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Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I likened it to a room with bidirectional portals yesterday - your analogy is much better, and has been stolen for future use.

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It’s definitely not for everyone, but I’ve met a small number of disabled people who do exactly this, for similar reasons.

Wouldn’t offer it as a suggestion though, kinda feel like people have to come to that decision on their own.

Cracks_InTheWalls , (edited )
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Having an in-depth conversation with a crossdressing or trans street sex worker at 0100, claiming they were thirty but who looked eighteen at most, looking to do tricks for meth money, while I was outside of a bar on karaoke night on acid.

She showed me her DeviantArt page, which included a drawing of her as a queen on a playing card fellating a shampoo bottle. It was the most fucked up, but interesting drug-addled conversation I’ve ever had. Very friendly, eventually went down a block to another group of people because quote ‘They look pretty drunk’.

Every part of this sounds made up, but I swear it’s true.

Edit: For some reason, I think it’s important to point out this was a Thursday night.

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100% agree. It’s a big world out there with people of all kinds, living lifestyles you couldn’t possibly imagine (in both a positive and a negative sense). Those rare moments you get to connect with those people, human to human, are always interesting as fuck.

Every time I took acid in public, I was a magnet for massive weirdos, but every time it’s ended fantastically well.

(Can’t responsibly recommend though, there were very real risks of getting stabbed or robbed a couple times)

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Holy shit man, what a ride.

I’m glad you figured some of your shit out and are making progress. I’ve seen more than one person just crumple under less than half of what you’ve been through. Big ups, dude.

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A little niche, but

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1adf687f-f338-4504-915f-5f780c5cb09d.jpeg

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Bring a gay homie to this place and treat it like a two for one promotion.

Note: You are probably going to have to be willing to throw down/draw for your gay homie. Edit: Reading more it’s probably just best to not patronize this place at all.

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If you have an issue with a given community, find or start an alternative one on another instance. If you have an issue with how your instance deals with anyone, sign up for a different instance.

I urge you to consider this before giving up on Lemmy entirely, it’s kind of the beauty of the federated services.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I am reasonably certain I have been to the theatre where she went down on that guy.

This is the most interesting fact about my life.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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“Did you know? This seat is the only one in Ottawa to feature in an Alanis Morissette song.

This plaque is here to remind you.”

[God I wish I knew how to Photoshop]

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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Nah, that’s the stains and popcorn pieces on the floor they spackled over for preservation.

They look like jagged little pills now.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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Deeply under-rated comment.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I kinda wanna see a pilot script if you feel like trying your hand at it, just for shits and giggles.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I’m in no better spot, but this is the crux of the problem, isn’t it - too many of us don’t have a strongly-enough bound local community to get assistance with stuff like this without involving the cops.

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Brain - Candied
Tapeworm - Fed
Heads - Crushed
Chicken- Ladied

Take that, atheists 😎

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There is, in fact, good country music that isn’t just about trucks, beer, flags, and right-wing U.S. propaganda.

People have a lot of hate for the genre due to the mass appeal, common denominator examples. But like with all music, dig a little deeper beyond what gets radio play and you can find some good shit.

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Here is a random list of songs I like, in my opinion under the umbrella of country in one way or another (though some stretch that a little. Or a lot. Don’t @ me, die-hard country fans).

Some may, indeed, involve beer, trucks, and American Christian propaganda - but pleasant sounding at least. I’m also confirmed to be pretty lame, and that may be reflected in my choices here.

I also never said you needed to dig deep - some/most of this is like, a fingernail scratch. But if you find something here you dig, strongly recommend diving deeper into the artist.

Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
George Jones - White Lightning
The Highwaymen - Highwayman
Dick Curless - The Heartline Special
Eddy Arnold - Cowpoke
Conway Twitty - Hello Darlin’
Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die
Sons of the Pioneers - Empty Saddles
Marty Robbins - Running Gun
Willie Nelson - Bubbles in my Beer
Hank Thompson - A Six Pack to Go
Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Sonny James - Baltimore
Del Reeves - A Dime at A Time
Dale Hawkins - Everglades
Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West - Blue Bonnet Rag
Tim Carroll - I Think Hank Woulda Done It This Way
Buddy Emmons - Orange Blossom Special
Tommy Collins - You Better Not Do That
The Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real [here’s that propaganda I told you about - still love this song]
Eddie Noack - Psycho
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Jerry’s Breakdown
Tom T. Hall - That’s How I Got to Memphis
Roger Miller - Dang Me

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I mean, kinda, yeah.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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It’s to make sure the victim deserves it.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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For me, it’s sheer laziness. Can’t be arsed to shave more than once every 6 to 10 months.

Do always find it funny when folks react strongly when I do shave. It’s hair growth, not a personality.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I agree - figuring out how to take advantage of time dilation for therapeutic purposes would be very cool, and potentially quite useful. This is kind of what I hope comes from renewed research into psychedelics, being able to pick out the mechanisms for all the different effects and developing techniques to cherrypick just a few with therapeutic benefit with a much reduced risk of freak out. We may already be there re:time dilation alone with TCMS or something, idk.

But real talk - which do you see getting funded for wider use first, 5 year retreat in an hour, or psychic prison?

(Actually, saying it at loud it might be even odds, depending on the price tag folks can assign to the retreat)

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Man, fuck society’s outdated edicts - as long as you’re able to feed yourself, you’re doing amazing in my book.

What now? A lot of options still on the table, but here’s something to think about: one element of the whole fatherhood thing is passing down the knowledge you’ve gathered from all of this for your child’s benefit/enrichment. But you aren’t going to have kids, which is fine. So - are there any other means to share your knowledge/experience with the next generation? Preferably in meatspace?

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Best I can do are mushrooms that can give you a new lease on life, or at absolute worse psychosis.

Want some fire flower? I know a guy for that too.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I disagree that it’s without merit. Again, OP is not asking the question “Is God evil?” - they’ve come to that conclusion already and aren’t presenting it for debate. They’re asking if there is a term for this position. It’s a fair question, and probably an entry point for them to do additional reading and thinking on the idea (after which point it may or may not be revised). If there was a more even mix of theists, atheists, and folks in between who wonder about this stuff on Lemmy, I’d hope OP would come back to discuss the idea, but that’s not what’s happening rn.

If it helps, I’m coming at this as someone who believes in small g god - to borrow the Christian idea of the trinity, God the Father does not exist as an independent entity, God the Son is a more interesting discussion, but god the holy spirit does exist - rather than a pure atheist. Happy to yap about that more but it’s kind of off topic.

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Security guard - with the right post it can be any time, but night shift is your best bet.

Any business where locations exist simply to increase territory/coverage. Here in Canada, this includes certain cannabis retailers, vape shops, certain gas station locations, that kind of thing. Places where the job is clean stuff at a certain cadence, then wait for customers, where customer volume is kinda low. Obv don’t rely on these being forever jobs - the cannabis and vape store that fits this will eventually close - but you can get paid to basically study until then.

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For a long time, I’d say accept that nothing was going to happen with this girl I fell for at the time, and focus on my writing (what I was in college for at the time, with an eye to getting into a great program at the uni down the road for slighty less total cost than just going there).

I’ve since learned it’s important not to focus on what you could’ve done differently in the past. It’s done, and it lead to wherever you are today. But boy, did that person - more accurately, the situation I found myself in re: that person - cause a series of events that included some pretty dark times.

But who’s to say life right now would be better for it?

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One Christmas, my mother-in-law gave me an unopened bottle of whisky they had in their cabinet for a while. It was some of the best whisky I’ve ever had. About halfway through the bottle on Boxing Day, I took a moment to look up the cost (it’s since gone up in price, but you’ll get the idea)

dekanta.com/store/suntory-hibiki-30-years-old/

I. Was. Horrified. I have exactly two ounces left, that I will probably consume with my wife on my deathbed.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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Don’t downvote this guy, ‘bruhhhh’ is right.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2b3589ee-cfa8-43b9-bb53-cf1394187aee.jpeg

Cracks_InTheWalls , (edited )
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Also a military brat, I find your 50/50 split suspicious.

My own observation is 80/20 giant nerds to goobers. Varies between service branches though - higher for air force, about this for navy, a little lower for army.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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Mummy’s turned into a Scotsman.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it’s pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).

fammed.mcmaster.ca/oscar-emr/

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As a cannabis enjoyer, I feel in this case, as is usually the case in my world, quad claims are bullshit.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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Non-alcoholic gin and tonics are the shit. If you’re legit looking for non-alcoholic drinks and like G&Ts give it a try.

Cracks_InTheWalls ,
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One, anything else is pure decadence (unless you have a neck issue or something).

Cracks_InTheWalls OP ,
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Let’s say you have a 50/50 chance of getting your choice of a vanity number or a randomly assigned 800 number - what do you do in either outcome?

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That sucks - though depending on the provider (I’ve been digging around on this), there are some that offer unlimited minutes as part of their monthly/annual package. Not all, though, and those seem to be on the pricier end (though in the grand scheme of things, not crazy expensive).

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I’ve been thinking about phones a lot lately - payphones in particular.

Warning: link to novel-length rambling follows - like to the point I’m giving little section names, a title and everything, and had to toss it into a pastebin thing (but not pastebin, it looks like they didn’t like my use of the word fuck or something) rather than this comment like I intended.

Basically, it’s an invitation to waste some time. It can be summed up by “Idk, I’d make a weird voicemail or PBX system and leave the number at remaining payphones, I guess. That could be fun.”

pastes.io/paoqsezsjn

Cracks_InTheWalls OP ,
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And yes, 100% free in this magical scenario, no paying for the number, minutes etc.

Cracks_InTheWalls OP ,
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Magically permanent if you want it to be/give some “Yes I’m still using it” feedback to the shadowy organization giving it to you. Otherwise it’s active for one year.

Cracks_InTheWalls OP ,
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Assume you are given a 1-800 number for your own use - people can call it and reach whatever you set up (you directly, a voicemail box, a phone menu set up, a dialup connection, whatever). The number is free and your minutes are unlimited.

Would you use it? If so, what for?

Cracks_InTheWalls OP , (edited )
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Not a lot of people, but there are retrocomputing hobbists who’d probably be stoked to find something like this.

Apparently you can tunnel through using a VoIP device, but it’s not great. Or get a cellular modem (do not know what kind of connection quality you’d have in 2024, or if it’s even a real option).

The other option would be finding an old payphone that works with an acoustic coupler. See here (Wayback link as on my phone, direct one doesn’t seem to work on all browsers, fine in Firefox but host pretends the site doesn’t exist in my default one that opens in Jerboa*)

web.archive.org/web/20220520161806/…/coupler.htm

I am admittedly a giant dork, but a quest to try and find a payphone that still exists AND you could actually do this with sounds fun. Seeing someone sitting next to a payphone with a buncha wires and a computer would be some high weirdness I can get behind.

*Sidenote: Anyone know how to change the default brower Jerboa on Android uses?

Cracks_InTheWalls OP ,
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If it’s indeed no to what I’m describing here, it’s not an interesting answer, but it is an honest one. I can respect that.

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Two chicks who call that number and independently report they’d be down for a completely anonymous FFM three-way - and follow through?

It could happen, life’s a weird thing, but there’s unicorns and then there’s this. If everyone leaves without a disease and with all their kidneys they should probably go buy lottery tickets.

Cracks_InTheWalls OP ,
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I can’t believe it took me two days to ask the obvious - as someone toying with some goofy project ideas themselves, what was yours?

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One of the following ideas, in order of how likely I could get it running (given I wouldn’t have the foggiest what I’m doing):

  1. Forward the 1-800 calls to a free VoIP voicemail service, inviting callers to leave to leave the date, their location, and a message. Print stickers with the number, slap them on however many payphones I can find, and see what happens. I could do this tomorrow if I wanted.
  2. Same idea, but routing to a FreePBX set up with whitelisting. While slapping up stickers, dial an echo number (don’t think that’s the right term - one that just reads back the number you’re calling from, not one that echos what you’re saying to test latency), add number to whitelist. That payphone is now activated. Activated payphones get to leave a message, anyone else gets ‘Good bye’ and disconnected. Some reading suggests this is possible, but with many, many things to learn between now and then (especially whitelisting). I’d be starting from 0 knowledge.
  3. The above, but when you hit # to end your message, you get access to some automated menus with some fun/weird stuff (qotd, show times for upcoming bands I find interesting, a party line would be cool, etc.). See all comments demonstrating ignorance.

Why? It’s pretty dumb, but seems like it’d kill some time and could garner some interesting/weird audio. I do like the idea of whitelisting payphones only, both to cut down on bot call vectors and to push the like 3 interested people to use the disappearing comms anachronisms around town.

Cracks_InTheWalls OP , (edited )
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Probably just poor writing.

I had an interaction a while back that made me start thinking about payphones, and since you can call toll-free numbers from payphones here without depositing any coins (checked to make sure this is still a thing last week), this seemed like an interesting idea.

I have some artsy-fartsy thoughts about it, too: creative uses of dying infrastructure; ‘true’ anonymity - the info I’m getting from people is basically the number they’re calling from, as a product of that their location during the call, and whatever audio they want to shove down the pipe - that’s it; ideas about locality and physicality in an age where mass communication has erased borders in many senses, but people feel disconnected from their local communities more than ever, etc.

If you have some time to kill, I wrote a long-winded comment about it earlier and put it on a pastebin clone here (due to length limitations for comments here): pastes.io/paoqsezsjn

Basically, I like the idea of this weird number you can only reach from payphones someone slapped a sticker on in 2024, that doesn’t ask for money (even the .50 to connect), doesn’t try to sell you anything, and primarily just offers a box to leave some audio in. Could yield nothing, could yield something neat.

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