I love their work. No one shouts “hey, you fuckin’ Scorsese!” at cab drivers and then goes to a movie later the same day saying “God, I wish someone would shoot me like Gangs of New York” while they jerk off.

Bro, you could make 1 baby’s arm-sized joint and 30 of the strongest weed brownies ever made, plus a helping of weed-not-oregano pasta for dinner and do the job 100 times better.

I tried counting, and I think I’ve lived in 20+ places. Only 4 during college, so I’ve just always moved frequently.

I remember everywhere other than the place where I was a baby, which I remember in bits and pieces, but didn’t recognize from streetview. There’s only that house and the one after it when I was like ages 2-4 that I would want to go back to out of curiosity. The houses felt so huge, and I’m sure they were tiny. Seeing them in streetview is more like teasing a mystery than bringing up memories.

Other than that, I only look at places out of curiosity of how they’ve changed. Places don’t really hold a ton of significance once they become functionally unattached to the emotional arc of one’s life.

Nope. I have a family member that chronically sends and demands absolute detritus for Xmas. It’s a relief to get cash, and I’ll often either 1) do some charity donation with direct recipients and send the cash sender a pic and tell them that’s how I used their money, or 2) go somewhere nice and send a pic and tell them it’s how I used their money. Both seem to work.

Every few months I started new accounts to cycle through and let old ones die. In /r/privacy of all things, I got shadow banned, and the mods had no idea why. Turns out it was the new Contributor Quality Score - you can’t just have karma. You need hot, fresh karma. It’s an active social credit system to push their value ahead of the IPO and now stock price. You have to grind reddit to stay afloat now.

I grind for no one. Fuck reddit now and forever.

To be fair, telling people to scan QR codes with their phones is a huge phishing vector. I’ve seen a few places with new stickers over the first one, which is very easy to do. Is it an updated menu? Or a scam page for a session stealer?

Dick Dale era surf guitar (someone else mentioned this as well, adding the best artist name). Dick Dale also did a cover of Claude Debussy’s “The Aquarium” which is the sound track for Space Mountain at Disneyland/World. So either or both, and there might be other covers of “The Aquarium” out there if the original isn’t too slow.

Going more ocean-themed…

Aquabats or Tsunami Bomb for some early 2000s punk/ska that isn’t ocean-themed but the bands are kinda.

Tide is High - Blondie

Scuba Diver - King Kong (it’s a weird song, but hypnotic)

Where is My Mind - Pixies (about fish, but close enough)

Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin

Maybe more sailing themed, but that’s close, right?

Brandy by Looking Glass

My Heart Will Go On - there’s a Dragonforce metal cover of this if you’ve been traumatized by the pennywhistle.

Come Sail Away - Styx

Rock Lobster!

They have a smell. It’s not bad, but it’s also not amazing or anything. It’s just…the Basha’s smell.

Turns out, same place.

Maybe. Please select a food trope associated with your youth from the following:

Rubio’s or Del Taco

Cactus Cooler

Green chilies red chilies in and on everything always at every moment of every day

Glass boot full of rock-colored jelly beans

HEB

Basha’s

Smith’s

The sunsets, and the smell after a rain.

Literally everything else can get fucked.

It was never a widely used protocol, and needs specially designed HDMI cables to work. It was something obscure and just barely past experimental.

This is like saying “Security by obsoleteness” because you won’t get hurt in a car accident because you don’t drive a flying car.

Agreeing with @[email protected] that you’re not going to stumble into internet over HDMI between two devices. This is a zero percent concern, IMO.

The metric system

Not quickly, the atmosphere itself would actually protect us for a while (I had to look into this to explain to my conspiracy-oriented parents that a pole reversal would not kill everyone). But if the magnetosphere was gone for good, solar wind would strip the atmosphere from the planet over time, as happened to Mars. We would probably all have to retreat to underground caves and domed cities sealed to keep the pressure high enough to live.

Apparently not many anthropologists or people interested in history on Lemmy.

There’s a few options, and it depends on what you mean by “gods.” The overall category you’re looking for is called “Folk Religion” which means it’s not organized beyond what local groups chose to believe are the “rules.” Without more details, anything below might fit.

Animism is a starting point, in which you believe that everything has a spirit or is otherwise alive in a spiritual dimension. There aren’t gods, per se, but elemental forces are higher forces that are semi-sentient. So, for example, the Sun would be alive, Earth would be alive, the elemental force of water is alive, and each has some sort of sentience, but it’s sort of too high to directly talk with people, but you sort of communicate with feelings.

Shamanism is animism with more nuance. Gods, demigods, demiurges and the like exist - basically there are non-human, non-corporeal entities that operate in a spiritual realm, as do humans, so a shaman does negotiation as a middle-man because they have learned and been trained to be able to operate in both our realm and theirs. While not an organized religion, most forms of shamanism have similar rules and standards. Which is surprising considering that many cultures developed shamanism independently of each other.

As a sort of more detailed step towards specificity, you then have specific things like Native American traditional religion, Shintoism, many African traditional religions, Druidism and European pagan traditions, modern wiccan or other witchcraft-oriented beliefs, where local gods and spirits abound and are deserving of worship and veneration from everyone, not just having the shaman interceding on your behalf.

Slightly more organized, but not really, are polytheistic religions. Hinduism, Hellenism, the Roman Pantheon of gods, etc. Westerners think of these as “organized” but they really weren’t/aren’t in the way that we typically think. There was no main “Church of Zeus” and then after worshiping him, you go to Athena or Nike. A person and household had their god and they gave sacrifices, then also did the same for other gods if they needed their help. It was very ad-hoc, and sort of interesting, as the Greeks and Romans went around the ancient world meeting other cultures, they would find another polytheistic religion and not say “No, our god of war is Ares, and she’s stronger than your god of war.” They assumed that the gods were the same globally, and it was just the names that changed. So more like “Oh, you call the god of war Kartikeya? Cool, we call him Ares. You know him, too, awesome.” So the dogma is actually quite light.

Honorable mention for Taoism and Buddhism, which both can incorporate varying levels of animistic and shamanic beliefs, plus gods as higher beings that are out there, but not as high as every human’s inner Buddha form (if that makes sense). However, as philosophies-cum-religions go, there’s much more dogma and convention in play in some versions. However, both are Gnostic, in that personal experience plays a role in shaping a personal dogma, rather than having someone shout rules at you from a pulpit. I’m not familiar with the Taoist angle there, so I may be wrong about that to some degree.

There are subsets of monotheistic (primarily Abrahamic) religions that are mystical and are less dogmatic. Sufis or Kabalists or Christian Mystics. They sort of do their own thing, and typically are seen as maybe heretical, maybe not, by the mainstream elements of the same religion. This crosses over the last line of what you mentioned about dogma, but worth mentioning.

Finally, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is just about anything you want it to be, and there’s also a Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

I bet we’ll get that gift a bit early.

And a 15, 25, 35, 45, 55 year old…

US Evangelicals at this point are one big core group with specific branding and associations that uses the mass of people that go to their churches as a financial and political machine, which their leadership wields to their personal benefit. Anyone outside of the mega-church group are marginalized, with some smaller churches on the fringes.

With the larger group and brand, the Bible means nothing beyond cherry-picking verses to make any point you want. No learning is needed, and everything is how you feel (how the Spirit moves you!) as long as it agrees with what the church says and you tithe. These people would appear as downright heretics to any Christian from the 1800s or before, and have more in common with the Pharisees that Jesus went to Old Timey Israel to call out for being dicks than Jesus himself. Prosperity Gospel, the idea that Jesus gives one money and power if they want it bad enough (entirely heretical), is a big deal for American Evangelicals, as is making a big show of sermons and prayer, something Jesus said was wrong.

It’s entirely about money and politics, selling books and media, making people feel like they belong, and wrapping people and their families up in the brand, making other denominations out to be not even Christian, so if you leave the church you’re abandoned. I’ve had Evangelicals tell me that Catholics and Orthodox denominations aren’t Christian at all, and that the Pope has Satanic symbols on his hat. Seriously. Conspiracy theories abound and nothing is done to discourage them, which is why the Evangelicals won’t turn away Creationist types, but typically don’t confirm that either way. Very little is actually pinned down in terms of religious beliefs, unless it’s something that is a political policy matter.

Since everything comes down to national-level politics and the whims of your local pastor, who often has a high school education at best, sermons can swing wildly around any topic, contradict each other, and provide zero real insight about the Bible or their religion. They’re entertainment the same way that Fox News is opinion-entertainment (so says Fox News in court documents to avoid lawsuits). Leaving space for people with mental health issues, corruption, schemers, idiots, and general human slime to prey upon the church. And it’s a constant parade of those types, pushing people to go out and say and do anything they feel like, and which usually pushes along the financial and political machine.

Oh, I wasn’t aware he had talked that in detail about his ideas.

And it’s weird that he goes from “No one is safe” dispatching Ned Stark early on, to some Breakfast Club ending. I always figured HBO rounded down to their lowest common denominator level and that’s why we got what we got. Oh well…