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Torn between annoyance that the people I want to talk to about things are off, guilt about being annoyed, self-deprecation that the things I want to talk about are of my own creation and probably not good, and a lot of other parts of negative headspace. It's frustrating.
 
Daytripper said:
How do I stop being negative about everything?
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Read a history book.

The entire time, be glad you're not there.

Because no matter how you look at it, we live in the best time thus far to be human. With any luck, the future will continue to get better and we should be happy for our descendants, but compared to all humans who came before, we are by far the luckiest.
 
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Does this sight count as social media?
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He didn't say all social media. Just 'doomscrolling' in social media. Non-doomscroll is fine. Which means stick to porn and the adorable antics of small furry critters.

The internet is where you go to have all the joys of having a cat, without any of the annoyances of having a cat.
 
Toilet thought: assuming the two of you are standing at sea level, if you were to reverse the other person's gravity so they fall up, how long would it take for them to exit the atmosphere and/or escape the Earth's gravity?

I may work this out after I get home, but I thought I'd share it.

I'm figuring first I get the depth of Earth's atmosphere so I have the target figure, then figure out how far/long you fall before reaching terminal velocity, then use TV to figure out the rest of the distance.

I think TV would go up as the air thins and puts up less resistance, but I probably won't count that in.

This is some real Math Problem shit :p
 
Scygnus said:
Toilet thought: assuming the two of you are standing at sea level, if you were to reverse the other person's gravity so they fall up, how long would it take for them to exit the atmosphere and/or escape the Earth's gravity?

I may work this out after I get home, but I thought I'd share it.

I'm figuring first I get the depth of Earth's atmosphere so I have the target figure, then figure out how far/long you fall before reaching terminal velocity, then use TV to figure out the rest of the distance.

I think TV would go up as the air thins and puts up less resistance, but I probably won't count that in.

This is some real Math Problem shit :p
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Reversing the direction, but not the strength, of Earth's gravity simply means you fall upward at the same rate as anyone else would fall downward, with an identical terminal velocity until you reach space.

So "falling" from the surface to the edge of space would take about the same time as falling from the edge of space to Earth's surface.
 
Scygnus said:
Toilet thought: assuming the two of you are standing at sea level, if you were to reverse the other person's gravity so they fall up, how long would it take for them to exit the atmosphere and/or escape the Earth's gravity?
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If you have reversed someone else's gravity, they have already escaped Earth's gravity.

Unless you mean that you want to know when you can stop the effect and guarantee they will not return to Earth, which is a more difficult problem, because you need to get them snagged by some other gravity well (e.g. the moon), but those move.

Hatless Nuance said:
Reversing the direction, but not the strength, of Earth's gravity simply means you fall upward at the same rate as anyone else would fall downward, with an identical terminal velocity until you reach space.

So "falling" from the surface to the edge of space would take about the same time as falling from the edge of space to Earth's surface.
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Yeah just pick the edge of space of your choice and calculate a fall.
 
This may be bizarre, but consuming porn seems to have made me less receptive to open sexuality. A few years ago, I guess my eyes would have strayed a lot if I saw a pretty girl in revealing clothing. These days? I just get grumpy because of her indecency and forget about it.

Isn't that, like, the opposite of how it should work? Not that I'm complaining, because I like having self-control.
 
Treble said:
This may be bizarre, but consuming porn seems to have made me less receptive to open sexuality. A few years ago, I guess my eyes would have strayed a lot if I saw a pretty girl in revealing clothing. These days? I just get grumpy because of her indecency and forget about it.

Isn't that, like, the opposite of how it should work? Not that I'm complaining, because I like having self-control.
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Easy access to things actually makes one appreciate quality and tend to disdain low quality/high quantity situations. Porn is no different to food, entertainment, etc in this regard. In fact this is actually the biggest issue with the entertainment industry in general; high quality previous entertainment makes people actively disdain half-assed mass consumption schlock, and companies are increasingly relying on the 'well there's nothing else on' factor to their detriment.

Just cause a lot of people saw something doesn't mean they liked it, as Marvel Phase 4 and Star Wars found out to its cost. Porn is similar; easy access to it means that low quality porn just does nothing for people or worse, comes off as intrusive. The minimum bar to entry goes up over time with such easy access.
 
Actually, that's just you getting old. Mostly.


It might be my trust issues (or the time I almost got fired for sexual harassment for allegedly staring- sorry Karen, when you insult and belittle someone in front of everyone for six months straight nobody tends to back you up when you accuse them of something) but when I see an actual woman dressed skimpy, I tend not to look.

Because I assume (and believe it's statistically likely) that she's not dressed like that in a show of open, honest sexuality. There are a lot of options as to why she's dressed like that, and I think 'because she likes showing off her body' is low on the list of possibilities. On the more relatively innocent end there's social signaling (I'm hot so I should get respect/attention) while the other, darker end is either outright prostitution or baiting sexual harassment to ruin someone for cash.

Aside: I don't have a problem with sex work, but you have to admit that because of the lack of protection for sex workers there's a lot of nasty shit that goes on there. Starting with Pimp beatings and going up from there. Also the last one I ran across locally I only knew about because she tried to rob the hotel I was working at. Tried to convince her john to help her steal the TV out of his hotel room, and when he refused, she got into his wallet after, took all the cash and all the cards, including his driver's license. Fortunately he wasn't too proud to call the cops before his identity could get stolen. A week before I went to Vegas for the first (and so far last) time too, ironically, where you can find guys handing out cards on every corner for that sort of thing.
 
Treble said:
Present a legal code that doesn't protect the weak from exploitation.
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United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 6:
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.
 
Scygnus said:
It might be my trust issues (or the time I almost got fired for sexual harassment for allegedly staring- sorry Karen, when you insult and belittle someone in front of everyone for six months straight nobody tends to back you up when you accuse them of something) but when I see an actual woman dressed skimpy, I tend not to look.

Because I assume (and believe it's statistically likely) that she's not dressed like that in a show of open, honest sexuality. There are a lot of options as to why she's dressed like that, and I think 'because she likes showing off her body' is low on the list of possibilities. On the more relatively innocent end there's social signaling (I'm hot so I should get respect/attention) while the other, darker end is either outright prostitution or baiting sexual harassment to ruin someone for cash.
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You live in a very strange and very sad world. Like, I've never had a woman call me out for looking at her when she's in a sexy outfit. You just need to understand the difference between looking, staring, and leering, and when each is appropriate.

No, the answer isn't 'when you're hot/average/ugly, respectively.'
 
Amazon Climber said:
You live in a very strange and very sad world. Like, I've never had a woman call me out for looking at her when she's in a sexy outfit. You just need to understand the difference between looking, staring, and leering, and when each is appropriate.

No, the answer isn't 'when you're hot/average/ugly, respectively.'
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I have done none of the three since high school, these are just my observations from the outside that sexuality is more demonized than ever. Karen was full of shit, mid at best, and an all-around bitch that I watched backstab literally everyone, that job was nonsense and I was watching the ducks out the window that happened to be past her desk for 99% of my shift so she thought she had an avenue to get me fired.

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Recording someone seems even more invasive, assuming you were actually doing that.
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I suspect he's talking about women recording their own complaints, not dudes recording them at the gym.
 
Scygnus said:
I suspect he's talking about women recording their own complaints, not dudes recording them at the gym.
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The complaint is that women don't like how he looks at their pictures when they can't even see him?

I'm not sure how that works.
 
evildice said:
The complaint is that women don't like how he looks at their pictures when they can't even see him?

I'm not sure how that works.
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You're not aware of the rather popular tictok trend of women 'filming themselves working out' and actively baiting men into looking at them so they can call them out on social media?

The hashtag is 'gymcreep', and while sometimes it's legitimate because some guys are assholes (what with being human and all), it didn't take long to become another way for assholes of the female variety (also being human) to exploit others for attention.
 
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You're not aware of the rather popular tictok trend of women 'filming themselves working out' and actively baiting men into looking at them so they can call them out on social media?
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Yep I'm blissfully not into TikTok at all.

That sounds like real-world troll pranks.
 
Holy shit! I can't believe I forgot about the tyranid-loli "I have two int, and mistook a night lord for a loyalist because of it" quest! I gotta catch up man.
 
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... Just found out they're doing a theatrical showing of Interstella 5555 all over the place.

... Tomorrow and tomorrow only.

Even assuming there are still tickets, there's no way I can get off work.
 
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