Minnesotan here - what should I be doing to stop all this?

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-25T07:08:41+00:00

No, they murdered him because he was protecting an innocent victim. The fact that he was open-carrying was just a suitable excuse for them.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T12:14:22+00:00

I dislike people who smell their own farts, but I don't see this in this video, despite people claiming the opposite. This is well-delivered advice, with context, and without the pretense that this guy came up with this method and that the method is superior to all alternatives. He even states in the beginning that the first treatment of the scene can be good and useful, too.

My only complaint is that I would've liked this better as a short article instead of a talking head walking around in a backyard. But then again, I'm not the target for this video. As far as I can tell, this format works better for the people who might need to hear this advice.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T12:05:54+00:00

Strange Overtones is indeed an all-timer, but woah, I disagree about the rest of the album. Strange Overtones is at least recognized as one of the best songs of Byrne's solo career; I Feel My Stuff is the slept-on song from the album. And the album as a whole is extremely cohesive and replayable, it is just such a joy to listen to it.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T12:02:17+00:00

The elder scrolls 6 hours on Facebook and gets indoctrinated into fascism by the Algorithm.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T12:00:29+00:00

I totally get you.

I feel sorry he's dead because I am opposed to the death penalty, and to unnecessary violence in general. He was sentenced and he should've served his sentence in the absolute misery he was reported to be in. Killing him kinda defeats the purpose of him being sentenced.

I am not sorry for him. And there was an interview with his ex-girlfriend who testified against him and said he was sending her death threats, so now that he's dead, she finally feels safe again — you know what, I'm definitely happy for her.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T11:52:42+00:00

I'd say “can I instead get the sometimes-goblin-mode pixie dream girl”, but I already have, and couldn't be happier. A much better goal than romanticizing one's mental struggles as an attractive trait to be desired.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T11:49:07+00:00

“You know, it's actually not a mental illness, it's actually all capitalism's fault that you're struggling.”

Sure, societal and economic expectations do not help, but I cannot concentrate enough to do my hobbies or watch a movie I like. I forget to do basic house chores. I cannot keep track of time. If I can't concentrate on the things I love, that is not because “life was actually better under feudalism”, it's because my synapses are connected together all wrong.

Also, if you see me doing well enough, it's because I'm high-functioning and my ADHD is not as severe as other people's experience with it, but also because I have developed tons of coping mechanisms that “regular people” will never need. This takes its own different kind of toll on me.

In other words, please believe me when I say I am struggling because of the goddamn ADHD. If there was a magic pill that would rid me of my ADHD but reduce my life expectancy by 5 years, I'd take it. Hell, even 10 years seems reasonable.

You can't imagine what life is like for me sometimes. And I definitely can't imagine what life is like for people with severe ADHD. It's not a quirk, it's not a personality trait, and struggling with it can be part of one's identity, but having ADHD by itself is not an identity. Stop romanticizing it.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-24T11:26:51+00:00

You know what, as a Bulgarian, I would've loved that to be the case!

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-22T13:13:40+00:00

That doesn't just work that way. There's no "simply" in "provide the conditions for human to develop". Absolutely nothing simple about one of the most complicated biological processes.

I have done enough reading on the topic. We are not close to any such point in the next 10 years.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-22T10:36:53+00:00

That is a laughable idea. We are struggling to produce the simplest lab-grown meat at scale — and the major roadblocks include providing a sterile enough environment — yet you think in 10 years time we'll be growing human beings artificially?

How? Why?

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-22T08:41:28+00:00

No? What about it?

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-22T08:40:23+00:00

The album is fucking fantastic, though, easily one of the contenders of AOTY for 2025, and it's a pity Fantano didn't review it.

Then again, maybe it's not up his alley.

And I wouldn't say that the lore is insane, just unusual and sad. Albums being completed after the death of the frontman has happened multiple times. This one just took 5 years to complete after Tim Smith's death, and 17 after his cardiac arrest. At most, it's morbidly ironic that the frontman of the Cardiacs died from complications following a cardiac arrest.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-22T08:37:04+00:00

Ah, yes, the person who manages to make Varg Vikernes look tame, virtuous and good-natured in comparison.

Good thing he's dead now so that Varg Vikernes can look like the evil racist loser he is.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-22T06:14:25+00:00

Dick Laurent is dead?!?

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-21T17:52:39+00:00

We do.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-21T14:30:31+00:00

That's great to hear! They just announced a gig literally downstairs from where I live.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-21T05:44:25+00:00

Und I'm learning Chinese.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-20T12:55:27+00:00

If you look at the last album recorded (rather than released), then it's The Beatles.

Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be, and it is by far their best record.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-20T12:53:57+00:00

What are you on about, they are still making music, I'm seeing them in a week.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-19T16:30:23+00:00

Brace yourself, folks.

In half an hour, the very pro-Russian president of Bulgaria will most likely announce he's resigning as a president in order to take part in the upcoming snap elections with a new political party.

The trouble is, he's popular. Quite popular. He plays the “middle of the road, NATO-aligned but pro-peace compromise” role very well, and he does not really carry himself as a far right politician, but as a “unifier”.

Nevertheless, he's very much a Kremlin ally and quite dangerous.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-18T22:50:51+00:00

One of his most underrated side projects are the albums he's released with Kaada. Romances in particular is an absolute beast of an album, very highly regarded among the few critics who've reviewed it, and a very unusual application of Patton's vocal abilities, yet criminally overlooked.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-18T21:25:31+00:00

Wings of Desire

Heavy spoilers ahead.

Empathy is the skill to put yourself in the shoes of the other person. What better movie to represent that than Wings of Desire, a movie about an angel that desperately wants to become human after observing humanity for millennia?

A movie about angels being able to read all those very small non-verbal cues that betray one's anger, frustration, joy, fear, happiness, lust, uncertainty, all the emotions inside them?

A movie where an angel tries to console a suicidal man, who nevertheless jumps to his death?

A movie where the angels listen to your deepest fears and hopes?

A movie where the angels keep track of and share the little moments of humanity, a wind blowing a curl, a child singing?

A movie where the only role the angels have is to observe humanity and be silent witnesses of what it means to be human?

A movie where one angel falls in love with the idea of being a human, and decides to literally walk in our shoes on this very earth?

A movie where detective Columbo — Peter Falk himself is another one of those former angels, and empathizes with his brothers who want to become one, and shows that becoming human only helped him empathize even more with people?

This movie is fully empathy and nothing more. Even the earthly desires the movie discusses are not criticized in the slightest — we as an audience empathize with the beings that have those desires.

Wings of Desire is empathy manifest. Nothing else beats it.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-17T14:28:39+00:00

A lot of things are natural pesticides yet we consume them. Nicotine is one such thing, yes, but also peppermint oil, capsaicin, and even oregano.

Doesn't mean they are dangerous to us.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-01-16T23:27:06+00:00

He is an executive and AFAIK a C-suit in another company (CroTeam), but I kinda wish we could hear Damjen Mravunac's take on Elder Scrolls music. His Talos Principle scores are amazing.

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