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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Zozano@lemy.lol to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Why do people put pistols in their mouth to kill themselves?

I'm remembering a scene from Fight Club and Possessor where the main characters put pistols in their mouth in an attempt to "kill themselves" (plus other movies I've seen).

In Fight Club, Tyler misses (I guess on purpose), and in Possessor, the main character needs to do it after completing a contract (to leave the body she possessed).

In Possessor, the angle suggests she might miss her brain entirely.

I can understand something like a shotgun; it's not exactly something you can hold to your temple, but why put a pistol in your mouth?

Is it more effective somehow? Does it hit a part of your brain where firing from the side might otherwise leave you alive, yet disabled?

I'm sure you could argue it's just more dramatic from a movie critic perspective, but I'm sure people have really done this, and it maybe be a case of art imitating life, but I believe it would be the other way around.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 71 points 1 month ago

At this stage, I have no sympathy for anyone dumb enough to invest in an obvious pump-n-dumps.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 78 points 2 months ago

Alright, I just dipped my balls in a bowl of cordial, so you don't have to.

My sack didn't detect any sweetness, but I'm sure if someone sucked on them, then they would.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 450 points 3 months ago

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(Not my art)

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 72 points 4 months ago
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submitted 4 months ago by Zozano@lemy.lol to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 118 points 4 months ago

Bruh. Just get lidocane from the pharmacy, it's not restricted.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 107 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The really funny thing about this is OP is egregiously wrong.

Soy doesn't contain estrogen, it contains phytoestrogen, which not only doesn't produce any estrogen-like side-effect, but actively prevents our bodies from taking and producing estrogenic hormones.

This is all very ironic, considering drinking ~~excessive~~ cows milk ~~leeches calcium out of our bones and~~ exposes us to a smorgasbord of hormones not designed for humans.

Soy is shit tier anyway, oat milk all the way.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 102 points 4 months ago

Mass Effect, The Witcher, San Andreas Hot Coffee Mod, Sega Bass Fishing 2, Cyberpunk 2077.

It's pretty common.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Zozano@lemy.lol to c/androidapps@lemmy.world

I have a custom ROM (DivestOS); I don't have access to the Play Store.

The latest version of Honkai: Star Rail is out, but Aurora installs the bundled version of the APK which always throws an error "Not enough storage space to install required resources" (there is enough space).

In the past, I've used APK Mirror to download the standalone version of the APK. But the latest update on APK Mirror only offers the bundled version.

I've tried APK Pure and APK Combo to install an XAPK version, but that always fails too.

So, does anyone know where I might find the standalone version of the app, or how to resolve the bundled app error?

Thanks in advance.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 119 points 6 months ago

It's hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they're at all comparable

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 75 points 9 months ago

What the actual fuck? I thought it looked poorly shopped, but it's legit.

https://starfishneuroscience.com/team/

I choose to believe Gabe had stored all that energy for just such an occasion.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Zozano@lemy.lol to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

Assuming AI can achieve consciousness, or something adjacent (capacity to suffer), then how would you feel if an AI experienced the greatest pain possible?

Imagine this scenario: a sadist acquires the ability to generate an AI with no limit to the consciousness parameters, or processing speed (so seconds could feel like an eternity to the AI). The sadist spends years tweaking every dial to maximise pain at a level which no human mind could handle, and the AI experiences this pain for what is the equivalent of millions of years.

The question: is this the worst atrocity ever committed in the history of the universe? Or, does it not matter because it all happened in some weirdo's basement?

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 132 points 10 months ago

For the uninitiated:

  • 21 Pilots
  • 5 Seconds of Summer
  • 4 Non Blondes
  • 2 Live Crew
  • 100 Gecs
  • 3 Doors Down
  • 9 Inch Nails
  • 1 Republic
  • 1 Direction
  • 30 Seconds To Mars
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Zozano@lemy.lol to c/australia@aussie.zone
[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 68 points 10 months ago

This would be hilarious if it was satire, but this ain't the onion.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

Those of us on the left needs to be more concerned with our optics and police ourselves better.

Catch-phrases like "all cops are bastards", "defund the police", "~~math is racist~~", "black lives matter", "trans-women are women" etc., do not help to promote ~~liberal~~ progressive ideologies and push the people on the fence away.

For the record, I'm not saying that the ideas behind the words are bad*, but the phrases themselves act as a litmus test; If anyone questions the phrases, the divide has occurred, and they're a fascist (another word which is used far too often).

Many of these are so easy to correct for, "Reform the Police", "Black Lives Matter Too" are the most obvious and easy changes.

There are those who'll say that conservatives are going to complain about it anyway, and many of them are set in stone, but there are far too many people going to the right, as a result of the left making fools of ourselves.

The strength of the right is that they'll accept anyone who isn't left. Proud Boys, Neo-Nazi's, and KKK are tolerated by the right because their strength is in numbers, not ideas.

*I support the ideas behind all of them, but how they are perceived by conservatives is not how they were intended to be understood.

EDIT: The conversations about liberal and liberalism have been draining. There is one definition which is practically synonymous with progressivism - this is what I meant, not Liberalism.

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