SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 7 hours ago:
I lost entire weeks of my childhood playing at being an ant.
Now that I’ve typed that out, bug chunks of my childhood suddenly make more sense.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
I like how the wording is may imply that being sober that particular day might be in contrast to other days.
- Comment on magic box rule 6 days ago:
I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don’t know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.
I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite but being a scientist.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
I would crowdfund the shit out of that.
- Comment on chatgpt remembers 1 week ago:
Maybe we should change it to the Streisand-Turner effect?
- Comment on chatgpt remembers 1 week ago:
If he ever does, I’ll link up to him and rate him on his profile as highly skilled at rape.
- Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 1 week ago:
I’ve only ever had one worse protein bar: the original powerbar. Made in Idaho back in the nineties, they were a uniformly brown (regardless of flavor), chewy, sticky, oddly grain flavored abomination. The OG version came in gold foil wrappers with black text, like it was out of a fancy MRE. They were awful.
- Comment on super squirrel 2 weeks ago:
You rock!
- Comment on Took me by surprise 2 weeks ago:
That’s social conditioning, not biology.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
×25% gives you 1/4 the original value, whereas +100% is double the original value, let’s say 8/4 to keep it consistent. ×125% (in case a 1 is missing) is still only 5/4 the original value.
Is there a typo in your comment?
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
It’s really both, neurons communicate electrochemically. Neurons establish a voltage difference across their membrane, typically positive outside, negative inside, by concentrating ions on one side or the other. In a single neuron, the action potential (signal) results in the electric polarity of the cell membrane switching to negative outside, positive inside, with the change in gradient cascading down the length of the axon as ions are allowed to flow across the membrane by voltage-gated ion channels. After depolarization, ions are actively and selectively pumped to either side of the membrane, repolarizing it.
There’s a lot more to it than that but it’s 100% charge dependent. The change in charge is mediated by the flow of ions across a membrane instead of the flow of electrons through a conductor, hence why it’s slower.
- Comment on Kermit :) 5 weeks ago:
He’s a frog, they breathe through their skin.
QED
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 5 weeks ago:
Try Acme Valley ice cream. I just bought a pint and it’s great. No injected air!
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
Join us in the PNW! We have legal weed!
- Comment on ... 1 month ago:
Hah, I haven’t thought about Dragonball in ages.
Progress through turnover is true, and it’s maddening because the core tenets of science are explicitly against this. At our hearts, we’re still just apes with extra inflated egos.
- Comment on ... 1 month ago:
Am scientist (well, was, before career change), can confirm. Fuck dogmatic scientists, they’re worse than regular dogmatists because they’ve been given many opportunities to know better.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 1 month ago:
I was going to respond to your original response, then I saw this thread and saw what a waste of time that would be. Man, what an embarrassment of a human being you are.
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 1 month ago:
Hi, I’m disabled although I’m still working (at the moment, may break further). I agree with you.
The biggest issue to consider for any company hiring a significantly disabled person, whether mentally, physically, or both, is they’ll be less productive and may require much more oversight, meaning they contribute less to the company. This is the justification behind the lower pay. It makes sense if you’re a shit sack capitalist that values production above anything else.
With that being said, Goodwill is absolutely taking advantage of the disabled. They’re ostensibly a non-profit charity that exists to provide employment, leading to training and work experience, to the disabled community. They pay their disabled employees the lowest amount possible, actively working to justify low pay. Imagine if your employer was constantly looking to drop your salary so you had to constantly fight them over it. Now pretend you have a significant TBI or are developmentally disabled (just imagine your mental capacity while drunk, but without the feeling good) and still having to fight that. Welcome working for Goodwill.
Fuck Goodwill right in their “charity” hole.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 1 month ago:
It’s just toxic masculinity. Men aren’t inherently dumb, but toxic male culture is dumb.
- Comment on I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! 2 months ago:
Oh shit, no puffins for me after all. Thanks for sharing this.
- Comment on I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! 2 months ago:
The United States in the Seattle area, land of the million dollar starter home and $8.00 cup of (shitty) coffee.
- Comment on I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! 2 months ago:
I’m totally into that, we’ll check it out. Thank you for the recommendation!
- Comment on I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! 2 months ago:
It helps that we’re from a high cost of living area. Honestly, we’re paying less to eat out here than where we live. The tourism industry is absolutely gouging, though, and I hate what that’s doing to the economy for locals.
- Comment on I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! 2 months ago:
Great so far! There are a ton of fellow tourists and it’s a bit pricey, but it’s beautiful and the people are very nice. Plus where else can you eat a puffin?
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- Comment on Those are so ugly. Who would even buy these... oh, right. 2 months ago:
Dog slobber. We have two dogs. One loves to take a big mouthful of water and run up to my wife and me with it, splashing drool water everywhere on the way. The other has recently learned this trick from him and now we have double dog drool. We don’t go barefoot much anymore.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
It’s a hot button topic for some people. I’m for the biological variation explanation - some people seem to really notice a difference while others don’t.
I think what the people who get really upset notice is that they dropped a few extra $100s on what’s often largely a marketing gimmick.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
It’s noticeable, it’s just not massive. My phone screen runs at 120hz but I don’t notice a difference unless I’m scrolling rapidly. Gaming culture (driven by corporations) really overemphasizes its importance.
Also keep in mind there likely isn’t a lot of selective pressure on biological vision refresh rate, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a fair amount of variability in the ability to discern a difference amongst individuals.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 2 months ago:
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 2 months ago:
Same, during a boss fight in Elden Ring. I died.
