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adhd_traco
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I liked Altered Carbon and Ghibli.
Good chance you’ve checked them out already. But in case you haven’t, Satoshi Kon’s works are all amazing. Paprika, Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers. If it has to be a series, I guess Paranoia Agent.
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It’s made by the same sisters who directed The Matrix and it’s amazing. Just kinda weird wrap-up.
EDIT: Take this post with a big grain of salt. I couldn’t verify the claim, because I couldn’t find the twitter profile of the CEO (then and now) Richard Sanders. However, the company is ultimately controlled and owned by Block, Inc. (formerly Square inc.), where Jack Dorsey has a 79% ownership (2025). He’s a billionaire, the twitter co-founder, Bluesky founder, and so on.
I’m moving from Tidal asap. Because the CEO seems to be pro-genocide, at the very least.
Claims I’ve seen here and some other shit elsewhere:
Tidal seemed like a good alternative but it’s problematic as well, as the CEO retweeted on X a few days after Oct 7th that said ‘we stand with Isr’. I think he may have shared other pro-Isr posts since but perhaps deleted them. Deezer CEO also under fire for being part of a WhatsApp group with senior politicians etc about supporting Isr…
The one decent alternative I have found is Qobuz, which I’m looking into – it seems to have a lot of variety in terms of music catalogue and I can’t find anything ‘problematic’ about them (they don’t operate in Isr). Also allegedly offers higher payout to artists than many others.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottIsrael/comments/1bi8cnq/music_apps_that_are_not_on_the_boycott_list/
As I’m currently reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, I literally can’t help myself but post some excerpt. It’s only 105 pages btw.
One professor uses the book in conjunction with an experiment she calls an “e-media fast.” For twenty-four hours, each
student must refrain from electronic media. When she announces the assignment, she told me, 90 percent of the students
shrug, thinking it’s no big deal. But when they realize all the things they must give up for a whole day—cell phone, computer,
Internet, TV, car radio, etc.—“they start to moan and groan.” She tells them they can still read books. She acknowledges it will
be a tough day, though for roughly eight of the twenty-four hours they’ll be asleep. She says if they break the fast—if they
answer the phone, say, or simply have to check e-mail—they must begin from scratch.“The papers I get back are amazing,” says the professor. “They have titles like ‘The Worst Day of My Life’ or ‘The Best
Experience I Ever Had,’ always extreme. ‘I thought I was going to die,’ they’ll write. ‘I went to turn on the TV but if I did I
realized, my God, I’d have to start all over again.’ Each student has his or her own weakness—for some it’s TV, some the cell
phone, some the Internet or their PDA. But no matter how much they hate abstaining, or how hard it is to hear the phone ring
and not answer it, they take time to do things they haven’t done in years. They actually walk down the street to visit their
friend. They have extended conversations. One wrote, ‘I thought to do things I hadn’t thought to do ever.’ The experience
changes them. Some are so affected that they determine to fast on their own, one day a month. In that course I take them
through the classics—from Plato and Aristotle through today—and years later, when former students write or call to say hello,the thing they remember is the media fast.”
2·2 days agoFWIW
I stopped reading the first time after this sentence. Which is a shame, because what you write otherwise seems well-balanced and reasonable for what you’re focusing on.
He also claims that the handlers (a term used for spy agent conspiracy theories)
Sorry, this statement seems meaningless, or even misinfo, because the term is used in credible reports.
For illegals, in-person meetings with their KGB handlers were rare, and usually took place in third countries…
According to court documents, Angwang told his handler he wanted to get promoted within the police force so that he could bring “glory to China”.
Not everyone watches or remembers that. This is an excellent write-up. Thank you!
Makes me think of this
In 1984, Huxley added, “people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us”.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7942005-what-orwell-feared-were-those-who-would-ban-books-what
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I feel when a song is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the artists’ focus in their other music is entirely on stuff like this, it can be called Christian music (or whatever faith the music may be centered around.
On the music streaming app Tidal (which I don’t recommend, because they are pro-genocide fuckers) they don’t differentiate between one of my favorite artists TORRES (from the south of US, folky/rock/country kinda music) and some Christian rock band with the same name. So I constantly get hyped and then angrily disappointed when a new announcement comes.
I have met a musician in the Middle East though who is Orthodox Christian and showed me one of his band’s Christian songs, which I really like.
Adorable!
That sounds like a really cute game. Love the turtle too!
eh, best I can do
This reminds me of a story I’ve been told from a revolution.
There was a block that the residents had secured via community efforts, and the police had pretty much lost all authority across the country at that point.
A cop who lived there tried to come back home and pompously demanded at the gates to be let in as he’s a cop. After giving him the usual shit about what a piece of shit he is and why he doesn’t try to arrest them for not letting him, they also noted, “And by the way, why aren’t you wearing a seat-belt?”
His world crumbled within minutes.
Like, if the meds help you to be more productive at running yourself into the ground, that would not be good.
Pretty much why my therapists suggests I don’t take stimulants for now. I guess especially with psychotic tendencies it can just create more chaos. Whenever I tried them recreationally they also made me quite hyper. Coffee also isn’t good for me. I’m at a phase where what helps me best is to meditate and yoga exercise.
3·6 days agoDocumentary suggestions with very deceitful people
If you wanna see how hard people can be to read, you should check out the documentary Hollywood Con Queen, or Black Swan (2024-2025). In the first it’s about a psychopath, in the second most likely too, and one of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched. The latter is very investigative and quite long.
I think it’s available on BBC iplayer, but requires an account with UK IP and pinky-promising you pay for your TV license.
Pretty good preparation to not have to learn the hard way how misleading people can be.
I don’t believe you
I also have a hunch that if it’s others helping you, you see a lot more value in their effort, than if the roles were reversed.
Also, even just a quick look at your post history. You’ve put smiles on people’s faces. What will they do with that? It can be a difference of how they treat the next person, the difference in mood to stop for someone who looks like they need help. A renewed hope for the good in humanity. It’s so much, and I’m way too wasted and tired to go into this much further.
Maybe you’ve contributed 81.9% to a person turning to compassion instead of sociopathy with a single action.
Maybe by “so imperceptible as to be invisible” that’s kinda what you meant, and I pissed you off now. Shit happens, friend :)
I’m not going to go back to look at this nasty stuff for this purpose. But that’s reasonable, if it fits that context. My issue was with generally equating the term ‘handler’ as a crackpot conspiracy speak, when that’s literally a widely used term. :)