Hey there! FYI I really appreciated this comment. The response to my comment here convinced me that Lemmy isn't really the place for me. I popped back today to look something up, and I wanted to make sure you got a friendly hello after seeing your response.
I totally agree with everything you said. Having shared practices for remembrance and an established "typical" way to demonstrate care for deceased people is a significant part of maintaining social cohesion and so useful for giving individuals an outlet for grief.
The way an entire industry has emerged to capitalize on loss and paij sickens me, but that part is a whole different conversation.
My education is in archaeoligy, and my primary interest was American deathways. I've probably spent more time thinking about contemporary death rites and remembrance than I've thought about anything else as an adult.
Anyway, I hope you're well! Keep on being a cool person.
Ritual and ceremony are deeply important aspects of the human experience. What cultures do with their dead is way, way up there with foodways and adornment when it comes to cultural significance.
The increasingly common view in the West that elaborate death rites are unimportant is really new when compared to the rest of human history. It's probably a postmodern thing? If I'm right about that, that would mean the less reverential attitude towards traditional deatg ceremony is like 110ish years old.
Compared to the 200,000-300,000 years Homo Sapiens have been around (or 45,000 years ago if we only want to discuss the length of time that Northern European-style deathways have most likely been practiced), 100 years isn't a lot to change that cultural inertia.
Sorry, I know this is a Wendy's. Just a frosty, thanks.
Nanny state foolishness. It's just crewed spaceflight, not rocket science.
With that baby around, I think it's you who needs to worry about surviving a 20-story fall.
I'm pleased that she's experiencing the fallout from all this, but whatever logic she used to calculate that political risk is baffling.
Four John Wick movies have grossed over a billion dollars on the conceit that harming a dog is a legitimate emotional catalyst for someone to kill 450 people.
My kinda person. If they were local and I saw the post, I'd be there for sure.
Dopes to Infinity and Spine of God are stoner metal bangers, JIC anyone here isn't familiar with their stuff from before Powertrip.
I've also liked that their later stuff walks a line between glam & sludge metal.
Abandoning my DeWalt family heritage in favor of Mikwaukee was almost like leaving Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm allowed back to visit, but it's tense.
I will begin handling an Impossible Landscapes Delta Green campaign next weekend.
I'm also considering getting back into lifting weights. I used to powerlift, but I suffered an intercostal tear in my late 20s. Recovery started a domino effect, and I haven't really picked anything up over 50 pounds in like 6 or 7 years 😒
I love that Springfield instituted the International Fixed Calendar, but replacing Sol with Smarch was just weird.
I think I can speak for everyone that this would be the ideal arrangement.
I'm a light sleeper with a loud mind, as well, so this kind of thing has always been a problem for me. The two main things I find helpful may not do the trick for you, but here goes:
First, trying to force myself back to sleep always just ramps my brain up worse and makes it more difficult than it already was to fall back asleep. I stopped trying to force the issue, which has counterintuitively sped up the time it takes me to fall back asleep. I don't get up or engage my mind with anything significant, but if I'm awake, I'll put soft music on my earbuds or scroll on my phone set to the dimmest setting. I may not fall back to sleep immediately, but I've found that lowering the pressure on myself to fall back asleep makes it happen more readily than when I spend 2 hours and 45 minutes being like "if I fall asleep right now, I can still get another 3 hours. go to sleep. fall asleep. sleep will happen.... now!"
Second, I've increased my oversell magnesium intake. I know you said no substances, but I feel like this is different. There have been a few studies--popular science type stuff, nothing peer reviewed that I know of--indicating that magnesium improves sleep quality and the ability to return to sleep if woken up. Might be the placebo effect, but I don't care because I've noticed an improvement.
Sorry you have to deal with this flavor of insomnia, too. Super sucks.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1268971
> https://twitter.com/therealjoebob/status/1681015066865352705 > > Darcy spilled the beans a couple weeks ago, so unless she was messing with us and JBB is really misdirecting us with that Florida clue, we know one of the films will be Day of the Dead. What do y'all think the other one will be?
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1299279
> Unless she was being cruel and misdirecting us, Darcy already spilled the beans that one of the films will be Day of the Dead (woop!). What does everyone think the other film will be?
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1194387
There will be another Lemmy live discussion tomorrow night over at !driveinmovies@midwest.social. r/Shudder live discussion refugees are welcome!
> https://twitter.com/therealjoebob/status/1679330522323886080?s=20 > > What do y'all think? > > I'm really bad at guessing these, but I'm going to say An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Abominable (2006). > > However! Tomorrow is Bastille Day, so I think it would be appropriate if Joe Bob and Darcy played Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001).
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1021215
FYI that we'll try for another Lemmy live discussion tomorrow night over at !driveinmovies@midwest.social. Come play if you feel like it 🤗
> https://twitter.com/therealjoebob/status/1676965096210448388?s=20 > > What are everyone's guesses? I haven't seen a lot of animated horror before, so I've got nothin'.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1017879
> Lloyd Kaufman is asking begging for help!
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> On 27 June 2023, YouTube took down the TromaMovies channel over violations of its community standards, leaving many other channels up that commit the same violations. Selective enforcement of rules is not gangster, YT.
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> Here is the announcement from Lloyd Kaufman.
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> And here is a MoveOn.org petition gently asking YouTube to unfuck themselves. I know petitions are kinda whatever, but it's a thing we can do.
I actually thought I might be having an aneurysm or a stroke. It was weird.
An iridescent zigzag appeared in part of my field of vision, and another portion of my field of vision just... stopped. I had this big blind spot for like an hour, all while this jagged rainbow bastard chilled in my left peripheral.
That went away slowly, only to be replaced with vertigo and exhaustion. Almost no headache, though. I kept verifying that one side of my face wasn't paralyzed or whatever because I've had migraines a few times before, but those were nothing like this! Apparently they can just be this way.
Does anyone else get these? They're dumb.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/2087-Meade-St,-Detroit,-MI-48212_rb/88642925_zpid/
That'll buff right out.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/891-Woodland-Hls,-Harlan,-KY,-40831_rb/110358746_zpid/
1 image per 17.4 square feet seems excessive.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/861149
> https://twitter.com/therealjoebob/status/1673492109448343553?s=20 > > What are everyone's guesses for this week? > > I'm saying this week it'll be Jug Face and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.
!conversationpit@midwest.social is a... spiritual successor?... of what r/casualconversation was a super long time ago.
Come post random bullshit that's on your mind, and then talk with others about random bullshit that's on their mind.
I'm having problems uploading images, so I'll pretty the place up with a banner and whatnot another time.
!conversationpit@midwest.social is a... spiritual successor?... of what r/casualconversation was a super long time ago.
Come post random bullshit that's on your mind, and then talk with others about random bullshit that's on their mind.
I'm having problems uploading images, so I'll pretty the place up with a banner and whatnot another time.
Can someone help me understand what's going on? Communities look different from different instances.
Intro and Context
Midwest.social is my homebase, but I have two other accounts in different instances. Both accounts are in instances that are federated with this one.
I started a genre film community about a week ago. Yesterday, I logged in to my other instances to see what the community looks like from a non-moderator perspective. They all look different, depending on what instance I'm viewing the community from. Screenshots below:
Screenshots
This is the view of !driveinmovies@midwest.social from this instance. This is how I'd expect it to be seen by anyone that midwest.social is federated with. Is that not correct?
For context, all the comments in the stickied post are from individuals belonging to other instances with which midwest.social is federated. In fact, there are comments from lemmy.ml folks, and I think there's one from somebody in sopuli.xyz. That may be relevant because of what I see when I go to my lemmy.ml and sopuli.xyz accounts.
This is the view of !driveinmovies@midwest.social from my account on lemmy.ml. Only three posts show up. The comment counts and upvotes are different.
The one on top with zero upvotes was actually posted from the pictured lemmy.ml account. The middle post is supposedly a stickied post, except it's not stickied when accessed through lemmy.ml. Also, none of the comments appear. Not even my own test comment.
The "subscribe pending" business is new. Several days ago, it said "joined" over there. When I try unsubscribing and resubscribing, I keep getting the pending nonsense.
This is the view of !driveinmovies@midwest.social from my account on sopuli.xyz. All the posts show up, but the comment counts and upvotes are different.
The "subscribe pending" thing here is the same as it is with my lemmy.ml account. It wasn't there a couple days ago, but now it is. Turning it off and on again doesn't do anything.
Questions
Only one question, really. Is this as odd as it seems to me? Okay, two questions. Can someone explain why it looks different, based on which instance I'm accessing the community from?
If you're still scrobbling your music even though it's 2023 and not 2006, head over to !lastfm@midwest.social!
EDIT Oh no! Last.fm communities already exists over on feddit.de and lemmy.world. Unless you have the instances blocked, you should go play over at either !scrobble@feddit.de or !lastfm@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/748881
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvCd933cPU > > Thought you weirdos might like this as much as I do. I fall asleep to this video at least once a week and now you can, too!
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/746278
> It's pretty good! > > I'm not a movie reviewer and don't want to be one, so I won't do a write-up or anything, but if you like slashers from the early 80s this might be one to check out. It's fairly predictable and I'm not totally sure the premise even makes sense, but who cares! It was competently done, and it lacks polish in a way that I think adds to the movie. This is a solid pick if you're ever doing a 1980s slasher movie night imo. It's streaming on Shudder as of June 2023. > > Letterboxd link > > IMDB link
And they have a Dale Earnhardt Drive! Why haven't we all already moved there?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4316-Dale-Ernheart-Dr-Terlingua-TX-79852/2061606310_zpid/
Picking a favorite listing is like picking a favorite child. I just can't (it's 2637 Falderman Ave).
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I'm including !hypotheticalsituations in a game I play with myself sometimes. The bolded parameters were all assigned using a random number generator.
Don't worry about how you were convinced of it, but you know for certain that you will be transported to 17 August 1888 in exactly one week from right now. This is a one-way trip.
Luckily, you will be able to bring some things with you. You will be able to bring back 2 m3/72 ft3 worth of stuff. For reference, that's about what can be stored in the bed of a standard pickup without going over the bedrails. Let's say that you've been provided the appropriate number of steamer trunks to fill.
What are you going to do for the next week, what are you bringing back with you, and what will you do once you arrive?
You may bring people/pets back with you, but you must subtract their approximate dimensions from your baggage allotment. You will arrive in 1888 in the same geographic location that you're in next week.