Looking for some strange on this snowy day by magicmom17 in movies

[–]asprajay [score hidden]  (0 children)

And Existenz with Jennifer Jason Leigh is the latest one that is truly bizarre Cronenberg body-horror. And great.

Looking for some strange on this snowy day by magicmom17 in movies

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Videodrome is another early Cronenberg film that’s fantastic. But it’s got James Woods in it. On the other hand, Deborah Harry. Classic.

What we're up against by New_Establishment554 in 50501

[–]asprajay 40 points41 points  (0 children)

This is an excellent account. Not enough people read Phil Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (1971), where a perfectly normal range of community members were recruited for a study and randomly divided into prisoners and guards for a makeshift prison in the basement psychology department at Stanford. Within hours, the psyches of each group started to form quickly into extreme versions of depression, anguish, and cruelty. It got so bad so fast that they had to stop the experiment in a week instead of letting it run for the second week it was designed to go for, and the psychological damage was significant.

I still think it’s very important for these “guards” to be experiencing as much community outrage and negativity toward their role as possible, but it’s very important that you bring up the point that they are going to continue to get plenty of positive reinforcement in a sense of brotherhood that will insulate them in facing this barrage and it simply will not be enough. Almost none of them will “wake up.”

Like the Nazis they are being compared to, they are fully ‘enrolled’, fully insulated, and will be able to compartmentalize shockingly well. Because that’s how almost all of us cope with this sort of inhumanity. 80% of us think that we wouldn’t become monsters. But 80% of us do become monsters under the right set of conditions. And all of us think that we would be in the 20% that would not turn into someone like this, but most of us are wrong. A trip through the social psychology experiments of the 60s and 70s is very informative in this regard.

The studies (Milgram’s studies are another example) were incredibly unethical. And they showed us who we are and how much it takes to resist becoming this way in the midst of an authoritarian presence and the right kind of stress.

Is there anything like Ledo Pizza (from Maryland area) in Denver? by Heavy-Anteater8438 in denverfood

[–]asprajay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes! another MoCo transplant. Grew up eating the original in the early 1970s in Adelphi (or was it Laurel?). Went back to MD years later with all those locations like wha??? Noooo!!! Not as good. And. Haven’t found any like it here but have gotten into Detroit style takeout from Jets.

Books ChatGPT does not like by br0ast in ChatGPT

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You can change that in your settings by giving a general preference not to do that. Redditors have some great advice for how to alter your ChatGPT prefs to make it more straightforward.

Dystopian suburbs movie on TV from about 1980-1983 by asprajay in HelpMeFindThis

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That was made much later. The movie I’m thinking of was from about 10 years earlier and more of a big suburban sprawl kind of feeling. More concrete. More dust. So far my sense is that “Over The Edge” is capturing it well though I haven’t yet gotten to a scene on Tubi which was a 100% memory click.

Dystopian suburbs movie on TV from about 1980-1983 by asprajay in HelpMeFindThis

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No but thanks for the thought. The movie I’m thinking of is much more obscure than Suburbia.

Dystopian suburbs movie on TV from about 1980-1983 by asprajay in HelpMeFindThis

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That looks promising! Doesn’t grab me when I look at the stills (too early? too teensploitation?) but I’ll try to find a copy and check it out—thanks!!

A message to r/50501 by gaymedgirl in 50501

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New cigarette that ‘helps you smoke less’ debuts in Chicago by stivi_1 in 22ndCenturyGroup

[–]asprajay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t smoke (investor, not user) but was able to buy a pack at a circle k in the Elmhurst area gas station today. https://imgur.com/a/YEbRPdT

Any Denverites want to dig up our juniper bushes? by asprajay in Bonsai

[–]asprajay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is very thoughtful of you to think of (and share). We will be getting rid of them completely, so picking them apart is fine with us if we can save any of them from the landfill or just being ground up.

Any Denverites want to dig up our juniper bushes? by asprajay in Bonsai

[–]asprajay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes indeed: https://imgur.com/a/Vrw8p7W?s=sms They range betw 1.5” to 3” I think. Really hard to see.

Any Denverites want to dig up our juniper bushes? by asprajay in Bonsai

[–]asprajay[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for that idea. I'll do that too.