SSO: Deep Thoughts

[Fenriswolf]

I got my septum stretched today...two sizes. I went from a 10 to a 6g. I'm considering getting my eyebrow double pierced as well. I thought about it a while as the initial thought of getting such things done at this stage in life (I'm 38) was regressive. This got me to thinking. Why, as a society, have we decided that certain things done for oneself can't be done at a certain age? We expect kids to get tattoos, piercings, dress in non traditional ways but as adults we're expected to shed all of that..I'd argue that as you get older, THAT'S when you should do all those things. You're an adult of sound mind (in theory), you work, you pay bills, you contribute to society..you have earned the right to look however you want. It's your body and you have every right to like what you see when you look in the mirror. You've more than earned the right to express yourself how you please as you've managed all the responsibilities of someone your age.

People deserve to be happy with themselves. Your happiness is not under condition of the approval from others. On your death bed you should be able to look back on your life, reflect, and be happy that you did the things you wanted to do and pursued happiness on your own terms. It's a miserable life playing by the rules of people who don't know you and don't care.

 

[BlackMastodon]

I got my septum stretched today...two sizes. I went from a 10 to a 6g. I'm considering getting my eyebrow double pierced as well. I thought about it a while as the initial thought of getting such things done at this stage in life (I'm 38) was regressive. This got me to thinking. Why, as a society, have we decided that certain things done for oneself can't be done at a certain age? We expect kids to get tattoos, piercings, dress in non traditional ways but as adults we're expected to shed all of that..I'd argue that as you get older, THAT'S when you should do all those things. You're an adult of sound mind (in theory), you work, you pay bills, you contribute to society..you have earned the right to look however you want. It's your body and you have every right to like what you see when you look in the mirror. You've more than earned the right to express yourself how you please as you've managed all the responsibilities of someone your age.

People deserve to be happy with themselves. Your happiness is not under condition of the approval from others. On your death bed you should be able to look back on your life, reflect, and be happy that you did the things you wanted to do and pursued happiness on your own terms. It's a miserable life playing by the rules of people who don't know you and don't care.

This is why I find it kind of funny, but am also not bothered by the fact that I'll get my first tattoo later this year (hopefully) at 32.

 

[Yul Brynner]

Power plants just use nuclear fission or burning shit like coal to boil water to turn a turbine, right?

Why not put a big ass magnifying glass over the water and boil it with sunlight?

Or a bunch of mirrors or something.

 

[Seabeast2000]

Power plants just use nuclear fission or burning shit like coal to boil water to turn a turbine, right?

Why not put a big ass magnifying glass over the water and boil it with sunlight?

Or a bunch of mirrors or something.

Solar furnace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[nightflameauto]

Read a little philosophy this morning, which set me up for a moody day.

There's some weird ethereal idea wafting about my noggin' now about how maybe enslavement is the natural state of our species. We seem to do it to ourselves every time we have some form of freedom. Whether it's capitalism and our worship of the almighty dollar driving millions to self-financial-implosion through credit, or religious dogma we use as a way to keep ourselves indebted to some nebulous "big power(s)" to the point where making a mistake is considered a debt against our very soul that can only be repaid by the big lug on his golden throne, or whatever, we seem to crave being enslaved, being under the power of others, being trapped in prisons of our own making.

I need a weekend and a big pile of weed gummies to sort this shit out.

 

[Yul Brynner]

Solar furnace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It opened in 1970. Why isn't this more widespread? We could build them all around the earth so we don't have to worry about the sun going down.

 

[TedEH]

Why isn't this more widespread?

Because they're big, because you still need to turn it into electricity, because solar panels are more versatile, because people don't like to cooperate and the sun is only out for half the day, because convincing anyone of anything regarding energy is an uphill battle, etc - and these are just my guesses.

 

[ElRay]

Solar furnace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And you've got the "Power Tower" version, which is a little more common (There's five in the US):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

 

[Metalman X]

 

[Seabeast2000]

Chest freezers- I think unless its just a single person managing its contents and making sure everything is getting rotated on time, stuff gets forgotten and falls deeper into the hole and is eventually there too long.
My solution- upright freezer where everything is easier to reach and more/mostly visible. Will report back in a year.

 

[Seabeast2000]

And you've got the "Power Tower" version, which is a little more common (There's five in the US):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

I think I have seen a few James Bond movies and some others in my life that leverage some super sun weapon. Maybe I'm comingling lasers too, IDK.

 

[TedEH]

Chest freezers

I got one for free at one point. But I'm only one person who lives 2 minutes on foot from several grocery stores, I don't need that much food storage. Forgetting stuff was in there was exactly what happened. I got rid of it. It took up space for nothing.

 

[ElRay]

... Maybe I'm comingling lasers too, IDK.

Lasers are only for ill-tempered, mutant sea bass.

 

[Edika]

I got my septum stretched today...two sizes. I went from a 10 to a 6g. I'm considering getting my eyebrow double pierced as well. I thought about it a while as the initial thought of getting such things done at this stage in life (I'm 38) was regressive. This got me to thinking. Why, as a society, have we decided that certain things done for oneself can't be done at a certain age? We expect kids to get tattoos, piercings, dress in non traditional ways but as adults we're expected to shed all of that..I'd argue that as you get older, THAT'S when you should do all those things. You're an adult of sound mind (in theory), you work, you pay bills, you contribute to society..you have earned the right to look however you want. It's your body and you have every right to like what you see when you look in the mirror. You've more than earned the right to express yourself how you please as you've managed all the responsibilities of someone your age.

People deserve to be happy with themselves. Your happiness is not under condition of the approval from others. On your death bed you should be able to look back on your life, reflect, and be happy that you did the things you wanted to do and pursued happiness on your own terms. It's a miserable life playing by the rules of people who don't know you and don't care.

Teenagers and younger adults are still under going physical and mental development. Changes in the brain and overabundance of hormones are seen as an excuse, by Conservative views of society, to make "bad" decisions, go wild, take it out of your system so you can become a faceless conformed member of society that begrudgingly accepts whatever society expects of them. Getting a job, having an income and spend spend spend to keep this monstrosity of modern life turning around.

I'm 45, have no tattoo's and I'm considering getting some now

 

[LiveOVErdrive]

Read a little philosophy this morning, which set me up for a moody day.

There's some weird ethereal idea wafting about my noggin' now about how maybe enslavement is the natural state of our species. We seem to do it to ourselves every time we have some form of freedom. Whether it's capitalism and our worship of the almighty dollar driving millions to self-financial-implosion through credit, or religious dogma we use as a way to keep ourselves indebted to some nebulous "big power(s)" to the point where making a mistake is considered a debt against our very soul that can only be repaid by the big lug on his golden throne, or whatever, we seem to crave being enslaved, being under the power of others, being trapped in prisons of our own making.

I need a weekend and a big pile of weed gummies to sort this shit out.

Sounds like the kind of despair the ruling class wants you to feel.

 

[Seabeast2000]

At gym rn (right nao), what in the world is these people and toting around their long range backpacks and weekend bags around with them? Launch codes , 3 piece suits, physical gold, zombie kit, bulk Axe body spray . I'm good with these answers.

 

[jaxadam]

If you die in the same hospital you were born in, your average velocity is zero.

 

[TedEH]

Only relative to the planet. It's like how if time travel was real, you'd probably just end up depositing yourself into space.

Actually, maybe time travel IS real, but everyone who succeeded just dumped themselves into the void, so we have no proof.

 

[jaxadam]

Only relative to the planet. It's like how if time travel was real, you'd probably just end up depositing yourself into space.

Actually, maybe time travel IS real, but everyone who succeeded just dumped themselves into the void, so we have no proof.

Time travel is real. We're all doing it in the same direction!

 

[TedEH]

At the speed of regular time!