Pushing Tin?

Tin Cup was the golf movie with Kevin Costner, right?

This isn’t an attack as I don’t interpret your comment as being malicious, this is just an observation from an outside observer of this interaction.

You may be right about lonely people and just sharing info you have noted from your own experiences with them in your life but that is a brutal take down of @daggermoon@lemmy.world when they are sharing a major problem in their life.

Your comment may hold true for them but we don’t know that so it feels more like an accusation and victim blaming than being helpful.

Hey @daggermoon@lemmy.world, I’ve been there. It can be rough.

If you don’t have someone to talk to about it have you tried a therapist or other mental health professionals? I find this is one of the most important first steps of any life issue being faced, just talk about it with someone who knows a thing or two about the topic, make it a regular and consistent conversation.

I don’t know your situation but if you need it, this helped me;

Being social and maintaining friendships is a skill that can be worked on, no one can run a marathon on their first attempt, it takes training.

Starting small and working your way up. Saying hello to a stranger in the street or making small talk with a check out clerk at the grocery store is a good place to start. If you struggle with small talk then practice that first and work up from there. If you struggle with social anxiety then breaking through can be hard, some people struggle more than others. Training these skills sets do produce positive results.

*Be kind, honest and fair with all people you interact with. This isn’t a mask to put on, the ideal to strive for is to be those things as a person.

*Talk to people about what they are interested in or doing (learn about them) instead of focusing on talking about yourself.

*Respect others boundaries.

*Regularly check in with those in your social circle/community, don’t wait for them to check in on you.

*Get outside. Don’t just spend time at school/work & home. Find a third place where you can blend in but also be a regular. Cafe, bar, pool hall, library, gym, reading in the park, walk/hike in an area you like… whatever aligns with your interests and feel you could eventually become comfortable existing in that space but it is also a place where you are not required to be social. Eventually becoming comfortable with being in that space lowers anxiety of being there and you start to recognize the regulars and they start to recognize you. That makes socializing easier since you are now comfortable in the space and familiar to others who are regulars as well.

You get back what you give out. Do not expect to connect with everyone and not everyone will reciprocate your attention or interest but if you do it enough you will find those who do. Keep at it and you will find more and more.

Good luck and god speed!

Agreed on Kill Bill… a lot of people say their favorite of his are other movies but I think the Tarantino fans agree about Kill Bill. It is campy and melodramatic but epic.

It is such an interesting movie I think because it skates a unique line between ridiculous Hollywood summer blockbuster spectacle and a traditional story of revenge. The world he creates is saccharine/artificial but the story is something so simple and basic but we connect with on primal level. Going from a tragedy to overcoming incredible odds through skill she gets everything she wants in the end.

The emotions are so basic almost any viewer can connect with them. Binding those two elements together feels disjointed visually but also natural internally. There is magic in film when a director can do that in an elegant and graceful way. On top of all that the visual style, camerawork, sets, music, film grain, pacing, special effects, sound effects, lighting, casting are all excellent.

My only issue with the movie is how at the end during Bill’s Superman speech, he says that Superman is the only true superhero. He is Superman first and Clark Kent second, whereas other heroes are normal people with superhero alter-egos. He then specifically calls out Bruce Wayne/Batman. Not true, Batman thinks of himself as Batman, Bruce Wayne is the fake persona. It is what make Batman and Superman such great frenemies, they are two sides of the same coin, one of hope and one despair but still deciding to be good. They both have legacies their parents put on them that they are responsible for living up to without their parent’s guidance.

It’s a small thing but it bugs me every time.

Well… now IS the time to act.

Lots of missed opportunity in the past to act. We can’t change that now, we can only try to do better going forward.

I feel focusing the narrative on how we got into this emergency situation to cast blame on past non-action does little to affect any future change and demotivates others from trying.

Can we focus on what we are going to do instead of pointing fingers?

I know it feels good to cast blame, to get our anger out, and gives us the feeling we are doing something. It also weighs us down, directs our focus to the past when we need to be here now focused on what options are still available to us. We can analyze how we got here and what we should have done later.

Now is all we have left.

Hey, I’ll do my best, here is my take;

I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.

My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:

We were getting back up after the fall of the USSR when everything fell apart and cratered. I don’t agree with what is going on, even though you didn’t ask I am going to tell you how I feel about all this anyway.

Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!

This has been going on for 8 years now and you have turned a blind eye to it. I want to watch Swan Lake again at the ballet (referencing Russia’s primary artistic exports historically is ballet, of which Swan Lake is one of the most popular/wellknown)

Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!

Not entirely sure what this is referring to, my best guess is juxtaposing story elements of Swan Lake to current political happenings in Russia, ie comparing Putin to a grandpa and lake may be ambiguous as a reference to Swan Lake and Putin’s lakeside palace.

When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.

When we, or future generations, fix this you are just going to pretend you had nothing to do with it, you’re a liar, like the lies they tell us about why we have the right to invade Crimea in Ukraine to justify our war with an innocent country. You know it is wrong but you keep lying to yourself about why.

I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.

Repeat of the first verse; Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.

Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!

Repeat of the second verse but changing “Fucking inhuman monsters” to “fucking monsters”

Let Grandpa tremble for his “Lake.”

Repeat of the first line in the fourth verse but changing fear to tremble, again most likely referencing Putin and him willing to sacrifice the people of Russia in order to keep his extreme wealth and lake side palace.

Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!

Solovyov is a famous TV presenter in Russia, which I believe the speaker believes, or is inferring, is a government shill or otherwise bought off to only report what Putin wants him to report. So they are demanding Solovyov be removed from TV and to give the people back their freedom (swans dancing)

Hope that helped if you were being sincere about needing assistence to understand it. I have ADHD myself and have several friends with both ADHD and learning disabilities (they are co-morbidities of ADHD) so I can understand the frustration.

Lion’s Mane supplement or just straight up Lion’s Mane mushrooms?

How did they end up helping? I hadn’t heard of this use of them before.

I’d like to know a bit more if you don’t mind. I’m sure some others in this post may want to know as well due to the topic.

I’m a bit of an amateur mycologist and grow Lion’s Mane from time to time.

Congrats btw! Don’t discount your own effort by attributing your ass getting saved by Lion’s Mane. You put in work too I’m sure. Hope you also recognize that.

Funny thing is, he does have a helicopter and his helicopter pilots license. Which he got in case of emergencies. After the LA fires this year I saw an interview with him where he was talking about it.

He was making fun of himself because he got his license and the helicopter to flee things like the LA fire but helicopters are expensive and he couldn’t afford more than a 2-seater so he can’t take his whole family if he ever had to really use it.

So my comment was based off a real thing he may say as to why he needed the money.

Tbh though, I could see him going with that third one.

Agreed about 90s Chappelle… I think he would have had more empathy and understanding in selecting gigs than current Chappelle.

You’re right, I guess spin is the wrong word here since it is a PR term and Bill Burr isn’t a PR type of guy.

I intended to mean, I wonder what he will say about this when he is publicly asked about it.

I am assuming he will be blunt and honest with answers ranging from,

“it’s none of your damn business”

to

“I needed a new helicopter that has more than 2 seats so I can evacuate my family from LA safely once shit hits the fan and I don’t want to put myself in a Sofie’s Choice kinda situation”

or

“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking when I accepted the job but donated the paycheck to the 9/11 families fund.”

Agreed on the Bill Burr part.

He is the only one who I was surprised and disappointed to see attending. All those others are people who’d I expect to chase money over morals and I didn’t respect as individuals already.

I wonder how he is going to spin this.

Yes, I know this, though a lot of businesses don’t actually do that.

That’s not my point though, limiting your competition by raising expenses to a higher level for smaller businesses would help McDonalds. There isn’t much hope for him to get the minimum wage lowered to make it “fair”, what CEO of such a public company would want to make that stand. By pointing out the unfairness would be to make it more expensive for his competition that don’t have to play by the same rules would help McDonald’s by hurting the local Mom and Pop or smaller restaurant chains. by hurting his competition. He gets to appear to take the high road by pointing out others should be held to the same higher standards and do the right thing. McDonald’s is already making it work at the higher wage because of how big they are, but their competition for food options probably won’t be able to do the same.

This is similar to how WalMart, Home Depot and etc expanded back in the day. Pay more, lower operating costs per sqft of retail space and less expensive prices than the mom and pops. This runs the smaller competition out of business because they can’t keep up and now WalMart/Home Depot or whatever has a much bigger piece of the local market as there are few options for consumers to spend their money with.

Mcdonald’s has gotten much more expensive in the last several years while also losing customers but he can’t lower expenses so he is trying to raise the operating costs for everyone else since he knows McDonald’s can survive for longer at the higher expense then almost anyone else.

I think this is actually a play in the other direction. Make everyone else come up to their mimimim wage and tax tips. It’s a business decision to make a walled garden that is hard to achieve. McDonald’s can survive it but many other food options will have to close, driving more people to McDonald’s.