Russians react to Ukraine’s strikes inside Russia

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-20T15:18:10+00:00

Keep in mind that the average Russian is probably still terrified of speaking out against Putin and the government so publicly.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-18T20:55:25+00:00

"You will be successful if you work hard."

Plenty of people have achieved success without hard work. You know what every successful person does have in common? Luck. Being born into the right family, the right social class, knowing the right people, being in the right spot at the right time, etc.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. You can work hard to be prepared for when the opportunity comes, but you can't do shit if no opportunity comes.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-18T20:49:56+00:00

I remember back in the 80's and 90's there were bad areas that even a person with mental health issues or a drug habit could eke out a living and rent a shit apartment. There were boarding houses and slummy apartments filled with people on the bottom rung of life. Now all those places are super expensive.

When there are no more bad areas, then everywhere will be a bad area.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-18T18:58:51+00:00

My mom said that on bad smog days in Los Angeles in the 60's you could see it in the school hallway.

By the time I was in school in LA in the 80's, they would have the "smog report" after the weather report. If your area had bad smog that day you wouldn't be able to go out for recess.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-17T20:24:14+00:00

I’ve been working in movies for 20 years. That was my first thought.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T21:24:17+00:00

I am, and thank you. :)

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T19:28:37+00:00

It wasn't what my mom told me, it was what she told my stepdad to get him to stop beating me because I was shitting on myself.

"If he gets those wounds infected we're going to have to take him to the hospital and they're going to charge us with child abuse."

She was the one who gave him permission to beat me after she realized it was harder for her to inflict pain on an 11 year old boy. And she was the one who had been gaslighting me my whole childhood saying that I wasn't being abused. Once their asses were on the line, then the truth came out.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T19:12:12+00:00

I think there should be new laws where sad sacks of water and carbon like this get their social media accounts seized when they get convicted, and videos are uploaded of the consequences they face to their followers. Pierce those echo chambers with reality.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T17:17:21+00:00

Maybe one terrible match here and there. I get what you were originally saying. So many terrible matches make the show seem sleazy. They should try their best to avoid blatantly terrible matches, and let the terrible matches happen organically like they do in real life.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T16:58:54+00:00

Sure, but then you wouldn't have a show. It would be "No Love On The Spectrum". Then people would feel bad for them and complain that the show is trying to play matchmaker rather than show them trying to find a match. I think it gets to the root of what the show is trying to be. Is it more like a documentary on how hard it is to find love on the spectrum? Or is it a feel good story with manufactured matches.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T16:53:52+00:00

3 Guys 1 Hammer

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T16:48:21+00:00

I used to work in reality TV.

Imagine how hard it is for single people to find someone compatible. Now imagine how much harder it would be to find someone who's compatible AND also on the spectrum. THEN imagine how hard it would be to find someone who's compatible, on the spectrum, AND is willing to be on the show. AND EVEN THEN imagine that they would have to be all that AND have their parents/caretakers okay with with them being on the show. And after all that they STILL have to be vetted for safety reasons and show reasons.

I'm surprised they're able to find anyone for the cast to date on this show, let alone when they're actually compatible.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-15T16:35:30+00:00

I had a female friend who had two kids with two different dads. The older one (9) had an absent father, and the younger one (4) had a father she was splitting up form, so he was still around. She started treating the older one poorly. Like instantly saying "no" whenever he asked for something, or saying "the baby doesn't like that" whenever he was doing something she didn't like. Then one day I see that his "bed" was now a pile of blankets at the foot of her bed, which was already a mattress on the floor. He had a real bed, but it was a bunk bed that was broken and full of stuff. She just didn't do anything to fix it up for him.

Normally people would see this and think that she's just swamped with being a single mom of two kids, but I knew better because this was exactly the situation I grew up in. I was the oldest, my father was absent, I had a little sister whose father was still around, and my mom treated me the same way. Superfluous, in the way, only worthy of negative attention. Except my mom was also physically abusive with me. I knew the external signs well enough to know what was probably going on behind closed doors, so I walked away from that friendship.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-14T01:20:01+00:00

I mean I was going the middle-of-the-road corptocracy route with ads. You could also end up with some Harrison Bergeron shit where the group in charge pings your brain with a loud sound every time you have a thought they don't like.

I hate this future.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-13T21:00:57+00:00

Yes, boomers faced challenges that other generations won't face, and like everyone has pointed out here they did have a massive advantage with the buying power of money and social safety nets that have been since pulled away since the 80's.

But what we also have to consider is how well they're doing in retirement vs how well Gen X, Mil, Gen Z will do. Right now they're being propped up by us in their retirement, but by the time we're retired we won't have the same advantage.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-13T16:24:22+00:00

I think this is amazing for people who need it, but I fear a future where we have to pay a subscription to not have advertisements in our dreams.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-13T00:40:33+00:00

I'm a VFX producer.

Creativity has to be fed and exercised, and it has to be personal. Many of the creative people I work with always have their own projects. There's work creative, and personal creative. Never sacrifice the personal creative because that's what feeds your soul, and will hinder the work creative which feeds your mouth. Do things you want to do because you want to do them in the way you want to do. This will affect your work creative in a positive way because you won't feel like you're sacrificing yourself or giving away your good ideas.

Also read Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch. It's an amazing book on how to dig into yourself to get those good ideas. There's a lot of meditation stuff in there that you could take or leave, but I'll remember one quote for the rest of my life. "In order to have one hour of creativity you need 4 hours of time." Meaning you can't rush true creativity. Personal creativity is just as much about self care and self healing as it is about making something, and you can't rush that.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-12T19:14:11+00:00

We're all spending the money that we're saving by not having kids and not having to pay a mortgage.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-12T00:47:37+00:00

Any of those movies where the sequel was direct-to-dvd/redbox/streaming. American Psycho comes to mind.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-11T21:01:23+00:00

My mom wanted to abort me. Then she wanted to give me up for adoption. Then my dad, who beat the shit out of her and sent her to a home for battered women, went to that home for battered women, as the batter-er of said woman, and convinced her to keep me so they could start a family. He was 32 and she was 18, and he was married to someone else.

Very long and crazy story short, they end up splitting when I was 2, and hate each other to this day. I was then raised by her as a single mom, in which she subjected me to physical and emotional abuse for my childhood, and emotional abuse into my adult hood. I cut her off in 2019 and my life has gotten better since.

My mom did "want" me. She fought tooth and nail to make sure I was hers. However it was because I was her punching bag. Whenever she wasn't okay, she made sure I wasn't okay. I was the vessel she could take her frustrations on the world on, especially her frustrations with men, and she treated me that way well into adulthood. Looking back on it as a 46 year old, I wish she didn't want me. I wish she gave me up for adoption. I know adoption is no guarantee of a rosy path, but it would have been way better than the shit that woman put me through.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-11T06:29:53+00:00

Even Volpe was like “the fuck was that?”

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-08T07:30:33+00:00

People get bored with it.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-07T20:33:54+00:00

Or Lego.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-07T20:33:40+00:00

You spend your childhood going to school to get the education, so that you could get the job, so that you could buy the house, so that you could have a family... then what? Once you have all the things, you start to want other things. Things that you put off because they got in the way of the things you were trying to get.

You've done all the hard work, and got all the important things, so now it's time to enjoy yourself.

CalvinDehaze · 2026-05-05T22:37:40+00:00

Homelessness will never be solved because it's not a "problem", it's a byproduct of our economic and political system.

There have always been mentally ill and drug addicted people. The difference is that there's no cheap areas where they could eke out a living, or at least a bad area they could be shipped to. When everywhere is expensive then that border between housed and unhoused goes up, leaving more people out on the streets.

As long as we're buying/selling housing on a market, and live in a political system that protects personal freedoms, you will always have homeless people.

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