I’m at a loss
Colorblindness check!
Submitted 8 months ago by callmepk@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e92b0540-0883-477a-b7ff-10cbff6e5b59.png
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Vent@lemm.ee 8 months ago
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 8 months ago
Me too! I’m glad the image is in a lossless format though
clubb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is very funny, but the image is a jpg :(
Technological_Elite@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Can someone help me out here? I’m lost.
hOrni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The circles have Roman numerals. A is 1, B is 2, C is 2 again and D is 1 plus a hidden Saddam Hussein.
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ah, I see, a meme buried within a meme.
Haquer@lemmy.today 8 months ago
What a loss 😐
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Well your in luck, because this is loss
darvocet@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Semi interesting story. Was driving my exwife around the city and noted how the color tint on one of the buildings as cool. It was a checkerboard pattern or something in different shades of blue/green. She couldn’t see it and said it was “glass colored”. She couldn’t really get how the glass was tinted a color.
Anyways printed out a handful of these and yep, she had partial color blindness. That’s how she found out.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s fascinating! Colorblindness in XX women is very rare! Is her father colorblind?
As I understand it the genes for our cones comes from the X chromosome. So for women to be colorblind, their mother has to have one faulty X chromosome and their father has to be colorblind, so the woman can inherit two faulty X chromosomes.
Whereas men just need to inherit one faulty X chromosome from their mother and the Y chromosome from their father.
(Sorry, I’ve always been fascinated by color blindness. I had a friend in college who was quite bemused by how many questions I had for him when I learned he was colorblind.)
modeler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is true for only red and green loght detecting proteins (opsins) - the blue opsin gene is on chromosome 7.
The red and green detecting proteins have an interesting history in humans.
Fish, amphibians, lizards and birds have 4 different opsins: for red, green, yellow and blue colours. And the blue opsin sees up into the ultra-violet. Most animals can see waaaay more colours in the world than we (or any mammal) can. So what happened that makes mammal vision so poor?
It’s thought that all mammals descend from one or a few species of nocturnal mammal that survived the catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. The colour detecting cells (the cones) need a lot of light compared to ones that see in black-and-white (the rods) and therefore nocturnal animals frequently lose cones in favour of the more sensitive rods for better night vision. The mammals that survived the Cretaceous extinction had also lost the green and yellow opsins while keeping red and blue - basically the two different ends of the light spectrum.
Consequently today most mammals still have only 2 opsins so your cat or dog is red-green colourblind.
Why do humans see green? Probably because our monkey forebears, who lived in trees and ate leaves, needed to distinguish red leaves and red fruit (visible to birds) from the green background.
But how did we bring back the green opsin? A whole section of the X chromosome (where the red opsin is coded) got duplicated in a dna copying mistake and then there were two genes for red opsins. As there are different alleles (versions), they could be selected for independently and so one red opsin drifted up the spectrum to be specific for green. So our green opsin is a completely different gene to the green opsin in fish, birds, etc. This kind of evolution happens a lot which is why, for example, there are many families of similar hormones like testosterone and estrogen. And steroids too.
darvocet@infosec.pub 8 months ago
That’s interesting!! I don’t know! We went to the eye doctor and they confirmed (she didn’t totally believe me). She wasn’t in contact with her father and I don’t know if she ever discussed it with her mom or sister.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Another possibility is that she’s XY, but the Y never activated, so she developed female but with a single “faulty” X chromosome.
I don’t remember my biology classes well enough to say, but wouldn’t that also mean that potentially neither of her parents were colorblind, since the Y would’ve come from her father while the faulty X would’ve come from her mother? And, if she were XY in this scenario, wouldn’t that mean that she’d pass that trait along to her kids as well?
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
For fucks sake
Juvyn00b@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh. Oh God damnit.
elbucho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Huh. Guess I’ve got some vision loss.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
So this is either something vulgar which I (a person experiencing colorblindness) cannot see, or, there are no shapes in those bubbles at all. I think it’s the latter since I can’t see shapes in either bubble.
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months ago
None of which makes sense without the context of what a enormous jackass Buckley had famously been in online spaces for YEARS. It’s not just that loss was a weirdly serious addition to a silly comic, it’s that it perfectly encapsulated the kind of sanctimonious self-important attitude Buckley espoused and instantly turned his shitty online persona into a joke.
I don’t know if it is genuinely possible to still appreciate loss the way it was without all of the enormity of that context.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s really surprising that something so obscure became a meme. What’s the first instance of the comic being represented with line segments like that? How did they come to be recognizable?
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 months ago
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I think I’m all good
Enkrod@feddit.org 8 months ago
.:|:;jj4211@lemmy.world 8 months ago
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 months ago
So still very visible
jj4211@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hmm, did it look different from original? Wonder if I messed up and uploaded the wrong thing…
I can’t see the left ones and the top right is a bit hard for me to see. The bottom right for me is more legible in my first picture.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I remain baffled by this. But since I can barely differentiate red and green in optimal lighting conditions, it does not come as a surprise.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Welp I just lost The Game. Thanks.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re loss
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I want to hate this, but it’s actually a clever bit. Take my upvote.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Me when I find out I’m loosing my vision
Dicska@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did it use to be tight?
mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hope op stubs his toe after stepping on a Lego.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Finally! One that’s not a joke!
dumbass@leminal.space 8 months ago
Hahah colourblidness for the win! No loss for me!
bi_tux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
it took me a minute
Intrama@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh my god… 0_0
pjwestin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How would I know if I can see all the…? Oh. Well played.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The first one says 215 though
istdaslol@feddit.org 8 months ago
I can only see the last, I take the L and leave
abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I read ctrl,alt,del in like 2007 or so. Why is this suddenly popular again?!
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It isn’t suddenly popular again. Loss memes have been continuously popular the whole time.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It must be me than. I hadn t seen it in ages before coming to lemmy.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
No reason, just that memes follow demographics of the space. Lemmy is probably full of people who were in their late teens-through-twenties in 2007, so to that group, it remains a funny nostalgic callback.
And I’ll just predict that in 15-20 years Skibidi toilet and all the GenZ/Alpha memes will dominate middle-age spaces.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 8 months ago
8=======D~~~~~~
recapitated@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I see all the circles in the circles
casmael@lemm.ee 8 months ago
😡
MHanak@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jokes on you i can only see the 4th panel
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I could truly only make out D, and I still already knew.
Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
𓀥 𓁆 𓀕
𓁆 𓀟 𓀣 𓁀
Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
What is this wizardry?
Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
😂😂😂 the wonders of unicode / utf-8
it the reason why you can post in any imaginable writing system from ancient sumerian complaints in cuneiform 𒂍𒀀 𒈾𒍢𒅕 to the goddamn seraphim o ꙮ that was used exactly once in a single 15century manuscript.
its also the reason you can post emojis nearly anywhere.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
𓂺
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love how no one has given a precise answer to this question:
…wikipedia.org/…/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_bl…
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Unicode.
Glorious modern ᏕᎮᏋᏝᏝፈᏗᏕᏖᎥᏁᎶ.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is loss
elvith@feddit.org 8 months ago
::|.;Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
𓃰
sag@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ancient Loss