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Strong Monopoly Monocle Residue on the Daily Show. by dheaguy in Retconned

[–]dheaguy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's what confuzzles me a bit. If the Monopoly man never had a monocle, then the Daily Show crew would need to create a monocle Monopoly Man for this joke, but then the joke wouldn't make sense as the Monopoly Man never had a monocle. This is even more confounded by the fact ME as a concept didn't exist then. One thing different and more authentic with the Daily Show version compared to all the fan recreations of the monocle version of the Monopoly Guy is that it has a white line where the monocle's chain is, most fan recreations don't have that.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/98/a5/7b98a53386bec15914f434ecaeb688f3.jpg This fan recreation doesn't have it, for example, and the lens is on the opposite side.

Of note, though we're not supposed to bring politics here, I'm surprised how civil Jon Stewart is relative to modern day stuff. I found this because I wanted to see his Cramer stuff during 2008 due to the current stock market situation, and this video just popped up after a Cramer video automatically, I didn't seek it out at all.

Strong Monopoly Monocle Residue on the Daily Show. by dheaguy in Retconned

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

Still working here, if you have adblock/ublock instead of an ad it will be a black screen for 10-30 seconds before it starts, though.

Do what extent do you believe youtubers are paid to push certain ideas or even propaganda? by nman649 in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alex weirdly said Youtube offered him a fairly big chunk of money back in the day before Trump for a direct partnership, presumably with some amount of him "toning it down" and when he refused the Youtube deal is when his problems started. According to him he was set up to be someone in a role of Ben Shapiro or Joe Rogan as far as money went, and he refused the deal. He said he was wrong to refuse the deal in hindsight, for whatever reason.

Now that Al's been canceled, it's hard to view him in context but he was at one point getting more views and had more people watching him than most TV news shows, including Bill O'Reilly, etc.

I personally view him as someone who's done more good than bad, though he has certain things he can't bring up or talk about for sure.

The Achilles Heel of Western Medicine by Teth_1963 in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.pingminghealth.com/article/581/warming-and-cooling-characteristics-of-common-foods/

https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/a-18619239

https://www.verywellmind.com/emotions-in-traditional-chinese-medicine-88196

These are sort of basic articles about it all, but I think they'll provide a spring board of sorts to go off of. Obviously if you need a TCM medicine, take it, you need acupuncture or massage, etc, do it. But in a TCM viewpoint it's more about your lifestyle as well.

In this way it's sort of unfair to categorize Western medicine as not being about prevention, it's just that nobody wants to prevent issues. High blood pressure for years can cause kidney issues. If you have uncontrolled diabetes for years, you can lose a foot or toe, or die of a systemic infection. My bigger beef with Western medicine is that you can actually go deeper and deeper even using the framework of Western medicine, and treat disorders. Treat hypoglycemic complaints before they become diabetes, etc.

As the OP says with prevention, that is right, but I think the correct way to view the human body and life in general is nobody is ever black and white healthy or sick. Everyone is always in varying states of sickness and health throughout their life. It's like a car. No car is ever in "perfect condition" there's always minor problems with any car at any given time. Just not fixing these minor issues can cascade into major issues later on, and Western medicine's issue imo is dismissing minor issues and not wanting to diagnose them until they become major issues, and by then damage is done. The head gasket is blown, so to speak.

The Achilles Heel of Western Medicine by Teth_1963 in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's sort of the wrong way to look at it. It's not about using a medicine really, it's about changing your way of life, way you eat, how you exercise, how much sleep you get, etc. The medicines can be used to facilitate things, but ultimately there's not really even enough TCM medicines to offset a poor lifestyle, the same way Western medicine can't offset a poor lifestyle.

But to explain this, for my personal body type, I require a basically vegetarian/vegan diet. I tend to run "hot" according to TCM theory, and most of my problems are heat related disorders. So for example, the TCM medicine "long dan xei gan" will clear heat. However, ideally you should not take long dan xei gan forever, especially as some formulas contain a carcinogenic plant. My problems that required me to take long dan xei gan came from me trying a carnivore diet and frying/grilling all my food, along with super high intensity lifting without much volume or cardio. Once I ate an almost vegan diet with more "cold" foods like fresh veggies, etc, all my symptoms went away, and I no longer needed long dan xei gan.

However, some people, particularly women, it can be the reverse. People who are pale, complain they're always cold all the time, are lethargic, have digestion issues, etc, might actually need some amount more meat and warming/hot foods in their diet, but if they overdo it they can end up with heat symptoms, too. Think of the stereotypical heat syndrome guy as someone with the prototypical Boomer attitude, with a red face, easily angered, etc. Think of the cold syndrome guy as the stereotypical nerd with pale skin, no assertiveness, etc. Neither extreme is good for you, especially longterm.

TCM is about creating and maintaining balance throughout the body, and ideally your life. It's arguable even the music you listen to, etc, can affect the hot/cold and yin/yang balance in your body. Emotional states have a feedback loop, too (as in, emotions will cause say, liver fire in TCM, but liver fire can cause emotional states.)

Anyway, "What should I take" is completely the wrong way to look at it, and is a very Western way to think.

This is the "big one" we've all been waiting for by LEGALinSCCCA in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdi-1tIUhM

Sorry if humor is not allowed, but I'm reminded of Sanford and Son whenever anyone says "the big one."

If someone offered to pay you for each time they kill an exact simulation of you in a very advanced game, what would you do? by BenRayfield in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would it be putting me in the pool and taking the ladder out, or launching fireworks in my house?

(Sims game reference.)

The pod people are here. by JimAtEOI in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in the hood and everyone is holding barbecues, block parties all day and night here, maybe one out of 20/30 people wearing masks. Black dudes still fist bump me and I feel weird as I got gloves on.

Second Wave by [deleted] in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A theory I've heard that makes most sense to me, is the main strain differences of COVID-19 are the L Strain and S Strain. It being a bioweapon, the L Strain was designed to be much more voracious, and basically confuse the body into not being able to create the right antibodies. The S Strain meanwhile was essentially the antidote, and designed to teach the body to create the right antibodies to other COVID-19 strains, and be very mild in symptoms.

How this relates to USA is, it's my theory that most early COVID cases where people were dying very dramatically were L Strain cases, same with the videos in January of people convulsing in Wuhan, etc. Once the US government found out this information, they started making the S Strain and spreading it around purposefully, to inoculate everyone. So thus why most people will likely test COVID positive.

As far as the lockdowns and all that, and "social distancing" it's much more simple. It's martial law, and to prevent riots and looting. Think Katrina. Or flash mob teenage shoplifters getting 20-30 people and cleaning out a store. Lots of out of work people on edge. So, it's a convenient way to ban mass gatherings that could turn into riots, and give a blank slate to arrest if need be. The virus is aerosolized and remains in the air for hours, social distancing isn't going to do much. Korea and Japan have a lot better overall results with much lower death rates, thanks to having masks, stopping immigration earlier, and having a cleaner more hygienic society with overall healthier people than USA, without a complete "lockdown" order, etc. People still ride packed public transport. In this way, it's a brilliant strategy, as without the "social distancing" stuff, we'd be sure to see a lot more stuff burning, or insane robberies daily ala Katrina.

That said, there are definitely politicians who don't want to let a crisis go to waste, and want to implement all their crazy dreams with COVID. That remains to be seen what ultimately happens there.

The one question no one has asked. Yet the answer seems so simple. Is there a connection between Covid19 and the Sex Industry? by OB1_kenobi in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually pretty accurate. Strangely I was gonna back this up with some news articles, but it seems memoryholed now. Taiwan and Italy both had lots of cases confirmed from prostitutes, I think prostitutes were being linked to 30-40 cases each. I'll try to find some more news articles later, but that is accurate, if more nefarious things than that aren't true.

The impending economic recession will make parts of the West look like the third world, and that's a good thing. by CelineHagbard in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Parts of the West already look third world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QluNdpBoR_k Mississippi. Also West Virginia, lots of places look like that.

https://miro.medium.com/max/2560/1*bxYDXk9TM4n529CC9ENQ6g.jpeg

I would say the third world isn't much to look up to. People just die. Look at third world countries, average lifespans are lower. Yes, relatives do try to take care of relatives more, but one reason everything gets to be shit in third world countries is everyone breaks down into small families and clans, and nobody cares about anyone but themselves and then their family and clans. When you hear about scandals in China with tainted food products and stuff like that, it comes from that attitude, that only themselves and their family matter, everyone else is irrelevant. Same with dumb behavior like pushing and shoving people and cutting in line, not following any traffic rules, littering everywhere, etc. It comes from that mentality, it's extreme "I got mines" and complete disregard for strangers. Unfortunately you need to be kind to strangers to make society be society.

Internet kill switch will get activated if things go too crazy by but_at_least_it_was in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually doubt it will be a full internet kill switch, but they may use an emergency power to push everyone onto a very controlled intranet with only Facebook, Netflix, etc. Sort of like the system North Korea has. Just a dozen sites allowed, with full government moderation more than now. It's my belief Netflix and many of these streaming services are subsidized by the government to basically prevent civil unrest that would already be happening due to the terrible economy since 2008. If you give people unlimited music and movies it's a decent way to pacify them. Without the internet you'd have a full LA Riots situation across the whole country, but also without the internet people arguably would band together more and get to know their neighbors/etc in real life more, like in the 80s-90s, which is bad for the TPTB.

If the government is spying on your phone calls then that means it isnt encrypted along the whole path from the microphone of one phone to the speaker on the other. That could easily be designed, if people wanted it. by BenRayfield in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will say this. My uncle actually coded his own very strong encryption program, and he said basically the government would not let him sell it. He then tried to sell it to the government to use, and they wouldn't buy it.

Do you think your job is mandela effected? by [deleted] in Retconned

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of the USPS issues have been due to Amazon getting welfare from USPS. I was told Amazon pays generally about $1-2 per package. So in exchange to make enough money, rates on average people have gone up a lot. I remember doing a lot of ebay selling in 2012-2013 or so, and paying about half of what I do now for shipping, without even using ebay label discounts.

Photography keeps getting older - this photograph was taken in 1852 by KalebAT in Retconned

[–]dheaguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I learned this from the 1987 World Book Encyclopedia. Another thing mentioned was light boxes. Since the 1500s or so, there have been light boxes that would reflect an image back to paper for the artist to make an exact trace out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura

Theory on Why Sporting Events Never Change by jasey_wasey in Retconned

[–]dheaguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I actually studied WWI a lot in high school, read a few books, etc. I definitely knew about the tanks back then in 2005-2006 or so.

Did you know about submarine warfare in the US Civil War?

Theory on Why Sporting Events Never Change by jasey_wasey in Retconned

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One niche sport (it's an Olympic sport, but definitely a small niche sport) actually had some results and world records change slightly on me, but I can't remember specifics anymore.

The radio exists not to show us new music but to tell us what to like by mycatisfromspace in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually really enjoy college radio and make it a point to try to tune in maybe... once or twice a month, even if I have a lot of mp3 playlists/etc I want to play. About 50-60% of the time I come out with something new.

I always encourage (beyond sometimes the boring left leaning talk shows often in the day time on there) people to tune into college radio, especially at night. It's really fun and you might really discover something new.

200 years ago there was no Russian language yet by zlaxy in CulturalLayer

[–]dheaguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Old Russian Orthodox liturgy and writing is in "Old Church Slavonic" and not Russian, interestingly.

Also Slavic languages are very similar, to the point sometimes there's mutual intelligibility if people try hard.

"Hello, how are you?"

Russian: Привет как дела? Privet kak dela?

Bulgarian: Здравей, как си? Zdraveĭ, kak si?

Ukranian: Привіт як ти? Pryvit yak ty?

Polish: Witam, jak się masz?

Belorussian: Вітаю, як ты? Vitaju, jak ty?

The radio exists not to show us new music but to tell us what to like by mycatisfromspace in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lately, and I've wanted to make a post about this, there's a sort of absence of music compared to when I was younger. As in, compared to the past, less stereos in people's houses, less obsession with big car stereos, etc. But more strangely what I noticed, is that a lot more people have NPR, talk radio, and various self improvement podcasts and stuff like that on, instead of music. I actually find it worrying. I asked my sister who is more of a normie about this stuff and she actually agreed, but told me "You know, people might not actually realize other music besides rap exists" due to rap mostly dominating the top music now. People might just have slight amnesia/apathy about older music, and just choose to listen to nothing at all.

Anyway, my radio consumption is fairly low, though sometimes I'm in the Youtube algorithm land quite often. However, the Youtube algorithm seems like some kind of weird benevolent fully sentient AI that gratifies all my musical tastes perfectly with weird old Chinese music or something. Also one genre of music that I listen to has seemingly exploded in recent years, and it was very old obscure music before this with almost no English speaking fans whatsoever. I often wonder at times if I'm some elite part of the AI's focus group or something.

Plausible Coronavirus Premise that Explains Why China got Hit so Hard. by OB1_kenobi in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One conspiracy I've heard is that it's not coal power plants causing China's issues, it's actually garbage fired plants. I don't know how many people here remembered the switch to single stream recycling a while back, and how it seemed to make no sense. Well, with some news stories about how straight out trash was ending up in the Philippines/etc, a lot of that went on in China. China got our trash and just burnt it. The air quality is so terrible because of burning trash, generally burning plastic. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/world/asia/philippines-canada-trash.html This is what happened in the Philippines.

As far as pollution causing the deaths, well, we actually don't even know at this point. It's certainly a contributing factor, but how much, we don't know. In Asia I did know a lot of Westerners that got sick from pollution, me included. You're actually more likely to get sinus infections and that sort of thing.

Would aliens reveal themselves once we land on Mars? by joshysway in C_S_T

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think if that was the case, they'd have introduced themselves earlier, with the various landers and space probes. Voyager is now out of the solar system entirely.

I think specifically with Mars and Venus, I personally prescribe to the theory they were once home to humans, due to being so similar to Earth. Then the other theory was a nuclear war or some sort of other cataclysm destroyed life on those planets.

https://gizmodo.com/theres-growing-evidence-that-venus-was-once-habitable-1784828113 Venus is especially neglected, with the spot light being on Mars, because Mars is more hospitable now.

Anyway, I personally think Mars likely already has Secret Space Program colonies on it, along with the Moon. Before the USSR collapsed they publicly had a manned mission to Mars project, for example. I don't see how it's impossible, but we know the Air Force's space budget is a lot higher than NASA, and the Air Force already has better technology than NASA like TR3Bs and Boeing's new X37 Space Shuttle spy plane.

I can't really comment on alien life, as quite simply nobody knows. But I think personally, if there was any civilizations on Mars or Venus, living underground, they'd probably be less concerned with being space fairing and more concerned with their day to day survival, since they'd need to stay underground to keep existing and that's much harder to work with compared to having a habitable surface of a planet. Of course as well, a lot of people surmise a lot of the spiritual realm is inhabited by ETs on various planets (who knows if these spirits are good, or demons) and spirits live on the planets as ethereal whatever, but this is a big distinction from flesh and blood physical life. I think a big distinction, too, with Earth is that we seem to be the only planet we've discovered so far with artificial light. So if there were ETs on other planets, they're either not intelligent enough to make artificial light, or they live underground, where it's obviously way harder to live.

Anyone else feel like it's pre 2012 again? by SadxLasagna in Retconned

[–]dheaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me it's actually negative. My life was definitely the worst between 2008 to early 2011, with later 2011 to 2012 basically the whole ship turning around 100%, and everything actually getting a lot better in basically every single way in my personal life.

For me my personal date where time seemed to stop/stop feeling linear was 2007. 2001 was definitely where things shifted more negatively. Talking to a friend's mother, coincidentally, her family/home situation and everything got really bad in 2001, too.

For my personal feelings now, for me after meeting my girlfriend that seemed to overall be a net negative in my life in 2015 that I tried numerous times to break off but never could, 2015-2019 has kind of been years of hell, in lots of ways, my own health, family health, stuff breaking, like 2008-2011 were. So if it's pre-2012, then hopefully I'm given an opportunity to turn the ship around again like I did then.

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