[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 73 points 4 days ago

In high school math class we got paired up for a worksheet and instead of doing any math we spent the hour listing the first 150 Pokemon in numerical order. Been chasing that high ever since

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 100 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. I started learning harmonica on those $20 pack of 8 and struggled for weeks to get anything to sound close to what I wanted. When I spent $60 on a decent instrument, I could suddenly do what I'd been practicing. There's a sweet spot for getting good enough equipment to actually learn without blowing the budget on something you may not continue doing

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago

I would trade every American gas station and convenience store for a single authentic Japanese 7-eleven corndog.

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 84 points 3 weeks ago

I grew up in a pretty conservative household and we were literally raised that life is work and work is hell. By way of the transitive property, life = hell. It's taken a long time through various degrees of depression and I'm still not fully grown out of it.

But yes, the entire culture and identity is about being miserable and persevering through it, even if that means making yourself and everyone around you more miserable to justify the perseverance.

Like the saying "nothing good comes free." You could say the sunrise is free, but they'll argue it's not because you have to wake up early and waking up early is by necessity miserable so that the sunrise can be good. They're brainwashed into thinking the only way a good thing happens is through suffering. Except the truly lost ones who only see life as suffering.

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[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 109 points 3 months ago

I hate the existing copyright system and would love to see it contested.

My brother in Christ, they're literally contesting it

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 132 points 6 months ago

Looks like everything I've ever done in Kerbal

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago

I wonder how much these models are now learning from spam they were used to generate

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago

I found a set of Makita tools for 60% off last year and now I'm Makita battery dependent for the rest of my life

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 130 points 1 year ago

Sounds like the 21 Jump Street remake

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