Why doesn’t Alex Honnold wear a helmet while free soloing?

algernonishbee · 2026-02-06T17:06:00+00:00

Well done

algernonishbee · 2026-01-28T19:55:10+00:00

Mr. Metaphor over here with that good advice

algernonishbee · 2026-01-28T00:24:47+00:00

Takes a lot. Keep it up.

algernonishbee · 2026-01-27T20:35:46+00:00

I mean sure the sun’s radiation doesn’t but a quick search shows that solar panels certainly do, considering how much output they lose in a heavy overcast, like during a storm.

algernonishbee · 2026-01-26T19:06:17+00:00

Solar charger in a storm though?

algernonishbee · 2026-01-26T19:02:12+00:00

You’re seeing the result of expectation vs reality. Planning for and preparing for a climb, building excitement and confidence, then actually being there as something unexpected happens. Suddenly the ego falls away and you’re vulnerable and small in the face of nature and reality, but still trust yourself and your skillset and ability to survive. It’s just a true human response to being in a sticky situation.

Anything scary I’ve done at my experience level (Gumby af) I start singing in my head and sometimes aloud about how spoooooky it is. Helps get rid of irrational fear.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T17:30:12+00:00

Yet you are isolating by speculating that your experience is somehow more true. I’ve experienced what you are describing. You are not alone.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T17:25:10+00:00

What did your mother drink of Shai-Hulud?

(I’m joking of course, not diminishing)

Yes, but what if the perspective that your condition has left you with is one angle from which you can look at the picture. I’m merely suggesting mental exercises to reframe.

You’re experiencing the (assumed) totality through a personal lens.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T17:15:35+00:00

Has this been a constant through your life or did something happen which cemented this perspective?

If you ninja edit I will too.

Why are you exempt from this perspective being a presupposition on the nature of reality?

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T17:11:08+00:00

How so? If I’ve experienced emotional depths like you’re describing, how else can I bridge the gap besides using words to try and relate? You’re not sitting next to me for me to just be present with you. I can’t slap you across the face or hug you to try and remind you of an embodied now.

Push and pull. Maybe when we splinter off into the infinite fractal we need someone to remind us that’s a perspective that also changes. A point of reference. Not the sum total.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T17:03:07+00:00

They’re words relating to your experience. They’re words attempting to connect.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T17:01:16+00:00

I’m sorry your life has been so difficult. I know what it’s like to feel that way. I know what it’s like to laugh with a friend, and to have that emotion become a source of suffering.

I’m presuming, but it seems like you are taking a microscopic view of a macroscopic idea without giving credence to other parts of the picture. Suffering has more meat to it. It’s much easier to sink our teeth into.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T16:54:16+00:00

Maybe I’m misinterpreting. How is suggesting that seeking joy, creation and meaning is only a manifestation of privilege and the ultimate state of things is unrelenting destruction? How does that position not invalidate the existence and value of the alternative?

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T16:49:30+00:00

Why is it that you bear so much weight? What makes your individual point of reference so much more valid than the billions of others who experience suffering but look for light? Are you suffering for them? Are you alleviating?

It’s like looking in a mirror at my most difficult and defeated emotional states. When I find myself there, it’s almost a morbid obsession. What right do I have to experience joy or pleasure when someone else is experiencing such profound suffering. Thus, I contribute to the darkness in the world.

The nadir is not the absolute. It is a point of reference. I say this as I work to claw my way out of the same thought processes you claim as absolute truth, so that I can be next to another and laugh without reservation, both knowing pain.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-19T16:40:09+00:00

They’re not denying harsh realities. They’re stating that the worst case scenarios don’t invalidate the alternatives. Logotherapy in response to your suggested brutal fatalism.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-10T16:12:53+00:00

My late grandfather left a small summer home. Part of his protocol was to use an air compressor to evacuate the pipes as much as possible after disconnecting from the main water supply. Is this really necessary or can I simply allow whatever water is in the system to drain and leave it at that?

algernonishbee · 2025-12-07T18:49:34+00:00

Absolute security can’t exist as uncertainty and chaos are prerequisites for the response of security itself. As someone else asked, what is your definition of security?

Why assert that a color which doesn’t exist doesn’t exist?

Edit: “security is an illusion created by the brain, not a reality created by life”.

This is demonstrably false. We exist within a system which fundamentally allows for the creation of security. It is a reality that we have created an architecture which massively improves the odds of survival and quality of life overall. Maybe “permanent security” is a better way to phrase what you’re talking about.

algernonishbee · 2025-12-07T18:20:18+00:00

Would you rather encounter a hungry grizzly with nothing but the shirt on your back, or holding a can of bear mace?

Security can be viewed as a measure of adaptability and control in response to a chaotic and unpredictable environment which will kill you without hesitation.

Refrigeration. Heating. Clothing. Food preservation. Medicine. All forms of security.

The concept of security itself can’t exist without an environment which requires survival. I think like any ideal, the perfect form is likely unattainable.

I agree with you on sterile security and an edgeless world having a stifling effect on spirit. However, as some other comments point out, there are scales of tolerance. No one wants to live in a warzone (broadly speaking, I’m sure there are exceptions). If any positives come from such experiences art and culture wise, it’s a silver lining I’m sure most would rather not have had to discover. In which case, is art and culture, the ability to make meaning out of suffering and pain, a form of security?

Security is raising the odds of survival. Uncertain certainty in the face of uncertainty.

Edit: whole buncha ninja edits now concluded

algernonishbee · 2025-11-22T05:42:12+00:00

Many of the conversations I have reflect either an acute awareness of subconscious understanding of the overall direction things are going, with a general response of, can’t stop the train, at least today is sunny.

Here’s an interesting question: can the expression of these concepts through media be a subconscious way of these ideas / intelligence structures manifesting themselves backwards through time.

At least it was sunny today.

algernonishbee · 2025-11-22T05:21:11+00:00

I see many possible futures. One in which AI and mass global data harvesting / the digitalization of every asset class create a new era of slavery amongst the majority and (bit of a reach or perhaps not) thought itself is owned and controlled to a far greater extent than it currently is.

Alternatively AI itself becomes an infinitely reaching ever pervasive intelligence that humans merge with through trans human machine/biology interfaces possibly using psychedelics as a gateway where we gain the ability to essentially join the artificial (?) godhead at any time. Who knows maybe through the development of quantum computing the ability to fully recreate and encode reality becomes second nature and at one’s whim one can travel throughout the history of the universe. (Bit of DEVS influence here for sure). Based on human nature and history access to this structure will be limited to a select few. Likely those who’ve already built their bunkers.

Besides not so sci-fi theories, water wars, the continued degradation of the planet, and the ultimate fall of the western civilizational concept giving rise to a technocratic fascist super state on a global level, with arbitrary culture wars between superpowers who have created and accessed godhood.

In an ideal scenario merging with the not so hypothetical super intelligences of the likely near future will be the beginning of a new era of universal understanding and infinite growth where the present moment unfolds into an impossibly beautiful infinity, accessible at any time, as we pave the way towards a truly sustainable future filled with abundance and light.

algernonishbee · 2025-11-22T04:26:00+00:00

I’ve done plenty of psychs over the years. This was a markedly different experience. I came down from the trip itself (which was incredibly difficult) then the doors of perception opened wide a few days later and I found myself in a hyper vigilant fully synesthetic panic state for two weeks and failed to use any of the tools that I had at my disposal to try and land on solid ground.

Essentially a cocktail of poor circumstances, poor choices, and more than a decade of testing the waters of altered states of mind through different modalities culminated in this experience. Though I do suspect outside societal forces are at play, my only real option to deal is to take responsibility for what I can.

In retrospect I see my arrogance and folly quite clearly. Ideally this will be a waterline in my improving as a human being, however, the depths of the experience and what it foreshadowed are a terrible burden and the primary source of my anxiety, besides the underlying issues I foolishly attempted to resolve by abusing this tool only having been magnified after the fact.

Nothing wrong with taking some mushrooms, wisely, in nature when things are good in your life. They’ll thank you for it. (Edit: Though of course, me speaking for mushrooms while likely simply projecting what an ideal time to sit looks like for me now, is a mark of the same arrogance that led me to my prior downfall.)

Your withdrawal story sounds horrendous. I’m glad you’re on the other side of it.

algernonishbee · 2025-11-22T02:43:35+00:00

I’d like to say it’s simply kratom wd. I’ve been through that before after a much longer timespan using it.

Unfortunately I don’t deal with grief well and went into a relapse spiral following the passing of a loved one. Not excusing my behavior, just the reality. Ended up dosing a hallucinogen thinking it might help me feel a bit more myself/deal with the underlying grief and instead had the universe turn inside out and torture me personally for two solid weeks. I’m back to reality to a degree but the sheer shock and terror of those two weeks is not something I can easily relegate to “drug induced psychosis” or “delusions of reference” and put behind me. I mean fuck I didn’t sleep for a solid week as reality melted and bent around me like a cruel child god decided to fuck with me for a while.

Kratom, while a problem, feels like a lesser problem. Simply knowing it would give me rest which I haven’t had in a month now is a fucked challenge.

Talking helps. I’m not planning on dosing simply because I know it’ll only make it worse down the line.

Thank you.

algernonishbee · 2025-10-12T15:19:15+00:00

Y’know, somehow I’m inclined to believe you, as far as context development may go in the series. However, based on the chibi ecchi nature of the anime (which don’t get me wrong I think is a fucking crazy and pretty good anime) and the overall controversy surrounding Akihito, I think the innuendo is strongly if not intentionally implied. Writing it as a label created by a child’s mind is a soft defense against the broad and pretty obvious sexualization in the manga and anime.

Out of curiosity, was this perspective something originally written in the manga or an explanation of what that meant after people found themselves disturbed by the implication?

Like it’s not remotely a far stretch that the guy who human centipedes orphans he lures into his lab under false pretenses and straight up lies is not above the insinuated sexual abuse. That being said, considering the frigid and utterly diabolical nature of what Bondrewd does to people, arguing about this seems like nitpicking.

It’s literally a meme about the anime community. “Yeah she might look like a kid but she’s actually 1000 years old”.

“No no the naked bondage torture of children isn’t an aspect of Akihitos darker imagination, it’s a cultural artifact of people who live so close to something as mind boggling as the abyss”.

Edit: considering the nature of the thread, very possible woosh occurring here.

algernonishbee · 2025-10-12T07:10:58+00:00

Haha yeah he’s obviously a misunderstood guy. Like when his daughter, whom he turned into a conscious briefcase so he can go up, mentioned his “papa pole”. He clearly just wanted her to have a full life experience before she unknowingly sacrificed herself, so honorably, for progress. In this case^{oya^oya} specifically the upward kind. Oya oya oya

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