The stupidity of the anti-vaxx nutcases

[Sasaferrato]

i used to have a dog who arse breathed a lot.

Close run thing whether dog or cat farts are worse.

 

[Orang Utan]

I never used to, apart from a stint at life modelling. Was the stillest I've ever been, and made me feel very strange but relaxed. I've been doing short guided mindful stuff lately, and longer ocean sounds/binaural beats/rainy thunder podcasts. It's very effective at managing stress.

It’s very boring though, I can’t get past that. I don’t think it’s possible for people with brains like mine.

 

[fishfinger]

I've listened/watched quite a bit of ASMR stuff but I stopped getting any buzz/relaxation effects a long time ago. I just get invasive thoughts and lose concentration very quickly.

 

[sojourner]

It’s very boring though, I can’t get past that

I'm in need of blank space so it's working for me.

 

[sojourner]

I've listened/watched quite a bit of ASMR stuff but I stopped getting any buzz/relaxation effects a long time ago. I just get invasive thoughts and lose concentration very quickly.

It's the loss of concentration that I'm loving about it

 

[belboid]

Have you tried listening to any asmr/sleep google podcasts? I'm finding them pretty addictive. Am zoned out in minutes. They don't make me sleep but it's a form of meditation. Hugely relaxing.

I believe there is a substance which, if smoked or otherwise imbibed, can have a similar effect. Have you not tried that?

 

[Orang Utan]

I believe there is a substance which, if smoked or otherwise imbibed, can have a similar effect. Have you not tried that?

Only thing that works for me

 

[Shechemite]

Mindfulness got me through uni (well, as far as I got before got too mental). I’m no expert but my lived experience tells me weed wouldn’t have helped my productivity

 

[emanymton]

Close run thing whether dog or cat farts are worse.

Dog.

Random aside. We used to have a Dog that would give you a look of utter disgust if you happened to be near him when he farted, before walking to the other side of the room.

 

[Orang Utan]

Mindfulness got me through uni (well, as far as I got before got too mental). I’m no expert but my lived experience tells me weed wouldn’t have helped my productivity

Horses for courses innit. Doubt it helped me study but it helped me sleep, esp after taking the speed which helped me study

 

[Shechemite]

Two of your five a day there

 

[sojourner]

Mindfulness got me through uni (well, as far as I got before got too mental). I’m no expert but my lived experience tells me weed wouldn’t have helped my productivity

I do both

 

[existentialist]

Yes I seem to be able to get in the headspace when doing pottery, making a mosaic, gardening, cooking, swimming lanes in a pool... any repetitive activity which has a level of familiarity to it (as in I've done it before many times).

It happens spontaneously though, and not every time I do that activity. I can't choose to make it happen (or not).

And a bit of psychomotor stuff going on alongside, I strongly suspect...moving around does all kinds of interesting things in the brain.

 

[William of Walworth]

Very interesting change of conversation today, from the thread title!

The above is not in any way a criticism .......

 

[petee]

breathE is the verb, people.
fuck's sake, i shouldn't have to say that.

 

[Orang Utan]

breathE is the verb, people.
fuck's sake, i shouldn't have to say that.

if enough people use breath, we can drop the e, which i'm all for

 

[two sheds]

if enough people use breath, we can drop the e, which i'm all for

 

[hitmouse]

This story is quite a wild ride:

St. Paul ‘sovereign citizen’ records himself stealing vaccines from workers - Minnesota Reformer

A St. Paul man has posted multiple Facebook videos of himself stealing coronavirus vaccines by pretending he wants to get vaccinated and walking out with the vials.

minnesotareformer.com

A 32-year-old St. Paul man has posted multiple Facebook videos of himself stealing Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines by pretending he wants to get vaccinated and walking out with the vials...

Humphrey posted videos of himself walking into an Allina Health vaccination site in Oakdale and leaving with a vial of Pfizer vaccine, calling it poison. The following day, he posted a video of himself taking a vial of Johnson & Johnson vaccine from a CVS worker, again telling customers it’s poison.

Humphrey finally caught the attention of Blaine police after police were called to a Kwik Shop, where he took all the free sugar packets to draw some kind of analogy to stealing the free vaccine. The officers didn’t seem to know anything about his vaccine theft, and arrested him because he didn’t have a valid license plate. (He doesn’t believe he’s bound by the law requiring them, he says in a video.)

 

[NoXion]

What a piece of fucking shit. Why the fuck wasn't he arrested the first time he pulled this shit? Each vial contains multiple doses, so even if he was entitled to a vaccination, what he did was literally theft. Fuck him and fuck the useless pigs for not doing their fucking jobs.

 

[StoneRoad]

This story is quite a wild ride:

St. Paul ‘sovereign citizen’ records himself stealing vaccines from workers - Minnesota Reformer

A St. Paul man has posted multiple Facebook videos of himself stealing coronavirus vaccines by pretending he wants to get vaccinated and walking out with the vials.

minnesotareformer.com

good fucking grief.

 

[BigMoaner]

Suspect he might have a bit more going on than covid denial tho

 

[Shechemite]

Suspect he might have a bit more going on than covid denial tho

and he’ll be spending his time (on or offline) with all sort of other cranks, winding each other up with grim bullshit

 

[bimble]

i totally missed the whole magnetic arms story but the front page of twitter feels the need to alert me that its not true.
Which is annoying as magnetic arm might be quite useful when you've lost yr keys etc. WTF.

 

[teqniq]

Magnetic? These people get more desperate and ridiculous by the day.

 

[emanymton]

i totally missed the whole magnetic arms story but the front page of twitter feels the need to alert me that its not true.
Which is annoying as magnetic arm might be quite useful when you've lost yr keys etc. WTF.
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Fuck yeah, I want a magnetic arm. Be like being a superhero.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

These people are like religious fundamentalists. But they are actually worse than religious people because religion actually has some positive aspects to it. This has none, only negative and destructive aspects. I know some of them are religious people, but you get my point.

 

[BigMoaner]

These people are like religious fundamentalists. But they are actually worse than religious people because religion actually has some positive aspects to it. This has none, only negative and destructive aspects. I know some of them are religious people, but you get my point.

Now its very hard to be objective but the two of the most striking features: antisocial, sociopathic. If collective consciousness was a system, it would be like a glitch in it, like a jump over or side stepping of "normal neural pathways".

It's not information that needs censoring or controlling, but the alorithyms. The algorithms should be controlled. Then there can be no hyper whinge (perhaps with some merit) of "control of information".

 

[BigMoaner]

#bleak

 

[BigMoaner]

Magnetic? These people get more desperate and ridiculous by the day.

They are praying that they find something sinister. All those lovely validating emotions.

Fuck 'em.

 

[NoXion]

It's not information that needs censoring or controlling, but the alorithyms. The algorithms should be controlled. Then there can be no hyper whinge (perhaps with some merit) of "control of information".

I dunno if the problem is entirely down to algorithms, people were definitely hiving themselves off into little echo chambers well before Big Tech started doing it for them.