skulkingaround

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[–] skulkingaround 7 points 6 months ago

Yeah it was a terrible concert venue and sports arena other than being a novelty shape.

Pretty much everyone in town loves the bass pro shop and we're much happier to see it in use than abandoned like it was for so many years.

[–] skulkingaround 85 points 6 months ago (6 children)

They have a duck accelerator inside that fuses antiducks and posiducks together as a source of unlimited power.

[–] skulkingaround 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Luxor is ever so slightly bigger I believe.

[–] skulkingaround 155 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (27 children)

I live 5 minutes from this. AMA I guess?

The Memphis pyramid was a sports arena and concert venue in the past, eventually the city built another venue that wasn't shaped stupid so it sat abandoned for a decade or so before bass pro bought it.

[–] skulkingaround 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's definitely different from my experience, mine's more of a "get obsessed with a specific kink and see how far down the rabbit hole for it can go, rinse+repeat" thing. My actual sex life is pretty mundane, I have a stable relationship and we get it on a couple times a week, work schedules permitting.

Maybe it would help to involve other people if you can find them and your SO is open to it, although talking about sexual topics is pretty different from engaging in sexual acts. Mine isn't really into the same stuff I am from a fantasy perspective, so I have some specific friends that I go to for those topics.

[–] skulkingaround 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

By hypersexual, do you mean people who have/desire lots of sex, or people who are fixated on sex and related subjects as a topic of interest?

For me, it's more of the latter. Unfortunately there's no help out there I've been able to find. Best advice I have is to find the least unhealthy ways to satisfy those feelings and keep them pointed in that direction. In my case, that's been picking up art as a hobby and using it to illustrate weird kinky shit, and finding a select few people to share it with.

I've also found the modern social landscape, both online and irl, to be weirdly regressive on sexual topics. I'm not going around flying that flag per se, there's a time and a place, but people having weird kinks is a common topic of public ridicule.

[–] skulkingaround 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Protip, you can cook regular spaghetti noodles in a big pan. You only need enough water to cover the noodles and it's way faster than boiling a lake's worth of water in a pot and doing the whole "try to fold the pasta into the water as fast as possible so it cooks evenly" dance.

[–] skulkingaround 10 points 7 months ago

I find the opposite as an ADHD sufferer. When I use a dish, it goes in the dishwasher. If it's full, I run it. If it's clean, I empty it before I put the dirty dish in which takes all of 2 minutes. It basically forces the routine, and I end up running it almost every night and emptying it while I make my morning coffee.

Whereas with hand washing I end up building a pile in the sink and procrastinate until it gets big enough to take half an hour to get through.

[–] skulkingaround 6 points 8 months ago

I grew up with gmod idiot box and dane cook bits animated with stick figures.

I think the kids today are doing just fine, at least on the memes front.

[–] skulkingaround 1 points 8 months ago

Correct assessment. Absolutism in political systems is unproductive and leads to poor outcomes.

[–] skulkingaround -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am familiar with marxist theory. The problems lie in what you just said. As Marx said, it is the natural progression of a society that has progressed through the stages of capitalism and entered post-scarcity. People who advocate for other channels of achieving communism are misguided, as post scarcity is a pretty hard requirement and a lack of that aspect opens the mechanisms of resource allocation up to exploitation. And unless you can somehow stop shitheads from being born, someone is going to be enough of one to take advantage.

Even the OG natural progression of society version of communism has issues. For one, you still have the shithead human problem. There's always going to be people out there who want it all, and they'll exploit whatever they can to get it. Communism, being stateless, doesn't have particularly good mechanisms for dealing with that.

[–] skulkingaround 4 points 8 months ago

Communism is an definitely an ideology. Literally first sentence from Wikipedia: "Communism [...] is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology..."

But yeah, it's kinda suspicious that every nation scale attempt at communism has ended in failure or a system that is decidedly not communist, whether through internal strife or external influence.

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