Dry fried green beans? They are indeed peak green bean

I think he’s a goalkeeper. Well he used to be at least

PayPal and Venmo ban our news sources because that’s how foreign governments fund their operations right? That’s definitely not because they rely on reader donations or anything, obviously.

Movies have gotten so bad and simultaneously showings of indie movies, classics, etc. have gone way down since the pandemic, at least in my town

The past 500 years have been one hell of a Dark Age

Graphics get better, I enjoy games just the same. Just an excuse to sell new consoles.

A lot of it stuff that used be like 80 cents is now 2 or 3 dollars instead so it’s hard to realize how much you are spending until you get to the register

Sports in America is mostly just a way of letting dudes blow off steam by emotionally abusing helpless children, one of our favorite pastimes.

I love this clip from King of the Hill portraying it accurately

There have a been a few college coaches who have killed players via heat exhaustion including behavior like denying water to the players and they are all still coaching AFAIK

Curious how they never turn inward and levy any similar sort of criticism to mainstream western economists. They never acknowledge that Marx was literally building off of Adam Smith who they treat like Moses writing down the word of their god first of all, let alone dive deep into Keynes, Hayek, or whoever else the fuck they base their religious fervor for capitalism off of. Just such fucking hypocrites

Damn I relate to pretty much all of that. Good luck fighting the good fight out there, we all deserve better.

Fr why is crying like the most reliable way to reset my brain

Unfortunately self-care stuff tends to not be super helpful for neurodivergent folks. Exercise can be helpful if it is rigorous enough to produce a lot of feel good chemicals but sometimes it makes it worse for me. If I’m at home, sometimes all I can do is put an eyemask on and some headphones with some relaxing music and just lay like a potato in bed until it goes away. My animals and my partner comforting me can also really help, but sometimes not.

Since it sounds like you are still figuring out what sensory output messes with you, part of the solution might just learning what consistently bothers you and avoiding it as much as possible. Do you have any sensory input you really like? I personally really like being in water so baths can really help regulate me. Engaging with special interests is also really important and beneficial, but identifying and maintaining special interests can unfortunately be difficult for AuDHDers, well at least it is for me. Sometimes it seems like trying to fight it just makes it worse too and you just have to kinda let it happen and run its course.

I’m in a similar boat so I’m still figuring it out too. I hope these suggestions can be helpful and I’ll definitely be checking back in on this thread.

If a public health person ever says that we need to develop interventions, you already know that they are going to do fuck all except maybe make a “mHealth mobile app” that just gives you information that already exists on the CDC website

This is nicer than any city street in America

Ah that’s true, I was still partly lib during that time. I just remember when Biden came into power and began the “end of the pandemic” propaganda which involved a lot of reining in of non-corporate media. A lot of websites and journalists that kind of served as my entry point were affected or straight up banned. Then yeah Russia and Ukraine just kicked it into overdrive.

The campaign started under Biden to eliminate dissenting information on the internet and social media has been a rousing success. They have made the internet a liberal bubble again.

FDA is moving so slowly on these I’m skeptical of how effective it will be on the current strains going around

Are we really gonna make fun of someone for starting a discussion about reactionary ideology in bourgeois media? Like you can think it’s totally off base but damn

Yeah, they make a synth character a Rain Man-esque caricature and treat the whole concept of synths as a stand-in for intellectual disabilities/autism/neurodivergence; he gets treated like shit and used and abused much how real people who belong to the aforementioned groups are abused in real life (I think you could argue there are strong parallels with shock therapy, forceful restraint, etc. and straight up emotional abuse and manipulation). The movie basically says he deserves it because he isn’t a “real human” and the movie expects us to sympathize with and root for the other characters who treat him like shit. It wouldn’t feel so bad, however, if the film makers didn’t make it seem they sympathized with him and acknowledged that the way he is treated is unjust and gross in the beginning of the movie only to pull the rug out at the end with how they handle his character.

I view it more as neoliberal ideology, where in the original it felt more clear that the violence was a product of the system and living under capitalism and working for corporations, Aliens centers the Xenomorphs as the primary source of evil that needs to be exterminated. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen them, so I could be way off base. Still, I think this represents a big ideological shift.