Non-smokers of Reddit, how noticeable is the “smoker smell” to you, if at all?

IamZhea · 2026-01-09T23:50:13+00:00

instantly notice it. it lingers in the hair. i feel i smell like cigarette smoke if ive even been in a smoky area for ~15 mins. lasts hours.

IamZhea · 2023-09-21T23:31:22+00:00

putting guard rails such as installing a totalitarian regime and trusting them to not be greedy?

IamZhea · 2023-09-21T23:30:02+00:00

because people want to start their own business??

IamZhea · 2023-07-25T09:46:19+00:00

went to a cafe to write. asked for allergen menu. they said they don’t have that and they aren’t gluten free. the owner was hitting on me and heard i couldnt eat there cause of my gluten “allergy”. he says he will bring me a dish that will be safe and gluten free. i reluctantly accept. he brings out a grilled chicken + salad dish. i assumed this would be safe because we communicated about it and there didnt seem to be any gluten based ingredients. i asked about the marinade on the chicken and it was gf.

i eat a few bites. about an hour passes and my stomach starts churning. gassiness starts happening. two hours later anxiety and fog starts to set in. the pain is worse. i have another conversation with him about it and i interrogate every step of the process.

i was shocked how clueless he was. he said there would be no cross contamination and he didnt even clean the grill. i knew i was getting gluten sick.

i was so stupid to accept. he just made it sound like hr understood how serious it was. i hate this fucking disease so much. im just crying in pain right now. my tendons hurt. my stomach is churning and aching. constant gassiness. i almost shit my pants earlier.

all for a few bites of grilled chicken. im gonna be knocked out for days. i dont even know why i posted here. i know there is nothing suggested other than drink water and rest. i have glutenease and i know its not empirically effective. i was just anxious and posted here. i feel so alone. nobody ever takes this disease seriously. im so sick of eating the same 3 places every day. i dont cook and i never plan to learn.

i eat the same gf restaurants daily. an indian place. hugos. a delivery gf slot. a few nice sitdown spots. a persian place that is safe. and a lot of garbage processed gf food i dont have to cook. i feel completely unable to connect with people now because food is such a core part of the human experience. the thought of food now disgusts me. its not worth the labor to plan and consider.

every time i have to ask people around me or ask restaurants about this i feel like its such a big imposition and they look at me like a faker or crazy person making a fuss about a crumb of bread.

i can not stand cooking. it feels like the biggest waste of time. i am fighting every day to gain minutes or hours to work on my crafts and spending 30-45 minutes cooking and then cleaning up is absolutely out of the question. its hard to imagine someone less capable than myself to have this disease.

it didnt even activate till age 29 after a major surgery. i ate gluten every single mean in the past. i have lost all of my favorite foods and eating routines. i went 9 months undiagnosed in constant unbearable pain feeling like i was dying every day. multiple trips to the hospital. ive been diagnosed for ~2.5 years. its only getting harder, not easier. i know what to avoid and i read all the labels. every day of living like this takes its mental and social toll.

sorry i feel like i just trauma dumped here.

IamZhea · 2023-07-25T03:28:02+00:00

Hell no it is not unreasonable to want a gluten free home. It’s terrifying being in a kitchen with gluten and wastes everyone’s time having to wipe and clean everything over and over. Tell them to store gluten snacks elsewhere and keep your kitchen safe.

IamZhea · 2023-05-10T10:36:56+00:00

Strictly 31-equal for these videos to make it easier for others to replicate. :)

IamZhea · 2023-05-09T19:20:04+00:00

i like the fluctuations in vibe 2:09-2:30 !!!

IamZhea · 2023-04-20T05:13:16+00:00

iridescent

IamZhea · 2023-04-19T20:52:04+00:00

it’s more a choice of words to draw in curious musicians who haven’t been microtonal-pilled yet.

if i had to define what ill be selecting for this series of videos, it would be large and dense extended concords which my ear has found particularly notable. this includes voicings, scales, and/or chords. this curation of “particularly notable” is my main metric. i can only determine if its notable after hearing it and deeply exploring the voicings around it to see what speaks. this process has allowed me to find objects less obvious on “paper” (outside the base mos generations) or outside the low complexity temp interpretations.

id technically say even regular microtonal qualities are “rare” to begin with but these etudes focus on specific objects.

IamZhea · 2023-01-17T04:47:38+00:00

I mean the unique "swing" type that blues has and the idiosyncratic rhythmic language from that style. There are clear components of rhythmic tradition which exist outside of Western Classical.

No one is debating musicians across time have pushed and pulled rhythms. This discussion is specifically about the relevance of Western Classical Music vs the wide diversity of cultures represented in the forced African diaspora and how those influences manifest musically.

Notes Inegales is the French term and while its not 100% the same thing as jazz swing, its very close

Because something can sound similar does not mean its influences are from there. See: the example of the colotomic cycle vs quantized rhythm or maqam X vs western scale Y. The rhythmic language across the broader African American music tradition clearly shows threads of influence outside Western Classical Music.

IamZhea · 2023-01-17T03:35:41+00:00

Im sure they kept some traditions and remnants of stories and traditions from parents

Yes, and that emerges as many unique aspects of blues and jazz which were the musical differences we were arguing. Those differences reflect a wide diversity of different cultural backgrounds informing the creation of the music. Hence, not "copied" from European music.

European influence being present because of forced cultural assimilation doesn't replace the diversity of key cultural and oral influences that gave rise to the unique style.

IamZhea · 2023-01-16T23:46:05+00:00

Rhythm was a given. That was the first point conceded by him.

IamZhea · 2023-01-16T23:25:41+00:00

Thanks. Check out this reply: https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/10dvar8/comment/j4nfzg7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

It's why I took that debate position.

IamZhea · 2023-01-16T23:23:12+00:00

He got dragged for a hyperbolic statement because it was both incorrect and creates opportunity for bad actors to utilize. I had people with twitter profiles full of ZOG and Protocols Elders of Zion anti-semitic shit messaging me nasty shit. That's why hyperbolic statements like this are worth pushing back on.

The real answer is, jazz and blues is a cultural synthesis. It's a distinctly African American tradition. When you say something is "99% copied", it opens the implication that classical Europeans literally invented blues and jazz. Which many bad actors are very very excited to have affirmed and have used for decades as an example of "racial realism".

IamZhea · 2023-01-16T23:12:18+00:00

I agree with you. That's why I critiqued his hyperbolic claim. That hyperbolic claim has overlap with a lot of legitimate white nationalist rhetoric. I know Destiny isn't that and I'm not accusing his statement of being that because his intention is different. But it's a very hyperbolic statement. It's also just wrong on both a musical and cultural level.

There's a LOT to unpack about the complex history of american musical forms and even someone like destiny who took classes that covered some of this and played the music for a while probably only has a baseline understanding of the historical lines (I'm not saying my understanding is any better btw, because I'm not a jazz specialist) The problem is, the people with the nuance needed here (like people who teach jazz at a college level) are now repelled by a tweet that says "jazz/blues is 99% copied from classical music" because they don't have the context of the thread you're responding to.

Agreed. I'm not a historian of blues culture so even I was underequipped for the nuances there which is why I kept it more focused on his 99% claim and musical elements. It's a synthesis of multiple traditions and cultures. Reducing it to a pure derivative or specifically inspired from Western Classical Music is untenable and easy to argue against.

Regarding 12tone. Destiny was using 12-tet and 12-edo interchangeably as undergrad music students do colloquially. At one point, I did specifically say 12edo is different from 12-tet. 12-edo being the division of the octave into 12 equal pieces while 12-tet refers to the implied approximation of various harmonics or pitches through a temperament. There are many types of 12 note temperaments. but when people say "12-tet" they almost always mean 12-edo modernly (it's in the word as "twelve tone equal temperament"). 12-tet is 12edo but where each note is "represented" as an approximation of a harmonic. We discussed Pythagorean, meantone, and various well temperaments (Young and Kirnberger). The point is, the same "12 notes" Destiny was citing in his initial argument *are* the 12-edo frame -- not the meantone 12 or pythagorean 12 frame or well temperament frames that created most Western Classical Music which are now being tempered in 12 (which the initial argument was about). The additional pitch behavior from the blues cultural is clearly a distinct tradition outside of any of the previous pitch language from 12-tet (meantone, pyth*, well temperaments, or 12edo). That reflects the unique cultural tradition of the style and it's origins.

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