The Mandela Effect does not exist in the manner you're describing, and by priming your audience to expect a specific false memory you're tainting the data from any responses you get.
People wouldn't have the Berenstain/Bernstein thing mixed up in their heads so much if the conversation about it was always phrased as "Who are the authors of that old children's picture book series with the bears?" instead of adding doubt with "Do you remember the authors as Berenstain or Bernstein?"
I actually went to a real-life sex shop for the first time in my life.
I was nervous out of my mind and I was doing this weird fidgeting thing where I rub the inside edge of my eyelids with my hands over my nose and mouth, and the woman who runs the place asked if I was having an allergic reaction to the air freshener. That's the humorous bit I think about to stop dwelling on how intense it was for me. It broke nearly every rule and norm I've ever lived by. I've had about ten distinct "I can't believe I'm doing this" moments just in the last month.
The owner of the store was very polite, and spoke plainly about sexuality and masturbation so far as it was relevant to my business there. It was as if none of it were ever taboo to begin with, and that kind of approach was just what I needed to not have a heart attack right there. I got a mid-size metal plug and a small thing of lube and I've been casually exploring with it since then.
In other news, I learned that I've made enough progress restoring my foreskin that artificial lube doesn't do much for me, and a lot of the time my glans looks like I'm uncut. Nature is healing
Bro, you just downvoted everyone and changed the automatic upvote on all your own comments into downvotes. Both vote totals are recorded separately
Try opening the link in your browser. It might be time to file a bug report
If it's the one you reposted that goes "oh my god, did you make a whole post (...)" both copies of that one are visible
The entire thread is visible to me on Voyager and Chromium with no deletions, I don't see any deletions under this post either
I've interacted with a lot of manipulative people online and offline, and nothing I could find in wildginger's public comments was suggestive of manipulation. No Motte & Bailey defense, no coercive use of ambiguous phrasing, absolutely no sealioning, and not much of anything else. The worst thing they did was show an understandable amount of anger at your insistence that Christian Selig open-source his highly expensive software.
Try hanging out in philosophy-focused spaces, some of them are pretty close to the "civil discussions on hard topics with moderation good enough to toss out manipulators and build everyone else up" sweet spot I'm always searching for
6:30 AM, dark room, caffeinated, edging, trying out writing erotica, listening to Electric Light Orchestra, already deep into the good headspace. In this state, hearing the transition between Believe Me Now and Steppin' Out for the first time gave me a flood of dopamine way larger than any orgasm I've ever experienced. Brain was immediately fried
I could believe it. Not because of weird antisemitic-adjacent conspiracy theories but because Tyson chicken already tastes like my front yard
I've heard of lab-grown flesh cloned from a burn victim's own flesh replacing the need for an invasive skin graft retrieval, and a gold nanoparticle mixture placed into an old spinal cord injury to cause microscopic damage and force the body to resume healing the severed nerves. Those are the big two I like to talk about. I'm optimistic about things like whole working artificial organs in the next 50 years