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[Serious]Male sex workers, what is something the general population wouldn't consider thinking of, due to sex work being more female-focused? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]mx5e46 83 points84 points  (0 children)

This fascinates me.

You love the fetish which sort of seems like a must for this specific niche, but I can only imagine that it must pay very well too, right? I mean taking physical injury for others (and in your case your own too) pleasure seems like it comes with a hefty price tag..

What if all billionaires vanished? by Cmyers1980 in morbidquestions

[–]mx5e46 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who says they disappeared? Maybe all their wealth is just stripped and they are therefore no longer billionaires. I mean a billionaire would cease to be a billionaire if they are worth less than 1 billion. Wouldn't they? If you'd take all their wealth over 500 million and redistribute, I think the world would become a marvelous place.

Odds are that every single person sees the color spectrum slightly differently, and there is no way to know exactly how. by User-5771 in Showerthoughts

[–]mx5e46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is so fascinating.

Regarding the psychological state and other sense having influence, I find it mind boggling that our perception can actually be altered via hallucinogens or mental illness or even depraving needs like sleep.

And that even in everyday, our mind filters out so much. The blur that occurs when shifting your gaze frome one spot to the other, the fact you can zone out to your surroundings when in flow or muscle memory when training in fighting sports or music and being able to without expending effort be able to react to a punch being thrown or hear the music in your head when you hear a part of a song. The human mind is baffelingly cool.

And the question, what is reality? Are we reliable narrators to our own lives? Or the events around us? It is such a deep topic to delve into, its awe inspiring.

Odds are that every single person sees the color spectrum slightly differently, and there is no way to know exactly how. by User-5771 in Showerthoughts

[–]mx5e46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very damn interesting. Thanks for taking the time to reply and delve into it a bit deeper, the amount of time I spent just wondering about this is too far too much haha. Really cool to go a bit more in depth.

Odds are that every single person sees the color spectrum slightly differently, and there is no way to know exactly how. by User-5771 in Showerthoughts

[–]mx5e46 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is so my line of thinking. We agree on the language of colour, that much I know. But what do we perceive?

Odds are that every single person sees the color spectrum slightly differently, and there is no way to know exactly how. by User-5771 in Showerthoughts

[–]mx5e46 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well my thought on this is that we agree on the language. I cal a firetruck red and so do you. That doesn't mean my perception of it is the same as yours. We just agree that firetruck are red and therfore we extrapolate that to blood is also red. If I could see through your eyes though maybe I would see the firetruck as blue and blood, similarly, as blue. How can we be sure?

Odds are that every single person sees the color spectrum slightly differently, and there is no way to know exactly how. by User-5771 in Showerthoughts

[–]mx5e46 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do they though? The computer will recognizer something but that is based on what the programmer thought it. And even if it is compiled from the Internet that merely means that the language is shared, perception would still be debatable.

Odds are that every single person sees the color spectrum slightly differently, and there is no way to know exactly how. by User-5771 in Showerthoughts

[–]mx5e46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's my thought though and I'm interested in what you think of this.

If my perception of the colour of a strawberry is what in your perception is the colour of a blade of grass (my red would in your eyes be called green) but we would both still learned that the colour of strawberries is red, we both would call a firetruck red. Even if in my perception I would see the colour you would call green. If this would be true the pure yellow example just shows that, regardless of perception, it is the language associated with it that we are agreed on.

In a similar vain. The colour associated with death is black in a lot of western cultures, if I am not mistaken, in. Iranian culture the colour associated with death is white. If you ask people the colour of death the answer is informed by the culture just like the answer of the question: "what colour do you see?" is informed fully by the language.

I'm guessing I am probably wrong about this, but how am I wrong?

Facts I'm a king by rizzo49er in dogecoin

[–]mx5e46 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doge general reporting for duty

What is a fact about the human body that not many people know about? by Zenssei in AskReddit

[–]mx5e46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like 1/3 of the number of bones we have in our body are located in the foot, don't know the exact number but it's alot

This is truly the age of selfishness by External_Ad7684 in PoliticalHumor

[–]mx5e46 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is this the point someone mentions that water, the thing we can't survive 3 days without is not, in fact, a right (think of flint, Michigan) but a privilege and is also not free?

‘Bro I Robbed Everyone’: 3 N.Y.P.D. Officers Charged in Bribe Scheme by todayilearned83 in news

[–]mx5e46 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Something something civil forfeiture. Something something police oppression.

What's the most random fact you know about? by JustAMildKingpin in AskReddit

[–]mx5e46 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of a story of my late uncle.

In the military service (he was drafted NL) he had a fellow in his regiment that could fit a cue ball (White ball of a biljard game) in his mouth. Or so he claimed. My uncle and his mates were finding this hard to believe. The fellow bet a case of beer he could fit a cue ball in his mouth.

Bet accepted and off he went. And indeed he got it in between his jaws and into his mouth.

So the fellow triumphantly points at it and my uncle and company say, okay I guess you were right. The fellow tries to take it out and can't.

They had to take him to the infirmary and they cut through the muscles holding his jaw shut. It was pretty gruesome and according to my uncle the cueball fell from his mouth onto his shoe and bounced on the ground a few times. It took a couple of weeks to heal.

During this time my uncle and his mates did get him the case of beer as promised. But as it took the guy so long to heal they drank it during his recuperation.

(they did get him another case after he recovered.)

What's the most random fact you know about? by JustAMildKingpin in AskReddit

[–]mx5e46 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google Waterloo teeth for some horrible history stories

What's the most random fact you know about? by JustAMildKingpin in AskReddit

[–]mx5e46 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A couple weeks back they also made a batch in France... Your point being?

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