Optimistic Nihilism

A personal blog of personal things // she/her

[scorpionlafemme]

[myjusticecake]

You can begin this process at any time, regardless of how old you have become.

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[cipheramnesia]

They look like that because they have no detail.

A photo of anything else, seeing it at a smaller size, means missing some amount of detail, anything from a sense of depth to small components. Other cars all have small details which are usually related to issues like safety, aerodynamics, ergonomics, aesthetics and so forth. Many of these details are required to operate safely, which you might not even realize, including things like the curvature and shape of bumpers, visibility through mirrors, window design, and so forth.

The Cybertruck has none of these elements. The aesthetics, such as they are, revolve around specifically reducing and minimizing details, similar to the minimalist appearance in expensive houses. It does not include much in the way of safety design, or fuel efficient design (which still matters electric or not), or even ergonomics. Its lack of comfort to passengers is one of many notable faults. It is often described as resembling a child's drawing or bad render, and it's for the same reason. In both cases, the images lack fundamental elements which are even present in cars manufactured over a hundred years ago. Why does it look like that? Because it's a car shape minus every detail of a car that can be removed - full stop. Not just safely removed, but removed while still somewhat meeting the definition of being a car.

When you scale up something blocky but still a car, like a Jeep or something, you can see all the details. Even as square as a Jeep is, it has bumpers rounded and extended to reduce pedestrian injuries, crumple zones, flowing lines at specific points to reduce drag and aid fuel economy, clearly marked signal lights, doors built with human entry and exit in mind, windows that shatter safely but can't be peeled off the frame by hand, collision detection, fuel tanks that won't explode and so on. If you project a picture of a Cybertruck on the side of a building at actual size, it looks pretty much like a real life Cybertruck. A dumpster looks like a Cybertruck because it's the same zero detail shape. You think it looks big because your brain is going "wow there's that shape that has the detail of an image on my phone screen, wait why is it a thousand times bigger than the same image?"

When you scale up a Cybertruck it no substantive change in detail level, which makes it looks exactly the same, and that feels wrong. It looks like a toy at any size because a toy isn't supposed to work within and around living people, it just rolls along the ground and you try not to trip or choke on it. The bigger version of the small thing should come into sharper focus in person. A Cybertruck does not.

It's kind of funny because everything about it, even the uncanny appearance in person, always traces back to the fundamental truth, that it is a terrible vehicle.

[mayakern]

my first artfight attack of 2026! this is sosaloccu’s character banana. she is so so cute so of course i had to draw her 🥰

[mayakern]

top post preview pls....

[fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife]

I have weird hunger problems, I'm not sure if I can tell when I'm hungry or not? Is there any tips for recognizing hunger in the body?

Ohhhh this is so common! It can be a symptom of various chronic illnesses or neurotypes, but also, even in the absence of other issues, lots of feature of our environment actively work to disrupt our internal hunger and satiety cues.

Advertisement are often trying to artificially instigate our appetite (the desire for food).

Meanwhile most mainstream dieting advice is encouraging you to straight up ignore our hunger signals (the physiological need for food)

It's wildly outside of my depth to speculate on why you specifically are experiencing these issues, but I can absolutely give you a big list of signs to pay attention to that may help you tune in to your body's hunger signals.

Firstly though, while you're are learning to recognize hunger, you might consider relying on Time instead. Literally just pay attention to the time when you eat a meal and aim to eat again within the next 3-5 hours. Try to eat breakfast within the first hour of waking up if possible.

Hunger signals to watch out for:

Sudden mood changes, usually irritability or sadness, but it can be lots of different things. If your mood suddenly shifts for no obvious reason, consider eating something.

Headaches

What I'm going to describe as a Weirdness™ in your tummy. Might feel like pain or cramps, it might feel like more of a "hollow/empty" or perhaps sort of tingling sensation.

Brain fog/confusion/mild disorientation. If you feel like you've suddenly hit a wall and just can't think straight, consider eating.

You feel shaky or lightheaded

Occasionally and counterintuitively, hunger can show up as nausea

You may not have an appetite, which again is the desire for food, but you can likely learn over time to recognize how your body physically feels when you're hungry, whether or not it's accompanied by an active desire for food.

[fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife]

I do not promote weight loss mentalities because I believe that if weight loss is going to occur in a healthy way, it's going to occur as a side effect of adopting appropriate fitness habits

Not as the goal, because adopting fitness habits does not always result in weight loss.

And it's the habits, like building muscle, improving flexibility & mobility, increasing nutrient intake & hydration, and getting quality rest & sleep that actually matter.

If you're successfully doing those things your health is quantitatively improving, no matter what your weight is doing. But if the metric your most concerned with is just loosing weight, you may actually be getting less healthy not more.

Because weight loss can occur for many reasons, and most of them are not healthy.

[ruinedchildhood]

[theriverbeyond]

Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[json-derulo]

it pains me to say it but the more people talk shit about the women who wear those shorts/leggings with the weird butt seam that looks like it gives you a terminal wedgie, the more compelled I feel to take the women’s side

[json-derulo]

ohhhhhh my godddddddd you saw someone wearing really tight revealing pants in public? should we throw a party? should we invite goody proctor

[json-derulo]

and while we’re at it, I’m done worrying about cameltoe. I don’t have time to be pulling and tugging at my clothes all day. if you can see the outline of my pussy you should say thank you and go about your business

[json-derulo]

SAME WITH NIPPLES!!!!

[json-derulo]

[loontattoo]

see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup

[tearlessrain]

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

[strangely-named-dragons-blog]

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[shaniae-rising]

What year is this

[kazooz]

There’s so much more going on with this picture and it’s making me absolutely flip my lid over just how ridiculous it is. So this is from the game “Flight Rising,” which is basically a really cool and on-going virtual pet game that’s basically Neopets, but with DRAGONS. It’s pretty neat. The highlight of this game is that the dragons are all customizable, have their own unique set of genes, and there’s also a breeding aspect. Depending on the type of dragon, there’s a different “cool-down time” in which you can breed these dragons, which can range waiting anywhere between 15 to 35 consecutive days. REAL LIFE DAYS. You can’t manually adjust the clock on your computer to accomplish this, only old-fashioned waiting will count. On top of that, you have to manually click an “incubate” button on the brooding dragon’s nest 5 days in a row in order to successfully hatch a nest of eggs on the sixth day. And depending on the type of dragons you breed, you might only get 1-5 eggs, with a maximum cap of 4 eggs per clutch if the mating dragons are of the same breed. Getting 5 eggs in a single clutch is so uncommon, that there’s even an in-game achievement for it.

And this is the thing that gets me: all of these dragons are offspring from the same parent dragon, so in order to accomplish this, they not only had to write all of the lyrics in the song correctly AND assign the correct lyrics to each individual dragon baby based on hatching order, they also had to potentially WAIT upwards of an ENTIRE MONTH OR MORE between *each and every* hatching, in small batches of 1-5 dragons AT A TIME, in order to write the full lyrics. The amount of patience and sheer dedication to perfectly execute something of this precise level is absolutely phenomenal. ALL OF THIS, FOR A FUNNY SONG ABOUT LLAMAS FROM A SILLY, ANCIENT FLASH VIDEO FROM THE VINTAGE YEAR OF 2004 DEVIANTART MEMES.

Just… bless the internet.

[vaiyamagic]

I just searched for one of these dragons and found out the parents’ names are AlbinoBlackSheep and Newgrounds!!

[vaiyamagic]

I was thinking about this again, because it’s so funny and so stupid, I love it.

Anyway, the breeding cooldown for the parents is 15 days, so it’s the shortest cooldown they can have, and the dragons are different breeds, so the 5 egg nest is possible. All of the children on this list have been exalted, which essentially means they’ve been taken out of the game, no one can own them anymore, so they can never be renamed, and the list remains pure.

[relia-robot-writes]

"Imagine," says the voice, "that you were underneath a blanket. It's a little small, so your feet poke out from underneath it, and your arms come out from either side."

"Okay," says the human, dangling upside down, suspended by a group of tentacles. "I got it."

"Right," says the voice, which comes from everywhere and nowhere. "Now consider a cat. The cat thinks you're kind of like a cat, but you're so big, he has some problems understanding that all of your body is really you."

"Am I the-"

"Yes. Now listen. Especially under the blanket, the cat doesn't really know where your body begins and ends. He sees your feet, and decides to attack them. He's only play-fighting, but his claws are real sharp, so it hurts. What would you do?"

"Well," says the human, gently spinning in the tentacle's grasp, "I'd try to tuck my feet under the blanket."

"Ah, but then it's even worse," claims the voice, triumphantly, "because now your cat sees Blanket Monsters and attacks them twice as hard."

"So you have to grab the cat."

"It's either that or burrito her," says the voice, squeezing the human in the grip of its tentacles. "And since in this metaphor the blanket represents the fabric of reality as you know it, I don't think you'd find it very pleasant."

"Fair enough," says the human, blood beginning to pool in her head. "Can you please put me down, now? I promise I won't attack you again."

"That's what the cat says every time, too, and yet..."

[the-real-seebs]

so thinking about this, i am reminded of graystoke, the smartest cat by far that i ever had.

graystoke hated feet and frequently attacked them.

and one day, when he was probably ten or so, he attacked my feet, and i said ow, and he suddenly stared at me with this look of absolute horror. and he did not attack feet again.

[cjsnaake]

I fuck with this

[hypokeimena]

[image description: screenshot of writing formatted as a question and answer exchange. headline of piece is: The Proposal to Raise Every Boy as a Girl. (author not listed)

Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl? Yes.

Q. Why? A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as boy? Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as boy, and not a girl.

Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'? That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls. If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

Q. But boys and girls are different. All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls.

Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy? Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made.

Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves? The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl.

Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty? If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.

/end description]

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

stop deactivating

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

[kirishima-hates-terfs]

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[whyenn-reader]

the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.

[manuciruja]

I think it's insane that even in the most leftist and "progressive" spaces the idea of equating morality with looks is alive and present and no one fucking bats an eye at it. like racists and mysoginysts are always portrayed as fat and hairy and generally unkept, as a contrast to the morally good and attractive leftists of course; people will have no problem being genuinely fucking awful about someone's appearance if they're deemed to be a "bad person". and the worst part is you point all of this out and people act like you're reading too much into things like no dude you gotta start using your brain more