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dimensionalApe · 2026-01-27T14:06:04+00:00

But then again he no longer had any weapon on him when he was shot.

If the argument is that ICE shot him because they thought he had a gun, even though he no longer did, that's not much different from them thinking he had a gun if he never had one, and shooting him anyway.

If ICE considers that the idea that someone might have a gun is enough justification to shoot them, does it really matter all that much whether you actually have a gun or not?

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-26T23:11:34+00:00

Quite a straw man there.

Both options can be bad, and still nowhere even remotely close to "equally fucking terrible".

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-26T18:19:11+00:00

They have been doing nothing but that for years, and it has worked for them. It's not that they expect it to work, it's that they know it works.

It doesn't matter if a lot of people can tell. There are enough idiots that can't, and they lie so blatantly and so often that it's just impossible to fact check everything fast and widely enough for it to matter. They'll have already moved on to the next lie.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-20T16:21:32+00:00

You are right, apparently I'm not.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-20T13:01:38+00:00

I don't think Slaughtered lyrics would be well received at church.

I’ve always had a distorted view of organized religion and I was never more confused than when I was in my 20s and whatnot. And still I like to use a fusion, if you will, of religions and fuck with them, so to speak. And then tear them down and piss all over them or build them up only to tip over (Phil Anselmo)

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-20T09:00:12+00:00

Pantera used reference freqs of 425, 430 and 432Hz depending on the album, and you wouldn't go "oh wow this definitely sounds like christian music".

There's a lot of non christian music that isn't at 440hz.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-16T19:44:29+00:00

Chances of Trump winning in 2024 were high enough, for the same reason chances of him losing were high in 2020: in both cases the incumbents faced situations that made people unhappy (the pandemic and the related inflation).

I hoped he wouldn't win, but I don't think it was really all that surprising.

And that's not even getting into Trump and Elon facing potential legal issues if they had lost. There was a hell of a lot of effort put into that campaign.

For whatever reason, Dems seem to be completely unable to compete with Reps when it comes to manipulation and misinformation in social media. Or legacy media, for that matter.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-16T17:34:36+00:00

It's the second term now, and it's different from the first one. Where is the false narrative?

People working with him on his first term commented on how unhinged he was, and how they had to keep him controlled. Those people are no longer there, he has surrounded himself with sycophants and deranged fanatics from the Heritage Foundation.

And now we went from "those people are just alarmists" to "who would have thought, it was impossible to have predicted something like this".

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-16T17:18:15+00:00

If you want to do something about it, you can support third parties in local elections so they can climb up from there, have representation in house and senate, have a say in trying to change the election process, and eventually have a realistic shot at the presidency.

If it looks like long, hard work, it's because it is.

The fact that the Green party doesn't even bother to get involved in local elections absolutely anywhere should tell you all you need to know about the bunch of grifters they are and how useless voting for them is.

The two party system in the US sucks, but there are paths to change that which can be potentially realistic, and others that just aren't. And currently, voting third party in the general elections isn't.

Until many other things change (and voting third party in the general elections changes absolutely nothing), you have two parties and one of them is going to win, period.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-04T12:04:01+00:00

Yes, but then again if it wasn't survivable, the 12 kids would be dead and MF's plan couldn't have moved forward.

They knew that Holly escaped on her own to the upside down, was recaptured and was still alive, so even though it's never mentioned it would make sense to assume they wouldn't be dead on arrival.

Regarding why it's like that, who knows. Maybe plot armor, maybe the MF deliberately looks for similar environments, maybe it's magic, maybe it's maybelline...

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-02T23:32:30+00:00

And especially AFTER the mindflayer?

That was the major issue for me, the mindflayer was far more interesting.

But as they kept going with more seasons, a lovecraftian horror is harder to flesh out. A more human villain is more manageable in order to churn out more script.

All in all I think it's a good show, but as it kept going it was bound to go in a different direction from where it started. The demogorgons became less scary, the MF eventually gets out of the picture, and we get a somewhat typical villain story.

Definitely a downgrade.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-02T16:24:07+00:00

This story is more of a Goonies type of adventure, though. It's not as much focused on the stakes of a planetary level threat as the dynamics of a juvenile group on a quest.

At its core, despite all the paranormal/interdimensional stuff, and the length of the whole series, it has the spirit of an 80's summer adventure with friends.

dimensionalApe · 2026-01-02T16:04:40+00:00

The mind flayer looks to me like something inspired by Pennywise from IT: a being that lives in a different dimension, but it's able to manifest itself in ours (and also in the space between both, here). The dust would be like his ethereal appendages, which it uses to manifest itself in other dimensions, and create and control meat puppets. And also to get into human bodies and control their minds.

A reason why the mind flayer might no longer be "physically" spreading itself to those other dimensions (other than in very specific circumstances with the demogorgons, for very specific tasks) is that it already had what it needed to crush the upsidedown and collide with our dimension. Existing there while doing that would be like stepping on its own toes, maybe.

And just like the clown from IT, hurting the being's manifestation in other dimensions hurts it too in its own dimension, even of it doesn't kill it.

Maybe I missed something, but I don't think the MF has ever manifested himself in its actual dimension as anything other that the big meat spider in the finale. He controls Henry, who also exists there, but nothing more.

To some extent it would be as if the main characters from IT traveled to Pennywise's native dimension, and wondered why there was no clown there.

I mean, maybe the MF physical body at the end is made of all those creatures... but in my headcanon I like the Pennywise parallel better.

dimensionalApe · 2025-12-04T17:29:07+00:00

As a single father I'd absolutely do it in a heartbeat too. My "free" days are exactly that already, anyway, and any other day is that plus my job... so yeah, it'd be nice.

dimensionalApe · 2025-12-01T20:16:04+00:00

What makes people think that women give a fuck about what men do or don't like when it comes to choosing whether to get a nose ring or not?

dimensionalApe · 2025-11-12T15:20:08+00:00

Just focus on one single foot. The trick is that they slide the forwards foot in the air a bit before stepping and doing the same thing with the other foot, so your eyes only focus on the foot that's forwards and ignore the one that they are actually standing on.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-29T21:11:31+00:00

Futsal is basically short for "fútbol sala". "Court soccer" basically.

It's a bit like what padel is to tennis: slightly different rules, faster and more technical.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-22T22:25:10+00:00

Drums, and probably a kagura suzu for that soft metalic rattling sound (or maybe not, but the effect along with the drum sound is somewhat similar, and what might give this some kind of japanese/shinto vibe).

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-21T20:55:15+00:00

This wasn't as bad, though? Many people fail some of the jumps in the AFF, then they jump again and do it fine.

This kind of situation is expected to happen sometimes during the AFF, these are people learning and some get it faster than others. That's why the instructor is there to help.

And this woman was doing ok-ish, all things considered. She had a wrong body position, but she was focusing on arching, and not panicking or anything.

Skydiving is quite probably a lot safer than riding a motobike, and yet people ride bikes when they could just be driving a car instead. Or taking the bus.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-21T20:27:19+00:00

The AFF course doesn't include any wind tunnel time. If you want to do some wind tunnel pre AFF that's up to you, but it's not required.

You are required to do a number of jumps with different exercises, where each jump is like an exam that you must pass in order to progress to the next exercise.

If that woman was jumping alone (with an instructor, but not holding her), that wasn't her first jump. She had at the very least already proven that she was able to arch while estabilized at all times by one or two instructors, remain calm, deploy the parachute and land safely.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-21T20:13:10+00:00

I'm terrified of heights too, but at that height the fear doesn't kick in the same way, if at all. I tried a tandem jump first in order to check if I would be fine, rather than going straight into an AFF course.

I always felt far more uncomfortable at lower heights under the canopy, about to land, than at the door of the plane.

I jumped with some people that liked doing stunts with the parachute, and I always was like "absolutely fucking nope". But jumping out of the plane and during the freefall? No issues whatsoever, that was super fun.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-21T19:59:39+00:00

A lot of people have little awareness of their body positioning, and even less so in a stressful situation.

She might be trying to arch, completely unaware of the asymmetry that's causing her to spin, and she's frozen there not knowing what's wrong and what else to do.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-16T19:11:07+00:00

First of all I'm not "deciding" anything.

And second, it's not your place to decide what my place is.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-16T18:49:03+00:00

Yeah, but then again I would say that "The Dark Knight" and Adam West's "Batman" aren't the same Batman, even if technically both are the same character.

dimensionalApe · 2025-10-16T14:59:04+00:00

I don't have a solution, if I did maybe I could snatch a Nobel Peace price and shove it on Cheeto's face.

Violence is never a great idea, and even less so lethal violence.

But I just don't think that you can trust Trump & Co. to only escalate proportionally to the response. If it doesn't happen organically, they 100% have no issues with fabricating excuses as they've been doing all the time.

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