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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's up with all the masks? Do they want to be anonymous?

TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Apparently not

TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes. Me too.

I would describe it as the sound of a big quick blast of compressed air. Like when you disconnect a compressor fitting.

Which is pretty similar.

Short loud white noise.

A flash of white light in sound form?

TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Me.

It's an explosion in my head.

Like this : imagine a sound. For example, a cat meow. Meow meow. You doing that? Are you "hearing" that meow in your "mental sound space"?

Now imagine the sound is 500x louder. And it isn't a meow, its an explosion.

It sounds like the blast of compressed air when you disconnect a compressor fitting.

That's what it's like.

It happens in half-sleep.

I've had big blasts that make me go "woah" a couple times a month since forever. I had a really big blast that made me go "holy shit!" just a couple days ago.

What is a bad writing trope you hate in fantasy fiction ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Sorta star wars too.

What is a bad writing trope you hate in fantasy fiction ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Multiple simultaneous plot threads. So weak.

What is a bad writing trope you hate in fantasy fiction ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The plot is discovery and progressive revealment of big weird thing. The climax is flashback-heavy explanation of big weird thing.

"Cancel Culture" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Actually, everybody complains about cancel culture. And Christians.

Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing” in c/[email protected]