Recent content by Aldarion

This is so true. Other cooking shows are like "let me show off how I cook! Aren't I cute/charming/sophisticated/whatever!" Alton is like "Listen - I'm gonna teach you how to cook."

One of the major problems we object to here in the US is that once someone is on SSRIs, the doctors basically never advise you to get off them. Oh if you ask them right out, yeah they'll agree its not a lifelong solution. But speaking from secondhand experience, they never actually suggest...

A cool writeup on a plan to send laser-powered probes to Alpha Centauri using realistic technology https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-speed-interstellar-travel More details on the tech https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-do-you-fly-to-alpha-centauri-in-just-20-years-ride-a-laser-beam

Drugs arent the answer and if you wanted to take drugs to make it better, holy shit there are a whole lot better drugs than antidepressants. I'm with Cutlery. I havent talked about it here but I had a rough patch bad enough that I actually sought professional help. Given my attitudes toward...

And not just modern normal people white, but Hollywood white

I agree with what everyone else is saying. It was a great piece of unintentional comedy. Hollywood freaks are loking around going "why why are there no people of color, this is terrifying" Normal people are looking around going "yup looks like a normal day where I live" Its like an...

To be fair thats about the resolution of every "UAP" photo in this thread

I mean its perfectly normal for your inner dialogue to occasionally spill out and become audible. It sounds to me like thats what you're describing, and it happens to me too. What they're doing seems different. Deliberate. Performative. Theyre actually speaking to an invisible audience...

I'm not joking when I say that every single person who films themself while sitting in their car needs to be put in a mental insitution I'm talking about old school cuckoos nest, lobotomies, shock therapy, the whole nine yards. This shit is not normal, mentally healthy people who should be...

The fact that theres an entire generation of people who think shit like this is entertaining makes me despair for the future of our species. Our grandparents read great literature and watched black and white films that were like the film equivalent of classic literature. We read fantasy and...

No really I'm sure those fools at NASA never considered it! As someone recently mentioned,

Putting aside the Mars debate for a moment, this sentence just perfectly summarizes online discussion in 2025.

They told me hair would grow in funny places when I got older, they just didnt say how fast it would grow I swear its like I've finished trimming the second ear and the hair on the first ear has already grown back

Its good to have the normal adult perspective represented in this discussion, thank you For me its 5 but same

American Primeval, the show where every single white man is a murdering psychopath but the Indians are all around nice guys? It certainly cranks the trope up to 11, if thats whats meant by "better"