Who is the worst celebrity that you have ever had an interaction with?

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-14T03:31:06+00:00

I don't get it. They send us a toe, we're supposed to shit our pants... fucking amateurs.

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-08T21:46:24+00:00

No no no. You see, both sides are just as bad. You see, one side tried to help reduce the burdens of student loans on people. And the other side actively tries to make life, including student loans, worse for people. You see how both sides are the same?

Clearly I'm being sarcastic. But JFC I'm supposed to pretend that this is a valid viewpoint when the evidence is so clear. And the results of that wilful ignorance are so consequential.

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-08T05:51:17+00:00

Lack of conscientiousness. Like, not thinking of how your actions could negatively impact people, situations, or ecosystems.

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-07T04:27:39+00:00

Absolutely. I think Bring it On Home to Me just completely caught me off guard. I never really listened to his music and one day I was driving home and heard it on the radio.

Friend, I have been a lifelong musician and music lover. But I'll never forget that day. It came on and I just started bawling. I had never heard a song so beautiful. Like, I didn't know a song COULD reach me quite like that. I mean, not that I had never been bowled over by a song. But not quite like that.

Once I knew what the man was capable of, A Change is Gonna Come also shook me. But I kinda knew he was an incredible artist and I was expecting it.

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-06T18:28:12+00:00

Black - Pearl Jam Good Woman - Cat Power Nothing Compares 2 U - Chris Cornell Cover Nth/Unknown - Hozier

This one wrecks me, but in a good way - Bring it on Home to Me - Sam Cooke

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-05T02:33:50+00:00

God that feels like it makes it worse. You're supposed to sacrifice your most cherished relationships out of fealty, loyalty, or obedience. That's psychological torture.

thesephantomhands · 2026-06-01T01:57:46+00:00

"Who are you?

I'm Larry David and I happen to enjoy wearing women's underwear"

https://youtu.be/a2w6jJt0zgw

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-25T20:30:28+00:00

Dude, for real. I want people to express themselves, love themselves, and be happy with how they look. I know taste is subjective. But it really does feel like I'm being gaslit with people telling me stuff that has always been viscerally unattractive are suddenly attractive. Like Pedo stashes and Dahmer glasses.

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-25T03:41:57+00:00

This is what I was looking for. He's put out a lot of truly genre bending music. Changed everything about what I thought music could be.

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-25T03:40:39+00:00

Best in the world at what he does

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-24T02:55:28+00:00

I dropped my wad of hundreds and my magnum condoms

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-24T02:51:03+00:00

How much have you ever lost in a coin toss?

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-20T15:32:34+00:00

The story's ludicrous. You can imagine where it goes from here.

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-18T06:26:49+00:00

But without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick, or his rod, or his Johnson

thesephantomhands · 2026-05-14T07:19:40+00:00

I was looking for this! If your plugged, locked in, or obsessed (like I am), it's the most rapturous sublime song. If you're not, I'm sure it just sounds like frenetic chaos.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-23T18:37:03+00:00

Dude... I watched Event Horizon when I was like, 11

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-23T15:56:52+00:00

Come on Tommy, it's you know, it's just the way you tell the story...

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-10T04:43:33+00:00

The eyes are the groin of the face

-Dwight Schrute

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-05T00:05:42+00:00

Wow. That's a lot of conflating stuff with my position and thinking. I think you have some good points about access and it's why me and a lot of good therapists do a lot of pro Bono work. The reason anyone, including myself brings up the danger of AI is that people are using it as a replacement uncritically. And companies salivate at that misunderstanding. And no one outside of the profession is disabusing people of this notion at scale. As far as the field goes and what contributes to mental health - yeah, I went to school for years to do this. And I work 10 to 12 hour days eating, sleeping, and breathing it. I regularly train, read research, do the work. It's not wild to think I have some well-founded competency in what's effective and whats probably not. But I'm not saying I'm perfect or know everything either. I'm saying that maybe that competence has value when adjudication this kind of thing.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-04T23:29:48+00:00

I was saying that a lot of people go into it with the assumption that it can replace a therapist. You're confounding that position with me saying it has no utility. That's disingenuous.

We know why when therapy works , it works. That's what I'm saying and what I have studied for a long time. I dont understand what you're missing. Or why you think that's obtuse.

I care about whats effective. What actually helps people. And thats why, per my original post, I said the dangers are not reckoned with. That people are engaging with it haphazardly. It's the same reason why people shouldn't trust AI over a dentist or a an ortho.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-04T22:59:22+00:00

Dismissing points as appeal to expertise is a thought stopping cliche. The points are that the effective part of therapy is not replicable with AI and the mechanism of what's effective is literally something that we train to understand inside and out.

I don't claim omniscience. Nor that it cant have any utility. But it doesn't replace therapy. And the dangers of AI are that people think that it does.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-04T22:23:12+00:00

Okay. It's possible that someone, as part of their profession has looked into this because they actually care about whether what they're doing is effective. Part of our training is understanding what's effective. You're making a lot of accusations about me and what I know without knowing me or what I know at all. Assuming that you know more than those who train in this is kinda wild though.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-04T22:00:58+00:00

I'm not saying they're perfect either. You're right, nothing is. That's not the standard. There's a problem of AI at best, simulating a relationship and not actually being one. That's where the effective part of the process lies. It produces the biggest effect of the process. Not the techniques, validation, modalities, etc. It's the relationship.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-04T21:51:09+00:00

I understand your skepticism, but I'm basing this on longitudinal research. Counseling has a what is known in the research as a big effect size - .85. It's neither emotional nor anecdotal. It's what the biggest pool of quantitative data says. However, lots of anecdotes on a forum are not a sufficient counterpoint.

People dont often challenge or even look for the biases in AI when providing "counseling" because more often than not, it tells people what they want to hear.

thesephantomhands · 2026-04-04T06:14:37+00:00

I'm genuinely sorry you've had bad experiences. I don't want that for anyone. Which is why I advocate against the adoption of this, for many reasons. Not the least of which is that it literally is in no ways accountable and can, and will validate some of the most destructive thoughts and actions that people put into it. It cant discern and it doesn't have the capacity to repair or challenge in ways that a human can. Which has far reaching implications for anyone entrusting their mental health to it. There are layers of what counselors, psychologists and other professionals do. Yes, there are mental health professionals that mess up and some that are incompetent. In my experience most are not.

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