voracitude
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- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 1 day ago:
Interesting! I’ll update my post, it makes sense there would likely be variability in how it presents due to biology. My experience isn’t necessarily the default.
- Comment on Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly" 1 day ago:
homey needs to smell like a gun in a pine forest
Stealing this whenever I need to describe Axe in the future.
- Comment on Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly" 1 day ago:
Women always telling me a smell nice is why I use women’s soap and deodorant. I would rather smell vaguely like a field of wildflowers, a warm summer breeze, and fresh-washed linens than whatever the fuck Axe is meant to be.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 1 day ago:
That’s the prevailing theory, yes, but as far as I’ve found there’s not empirical evidence to back it up. The theory does make perfect sense to me, though!
Also, as a sufferer, I’ve noticed it almost always requires sunlight or something with close to the same frequencies. Most artificial lights don’t trigger it.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 1 day ago:
Contrived acronym. I much prefer Photic Sneeze Reflex, it’s easier to remember and doesn’t sound like bullshit 😂
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
This is about the shittiest argument you could make. Good luck in your search, maybe you’ll find some self-awareness along the way.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
Ugh, of course those people would point to any source that supports their current claim, without vetting the source itself. They’ll even tell you that of course they don’t support antisemitism, while spouting that antisemitic Irving shit all day, and that’s okay because they pick and choose only what they agree with out of the rhetoric. As though they couldn’t find sources that support their point without the concomitant antisemitism.
First and foremost, then, I’d go about this by not denying the genocide in Gaza and not saying stuff such as “I bet you love Palestine” like it’s a pejorative, spacecadet@lemm.ee.
My second point would be to recognise that there is no moral or ethical reason not to pirate Irving’s works. If you were able to find it at a library, it would be there because someone paid a publisher for the copy and likely some kind of library license. Some of that goes to Irving. There is no way to deny him profit and acquire his work legally. So, pirate it. Fuck that guy.
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 1 week ago:
Learn to share the road, mate. England’s not that big, you can slow down and get where you’re going with plenty of time to spare.
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 1 week ago:
I take the view of the social contract: if they won’t respect the rules and are impolite to you, they forfeit their right to politeness back. You’re perfectly justified in hanging up on someone if they’re so rude as that.
- Comment on “I Hope That It Brings Comfort”: Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Her Vision for the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Reboot 2 weeks ago:
No worries! Honestly I was pretty out of the loop too, I’d heard some stuff but never looked at the extent of it.
- Comment on “I Hope That It Brings Comfort”: Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Her Vision for the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Reboot 2 weeks ago:
Here ya go, this claims to cover the abusive and sexually predatory behaviour at least: screenrant.com/joss-whedon-abuse-misconduct-alleg…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Why do people ask for me to fix their computer issues, only to ignore me or tell me I’m wrong when I give them the solution? Yet it happens every day. People are weird, man.
- Comment on We call people who want to regress conservative and not reactionary 5 weeks ago:
We let them call themselves that. Just stop respecting their self-identification, they’ve basically abdicated any right to our respect anyway by breaking the social contract.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yikes. How do you handle it - try not to think about it, stay out of the house? Dark humour and fucked up jokes? Do you interact with her much? Any opinions on her?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Delicately seasoned and pairs perfectly with this tall glass of crisp, refreshing schadenfreude. Delicious.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 2 months ago:
Pretty sure they mean this upswept point at the end: Image
Which I’m also pretty sure means the ones you have are targeted by this law and it’s a good idea to surrender them.
- Comment on I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me? 2 months ago:
Why do you say you don’t care about climate change, and what would make you care? Climate change is one of those things that’s going to suck for all of us, so even if you have no empathy for anyone else, it’s kinda surprising that you don’t at least care about how it will affect you.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 3 months ago:
I laughed out loud when I read the title of this post. When I’m helping my customers with their domain DNS records, I always analogise DNS to “a phone book for the internet”. I love that we’ve come full circle and phone books are “DNS for the phone system” 😂 (also goddamn does this make me feel old 😭)
- Comment on Is it wrong to like AI Art work? 3 months ago:
ITT: “you are not allowed to like things I don’t like”
However you feel about how the models are trained, telling people they’re not allowed to like the results is going to be a losing argument. People like what they like, and you can argue with them but you won’t stop it 🤷
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 3 months ago:
“Death to plastic”
“Here drink from this plastic-lined can” (plasticstoday.com/…/liquid-death-may-murder-your-…)
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 months ago:
Or just accept that not everyone will be having a secure conservation, but more will be secured as more and more people like me convince our family members to use it and eventually we transition everyone away from SMS?
No, of course not, why would we build a critical mass of users like that?
Since they removed SMS support my entire family and all my friends uninstalled signal, except a few who keep it to talk to me, and my half dozen friends privacy-conscious enough to care. Objectively, removing SMS support harmed Signal’s popularity and made everyone less secure. The argument for why they did it was at best myopic and also, in my opinion, utter bullshit.
- Comment on Do cats have intrusive thoughts about eating their humans? Conversely, do cats get scared of humans eating them? 4 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I dunno, hive mind is starting to sound pretty good right about now.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 4 months ago:
I believed in Chris Roberts because of Freelancer and backed it on Kickstarter, and have watched from the shadows as the story has unfolded. I occasionally dipped my toes in to see how it was coming along, but the performance was awful on midline hardware so I put it back down and waited. Now that the turmoil at the top has come out and people are leaving, I don’t hold much hope for the future of the game.
I think the reason it gets a ton of hate is that Roberts had gone and proven that Microsoft were absolutely right to take Freelancer away from him so it could get finished. They weren’t shackling a maverick genius, they were mitigating losses from his poor leadership.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 4 months ago:
Came here to suggest it and here it is, the newest comment! The modding scene is insane, too, for such a relatively small and unknown game.
I love Starsector. I just wish it was written in something more performant than fuckin’ Java. But, if it were, there probably wouldn’t be the mods for it there are today.
One of these days, I’m going to get around to writing a quest line of my own. Honest.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It does, doesn’t it.
- Comment on Happy birthday Anon 4 months ago:
My best friend once said that it could always be worse: you could have shit on your head, that always makes it worse. Even if you’ve already got shit on your head, having more would without question be worse.
It made me laugh, which is what I needed at the time, and there’s not really a long to this story other than that has stuck with me for decades.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I gotcha. That’s rough, I’m sorry to hear he was such a shitty husband. It’s probably true that a job would be more demanding and take more time from your studies, so all up it sounds like you could be in a worse spot, and at least this is family and you care about him. It’s good of you to help him like this; working all day often gets overlooked as a source of major fatigue. I can’t say I don’t relate to some degree, I just order delivery when I’m tired instead of demanding my wife do the cooking.
Still, this is hardly anyone’s dream life. I hope your studies go well and you’re able to get out on your own soon!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I can see why your mum left. Is this something you want to change, or is it something you’re willing to put up with? Do you work as well? If you do, is it feasible to split the cost of a maid or similar?
- Comment on If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water? 5 months ago:
