I don’t know what - if anything- comes after. But I do like the Buddhist analogy of death being like a wave falling back into the sea. The wave is gone but the matter and energy that constituted it survives and are eventually repurposed for the formation of another wave. Or a bird, or a tree, or some other part of the natural world.
I went to a lot of noise shows in my twenties. Some of the dudes took themselves way to seriously and played up the “I’m the disturbed artists bitcrushing damaged children’s gospel records” image but a lot of them were just nerdy guys who talked Star Wars or programming between their sets. Good times.
Some people use it to maintain contact with long distance friends and family. Especially in scenarios where other methods are prohibited by time zone and expense. It’s also been used by whistleblowers to expose government corruption and illegal corporate machinations.
Just because it’s primary use case has been altered to favor brainrot and slop doesn’t mean it totally lacks value or usability for other uses.
You know you can just educate people, right? lts a lot more constructive than being an arrogant dick who expects everyone to arrive at all scenarios with perfect knowledge.
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Mentally perceive sounds as color. I don’t get the visual effect as with true synesthesia but more like my mind says “that sound is blue” when I hear it.
Luigi Mangione did nothing wrong.
Lol. What are they going to besides scream “Read Theory!” at us while crying into their pillows shaped like Stalin’s cock?
Yeah, that was quite inhumane of me. How can I hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from werewolf gangbang authors and used underwear merchants and not despair?
Oh, no. Someone think of the pink sauce lady and dildo sellers!
They’re probably on the tankie instances blaming this on Uyghurs or some shit.
If I wanted to hang out in an ideological ghetto, I’d unblock lemmy ml.
Good. TikTok is pure fucking brainrot. People acting like it’s disappearance is some great tragedy make me laugh.
No, they’re just assholes. Nice try, though.
It’s the Worker’s Billionaire, you western imperialist dog! Stalin did nothing wrong! Dengism forever! I am very normal!
closes hatch on tank and drives away
I deleted mine shortly thereafter. I tried to convince friends and family to do the same but got accusations of being paranoid or a conspiracy theorist. Jump to now, everyone’s Christmas gifts from them this year was tatty bullshit from Temu that was advertised to them on Facebook and I spend most of my time with them dismantling conspiracy theories and misinformation they picked up from the dumbasses they interact with on that fucking site.
Tank goes vroooooommm.
It’s a tankie instance. You’re not missing anything important or reality-based by blocking it. You should also block lemmy.ml.
Yeah, his wife has definitely served him divorce papers.
I had Cessna crash land on a duplex down the road from me. All involved died except the cat that belonged to the poor bastard in the apartment.