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jlm

@jlm@mastodon.world

Born, raised, and educated American. Married and divorced, not a parent, h/t to those that are. I know a little bit about a few things. Opinionated about liquor, comics, wine, TV and movies. Dedicated quitter and a hermit in search of wealth so I can become a recluse.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

jlm,
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@RickiTarr
The title might put you off, I don't think it's too long, some might. Eddie Hazel in all his glory
https://youtu.be/4Inr22ZBmdw?si=CZJ7cIVmdLIF8nd3

jeffowski, to random
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There is no red in this picture.
Your brain is filling the Red colour.
The picture is made entirely of light blue, black and white.
Zoom in and you'll see.😅😬😎

jlm,
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@jeffowski white is a combination of red, green, and blue at full intensity. If you eliminate cyan, a combination of blue and green at full intensity, all you have left is red. Technically you can't see cyan, only red, blue, and green, but your brain tells you that it is cyan.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr drawing, I can write comic books, but can't find anyone who can draw what I see.

RickiTarr, to random
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A movie that stars:

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Alicia Silverstone
Uma Thurman
Chris O'Donnell
George Clooney
& COOLIO

Is just peak 90's, and while never happen again.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I see your Batman & Robin and raise with Pulp Fiction
Sam Jackson
Bruce Willis
John Travolta
Uma Thurman
Tim Roth
Eric Stoltz

RickiTarr, to random
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Getting tired of being a bipedal, please give me other options.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr
Maybe you need a change in gait instead. When was the last time you skipped? I bet lil Ricki enjoyed skipping, I know I did

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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This is probably my worst poll, but I'm curious, for science:

I have/had:

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I have no proof and the number of people who know is real short. I know my father who loves me and likes me. My mother occasionally loved me and never really liked me. My aunt loves me and occasionally likes me. The possibility of my mom being my and aunt and my aunt being my mom exist and nobody is refuting it.

RickiTarr, to random
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Writing Prompt:

Write the saddest sentence you can think of.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr President-elect Trump promises swift end to COVID-24.

RickiTarr, to random
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Does anyone else have trouble doing one thing at a time? Like if I'm doing chores it helps to have a podcast or talk to someone, or watching TV, I need to do something with my hands, like a little handy craft, or a simple game. I love movies, but the movie has to be absolutely fascinating for me to want to go to a theater where I just need to sit there and watch. I have a large amount of tabs open on my phone all the time and I flit back and forth through a bunch of different things. Weed helps calm this down a bit.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I'm a single tasker unless it's something I don't want to do

RickiTarr, to random
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Something I've noticed a lot lately, is that especially Boomer women, but honestly, women in general, don't seem to ask for what they want or need in a direct way. I notice this a lot with my Mom and her friends. Instead of just asking for what they need directly they tell a story, to ask in a roundabout way. For instance, my Mom needed help this morning, and Instead of just saying, "Hey, I dropped my remote, can you pick it up for me?" She tells a one minute story about what happened, no ask, and eventually I get the point, and then suggest that I come pick it up. Or if one of her friends wants to do something like have a birthday party for a friend, they don't say "We should have a party!" They say, It's Sarah's Birthday coming up, you know she likes surprises, what does everyone think we should do?"

I often wonder if this is why older people think younger women are rude and demanding, because younger people often just ask for what they want and need in a more direct way. But also it's probably just straight up sexism, because men are supposed to make decisions, and women are supposed to make suggestions.

What do you all think? Is this just me? Have you experienced something similar?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr this is my roommate. She is a year younger than me at 58. She will tell me that the garbage can I'm looking at is full instead of asking me to take it out or "I got you some soda in the car, along with $80 of other groceries I want you to carry in." What's worse is her daughter constantly ask me for things I can't say no to fast enough, so that encourages her to keep doing things her way

GrimmReality, to random
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My sister, a one-time baller herself and a grad of the University of Iowa med school, has kept me apprised of Caitlin Clark developments for a few years, but I should be clear this has nothing to do with the Indiana Fever specifically and more with Indiana generally.

jlm,
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@GrimmReality as a resident of Indiana I concur

RickiTarr, to random
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Type "Women are..." and/or "Men are..." and let predictive text finish the sentence.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr
Women are a great songwriter

Men are very proud of you

Feel like I dodged a landmine

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, you can choose a real person you'd love to see a movie made about, who is the person, and who would you cast in the starring role?

I'm picking Tiny Tim, played by Finn Wolfhard.

A black and white photo of Finn Wolfhard

jlm,
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@RickiTarr James Baldwin as played by Colman Domingo

ajsadauskas, to fuckcars
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

jlm,
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars 7 of these are available to me, but the park closes at sundown, I don't have children, hair, or drink outside my home. The only one I use is the bus stop.

RickiTarr, to random
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How do you feel about physical touch? I mean this is the broad sense, not necessarily in a sexual way, but you can answer however you wish.

Personally, I enjoy it a lot, and find it comforting, but only from really specific people. If strangers or people I don't know well want to hug me, it's okay, but I won't seek it out. I think handshakes are weird. Hey, you want to hold hands with a stranger for a short amount of time for some reason?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I like to touch, but don't often like to be touched. Strangers need to keep their distance, best you can hope for is a fistbump.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could pause body aging, what age would you have paused at, and why?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr 30, could still get up and down the b-ball court a couple times a week, sleep was an option for half the week. Going out in the cold wasn't a hard nope yet.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm gonna be honest, Harley Quinn doesn't seem that crazy, there's a person just like them at every small town bar, on any given day, and a lot of us have dated them.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr Harley has been through a lot of changes. She is far from the woman she used to be

RickiTarr, to random
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If you have to do something you really don't want to do, how do you get yourself to do it?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I've managed to automate things I don't want to do. Pay bills being the biggest and the worst. I viciously procrastinate on should do's

Binder, to random
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Man! Someone’s got messed up taste in films! (Me. These are mine.)

jlm,
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@Binder anyone that owns Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension is alright in my book

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, picking up from my video game post yesterday, I'm curious:

When you play video games, rpgs, ect, where you get to choose your character, do you tend to choose a character of the same sex, the opposite sex, non-binary, anthropomorphic, or a mysterious 4th option?

If you want to share screenshots of character builds I would enjoy that!

jlm,
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@RickiTarr first person games I make male characters because in shooters females attract unwanted attention and are overly targeted. In MMO games I switch genders for all my characters because it isn't a problem there and I like looking at women's butts more than men's.

RickiTarr, to random
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Male Video Game Character:

Full Body Riot Gear Armor,
20 Guns with 250 rounds each

Female Video Game Character:

Thigh High Boots and a Tin Foil Bra,
One sword that is bigger than her body

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I can only think of Samus Aran, but nobody knew she was a woman until the end. Glad to see you pointing the spotlight at video games, nothing to see in comic books like this.

RickiTarr, to random
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Since I'm thinking about it, let's talk about Ignorance. I have so many mixed thoughts on the subject. So, a little back story on me, for those who haven't already figured this out. My father was a pastor, I was raised extremely Conservative and religious, and while some of it struck me as a bit off, and I was certainly less Conservative than my parents, I was a good little girl and towed the party line. It wasn't until my little brother came out when he was 14, that my wake up call really began. Suddenly, it was personal, I love my little brother, how would he be going to Hell? If you start doubting one thing, then slowly you start doubting everything.

Because of this background, I do have empathy for what I consider true ignorance. For those who did not grow up in this environment, it can be really hard to understand how people can just blindly believe these things. They don't understand the cult like atmosphere that it truly is. All your media is this one thing, all your social circle are people that agree with you, you are quite literally in a bubble of propaganda. For me the combination of being around different kinds of people and factual education gave me the ability to see the truth, and it's something I still work on, with anything you consider fact, you should always leave a window open, there's always more to learn.

Sooo, if you read this far, What has been your experience with ignorance? What is something you've been ignorant about? Is willful ignorance actually a form of ignorance? Do you think there's any true ways to convince people they are missing out on the truth?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I consider myself quite ignorant. I'm a public school educated American male, kinda goes hand in hand. Libraries all over the planet are full of stuff I know nothing about, but if need or curiosity strike, I'll pursue enough knowledge to give an informed opinion or more likely an I don't know.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could kick something out of your life today, what would it be?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I would like to kick stupidity, but might be too much of who I am.

RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

jlm,
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@RickiTarr only if you can guarantee I'd be free of illness, injury, and exploitation. Otherwise hard pass.

RickiTarr, to random
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Alright I'm feeling a little spicy after all this pulp.

What is a fetish that you've always been curious about, but you feel a little shy or wary about trying out?

This is a judgement free zone, if you've come to police how people express themselves, fuck off.

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I used to be curious about breath play, but several high profile deaths kinda scared it out of me. Current partner is too vanilla to try

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, I'm thinking about gift giving today. A little backstory about why:

Every year my Father-in-law attempts to get my Mother-in-law a gift. She is a bit of a shopper, and is notoriously difficult to shop for. Every year he gets her something he guesses a woman would like (perfume, sweater, jewelry), and every year she doesn't really like it, and ends up begrudgingly using it or returns it. They have been married over 30 years, and seem to have a pretty good marriage otherwise. It's like she wants him to magically understand what she wants, and he is sort of equally bad at the whole thing too. I will never understand why they don't just have a conversation about this. Just for extra fun, she is the most bizarre gift giver, also, to the point that it has become an annual tradition that I show my friends what she got us. A small list of things we have gotten:

A couch cover with grapes on it
A sexy nightgown
A painting of the house they live in
A gourd painted to look like a cat eating a bird
A package of tea that I would have absolutely loved, stuffed with cheap tea bags
Children's Lego sets
Toy trains
Underwear that didn't fit either of us
A wooden board covered in seashells that is supposed to hold a curling iron
A waterproof bed cover

I could go on and on. Just to clarify this doesn't bother me or my husband at all, we actually get a kick out of the weirdness. I don't personally care about presents much, I'm more of an experiences person.

SO, if you've managed to get this far, how do you feel about gift giving/getting? Feel free to elaborate and give examples!

jlm,
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@RickiTarr I'm a lazy giver. I ask the receiver what they want weeks sometimes months in advance so I can do research.

Even worse getter, I keep best possible gift to myself so I can buy it for me. Everyone else gets told something I want, but can live without. Trying to surprise me? I will wear, use your gift until the wheels fall off so I can throw it away.

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