Hyperreality

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

She no longer has a career with mainstream studios.

Fascist bullshit is her career now. I assume she has another wackadoodle movie coming out soon. Or maybe she's the next mother of Elon's soon to be estranged children.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Look, no hate, but I always find these kinds of comments funny because I've been reading them for over twenty years.

It's not going to happen, certainly not in any significant numbers.

Hell, look at the fediverse. The vast majority of internet users find signing up to mastodon hard, let alone lemmy. How the hell are these people supposed to install linux, for example when they follow many an 'easy' linux installation guide, but then find Rufus isn't able to create a bootable USB stick in fat32? How are they supposed to verify their data, or hell change the bios settings when the guide they read gives them the wrong key to press to enter the bios? And then if by some miracle they do manage to install linux, you expect them to move away from all the apps they've grown used to? They'll try to install MS office on linux and blame this not working on linux.

TLDR: Gretchen! Stop trying to make mass linux adoption happen! It's not going to happen!

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pro-tip America: this is how you make fun of us Europeans.

You don't just use a lazy stereotype of an entire continent.

You use a wide array of even more offensive stereotypes of specific individual countries.

Also: IRC Club Vandersexx is in Amsterdam but Lucy Lawless sounds more like she's speaking German, meanwhile the road signs in Germany are in Dutch, and the truck driver who says he'll never go to Berlin is a German actor who played a Berlin detective on tv for 30 years. I can't help thinking some of that was deliberate.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Also Club Vandersexx with Lucy Lawless, Mi scusi and the German trucker.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Used condoms are great for moisturising bunions.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You need to add a psychosexual element to it to make it truly disturbing. Eg.

I laugh as Elon Musk beams a meme directly to my frontal cortex via NeuraLink. Omg epic win. I blink twice to NeuraLike it, then think very hard "Thank you Sir! Please send BitCoin." I open my eyes. It is nighttime, I am strangling a union organizer, and I have an erection. I scream as loud as I can, my face and throat burns, but all I hear is a ringing sound. As the light leaves the union organizer's eyes, I orgasm and feel the sticky wetness dribble down my trouser leg before I lose consciousness.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The country only stopped being a dictatorship in the late 80s, and that was only after it emerged they'd tortured a student to death. And it's not as if his successors were particularly clean either.

Hell, watch Squid Game or Parasite. Quite clearly there's something not quite alright in Korean society. Hell, watch Oldboy (2003). Genuinely one of the best (action) movies ever made. That'll also give you plenty of perspective on human nature and Korea.

The k-pop and k-dramas are quite clearly escapism, rather than a reflection of reality.

I've also heard plenty of horror stories about Korean schools from English(often American) language teachers, who were shocked at how bad schools were:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/we-torment-others-the-dark-side-of-south-korean-school-life-bullying-school-violence

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My sock collection is worth 10k.

I went in to Sephora and people complimented me on my socks.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

You asked for candidness.

People who feel threatened by you (I assume mostly women) are probably just racist or scared because you're a man. It's not your face. Plastic surgery won't change that.

This being said, I'm a much bigger guy than you and also scare people. I am bigger than them, so it's understandable. Smile at people, even if it's fake, so they know you're not a threat. Say good afternoon, or whatever. I try to dress smartly, wear bright colours, etc. Wear a shirt with an artist print on it, wear a t-shirt from a college, a jazz related print. The black beanie and black coat combo isn't doing you any favours. That's not much better than a striped suit and a balaclava. The world's a stage, we're all actors. I learnt to act non-threatening, working in customer service.

If you want to do something about your face, consider getting ear studs or something like that. Or do a Tupac and get a nose stud. Not that I think that's the route you should be going. Clothing will help you far more.

e: and not that it'll help you much, but bro hug over the internet. This shit's rough and it's obvious it's really affected you. But don't go hating yourself. You're not ugly, you seem like a nice dude.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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