TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on a very tasty snack 1 day ago:
some mf really threw an entire hog carcass into a blender and said “yea let’s sell that as food. Great.”
“Dead animal in my dead animal? Revolting.”
- Comment on Duckeo, Duckeo, wherefor art thou? 4 days ago:
My pool is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- Comment on congrats to Egypt 5 days ago:
Once Egypt’s wives stole chancla techniques from Latin America and repurposed them for use with thick, leather sandals, they became unstoppable.
- Comment on Form over function 6 days ago:
laugh track
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 1 week ago:
Well when you put it that convincingly, assuming women’s vaginal odor is supernaturally pronounced and something everyone you meet is unrealistically preoccupied with and disgusted by – a belief plausibly tied into childhood trauma – doesn’t sound like body dysmorphia at all.
I’ll put up the DSM-V’s criteria here which are similar to the ICD-11’s.
I don’t see anything else better describing this ©*, and it evidently causes significant distress (B), because a) they’re saying it does, and b) this mindset sounds highly distressing.
(A) is slightly complicated by the fact that, in this paranoia, she thinks she’s the exception among women. It’s still a deeply negative, unhealthy preoccupation with a body part that she thinks she’s constantly judged by others for but in reality probably never has been; I think any psychologist would recognize this as a minor variation on typical BDD.
* There might be comorbid gender dysmorphia, but that doesn’t fully explain this specific paranoia.
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 1 week ago:
This sounds like body dysmorphia.
- Comment on Real NASA research papers 1 week ago:
Fake as fuck, unfortunately. NASA TN-D-7110, for example (second row, third column) is titled “Minimizing the area required for time constants in integrated circuits”.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Yeah, the EPI is a source that I trust to carry its bias and a regard for factual accuracy at the same time. I think it’s going to be a good read; thanks!
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
I would blanket not trust anything from HR News and just go somewhere else to find that information. One of their blogs posted here about a month ago was titled something like “Study finds 15% of Reddit content is generated by bots” or whatever.
The catch is that they only say the year and the journal. No hyperlink, no identifier, no author names, no volume + issue, no name of the artcle. After exhaustively searching every article from that journal that year and keyword searching the fuck out of it just in case they were stupid and got the year wrong, the inevitable conclusion is either that HR News is LLM slop with zero fact-checking or that it’s written by a human author who will uncritically regurgitate made-up shit they read elsewhere.
- Comment on As Lemmy's Ice beans the only ICE we need, right? 1 week ago:
Light brown legumes suspended in a crystaline structure? Basically the same thing.
- Comment on Quantum ball pit 1 week ago:
Mathematician mfs when I solve the sphere packing problem with infinite efficiency by assuming the spheres are bosonic:
- Comment on Art of the deal.. 1 week ago:
Fuck up their schemes? Putin’s scheme to wreck US hegemony is going insanely well and would’ve been going even better if he hadn’t greedily, groundlessly invaded Ukraine.
- Comment on They'll tell you 1 week ago:
The crossfit where I live shut down a few years ago because the whole crew were sleeping with each other’s spouses and everyone figured it out and had a huge fight and everyone quit the gym. Whackos.
Okay, to be fair, at a kind of crummy regular gym I went to, all the staff were fucking all the other staff. I’m not sure I blame this on CrossFit.
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
Petition to make the names less confusing by naming the northern one to “Bear” and the southern one to “Twink”.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 week ago:
I apparently smell like checks notes forest. That actually made me look at the fragrant ingredients: aloe vera juice, rosemary, parsley, sage, and “fragrance”. I mean sure: put those together in one place, and bam! Forest.
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 2 weeks ago:
Did a recent poll come out? The last poll I saw in August 2025 (The Economist/YouGov) saw him at 31% total (page 29). A reduction to essentially 1/3 of that seems pretty farfetched.
- Comment on Totally 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 weeks ago:
Jaguars are the leading cause of male-pattern baldness.
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 weeks ago:
It’s a trick. The jaguars killed Sebastián and used his phone to lure in more prey.
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 2 weeks ago:
If you really want “beast of Satan” territory (imo, Poltys are just very cryptic):
- For behavior, I’m going to appeal to the Brazilian wandering spider which is extremely aggressive, likes to hide in human living spaces, is mobile, and is severely venomous (including causing a painful priapism).
- For prey, going with the Goliath birdeater. I think tarantulas are cute, but this one has the legspan of a fucking dinner plate, weighs up to like a 1/5 of a kilo, has a massive body, has 5 cm fangs, and is large enough to prey on small terrestrial vertebrates.
- For sheer vibes, going with the giant huntsman spider. It lives in caves in Laos, has a legspan of up to 30 cm like the Goliath birdeater (but proportionally smaller body, amplifying the creepiness), was only discovered in 2001 despite being so huge, and as a huntsman is probably fast as fuck. Unsure about the venom; I’ve never researched it.
Not putting any of these images here in case anyone’s arachnophobic. Exposure therapy only works if you build yourself up to it, and I don’t want anybody to miss out on a chance to come to appreciate spiders.
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 2 weeks ago:
Looks like a species from the genus Poltys.
- Comment on Bugger! 2 weeks ago:
two men
lacks ambition
- Comment on low beans 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy users in crisis
- Comment on Mandola effect 2 weeks ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Eep 2 weeks ago:
Guess you won’t be getting the Fierce Deity Mask then.
- Comment on Eep 2 weeks ago:
Everyone wears different masks around different groups of people. Autism can amplify social problems, but everyone to some degree has experienced the image in the OP.
Trying to ascribe specific behaviors to autism might not be healthy, especially absent a formal diagnosis or a reason to think knowing whether it’s autism could help you deal with it in some way.
I feel sometimes like people treat autism as a pseudo-horoscope where just about anything can signify it. In reality, adult diagnosis of autism is very difficult for even professionals. Not only do autism symptoms tend to present less strongly in adulthood, but in addition to screening you, the neuropsychologist – as it’s a pervasive developmental disorder –will often ask to speak to someone like a family member who knew you when you were young. If it didn’t present in childhood, it’s definitionally not autism. Symptoms can get really fuzzy in adulthood in no small part because 18 years is a long time to learn how to act more neurotypical.
That’s not saying “ignore it and move on”. Introspecting like this can sometimes reveal broad behavioral patterns you didn’t notice or thought nothing of. Just keep in mind that autism is generally more complicated than something you can poll and ask “is this an autism?”
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
ICE agents getting an interesting mix of Vietnam and Iraq.
- Comment on Alan Turing if he existed today 2 weeks ago:
Okay, but if Alan Turing were alive today, he would be fascinated with the mathematics of the transformer architecture that modern LLMs use. Societal implications aside, the way machine learning has evolved is fascinating. I’d bet even something "intro to machine learning"y like a small, deep neural network (DNN) with backpropagation would be incredible to him. The Turing test sees a lot of emphasis among people who don’t know much about how machine learning actually works (or the rare philosopher who does), but Turing was a mathematician who would’ve loved to see how statistical processes govern modern machine learning instead of a preprogrammed decision tree. (Also, you’d have to be smoking crack and know zero about the field of AI or its history if you think Turing wouldn’t consider something like ChatGPT “AI”.)
- Comment on Mandola effect 2 weeks ago:
“What is this, some kind of fight club?”
