For me personally? I mean shit like this. Love it ^_^

For you, I have no idea what kind of music you’re into, but there are a ton of options for instrumental.

Memes are brain sneezes.

Now, how can I fix this infamous autotune trend?

Instrumental-only music?

Spyware, now in rainbow!!

This song gets under my skin. Those monotonal long notes just never stop.

70% of this song is

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

and

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

rips ears off

“Yay I get to run around outside for a few minutes! I hope I can breathe well enough to keep up with thi–” *dies*

— Pugs

It didn’t become one of my favorites until after I saw the vid. I’d heard it prior to that, and took the stage thing literally - like, okay, you’re performing on a stage… that’s what you do…? Then I watched the video and “Oh. Oooooooh. Oh shit!” It’s a metaphor, and they pull ZERO punches. Extremely critical of humanity, but without being whiny or doomy (well… in a ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ kinda way: it doesn’t feel doomy but the actual message… yeah…). And they pulled it off with fucking marionette puppets somehow without making it feel silly. HOW?!

So damn good!

One of my favorite songs is The Stage, by Avenged Sevenfold, and I honestly think the THX sound has a large port of it. First 30 seconds are basically just a solid THX sound… huge nostalgia hit hight out the gate. The rest of the song is fucking epic on its own, but that first bite is just… chef’s kiss

Some old Pastafarian: “Uuuuse the forks!”

White House erupts into a giant mushroom cloud. Like, literal mushrooms, and trace amounts of marinara and noodles.

Krusty doesn’t deserve this.

Any you recommend? I tried this during during the first round of YouTube fuckiness on Firefox, and it didn’t seem to make a difference.

I’m also probably the least techy person on Lemmy, so chances are high that I fucked something up.

Sponsorblock

How have I never heard of this?! I just installed it, trialled it on a YouTube video, and it’s instantly one of my favorites.

Thank you!!

For anyone in a similar boat:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Dry needling doesn’t (always?) use electricity. I’ve had it done too, and the explanation I got was that it basically just pisses off the underlying tissue to promote an inflammatory response and thus blood flow to the target area.

Depends on the setting. In a nurse-patient situation, you don’t ever bullshit them in the hopes of tricking them into some kind of benefit.

If your grandpa is raving on Facebook about how acupuncture is working better than opioids for post-knee-replacement pain management, then… “Hey that’s great you found something that works for you!”

YetAnotherUser makes a good point about not enabling a culture of scams or pseudoscience as well.

Discretion is key here.

Yeah if someone’s benefitting from a placebo effect, the worst thing you can do is point out that it’s a placebo. If you convince them it won’t work, then you’ve just destroyed the therapeutic effect their brain was giving them. Just shut up and let the placebo do its thing.

Neck is the last of that guy’s worries… his shoulder is dislocated as fuck!

Edit - Looking closer, I think his radius and ulna might be flipped too. Yeah this guy’s not having a good day.

Addictive and entertaining are synonyms now?

Here’s a couple. Not a regional porn ban = more rape like previous poster said, but this is the most relevant data I could find. …and this data isn’t great. My main takeaway from this search is that we need to direct some actual research into what access to porn does vs doesn’t do. Also specific categories of porn - I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that sexual violence increases with consumption of porn that glorifies rape; but then if porn made a point to model good practices around things like obtaining consent, I’d wager sexual violence probably decrease.

TLDR, it’s a complicated question, so take these with a grain of salt, but among the most credible sources I found, they trended toward porn and rape NOT being positively correlated.

“Victimization rates for rape in the United States demonstrate an inverse relationship between pornography consumption and rape rates.”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222552404_The_pleasure_is_momentarythe_expense_damnable_The_influence_of_pornography_on_rape_and_sexual_assault

“The results showed that in none of the countries did rape increase more than nonsexual violent crimes [during a period of increased access to porn]. This finding in itself would seem sufficient to discard the hypothesis that pornography causes rape.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2032762/

Not really a good block of text to quote, but the gist is: “Porn doesn’t cause rape, but there’s more going on than just direct cause and effect”

https://vawnet.org/sites/default/files/materials/files/2016-09/AR_PornAndSV.pdf