@farah
I would like to suggest a slight, but significant difference to your bucket list, if you don’t mind. Rather than the term, sensory deprivation, I prefer sensory isolation. This was the original name for the tanks Dr. John Lilly proposed. The tanks do not deprive you of your senses, but instead isolate them from external stimuli, essentially allowing your brain/mind to generate its thoughts from purely (almost) internal processes. A slightly gentler way of looking at it, I think.
Schadenfreude is complicated for me. It seems like a really dark way to find pleasure? I mean I get it, no doubt, I just feel like indulging in it too much isn't healthy.
@Adam_Cadmon1
As humans, we have a sense of justice. It’s rooted—or conjoined with, in some sense—a sense of agency, both our own and that of other beings. A common definition of justice is something like, you get what you deserve. Religions preach that in various ways. Karma, heaven and hell, that stuff.
Schadenfreude, imo, is a celebration at seeing justice served, irl, in real time. Slap-stick mimics justice, but skews it in several dimensions. It can be harder to decode sometimes.
@DemocracySpot
Wow. I’m guessing, from what looks like blue sky at upper left, that this is actually a color photo, which is always so cool. Outstanding.
“Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes. The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, ‘do it yourself,’ and holism, featuring the slogan ‘access to tools.’”
@didgebaba
I loved my copy. I don’t think I ever bought anything I saw in it, but the serialized marginal stoyies were fantastic. It finally fell apart about 20 years later after one too many moves.
Although I don't write about caskets that often, and AC might think it is doing the right thing when it changes casket to gasket, it changes the entire flow of the conversation, post or writing. 😂
PSA: With that said, always make sure your casket has a good gasket. :awesome:
@paul
I’ve noticed that my iPad’s AC seems to have a bit of short term memory for stuff like that. When I notice that it’s made a change, and I uncorrect it, it will remember the next time I type that word, as long as not too long a time has elapsed.
@rephlex00
I went to a Hooters once while on a trip with a friend, just to “prove our manhood” and say we’d been to one. The weirdest thing to see was other guys getting take-out. Wait. What? Nobody goes there for the food. We had a nice chat with our waitress, who was a transplant from where we lived at that time.
I'm going to hashtag a few of my posts just in case you don't like #Pickle#Screen enclosure #Hubs or #Diner talk. But then I need to ask...why do you follow me exactly?
@LikeItOrLumpIt
My maternal grandmother did that too. Unfortunately my mother bought into the margarine blasphemy of the 50s and 60s and never cooked with lard or even butter.
@LikeItOrLumpIt
Julia would not have approved of any of my mother’s cooking, I’m afraid. I never complained about dorm food at college. It was largely an improvement over what I grew up eating.