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resukureipuru  ·  2935 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Good morning
resukureipuru  ·  2939 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 6 minute slap in the face from a fellow liberal, courtesy Totalbiscuit

This is what Ive been saying to everybody.crying about Trump... We needed our own crazy guy to win this. People thought Hillary was the 'pragmatic' choice. Wrong!

resukureipuru  ·  2940 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: President Donald Trump.

Should have stuck with Bernie... Oh friggin well, at least people have a reason to be interested in politics the next few years

resukureipuru  ·  2942 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which Obama holds a red cape before the bull

But it's very entertaining. Instead of video games or Adult Swim, kids could stay up late trying to troll the POTUS on twitter. That's a level of public engagement not offered by other candidates

resukureipuru  ·  2942 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which Obama holds a red cape before the bull

I have no such place in your Reddit lore. Is it not interesting to use '3am lucidity' as an insult to a one candidate, when the other one is a drinker who can't keep her shoes on?

resukureipuru  ·  2942 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which Obama holds a red cape before the bull

Interesting how we're hearing "awake at 3 in the morning" paired with "nuclear codes" so often. Dudes ready to spit fire 24/7. And, unlike Swillary, won't be drunk any of those 24

resukureipuru  ·  2942 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which Obama holds a red cape before the bull

I knew youd think of it fondly ... I was very nice about it

resukureipuru  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Some crap I made that I refer to as art

"more violets in the media"

This is clever. I could see this becoming a graffiti meme

resukureipuru  ·  3587 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm back.

Alright. I'm sorry for using the slur. I won't bring that stuff here.

resukureipuru  ·  3587 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm back.

Yeah, I thought I was being funny by emulating 4chanisms. Like last time I said an offensive word on hubski. I resolved to lose the ironic edge after that. But I messed up here, because, "Oh, replies on hubski, the place full of understanding humans. Engage tryhard mode." Apparently it's worse than last time, because b_b actually blocked me as opposed to just saying my shit's lame. He should block me if I bother him, but being on the bad end of a "WTF is wrong with people?"...argh. I'd have apologized to him in reply to that if he didn't block me.

resukureipuru  ·  3588 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm back.

Well maybe I will. The Ass-Hole will be the /b/ hubski always wanted. We will be characterized by extreme saltiness towards the kleinj00.

    Hi Zachary, Hope your week is going horribly slow, i want this to end.

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god damn some of these are funny

32.5% masculine, 76.3% feminine, 73% neutral

Kinda weird, a lot of the masculine traits on there are things people tell me I should be if I want to improve my life. So every time I got to one, I was like, "Oh...been meaning to do that." Next time I'll do better.

resukureipuru  ·  3623 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Has anyone tried Modafinil?

I haven't tried it, but I've read a lot about it. I wondered if it might help 'the grog'. That kinda general cognitive dysfunction that makes you seem sleepy and non-alert all day. Everything I read seems to be pointing at it pretty excitedly. One headline even said "Why you are suffering from a Modafinil deficit."

There hasn't been much study into the long term effects though. Gotta be careful when it comes to pharmaceuticals. I have shift-work sleep disorder and might be able to get a prescription, though, so I'll report back if I ever decide to.

resukureipuru  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 6 things I learned from riding in a Google Self-Driving Car - The Oatmeal

I'm ready for the marshmallows, too. I'm also ready for tiny spy drones and global surveillance, as long as AI keeps up the adorable antics.

So TNR's web traffic had been falling dramatically, when it was bought by one of the co-founders of Facebook. Then a couple years later it's set to serve a public interest through digital media.

I don't know how close that interest is going to be with TNR's former interest, but it sounds profitable.

i never considered the effect racial tension had on the sports industries. Cons of living under a rock no. 186

resukureipuru  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ninety-Eighth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

this Oswald von Wolkenstein tune reminds me of Disney villain anthems despite being from the 16th century

resukureipuru  ·  3693 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: Chemical weapons coverup blowback is *all* Karl Rove's

I don't know what it is I feel like crying every time I come here

resukureipuru  ·  3780 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Welcome to the weirdest shit you've ever seen :-)

this made my tongue go numb. all the visual-mashup reminds me of how things remind me of other things. Like how words and sounds trigger hormones that are familiar , connected to other memories and shit. Too much for me right now.

resukureipuru  ·  3848 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I make people feel stupid? Patronized?

Similar things happen to me. People tend to have a harsh reaction when I undermine their emotionally-charged beliefs with an effort to understand a situation.

To me, it seems like two different ways of dealing with the negative emotions from a frustrating situation are at odds with each other. I've caught myself doing both. Fuming, "that guy is just a dumbass"-type rationalizations quickly patch me up and let me move on. Hatred is kind of cathartic. Maybe in your mom's case it was something positive, having faith in a system and emotional attachment to that faith. Like learning to love something after living with it so long.

On the opposite side is trying to fit the situation into a bigger picture, really trying to understand why it's happened, and using that information to calm yourself somewhat. Understanding that people have habits, and aren't totally 100% in control of what they do. Or that an imperfect system that our society is based around could stand for improvement. I feel a great sense of calm when I rationalize things this way (or at least feel like I have). Almost...a smugness.

I don't think you're an asshole. I do think the way you rationalized those situations brought you closer to the truth. But also to a disagreement with your people. Perhaps their reactions made you feel like an asshole because you brought a conflict where they thought there wouldn't be one.

resukureipuru  ·  3880 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "I Was Assaulted For Wearing Google Glass In The Wrong Part Of San Francisco"

True that. I just stick to the old 'hidden camera in the backpack' and send it to NSA when I get home.

resukureipuru  ·  3890 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did Norwegian a skydiver film a meteorite?

That'd be a pretty dangerous hoax to pull off. What happens if the rock hit the parachute? A better hoax, i guess. "Skydiver killed by meteorite"

resukureipuru  ·  3909 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Only Twenty Minutes Until Introverted Man Gets To Leave Party

Last time I tried that, I ended up holding my two fingers to my friend's cat and said "look, i'm giving your pussy the two-finger test." For me it's more like a social laxative.

clever dulcimerist. Never heard this song before, i kinda like it

resukureipuru  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The illness that spreads through Facebook

Could trends like cutting be fueled by similar principles as this Facebook mass hysteria? My impression is that it's kind of like a meme, but a poisonous one, that would nest itself only where it was welcome (ie people who are already predisposed to acts of self harm).

resukureipuru  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What happens when you stand for two years

I vaguely remember a study about an Asian country where they mainly sleep on floor mats, and they have less back problems there. Can't seem to find it now though.

I'm mostly just seeing a lot of anecdotes. Maybe it's one of those things where that varies between people. Can't find any real studies on it though. For me, though, it definitely helped my posture and back problems.

I don't know much about barefootedness, aside from that you shouldn't run barefoot. I'm sure the story's different if you're in some remote village in Kenya though. Or in that one African country, where they'd just keep pace with gazelles until the gazelles collapsed of exhaustion. Persistence hunting is extreme.

resukureipuru  ·  4133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way -He's amazing.

I get that, too. Last night I listened to 'Why Shit So Crazy' for the first time and got pretty sucked into it.

resukureipuru  ·  4134 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way -He's amazing.

dude's real cerebral. the way he treats his audience is awesome, they're basically his guinea pigs. In a good way, though. not unlike Stravinsky or someone like that.

resukureipuru  ·  4145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Moog family feud over preservation of synthesizer inventor’s legacy

"It’s important that the archives remain here with the foundation, because not only are we best suited to care for them, but we’re best suited to interpret them."

I can't find a generous way to interpret this. They're being pretty selfish by trying to keep these private. I'd love to get a hold of Moog's notes and papers. He's an insightful dude, both from a technical synthesis perspective, and a more conceptual one- relating to how synthesizers fit into music as a whole.