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Emotional Regulation (i.redd.it)

submitted 8 months ago by Mandarbmax to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Never underestimate the catharsis of digging a hole.

Unless you live on hardpan. Fuck hardpan.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Who was that guy that discovered something very important in physics, and he said the elves told him about it? The elves that were in the massive holes/caves he would dig in his back property, as his outlet. I forget how large his friends said the tunnels were, but he clearly spent a lot of time digging tunnels.

Edit: Seymour Cray, of the Cray supercomputer. AKA The Father of Supercomputing.

John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray's home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said "Well, we have elves here, and they help me". Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem", he said.

Cray has been called solitary, uncommunicative, secretive, and difficult to get on with. Frank Sumner, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, met Cray on several occasions and refutes suggestions that he was a prickly character: "He was a very friendly man, and perhaps the greatest all-round computer scientist ever", says Sumner.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Seymour Cray may have had a gas leak in his basement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or a big stash of DMT

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This passage from Wikipedia is infinitely funny to me:

DMT has a rapid onset, intense effects, and a relatively short duration of action. For those reasons, DMT was known as the "businessman's trip" during the 1960s in the United States, as a user could access the full depth of a psychedelic experience in considerably less time than with other substances such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms.

"Have you always wanted to have a transcendent psychedelic experience but just could never fit it in to your busy schedule? Now you can, with DMT™! Ask your dealer about it today!"

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 8 months ago

Well yeah, acid is your whole day. You’ve gotta plan that shit. It’s a real Saturday drug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I live in Houston. Everything is clay. That shit gets stuck to your shovel and does not come off.

That being said, we had some woods behind our house and we would play out there all the time. Digging, pellet guns, machetes to chop down trees and make forts.