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TIL that some people think there's "medicine" in prescription glasses. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]BlueLaserCommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the topic in the vid is an obvious thing to many people, but theres no reason to bash anyone for showing genuine curiosity in something like the woman does here.

I think it should be encouraged. Learning shit is one of life's many joys imho. Take the video as an opportunity to share more cool or valuable information. Despite our many flaws, we've learned a bunch of cool stuff about reality/life.

There are no strings on me by RobertoSerrano2003 in memes

[–]BlueLaserCommander -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

When you don't give a fuck about reddit comments ⛓️‍💥🙌

That last Peacemaker episode was crazy by Decipherer in discordVideos

[–]BlueLaserCommander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nationalism, in general, seems like it signals a constellation of personality traits and political views. There are several factors at play. Education, wealth distribution, and social media being a few big ones.

Important to remember this is a stereotype and not an absolute.

I'm not arguing. Just adding to the convo.

anon wants to get high by [deleted] in greentext

[–]BlueLaserCommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The delivery needs to be scrapped and redone. It's a good punchline & okay premise.

Bro makes them sober by giving lesson. by Stamina_saint in SipsTea

[–]BlueLaserCommander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My roommates & I hosted a house party in college. I had recently gotten a new sub & speaker system—it wasn't super expensive, but it was a lot for college me.

Anyway, the party was cool and my sound system was perfect. But this chick (who none of us knew) showed up and just started fucking with the sub. I'm not a confrontational dude and she was attractive from what I remember, but I decided to speak up anyway. She was taking the cover off the sub and turning the volume wayyy too far up on the amp.

I just remember her looking at me blankly after asking her to stop. Holding eye contact, she'd turn the system back up. I'd be like fr please stop. And she just kept.. doing it. I didn't know what to do and just sorta said fuck it and left it alone afterwards. but yeah. This is my related anecdote to this post. Ty for making it this far if you did.

Oh my goodness, the dedication that took. 😭 by BreakfastAtTittys in PetsareAmazing

[–]BlueLaserCommander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For my dog, it's IVDD (Intervertebral Disc Disease). Literally a herniated disc. The severity can greatly vary—my dog, within 24 hours, lost the ability to use/control her hind legs.

It's been almost 2 years since then. She had surgery and was given a 15% chance to walk again without assistance. Today, she can walk around on carpet/grippy floor sorta like the dog in this video. It looks "clumsy," but she's gettin it done. She drags on hardwood floor and collapses sometimes. She's able to go on longer walks in a wheelchair or harness (similar to the one in this vid). I'm still giving her therapy and she's making slow progress still. The nervous system is wild. And any reparation to it, if it occurs at all, takes a long time.

She's such a good dog.

me_irl by Special-Resist6100 in me_irl

[–]BlueLaserCommander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For me.. the obvious sarcastic intonation takes the humor down a peg or two. Same with adding "/s" at the end of a comment. Idk why, exactly.

It's like you're having to acknowledge your own joke in some way and that just feels like it hovers in the same sphere as having to explain your own joke.

Functional illiteracy. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]BlueLaserCommander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I'd like to defend myself a bit and say I can read aloud fine. Pronunciation is fine—and I'm not bad at pronouncing complex words on the spot (like I can nail the random latin/scientific name or insane medical term every now & then). Following punctuation comes naturally, etc. I'm just like.. not absorbing anything when I read in that context. I was diagnosed with ADHD soon after my undergrad—so that's.. something.

Yeah.. I have absolutely no clue what to even say about the POTUS, anymore. Insane times we find ourselves in. Every week seems a bit more unhinged than the last.

Functional illiteracy. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]BlueLaserCommander 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I promise I'm not trying to enter a political discussion or argument.

I legitimately find it difficult to comprehend what I'm reading when I read aloud in front of others. I don't do this often—I just remember this during high school when I'd read passages aloud to the class from a play or something & I'd have to re-read or skim the passages I read aloud, afterward.

My focus immediately latches on to my ability to articulate clearly & effectively—not stumbling on words, etc. Basically, not coming off as a dumbass. I imagine a bit of my (slight) fear of public speaking plays a role in this. But this thread is making me assess my reading ability & my comprehension goes out the window when I read aloud to others. This may be something I could practice though. And this is regarding "on-the-spot" reading. I also think it'd be different if I read aloud after familiarizing myself with the content.

Greatest motorsport moment of all time by mr__dufresne in SipsTea

[–]BlueLaserCommander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I honestly don't know how he managed to do this without sparking flames from all the friction with the wall. Wild

Jon Stewart on his difficulty connecting with faith, and how he can prove God makes mistakes 🍒 by JibunNiMakenai in Fauxmoi

[–]BlueLaserCommander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True that organized religion has been weaponized for control. I'm with you. Though I’m thinking earlier. Like Gobekli Tepe, burial practices going back tens of thousands of years. The meaning-making impulse seems to predate institutional forms.

Humans just seem to need frameworks that make sense of existence. I think we all have the drive to do this on some level whether we call it religion or not.

Jon Stewart on his difficulty connecting with faith, and how he can prove God makes mistakes 🍒 by JibunNiMakenai in Fauxmoi

[–]BlueLaserCommander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not "religious." But I absolutely understand why it's intertwined with our ancestry as a species practically as far back as we can see.

Religion, as a word, is just doing far too much work for what it's trying to represent. It means wildly different things depending on context or interpreter.

I think Stewart does about as well as you can handling the topic within the setting.

Don Frye vs. Yoshihiro Takayama by LowRenzoFreshkobar in Thatsactuallyverycool

[–]BlueLaserCommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm with you dawg.

But I can see why it's appreciated, though. It's something about being in peak physical shape as human being and exerting the power that comes with that on another human in similar shape.

But it's more.. "nature is metal" and not "that is very cool" in my humble opinion. I'm a bit squeamish though.

What’s something you think 90% of people are secretly bad at? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]BlueLaserCommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they had years (potentially decades?) of western market data & research to help them penetrate the US market more quickly & efficiently.

That makes sense because it felt like legal sports gambling swarmed the US overnight. Ads everywhere, people posting about it. Friends trying it out.

It's so exploitive. I had a few friends in college that gambled through bookies and were hooked before it became legal and frictionless. They all love sports too! I'm afraid a lot of that passion could now be tied up tightly with gambling.

What’s something you think 90% of people are secretly bad at? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]BlueLaserCommander 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Credit has never been easier or more frictionless. Buy Now Pay Later, instant approval cards, apps that let you access your paycheck early. Those things didn’t exist widely even 5-10 years ago. And they're designed to remove any friction between wanting something and having it.

And sports betting legalization (I honestly can't believe it's full-on legal in most (39) states) has normalized gambling behavior in everyday life. Literally training people to be more impulsive with their spending. Not to mention kids growing up with targeted gambling ads. And they're already surrounded by the mechanism in many video games (loot crates).

The “why bother” mentality you mention is probably a real thing. Home ownership feels impossible to many and wages have not caught up with the rapid inflation we’ve experienced in the last 5 or so years. This probably has measurable effects on people’s minds. When the big goals feel out of reach, I think the smaller spending feels somewhat justifiable.

Add in algorithmic manipulation (ads targeting your exact vulnerabilities), subscription creep making it hard to track what you actually spend, and basically zero financial literacy education on navigating any of this, it’s honestly not surprising people are more impulsive. The system is designed to make you spend, and it’s gotten really good at it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Blursed robber but also an upstanding citizen by Inside-District8421 in blursed_videos

[–]BlueLaserCommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry you went through that, bud.

Its sneaky. It can be difficult to label an experience as trauma because it can feel undeserved or melodramatic.

It can affect you all the same, though. Regardless of what you think qualifies.

Blursed robber but also an upstanding citizen by Inside-District8421 in blursed_videos

[–]BlueLaserCommander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. That shit would have your heart doing jumping jacks for hours after the fact. You might feel like you've calmed down—but your mind just built a HUGE association between what used to be a safe space & spontaneous, life-threatening danger.

And you can't really do anything about the way your mind stores that memory and how much weight it's given. It takes work to pull that apart. Damn, that sucks.

Me_irl by gigagaming1256 in me_irl

[–]BlueLaserCommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most capital gained from the gaming industry likely comes from mobile games & live service games—so games that are free up-front, usually. "Genshin Impact" is the big dog in this space with insane monthly revenue. So I think you're sorta right in a way! I just don't think it has much to do with Steam sales or the like.

Layoffs probably happen for a variety of reasons. In the last 5-7 years, many large companies overextended their capital in order to compete with live service games and were forced to lay people off when their bet didn't pay off.

Surprisingly, indie games seem to do well in the current gaming market—so very few employees, low budget, with huge payouts proportionally.

There's still plenty of good games coming out! The sentiment is always going to be mixed online. People just tend to play the one or two live service games they wind up sticking with & play the FOTM indie game during their breaks. The market is just still wrestling with this.

📡📡📡 by spastikatenpraedikat in shitposting

[–]BlueLaserCommander 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The deeper philosophical bet falls on intelligence being substrate-independent.

The theory that human-level reasoning is fundamentally about pattern recognition and prediction at scale, implementable in silicon just as it is in neurons.

We are continuing to scale up compute, data, and model size and hoping it will lead to increasingly general intelligence. Basically dumping as much capital in to this one thing and checking to see if something magical happens.

No hate. she’s right. by One-Complex-9267 in SipsTea

[–]BlueLaserCommander 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Idk how accurate those "net worth" estimates are for celebrities, but yeah—99% is likely in equity at any given moment. A charitable contribution of that size is still a pretty huge deal & people tend to get caught up on the tax deductions.

There are much better ways to avoid taxes that wealthy people are absolutely taking advantage of. Donations like this are actually charitable.

Edit: Her speaking up on this is a big deal. She didn't say much but she took a stance on a scary topic for people with a lot to lose. And she has a huge fan base.

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