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having seen both, I like The Day After more.

Threads just seems like torture porn being shown to you to make you afraid of nuclear war, which had its uses in pushing for nuclear disarmament, so I can't hate it...

but The Day After does a lot more to personalize and humanize the story, each subplot makes you very intimately attached to these characters and their families by presenting their day-to-day life and aspirations, how normal their lives are when war is looming echoes our own. So when everything is blown to shit it hurts so much more.

it sounds like you do, though, so I'm sure you've got some relevant and up-to-the-minute sources to share with us so we all can be up to date as well. thanks in advance

induction stovetops create extremely loud high pitched noises, some get up to 100+ decibels. You can't "hear" it but at higher heat levels you can definitely "feel" it in your ears.

I believe they were harming birds and insects, but I don't think someone using a mosquito tone to deter human beings cares much for wildlife health

think about the main consumer base for viagra, and then think about who makes the majority of economic/financial decisions in this country.

engineering wise I can't see why it wouldn't be possible to selectively genetic-engineer some kind of plant or algae or something that sucks up tons and tons of carbon that you can then sequester manually by compressing it into, I don't know, artificial peat or something.

I have no idea why massive factory growing operations for produce aren't everywhere. Every city should have one by now, growing produce locally and shaving down the price of transport and waste to almost nothing.

that crazy pro-natalist fascist couple that's been all over the news lately do this. They pick and choose which of their embryos are the most fit overall, and/or which have blond hair I'm sure, and plan to have as many of them as possible. Seems a shame to go through all that, only to beat your kids in front of a newspaper reporter and give them neuroses that'll likely make them rebel against you, but I'm sure if they can invest in crypto stocks they must be very good at predicting the future right?

> Deliberately restricting a human being's sense experience throughout their lives should be considered child abuse

I've got relatives that teach deaf children. most deaf kids who grow up in societies with mostly hearing kids, want to be normal more than anything. At the same time, for many who are eligible for cochlear implants, getting that early before speech development begins in earnest is very important, ideally when they're just a toddler or younger. Early enough and you'll barely notice any difference in their speech, understanding, etc. However, their parents often decline it and say they want to let their child be the one to choose when they're old enough to- which is far, far outside the best window for developing that area of the brain, as well as speech. They might be behind in those ways for the rest of their lives if they're not given therapy to help catch up.

I understand both sides I guess, but if consent is the issue, why not give them the implant and let them choose to disconnect the receiver then when they're older? Obviously, because they won't want to, and rarely ever do.

oh don't worry, I already have :)

I hope they implement some other situation soon. A one-time fee to register, maybe monthly subscriptions for perks, or something. They may need it sooner rather than later and at least this is a nice stopgap

I recall a thread years and years ago about a guy who found an abandoned digital camera in the woods, only to take it home and extract the photos from its SD card, and as everyone poured over them, they began noticing odd figures in the trees and so on.

That's the kind of fun group activity I love about these mysterious things

I've been fascinated by the genre of creepy "liminal space" pictures for ages because the universal nature of how offputting they are seems to transcend a lot of cultural barriers

I think that it actually boils down to a very deep seeded similar animalistic fear all of us have: the agoraphobic open spaces with no place to hide, lack of furniture or shelving to hide behind either, unreliable lighting with stark shadows that could hide danger, no windows or inability to judge the passage of time or ostensibly escape through. They're always desolate with no people around, and what's more, evidence that nobody's been through in ages so you can't even hope to stumble upon anyone. Abandoned places, dangerous decrepit old buildings, places too large to count on passing by another person, places abandoned at night because people have left.

In the end, you feel trapped like a rat in a shoebox with nowhere to go. If something trying to get you appeared, you'd have no options to run or fight back, and nobody to call out to for help.

one of my favourite series of images were of an american suburb, rows of identical houses with fences, far apart from each other so interaction with neighbours was minimal, short little trees, so everything is exposed. Because the construction was so new, nobody had moved in yet, so there were no cars, no lit up windows, absolutely no life. In lieu of walls keeping you trapped, the sheer size was the isolating factor: you could run away for 10 minutes and get nowhere.

everyone says the Kanepixels stuff is the best, but in my opinion, establishing a lore and a story with this big corporate overlord and science fiction stuff was a mistake and only erodes the mysterious and malevolent nature of the entire thing.

There's a youtube account called "mattstudios" who does his own take, and generally spearheaded the "poolrooms" variant of this genre, that is far more grounded and tries to present the concept from the point of view of an everyday guy who "noclips" into it purely by mistake.

for me, this is the best backrooms take, not just for how realistic the video artifacts are, but because of how it captures just a guy recording something on his handicam in 1997 and how he'd realistically act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KenTOGFwLpU

I've seen multiple people say this exact thing, as well

it blew up to that amount virtually overnight- like maybe a week at the most. I don't even think they had the time to do anything.

after using it for a year already, I really need this site to succeed. It's one of the few I'd happily pay money to use, even if I don't get anything back.

a while ago, before Bluesky or Cara or anything, a similar issue happened with a site called Hive iirc, it did a great job at fostering a userbase right away and things went great but because they couldn't keep the site up and also develop it, they decided to shutter the entire thing for a month and buckle down.... and it completely lost its entire userbase, its momentum was destroyed, everyone moved on. I don't want to see that happen to Cara.