When I was younger and so fucking broke I felt helpless, pissed off at the world. When I got my feet under me and started earning okay money, then really good money..... money quickly lost its importance to me. I finally had the capacity to do things for other people. I took my friends out on the town, on me, tried to do random acts of kindness for people. Bought gifts for my partner.
I'd always thought when I could live above subsistence level that it would be me that I'd get the most satisfaction out of spending money on, but it was doing things for others that actually made me happy.
I just don't understand why money has the opposite effect on people. How do you have wealth and fame and just not give a fuck about anyone but yourself, and turn it into a whole political philosophy?
There are 2 kinds of people: those who were born with empathy and those who learned to mimic it. You live among the descendents of nature's most extreme survivalists. The transactionalist is simply wired to act in best interest, which sometimes means feigning empathy.
Religion seems to be an answer for these types of people. It's an escape from real and true empathy, a justification for acts that otherwise would be unacceptable.
Technically yes, it increases Estrogen and decreases DHT, so it theoretically helps with male pattern baldness. But at best it slows it down a little, if even that, it certainly won't reverse it
I have less than no use for his religion/politics, but his shows are a lot of fun and he (thankfully) keeps that shit completely out of them. For such an old dude, you'd think he wouldn't be able to still be such an entertainer, but his shows are wild - giant monsters, huge sets, pyrotechnics - a lot of fun.
Also, damn - he really does look like an old haggard Steve Carrell.
29 Comments
s@piefed.world · 62 pts · 314d
Alice Cooper is actually opposed to drug usage nowadays after years of memory blackout during his addiction
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 314d
Yeah he's on some other shit now. Strange to think that after all these years Alice Cooper finally got weird
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 314d
How does he know he had an addiction, then?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 314d
Yeah but I'm sure he still understands that cannabis didn't do that to him.
200ok@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 314d
Entering the Scared Straight program
veroxii@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 314d
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
Milwaukei, an old Algonquin word meaning "The Good Land".
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 314d
Well now I'm conflicted do I want to be Alice Cooper or Steve carell more? What happens if I just drink excessively?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 42 pts · 314d
Cooper is Trump supporter and a known transphobe. Fuck that guy.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 314d
I don't understand people.
When I was younger and so fucking broke I felt helpless, pissed off at the world. When I got my feet under me and started earning okay money, then really good money..... money quickly lost its importance to me. I finally had the capacity to do things for other people. I took my friends out on the town, on me, tried to do random acts of kindness for people. Bought gifts for my partner.
I'd always thought when I could live above subsistence level that it would be me that I'd get the most satisfaction out of spending money on, but it was doing things for others that actually made me happy.
I just don't understand why money has the opposite effect on people. How do you have wealth and fame and just not give a fuck about anyone but yourself, and turn it into a whole political philosophy?
Gaja0@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 314d
There are 2 kinds of people: those who were born with empathy and those who learned to mimic it. You live among the descendents of nature's most extreme survivalists. The transactionalist is simply wired to act in best interest, which sometimes means feigning empathy.
Religion seems to be an answer for these types of people. It's an escape from real and true empathy, a justification for acts that otherwise would be unacceptable.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 314d
When I was broke I had zero empathy, really. I didn't mimic it. It just wasn't there. I was angry at the world that everything was so hard.
Empathy came much later in life for me than others, I think, but did come. I couldn't understand other people until I better understood myself.
That was just my own path through life but I fall into neither camp.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
I hate that
so fucking much
Alice was my favourite artist during my teens/early 20s.
a significant chunk of my life happened with his music in the background.
now I don't want to listen to him.
was never into Harry Potter, bit Alice Cooper is my Jk Rowling.
Greddan@feddit.org · 1 pts · 314d
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d
I still doubt that can make you maga, you gotta have some hate in you to begin with.
And Alice Cooper especially, he used to write songs about the weakest most vulnerable people, TF can make you turn.
or was he just doing it for the show?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
An Alice Cooper comedy biopic played by Steve Carell.
I'm sorry to write those words, because it'll likely won't happen.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 314d
Sooo... Marijuana helps grow hair? 🤔
dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 314d
Yes just one marijuanas
over_clox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 314d
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more...
huppakee@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 314d
How do you manage all the hair growth??
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 314d
You need to have a good hairdresser. Or multiple if you want your "problem" under wraps.
Anivia@feddit.org · 2 pts · 314d
Technically yes, it increases Estrogen and decreases DHT, so it theoretically helps with male pattern baldness. But at best it slows it down a little, if even that, it certainly won't reverse it
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 314d
got those King Charles sausage fingers going for him now.
apex32@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
spinne@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 314d
That's what happens if Steve Carrell smokes a marijuanas!
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 314d
40 year old virgin no more
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
Still a virgin. Just twice as old now.
Bonus@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 314d
Aw, he looks like a sweetie
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 314d
I have less than no use for his religion/politics, but his shows are a lot of fun and he (thankfully) keeps that shit completely out of them. For such an old dude, you'd think he wouldn't be able to still be such an entertainer, but his shows are wild - giant monsters, huge sets, pyrotechnics - a lot of fun.
Also, damn - he really does look like an old haggard Steve Carrell.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 314d
No more Mr. Nice Guy No more Mr. Clean