volvoxvsmarla

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I got a follow up question to the biblical academic consensus - where do you get that from? I mean literally, since I always wanted to kind of read the bible with these kinds of interpretations, but I absolutely don't know where to go for a source like this. Any tips?

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Decearing egg!!

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I was like your daughter. Between like 5 and 15, I've tried so many different things. And while I sometimes had troubles admitting that I lost interest in something - especially when I knew the thing was expensive, like keyboard lessons - I am hella glad I got to try out so many things with no strings attached. It's not even about committing to something or getting burned out. It's just, man, life is short and now I am 33 and I just wouldn't have the time or energy or motivation or money to try out everything I did as a kid. Karate and ballroom dancing and hiphop dancing and tennis and drawing and violin and ice skating and crafting - some things stayed for just a tryout, some for half a year or a year, some interests stayed for years. I'm so happy that I don't have any hobby FOMO nowadays. I'm super grateful that my parents let me try out all of these things. (Also all the sports despite me sucking at sports like crazy. Except for all the dancing, that I rocked.)

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 109 points 2 months ago (17 children)

And then the people all clapped and patted themselves on the back for saving the guy and went about their day. But the guy went back to the same life full of problems that led him to despair. Crippling debt or depression. Estrangement from loved ones that are no longer willing to reconnect. Loneliness or defamation or disease. It's easy to save someone from jumping, but this is not help. That is not the help they need. They need constant and long term help, assistance, and support.

Saving a stranger from a suicide attempt has a vibe to it like preventing an abortion from happening without providing any further support for the mother or the child. Congrats, you saved a life, technically. But you did nothing to save the life.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a good point, but in my opinion the other common deaths are way worse. Cancer? Living with the anxiety of impending death and constantly getting sicker, more in pain and being nauseous from medication? Or COPD, feeling like you are suffocating slowly? Alzheimers, Parkinsons? Or my personal fear - dying from a stupid simple cold? Man, I take a heart attack any day of the week.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, the people you mentioned are fine. I think it is something with the nose-chin-cheek combo that I find appalling.

For Jennifer Lawrence it's a separate thing, we have many similar features (like fat cheeks and hooded eyes) and it creeps me out too much and I get insecure watching her. I keep thinking how weird I must look and reevaluate my makeup the whole time, it's too stressful.

I also have a thing where I can't stop thinking of rooster anuses whenever I see Kevin Bacon (his mouth).

I want to emphasize that none of this is meant in a mean spirited way and those people are beautiful the way they are. It's my brain that makes these associations and I very much disapprove of them.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have that face thing with Patrick Swayze and Meryl Streep. And the girl from Dirty Dancing. I am working on getting over Jennifer Lawrence's face. All these people are surely somewhat good actors but there is something about their faces that I cannot stand and it makes it impossible for me to focus on the plot. I just made it through Silver Linings Playbook today, finally, it was hard but I am glad I managed, Lawrence did a good job and I forgot about her face for almost 30% of the time. One day I will manage to watch more than 15 minutes of Dirty Dancing.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

I thought about sending this to some people, or using the analogy the next time we talk about it. But I think they will spin the metaphor further with comparing it to certain foods and just fewer different foods at smaller portions and differently presented. Like, don't give a baby apple pieces or hazelnuts during BLW type of thing.

Just to be clear, I am probably in the top 1 percentile of vaccine enthusiasts, having jumped through insane hoops for Covid vaccination and getting everything just in case. I've met 5 anti vaxxers in my life, three of them on the softer side. These softies are the ones I could imagine would argue about this food comparison in their favor.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

I still can't believe that we went from 16 years of stillstand under CDU to finally some progress under SPD-Grüne-FDP, just for it to be sabotaged by Merz with his stupid lawsuit, which then got FDP into their anal power play and somehow Lindner managed to make his solely Lindner focussed politics even more solely Lindner focussed, and then collectively decided yeah, that government didn't solve world hunger, injustice, climate change and international wars within 3 years, fuck them, let's go back to CDU.

And now Spahn, that fuckface, is Fraktionsvorsitzender. This means de facto he will be chancellor down the road. That AfD ballsucking fucktard. Watching the world burn for personal political gain. (Also looking at you, Amthor.)

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I adored superstore. I love how I think back of the show and nothing comes to mind because everything was painfully ordinary.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago (9 children)

My alcohol addiction

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gravity affects the booty too. Well thought through graphic

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