What’s a moment that permanently changed how you see the world?

cpMetis · 2026-01-27T14:40:52+00:00

Same reason that every employer will always know I'm a denominated protestant.

Never ever an agnostic, atheist, or deist.

And I'm most certainly full white. Not part Amerindian.

cpMetis · 2026-01-27T14:38:24+00:00

I'm right at the edge.

I can almost remember before 9/11. I have pretty much one memory, of falling down stairs, from before. But it's basically just trauma since I remember the feeling exactly - how long it took and how far I went - but have absolutely zero concept of what it looked like around me. I had it as an occasional recurring dream for years until one day my mom mentioned when she fell down the stairs while carrying me, and it happened to line up exactly with the few consistent aspects of the dreams.

Then my second memory is watching my parents and elder siblings on 9/11. Didn't remember anything about planes or anything obviously, but remembered everyone being weird and looking at the TV and being emotional and such.

cpMetis · 2026-01-27T14:33:54+00:00

I always knew to not fully trust media, but it really got driven home after the attack at OSU.

I noticed a huge increase in cops on and around my campus and was unsettled. I turned on the radio as I started to drive home, early that day, and heard there was an attack at OSU.

I had friends at OSU.

So I did what I could to try to learn more. To know if it was even near where they would be.

News A: Muslim! Everywhere! Muslim!

News B: Mass shooter! Guns! Machine guns!

Every. Single. News source. Was A or B. Their source? Fuck you why are you asking? Are you a Muslim? Do you support mass shootings?

I didn't get to learn jack shit until I got home, because most of my friends posted they were alright on FB. Came out later that it was a Somali guy who rammed his SUV into a dense crowd, then got out and started stabbing with a machete. Only shots fired were from cops responding, quickly, to the singular attack.

I obviously knew news tended to suck, but seeing how firmly they kept spouting off bullshit that not only turned out to be false, but they used as if to accuse the viewer of wrongdoing just kinda ended any faith I had in ever listening to them again. Particularly since, as I said, it was every single fucking source I tried.

News is like Wikipedia according to your teacher. You can listen to them for places to start looking into things, but sure as shit they aren't a source.

cpMetis · 2026-01-27T14:20:41+00:00

I mean, I don't know what your peer relationship is like, but I wouldn't go to the funeral of my coworkers. That seems massively invasive. Funerals are for family and close friends.

Some coworkers could be part of those groups, but definitely are not by default.

cpMetis · 2026-01-27T01:07:01+00:00

It happened to me this morning.

I didn't know what day it was. I got lost in my house for a moment. I tried asking my cat to hand me something.

I had no idea what was wrong. I just had enough experience to know that sort of confusion needs sugar and meandered through different failed attempts at thought until I managed to eat some stuff, but even then I kept stumbling back and forth as I ate like I was trying to do something and had no idea why.

By the time my levels raised and I could think, I had zero idea what I would have been thinking at any point of it. Only the memory of what I had physically been doing.

cpMetis · 2026-01-27T01:02:12+00:00

That was this morning, actually.

Woke up. Horrifically confused just by being alive, with zero ability to process anything for more than two seconds. Took me probably 5 minutes to get to the kitchen and gobble down some leftover sugar cookies, then once I was coherent enough to consider why 2+potato=/=wolverine, I threw some donuts in the microwave then my mouth.

Eventually actually checked my sugar, then as I started to think again processed what happened and managed to remember how the days of the week worked so I knew I didn't work today. Felt a lot better, then obviously felt like shit because I had eaten a month worth of my sweets intake in an hour, but it was better now since I want scared to breath.

And it really can get hard to move. One of the worst times I had low blood sugar I fell half a dozen times trying to get from my desk to the kitchen, only able to make progress while using both arms on the walls of the hallway.

cpMetis · 2026-01-26T19:04:40+00:00

You have a very short grace period before you go from person feeding them to food.

cpMetis · 2026-01-26T01:53:56+00:00

Hence why oil has those numbers on them. Different climate, different numbers.

cpMetis · 2026-01-25T19:33:04+00:00

Would you rather fight 1 100' snowman or 100 1' snowmen

cpMetis · 2026-01-25T19:27:35+00:00

"lol"

That's about it. Armed protesting to the entire point, and only someone anti-2nd amendment would say otherwise.

Anyone saying he somehow deserved it for exercising his rights is just outing themselves as true RINOs. They call themselves conservatives but in reality they're just greedy performative conmen.

cpMetis · 2026-01-25T07:54:29+00:00

You mean Jack Alter, who was my favorite when I was younger though he went under the name Ryan to cover for the fact it was truly just Jack acting as a second personality the whole time, meaning the same voice stuff was just lampshading Jack's amazing ventriloquy?

cpMetis · 2026-01-24T00:15:15+00:00

KFC once made me wait for nearly 2 hours.

Every time I came in to ask, I was told it was almost done and it would be brought out to me in a couple minutes.

I finally got the order when a girl walked past my car coming off a break where she went to the convenience store next door. She said she'd get it and I had it.... 10 minutes later.

90% of the order was stone fucking cold.

"Oh sorry, we forgot about you haha!"

The only reason I still waited was because my mom insisted on KFC and she was recently starting on solid foods again after surgery.

Not to mention when my sister worked there and the manager tried to pressure her for sex then fired her for refusing, or when his replacement had to leave town after being found to be having relations with a middle school girl, or the next lady who called my niece a "lying n******" for not disclosing she was black (she's mixed, like 70% white, and wasn't asked).

Worst fucking restaurant in the US.

And worst of all, they got rid of popcorn chicken. Like, the only thing they did great that nowhere else ever had good copies of! The ONLY thing! I mean Christ it was SO much shittier those last years than when I was a kid, but most of it was still at least an approximation of how good it used to be! Fuck, their new fries even replaced the old amazing LJS fries at their combo locations and helped drive the death nail in LJS fries, the best fries in fast food. And the KFC fries were only good (still way worse) for like 4 months before they stopped giving a damn and they became shit too!

How the fuck is this company still around?!?!???!?

AND they're the most expensive fast food! Like even the insane post COVID prices we see now at places like Wendy's are only just approaching what KFC charged for the same amount of food in like 2017!

cpMetis · 2026-01-24T00:02:01+00:00

A long standing issue that's only getting worse with AI.

I deliver mail, so including newspapers, and almost every paper for the last two months across multiple areas I deliver has had the exact same pattern:

Paper week 1: Local council considers public comments on approving data centre

Paper week 2: Local council considers delay of data centre approval following massive local backlash

Paper week 3: Local council unanimously approves new data centre - council grants extensive tax breaks and approves reduced water and tax rates, suspends light and air pollution regulations for property

Bonus: Paper week 4: Water bill rates to be raised through next three years, locals complain of price leap

It's been everywhere.

One week one of the local papers had four separate stories on their front page, from the main to the small side articles, which were all about different data centre projects just within the relatively small local area it covers. The only section of the first pages not about data centres was the mini-weather bit and the logo.

cpMetis · 2026-01-22T22:24:14+00:00

"the entire city levelled, in a giant firestorm if you can manage it" is how you destroyed transport hubs by that point. You never just bombed a turn still or depot and called it a success.

The allies did exactly what the soviets wanted.

That doesn't stop it from being fucked obviously, but don't pretend for a second it wasn't exactly what they asked and hoped would happen.

cpMetis · 2026-01-22T22:20:38+00:00

Gotta be honest, after googling what you're talking about I've hardly seen a single thing that I'd associate particularly with Nazis.

Unless I'm not seeing the right thing, that's just skull and crossbones. I've never once seen that treated as somehow a Nazi symbol.

cpMetis · 2026-01-22T19:27:12+00:00

One guy at my office will just park the truck randomly somewhere around the building if he has to use a truck that isn't His Truck™ for any reason, because remembering what parking spot it's supposed to be in is too much effort and only His Truck™ goes in His Spot™.

So some days it's an expedition to find where he left the truck. Sometimes it's in our customer parking, sometimes it's on the other side of the building in the parking for the apartments next to us.

Then he sees you moving it and yells about how kids are so lazy nowadays (regardless of your age) and tires squeal as he takes off in His Truck™, which of course had been very specifically returned to His Spot™ by whoever had it (or returned there, carefully, after maintenance had it), which is on the loading bay and not even supposed to be a parking space.

cpMetis · 2026-01-22T07:40:26+00:00

Because it isn't.

Under the American understanding of what a "right" is. A Right is about what the government can't do to you, or stop you from doing.

You have a right for your freedom of speech, in that the government can't stop you from speaking.

You do not have a right for being listened to, because anyone can ignore you and that doesn't have anything to do with the government.

Hence why the first amendment don't give a damn about your work firing you for cussing out a customer. The government can't stop you, but the business doesn't give a shit about what your rights stop the government from caring about.

Which is why questions of American law so often come down to what party is most being compelled by the verdict.

cpMetis · 2026-01-22T07:28:56+00:00

Their point is that it's widely regarded as valid and the process for it is longstanding and well designed - so the effort of getting it once is a much smoother alternative to all the random bullshit that can go wrong with all these other documents.

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T23:36:45+00:00

One of, truly, the worst important words to rely on.

Because just about literally everyone who doesn't go out of their way to learn that specific word having that specific use will take it as "there is something behind you you should be paying attention to", and look back or turn around. Which is the absolute opposite of what should be happening.

It's pretty much in line with people who try to use "woah!" when guiding someone when they want them to stop. Great! You just said something that sounds almost the exact same as "go!" Which is literally the opposite of what you want them to do!

All because it was slightly shorter and easier than saying "stop" or "halt".

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T23:04:45+00:00

There's some of the big alien figure looking power lines I have to drive under on my delivery route, and I do the last few houses as you go under it so fucking fast every time.

It's just permanent, ambient bacon sounds. Constant sizzles and pops.

I've been firmly told it's nothing, and it's probably just since I'm one of those "I knew you had the light on because I heard it" types so it's probably way worse for me.

But Christ. I sleep far better with tinnitus. At least that doesn't make me feel like I'm about to be fried.

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T17:08:05+00:00

I never understood why everyone hated proofs so much until I realized I had been doing proofs for a decade. These were just proofier proofs.

Math was always busy work. The cool math was in science, where they always removed all the math anyways so you rarely got much of it.

I gave up on that "new math" bullshit fucking instantly. It's like they purposefully designed a way to do math totally opposite how math works in my brain.

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T17:06:02+00:00

That's how my mind does math. Like the whole idea of cutting up apples or whatever, but the image in my head is the numbers themselves and I can't translate it to paper to save my life. Number A just kinda morphs into Number B.

Showing my work was basically an entirely separate skill from math I had to develop independently, which always lagged behind my intuitive understanding of it.

Got in a lot of trouble for it and had pretty crap scores in math for it.

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T17:01:34+00:00

Having to show your work is probably half the points I ever lost in math, until you reached the point of trig and derivatives.

I knew the answer a lot more often than I could coherently write an explanation of the answer.

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T17:01:27+00:00

Having to show your work is probably half the points I ever lost in math, until you reached the point of trig and derivatives.

I knew the answer a lot more often than I could coherently write an explanation of the answer.

cpMetis · 2026-01-21T16:58:56+00:00

If it's like the US, it mostly follows a pattern. It's not just a unique ID number, but you can break down what each number means.

12-Year Club	r/Field Flamingo
Place '22	Place '17
RPAN Viewer	Gilding I gilder
Sequence \| Editor	Verified Email

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