I put a particle physics or cosmology video on in the background, where the subject matter veers into some math, and it is just outside my range of intuitive comprehension.

It lets me find a headspace where I can selectively pay attention to things, but also drift away when the subject matter is just leaking out my other ear

Eventually I’ll just be asleep

Flip side of this one “it was the beer talking”

If you ever somehow falter, and believe that you should listen to this man… Remember that he went on the record very recently saying that if a game is to be successful, it must launch on their competitor’s platform, Steam.

I believe AI will finally drive a good percentage of people back to true art and human expression.

“He wasn’t a slave owner! He just owned slaves, dumbass!”

https://youtu.be/1Ha6D1LQGD4

E: just so it’s not mystery link, it’s the Tim Heidecker mock interview with Fred Armisen, where he lampoons Bill Maher

I think it was the '70s where Starburst candy used exciting sports like hand gliding to demonstrate how yummy the candy would be. They would show somebody pop the candy in their mouth, then go hang gliding off the top of a mountain or coast down the top peak of a huge roller coaster.

I was like fuck this shit, I’m never eating Starburst. I don’t want to get flung off the top of a mountain or something high up.

“You’re just having a brother fight. You and your brother are going to grow up to be best friends.”

No, my autistic brother with FASD who was my rapist, and is a kleptomaniac, sociopath, pathological liar, and borderline pedophile… will never be my friend in adulthood.

Deranged as my mother was… She would always cut the bullshit with us. She told us at the age of four that Santa Claus is crap it’s just Mom and Dad. And don’t tell the other stupid kids at school because they’ll get upset. Lol mom

I would love to hear a woman’s perspective, I did not mean to go off against women! It’s just that I am a man, and my male perspective means I heard these kinds of messages and lies.

When I listen to my sister, she has a unique set of bullshit that she herself was told that I was not exposed to.

Women absolutely detest facial hair, and if you have any facial hair it’s an indication you are nothing more than a bum.

Meanwhile, discovered that women go absolutely bonkers for facial hair, I once had a woman break up with me in our early courting phase because I shaved my beard.

It’s not a battle of the sexes thing, nor an unreasonable Reddit experience thing; It is a series of lies that I was told as a child that were damaging to me. I am a man so it leans towards the men’s perspective, but I tried to be fairly balanced because there were hideous things I was told about women too.

I think all of those lies are harmful to both men and women, and everyone in between all non-binary too. Children, society. All poisonous ideas that were continuously railed into my head by men, women, leaders, school people, everyone in my life growing up. And so many of these sickening ideas persist to this day.

• Men are filthy because they’re obsessed with sex and boobs (meanwhile women are insanely more obsessed with sex and boobs)
• Men who think women are attractive or look at them are fundamentally pigs (even when a woman is going out of her way to attract the male gaze)
• Men are purely obsessed with looks and are to blame for women’s competition over mating displays, and the surrounding products/messaging (most adult women confess in a moment of truth that other women perpetrate the worst of the bullying and thus hold this system up)
• Men are abusers and women are victims. It is not possible for a woman to perpetrate abuse against a man or another woman. There is never violence in the same sex relationships, women don’t do that. It is not possible for a woman to hurt a child, only men do that.
• All women are naturally trustworthy and of upstanding moral character (the “women are wonderful” fallacy)
• Men are by nature unfaithful (meanwhile equal distribution of unfaithfulness among genders, it fluctuates across age groups with older women being particularly egregious)
• Your purpose as a man on this Earth is to make a woman happy and give her children and supply resources
• A man is a failure if he prioritizes happiness and personal fulfillment over earning power
• The highest professions for women are teacher or comfort nurse, never doctors or scientists or engineers or anyone with strong credentials, education or career portability
• A woman’s job is to make her man happy when he comes home from making the money
• If a woman is not servile and impeccable at all times, she is completely worthless
• Men are the warriors, it is their job to protect everybody and be maimed or die if necessary. Fear and self-preservation are weaknesses
• Everything about women is good, but as a man, you should never embody any of the traits which are considered feminine, and you must never be sensitive or you’re a f…ot
• Men must to have giant penises, but if you do, shut the fuck up and tell no one. It is socially acceptable for others to continuously comment on man’s penis but a man is a complete piece of filth if he talks about it himself
• Men who are interested in sex are disgusting perverts
• A man’s penis is the worst evil on the planet
• Most men are violent rapists who are looking for any excuse to harm a woman or child if they can get away with it
• A woman can do anything a man can do (no, because biology is a thing)
• Women are fragile and weak and must be protected and cared for; they don’t have the essential attributes that men do
• Every societal injustice is directly the result of the male gender, not capitalists
• Men are not victims of capitalists, they are purely the beneficiaries

Edit: Before you reply I want you to know something. I don’t care to hear your cherry-picking pushback. These are the lies I was told.

It was sort of proven more than 40 years ago that there’s no point to do any of these rituals. You’re just have to wait for the gas to reabsorb. The tapping rituals basically give time for that to happen and act as a placebo for the person so time can elapse.