nirodhaavidya

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[–] nirodhaavidya 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Kagi if you are willing to pay for the service. I think that's reasonable but your needs may vary.

[–] nirodhaavidya 3 points 2 months ago
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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by nirodhaavidya to c/bmoviebonanza
 

Staring Jenna Jameson, Roxy Saint, & Robert Englund! This movie is a treasure in our house. It's humor is crude and gratuitous. Letterboxd | IMDB

[–] nirodhaavidya 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

13 miles, only hit a mailbox on the way, too young to charge criminally.

[–] nirodhaavidya 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep, first gen Tacoma is perfect in my mind. The new tacos are bigger than the F150 was! Why!? It's ridiculous.

[–] nirodhaavidya 13 points 3 months ago

There's some narrative wiggle room if you want to be generous with the interpretation of the ending, but essentially yeah that's the ending. Total dumpster fire.

[–] nirodhaavidya 69 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Here's actually why: They took the story about Eric and Shelly, two sweet and innocent beacons of light in their community of poverty and crime, whose lives were snuffed out for standing up for their community against a criminal slumlord, with Eric's undying love for his bride-to-be transforming him into a vessel for righteous retribution and they fucking turned it into a story about a couple lustful hedonists on a two week bender after escaping rehab. Shelly and Eric are murdered by the most forgettable villain who for some reason can ASMR you into killing yourself not to unlike the first half of this boring snooze fest of a plot finally punctuated by a cool action sequence when Eric goes to the Opera, kills every security guard on duty. I'm pretty sure one of those guys was one day away from retirement and another wasn't even supposed to be there that day. To bad Eric is gonna murder hobo your ass because some patron inside killed his new fuck-buddy. And to top it all off SPOILER ALERT the whole fucking thing never happened because surprise surprise the EMT only had one NARCAN injection left and he used it on Shelly. I guess it was all a drug-fueled near death experience. 1/10 don't even pirate it.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by nirodhaavidya to c/goodoffmychest
 

We've been together for 20 years and married for 15. We're a great couple, the kind our friends think of as "couple goals". We rarely fight and when we do it's normally over something trivial. And almost never about money.

We tend to be frugal and usually discuss things before making any large purchases. I became disabled about a decade ago and she's been the "bread-winner" of the family. She works hard and I'm proud of her. With the sudden contraction in income we had to file bankruptcy about 7 yrs ago and we've been good about staying out of debt since.

I handle the finances of the house, which really just means I file our taxes and check our bank statements. Yesterday, I was trying to reconcile our bank statement and trying to build a budget using our banks new software. This required me to categorize these transactions, which is a pain when a lot of them just say Amazon or PayPal. So I go digging into this only to discover she has two PayPal accounts and one is carrying $2500 in debt! We're not well-off people and that's a lot of money.

I was heart-broken. It was like my soul was just sucked out of my body. I felt something between anger and disappointment. I couldn't believe it. She must have noticed my sudden shock and saw what I was looking at because she began to reassure me that she's about to pay $600 towards it. I didn't reply. I went for a long walk to clear my head.

We still haven't spoken about it yet. I don't know what to do. I'm not mad anymore but I'm so deflated. We were supposed to be partners in all things. We don't even buy each other gifts without conferring usually it's just a joint anniversary gift.

To make matters worse, I can understand how she'd do it. She's got impulse control problems because of her untreated ADHD. She tends to self-medicate with alcohol to unwind and likes "retail-therapy" for self-soothing. She also has rejection sensitivity and is aggressively defensive. So even asking her about this may cause an involuntary lashing-out. But I must. I just don't want to.

[–] nirodhaavidya 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Make it so number one.

[–] nirodhaavidya 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

That consciousness arises from matter as some emergent phenomenon. Integrated information theory, micro-tubules, or whatever: no.

I believe consciousness is fundamental.

[–] nirodhaavidya 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Humans as a power source was the dumbed-down plot point. The original concept was the human brains acting as parallel processors, but the writers thought the average movie-goer wouldn't get it.

[–] nirodhaavidya 2 points 1 year ago

I hate this for them. I feel like the new store location has been a lot of trouble.

[–] nirodhaavidya 2 points 1 year ago
  • No offense taken

  • These are salient points

  • I edited my post

  • I hope it's easier to digest now

  • Thank you for the constructive criticism

[–] nirodhaavidya 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago" - Alan Watts

This one is a bit hard-won for me. You see I used to be an asshole. It was my brand. I thought "it's just in my nature".

Fortunately, I was also a student of religion (mostly because I was a militant atheist. Know your enemy and all that). Studying Buddhism, I began to observe the nature of self. I found enough distance from it to see its transient nature.

I realized being an asshole was a choice and I could just as easily choose otherwise. Soon I began to discover this was true of most character traits.

I'm not saying you don't have consistent patterns of behavior. I'll hopefully always be curious and analytical. But for the most part, the way you conduct yourself and where you focus your attention is a choice.

So, if you're not happy with who you are maybe don't be so attached to the idea of 'who you are". And if that seems hard, observe what you pay your attention to and try to find the distance between observation and behavior. In that gap lies the choice you make, consciously or not, to be "you".

 

Is it possible to block a specific instance (e.g. lemmynsfw.com) not just a community on an instance (e.g. [email protected])? I'm looking in the settings, but don't see that option. The goal isn't to block all NSFW posts, just filter out the majority of them coming from specific instances. Yes, I know I can just blur them and I do.

 

I'm so used to RES that this is mildly infuriating. I click on a link expecting is to open in the background for review later and instead it opens in the current tab obliterating my current position. Hitting back will get me to approximately the same place I was but it's usually a whole page behind.

 

This is driving me nutty. I've got a Netgear Nighthawk router. It is set up with two WiFi SSIDs one for 2.4 and 5 GHz. Both are set to DHCP. I've got about 30 devices connected at any given time. Most of those are my smart bulbs, which are all connected on the 2.4 GHz channel. Occasionally, and seemingly randomly, my phones will drop connection and will not be able to reconnect. The phone can see the SSID broadcast for my network, it will attempt a connection, but the connection will be refused. I've tried forgetting and reconnecting to the network on my phone but that does nothing. I've tried a static IP, nope. The only thing that resolves it is restarting the router.

Whenever the routers reboots, it will deny all attempted connections unless I turn off all my smart bulbs and reconnect one at a time. If I do this I can get everything connected. But eventually my phone will get disconnected, usually from leaving the network range, and then won't be able to reconnect.

To make matters worse, I can't connect to the router via the gateway address, which I'm certain is correct. Neither the IP nor the netgear RouterLogin.net connect to the router's maintenance portal. I've been using the Nighthawk app to manage my network, which is limited to say the least.

I could use some helpful advice here. I'm about to just chuck the thing and get a new router.

 

I've tried setting this option in account settings but I still get asked for every post and comment. The drop-down defaults to "Select Language" with "Undetermined" and "English" as the options within.

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