads on TV makes me want to pull my eyes out with a fork. Ads on anything.

Overall… expensive. Ad breaks. And sports fans are not a welcoming bunch. Communities for them are awful, and filled with the kind of men who don’t realize it but have every stat memorized and have to belittle everyone about it to prove they’re the highlander of sports. The one and only true fan. No thanks.

Truth!

16 if I’m cold, 17 if I’m warm, 20 if I just got out the shower right before bed. If I shower and stay up reading or such, back to 16/17. Tits out for harambe, 100%.

The aesthetic is on point. I think it has a vibe that is definitely not something I’ve seen before. Minus the phantom flayers (⁠ب⁠_⁠ب⁠)

Agreed on the second part. I don’t understand why anyone would want to sleep in a place like that.

But I disagree on the first part. Should all be rubble, imo. Glorifying the traitors just set us up for the current situation since the plants that have grown are just as rotten as the root imo. The only reason the man got office is because he co-opted the movement that’s been in play for at least 60 years by the likes of turtle-lookin fuckbag McConnell. Remember the Tea Party a few years ago? All of this is a culmination of years of effort by the right wings to push out progressive ideals. Trump just took advantage of the hysteria and pushed the GOP old guard out and set him up as narcissist supreme.

Remove the reminders of the old days as physical locations, imo.

Pitito Cheetolini is my go-to… Small cock cheeto-faced Benito Mussolini wannabe fuck.

(If that’s unclear… El pito pequeño means he has a small whistle (cock). Adding -ito at the end of words in Spanish means, like, the little form. Perro, dog. Perrito, puppy/little dog. So pito, whistle. Pitito, little whistle. And it all sounds like Benito Mussolini. That small hand, little dick, rapist, felon cheeto-faced dictator fuck.)

Another good one is Shitler Cheetolini.

Sorry. We were so fucking close to never having to think about this fucker ever again for the rest of our lives. Now it’s the same as the last decade+ and I’m so pissed about it.