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I like to think of it as this super huge structure, with all these mysterious facets and faces cut into it. We found it, have no idea how to properly measure or capture it. We started as blind men, groping their eay through the dark, and now we've found ways to light a flame and to see the surface before us, but it's so huge and there's so many patterns layered over patterns that it's uncomprehendingly beautiful and we have to continue to invent new tools and methods of processing what's before us.

I like to think this was your brain trying really really hard to remember her name too. Put her right in front of you in the dream and just cobbled together whatever sound clicked when all your neurons tried to focus on her at once. Brains are so silly

It absolutely horrifies me as an adult. Love you Shel

I'm with the other commenter. There are people in this world born without empathy, and within that group, there is another two subsets, those that can learn it, and those that can not. It gets broken down further to people who can learn it and use it for good and learn it and use it to manipulate.

People born without these emotions aren't common, but there really are 'psychopaths' out there that don't/can't/won't feel things for other people. The only hope for these people is therapy, and even then, therapy is a double edged sword that also teaches them the tools to manipulate. And to a group that already is predisposed to not care how others feel, that's a risky move.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

I've had good luck with Sunshine/Moonlight, though I haven't tried it in the last 6 months or so. Was using it to stream my much beefier desktop to my Rog Ally while in bed when I hurt my back.

There was a slight latency, like, enough to notice that I notice, but hardly enough to catch when fully engaged. But the PC was getting like 200 frames in the games I was playing and that was limited to the 120fps limit I set for Moonlight (i think it let's you bypass this to go higher, but I didn't want to at the time).

Full warning, I like that movie.

I don't think it celebrates abuse so much as it does point to the nature of abuse and self abuse between artists and their art, both from those that hold the keys to the kingdom of your success and from within as you bend yourself to meet those needs entirely of your own free choosing and obsession.

The protagonist gets everything going for him. His family does love him, but can't connect with his musical obsession even though they're proud of him. He meets a girl he really likes, wants to get serious about, but to do that would mean to choose between her and his obsession. J. K. Simmons character has churned out success by holding himself, and by extension his band, to an extreme standard that requires that obsession to keep up with. He sees the potential in the protagonist, pushes him to reach those heights but also demands in very plain language that he be subservient to the craft. And every time the movie makes it clear that the protagonist is given a choice between regular, healthy life and the rigors imposed by his dedication, he chooses art every time.

The reason I don't think it celebrates abuse is because he isn't 'winning' at the end of the story. He's doggedly pursuing his dream and giving his all to the band, the music. He's sweating profusely, his relationship with his parents is estranged, the girl of his dreams left him, and he's just told his idol of an instructor that he'll cue the instructor in and with that he gives in and gives the ultimate solo. It cost him everything, but it did pay into incredible music and the culmination of his efforts. Give it your all and you can have what you sought but if you give it your all and you'll have nothing left.

Lemmings don't drink, party, have friends, boot and rally?

I don't, but I thought you guys might

Can I have some of whatever brought on those hallucinations? For a friend

Where's the 'baby Jesus' in this post?

Loops...kind of sucks. I get the point of it, but I tried using it like 15 minutes a day for a couple weeks to get used to it, but the features are lacking and the content is...well it's filled with people who would abandon tiktok and other apps, so, it's kind of boring.

Not in a 'there's no brainrot' way, in a 'this is the third video in a row of just random AI slop and then it's just some dude filming a tree for 20 seconds'.

Yeah I saw a great one about how there's a new book in a series my partner and I read that we thought was done for...saw the date, had a quick laugh about how silly we were to believe it so fast.

Do you guys also watch Trek-likes when you feel you've watched the other true Treks too recently, like toss in some Orville when you want classic Trek but just finished Kirk and Picard?