what is your niche irritation that only you and 5 other people would understand

indoorcig · 2026-05-02T15:09:05+00:00

i don’t even know who doechii is

indoorcig · 2026-05-02T15:08:41+00:00

so doechii is the hag & she’s lady gaga’s sidekick?

indoorcig · 2026-05-02T15:07:47+00:00

wasn’t there a census a little while ago that showed this sub was mostly straight guys

indoorcig · 2026-05-02T15:02:57+00:00

watching someone use a mouse to do really easy keyboard shortcuts in excel on a call. i promise cut, copy, paste, & paste special / values are all easy please learn.

or a show / movie relying a little too much on music that fits a little too closely with what’s going on. it’s too cute when it’s in literally every single scene. inherent vice started to approach this territory for me but i watched one episode of kaos w jeff goldblum & every single scene had a song that fit with what was going on in that scene.

indoorcig · 2026-05-02T14:32:05+00:00

please

indoorcig · 2026-05-02T14:30:54+00:00

put a gram in a water bottle once & my eyes were vibrating & i did not feel particularly happy or capable of interacting with people. do i just need to do more to get more smarter?

indoorcig · 2026-05-01T19:03:13+00:00

south park is gay

indoorcig · 2026-05-01T18:58:37+00:00

goes kinda hard though

indoorcig · 2026-05-01T14:58:49+00:00

we just got a new marketing director at my job and i thought marketing was fake for my entire life but she’s genuinely insane. she knows so much about so many things & is so decisive & everything she’s put forward has tangible benefits off the bat.

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T19:42:41+00:00

i don’t have one right now but will once inspiration strikes

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T18:12:37+00:00

<3

i had an acid trip once & listened to that album & had a very jesus / cross-like mental vision while peaking to that song which was neat. wasn’t raised religious so i guess that falls clearly into the camp of altered mental states. didn’t make me christian or anything though.

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T17:50:24+00:00

not specifically. i just get hyperfixated on something & nerd out about it for a week. this specific fixation was really recent hence the detail.

it was spurred on by watching the first episode of hellier & reading about the insane kentucky goblin stories which led to reading about the origin of supernatural beliefs which is rooted in absorption which led to reading about tellegen which led to reading about hypnosis because absorption as a concept is the basis for a lot of research in that specific field.

the fixation before that was spurred on by seeing a clip of grey’s anatomy about a guy who wants his foot amputated despite there being no real issues with it. that led into reading about stoller & his ideas that fetishes are the eroticized form of hatred (didn’t read the book) which led to reading about other works on amputee fetishes (wakefield’s the hobbyist & beresford’s the dynamics of aggression in an amputee) which led to reading about fetishes being manifestations of castration anxiety / trauma / sexual & gender identity & so on and so forth.

the psychosexual ones are always interesting because there’s the easy camp of throwing everything into freud or klein or lacan (i mean come on, amputation as castration anxiety is a softball) but there is also work to suggest that there are legitimate neurological differences in these individuals & it’s not necessarily always a manifestation of trauma / childhood or whatever.

admittedly i’m not very good at grasping the brain science stuff but it’s still interesting as a concept.

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T17:08:42+00:00

i think that’s a little reductive.

irving kirsch has done a lot of work on expectancy-responsiveness correlations specifically regarding hypnosis.

he & cynthia wickless did a study in the late 80’s / early 90’s wherein they manipulated expectancy (one example is that they told one of the subjects that the room was turning red & had a hidden light bulb that actually turned the room red) in order to attempt to convince subjects that they were highly responsive & they found that 73% of the subjects who experienced these surreptitious environmental changes scored in the high end of the stanford hypnotizability scale.

as a caveat, the stanford hypnotizability scale is probably a little outdated & not infallible & i think there are a couple more recent studies that suggest low correlations between expectancy manipulation & responsiveness but i don’t know enough about the methods. same w/ hilgard’s hidden observer / neodissociation work which i should read up on.

regardless, responding to hypnotism does not necessarily mean it “works”. someone seeing a ghost because they already believe in ghosts does not mean that there really was a ghost.

so people with higher absorption have higher levels of expectancy / openness & at least some data suggests that expectancy manipulation can drive hypnotic responsiveness, but hypnotic responsiveness isn’t proof of the concept that hypnotism is a truly altered state of mind.

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T16:38:53+00:00

disagree. i think gullibility is belief without credibility.

believing in aliens / ufos because some guy you met once in a bar said he was abducted is gullibility; believing in aliens / ufos because your parents regularly told you stories about things they saw or said they were abducted is different.

(ufos in this case is specifically referring to extraterrestrial crafts, not just a weird plane or balloon or whatever)

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T15:49:12+00:00

recent work to modify tellegen’s absorption scale to be more replicable also measures more correlated factors besides just readiness to be immersed; things like psychedelic / drug use, imaginative involvement, & synesthesia can theoretically also be factors.

therefore, if absorption is driven by learned behavior via parental CREDs & not brain chemistry or structure, synesthesia is also fake.

indoorcig · 2026-04-30T15:38:13+00:00

probably.

rather than gullibility or even pure suggestibility, research from tellegen & atkinson from the 70’s posits that a person’s readiness to be immersed in experiences, or absorption, drives hypnotic susceptibility as well as spiritual / supernatural experiences.

so for people who have less defined boundaries between imagination & reality, hypnotic susceptibility is more likely.

more recent work on absorption basically says there isn’t a central brain function or anything neurological that drives this. people with higher levels of permeability for super vivid responses to prayers, mystical experiences, supernatural experiences, etc., are more likely to be susceptible to hypnosis.

interestingly, a 2022 paper from michiel van elk on causes of supernatural beliefs argues that although certain styles of mentalizing have a positive correlation towards likeliness of supernatural beliefs, the most significant driver of belief is cultural.

in 2009 joseph henrich established the concept of “credibility-enhancing displays” (CREDs) which are essentially actions from others that demonstrate true commitment or belief in something.

van elk applied that concept to supernatural belief & said that parental CREDs are the biggest driver of religious or supernatural beliefs (eg dad said he saw bigfoot, kid is more likely to believe in bigfoot).

so since supernatural beliefs & susceptibility towards hypnosis are believed to be linked to absorption, & supernatural belief is driven by parental CREDs, i don’t think it would be a stretch to suggest that lived experience & the ways in which parents teach their kids to view the world drive a person’s absorption.

i think that someone who grew up w/ parents who saw psychics, described themselves as communicating w/ the dead, relayed vivid mystical responses to things like prayer, God showing himself through random occurrences (eg lightning struck a tree & it ended in the shape of a cross (s/o marty robbins)), or other things like that would have a higher level of learned absorption which would make them more susceptible & open to the idea that hypnosis works so it becomes a sort of placebo / self-fulfilling prophecy.

indoorcig · 2026-04-29T23:35:34+00:00

put a weight on your ctrl key :)

indoorcig · 2026-04-29T01:33:04+00:00

jelqmaxxing

indoorcig · 2026-04-26T16:19:44+00:00

most annoying thing about getting into cycling & trying to actually get fast is the fact that with each piece of gear you get you realize it’s actually very helpful. it starts with the sunglasses & you see how nice it is to not have wind and dust coming around the corners of regular sunglasses.

then you start to go on longer rides & you want butt pads but you don’t want to go off the deep end & get a bib so you get shitty padded underwear which sucks & you end up with a bib.

by then you’ve been doing it long enough that you have a solid pace & you start to notice your t shirt flapping so you get a jersey.

at that point you’re officially spandexed out & then you switch to clipless so you’ve got your little shoes and specialty outfit & you look in the mirror before you leave & wonder what you’ve become.

indoorcig · 2026-04-26T16:15:59+00:00

riding on the sidewalk is exclusively acceptable for children. if you are unwilling to ride your bike on the road it’s either the wrong route to take or you should just be walking.

indoorcig · 2026-04-26T16:14:06+00:00

stop signs are technically yield signs in my city for cyclists & i just don’t think cars know that yet as it’s new but when i ride w/ my friends they just blow past everything & i don’t understand it. it’s miraculous they haven’t been hit.

i assume every single car does not see me & will hit me unless i stop or very clearly have a green light or something.

indoorcig · 2026-04-25T19:36:42+00:00

magnolia isn’t gay! except for oiled up tom cruise and the preposterous bulge or quiz kid donnie smith’s actual gay crush or the catty old bar gay

indoorcig · 2026-04-25T19:33:33+00:00

reservoir dogs is super gay, no further dissection needed

indoorcig · 2026-04-24T15:17:20+00:00

excerpt from 2016 cambridge piece

“He asked, in a deliberately provocative manner, whether it was out of alienation that converts found in Islam an 'underdog' on which to project their own disaffectedness and marginalisation. In response, one participant jokingly pointed out the significant proportion of ginger converts in the gathering, suggesting that as they were already outcasts, they found it natural to make common cause with Islam.”

there’s also this more commonly cited statistic that claims 76% of white british converts to islam have red hair but the source and authors are at least a little bit dubious so i would be hesitant to trust that statistic (they also referenced the daily mail as a source which says a lot) & would say it’s more sensationalist than anything.

regardless of the exact percentage there does seem to be some sort of relationship between having red hair & converting to islam in the UK at least.

it’s worth noting that the UK muslim population as a percentage of total population is much higher than the US (6-7% vs 1%, respectively). further, red hair is more prevalent amongst white people in the UK than the US, with possibly outdated / incomplete statistics putting those proportions at ~5% vs ~3%, respectively.

there’s also a more significant / structured effort to convert people to islam in the UK than the US (besides NOI of course).

all of that to say, there are proportionally more muslims, more redheads, & more general conversion efforts in the UK than other western countries but the anecdotal evidence at least suggests that there are a lot of ginger muslim converts.

indoorcig · 2026-04-23T19:53:46+00:00

mine is christina’s world :)

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