Whats_your_reasoning

@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Aw, actually I did have pet cockatiels as a teen. (Sadly, not for long - my parents didn’t know how dangerous Teflon was, and my babies paid the price.)

They didn’t care to be held like this, but boy did they love face scratchies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Who knew that even birds could be fans of bondage
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mercy merci⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Funny, I expect all penguins to have that name.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the nice guy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
My 7th grade English teacher didn’t let our class use the word “nice.” She considered it a lazy word, one easily replaceable by a variety of adjectives without any meaning being lost. Every time we thought to use the word “nice,” we were challenged to explore our vocabulary and come up with something more fitting and descriptive.

Therefore, the argument that there is no better word to describe one’s self than “nice” is weak. English is a rich language full of diverse vocabulary, much of which carries more powerful meanings than “nice.” If 12 year olds could do it, I’m sure you could too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe it’s because it’s still night where I am, maybe it’s because I’m on the autism spectrum, but those blue lights feel like an assault on my senses. I had to scroll it off my screen to type this because it made my eyes hurt. I can’t imagine having to deal with that every time I have to pee in public.

I also can’t help but wonder where people go to do their makeup. I don’t use makeup, but I often see others using the mirrors to touch up this or that. I can’t imagine blue lights are helpful for that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I work from home 10-20 hours a day.

That’s fair. Drinking at one’s workplace is usually frowned upon anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Interesting, I think of the lyrics as describing the way a baby or toddler feels when looking at the stars. They don’t know what those bright lights are yet, they just know they’re shiny and too high up to reach.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses the internet like a normie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Is there a version with a dark mode? I like the reader mode on my phone, because it makes the background darker. Gray background, white letters, simple and easy on the eyes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If all the yeast in our bodies’ microbiomes could coordinate together to take us over, we’d be so screwed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Wait, what? Where’d you hear that from? I’m on .world and my home internet is hard wired to a VPN. I’ve never had a problem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not OP, but I can see their point. I may have a different perspective from them, though.

Dreams aren’t simply movies our brains make up. They are multi-sensory beyond sight and sound. In particular, I can feel things in my dreams. Not just textures, but emotions. Those emotions include enthusiasm for nonsensical ideas that take place in those dreams, or fears based on abstract concepts expressed through metaphors (but that wouldn’t make sense IRL.) I’d say that emotion is key to our enjoyment of dreams, and that emotion comes from inside us. Without it, we’d basically be watching abstract art films and wondering, “This is weirder than I remember. Why did I like this so much before?”

Can such a dream-capturing device recreate all the emotions present in the dream?

But also, would we really want a device that could force someone into experiencing something so intense? It sounds like something that could easily be used to manipulate people, and that worries me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It bugs me how I get some of my best ideas while driving.

I’ve had a number of “car journals” throughout my life, because sometimes I just have to pull over and write some thoughts out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It sounds to me like the sleep paralysis episode began, then you realized you weren’t awake.

Our brains are really good at rationalizing all sorts of experiences. A lot of “editing” goes on in our brains between initially receiving a sensation, and becoming consciously aware of the sensation. Sometimes it can even trick us into believing things happened in a different order than they really did.

The fact that you felt a sense of panic, which is a typical reaction to sleep paralysis, makes me think some part of your brain became aware of the paralysis by that point. All parts of our brains don’t wake up simultaneously - deeper, older parts usually wake up before the outer, younger neocortex (where rational thoughts and impulse control take place.)

The awoken amygdala can send out panic alarms due to the body being paralyzed, but the young, rational part of the brain is still mid-waking up. As you begin to gain awareness, you could simultaneously realize you’re in an altered state of consciousness, but also feel terrified for no clear reason.

So, good news! You probably didn’t do anything to cause the sleep paralysis (except maybe by sleeping on your back?)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I could feel this. Like how the person you were with was your sister, but also not your sister. You had a sense of familiarity with whoever you were traveling with, the same feeling as when around your sister. But at the same time, she wasn’t literally your actual sister. It makes sense in dream-thought, even if it doesn’t make sense in awake, logical thoughts.

I could imagine dreaming that whole thing out myself (except maybe the being in England part, since I’ve never been there.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t want full lucidity, because I like seeing what my subconscious comes up with. I have enough control to steer dreams away from things I find unpleasant, and I’m happy with that.

But I also have recurring “places” I go to in my dreams. There’s one particular place I enjoy going to, which feels like close to Florida (in my mental GPS) and has an eastern coast, but its geography otherwise is more like southern California, with mountains and rocky beaches/islands. It has the games, rides, and boardwalks of New Jersey, as well as an unlit stretch of a moonless beach that I once experienced in Delaware. (I was a child, and I vividly remember walking into a pitch black void, hearing the waves crashing, but not knowing how far away the water was. My family was ahead of me and kept telling me to keep going. That moment comes up a lot when I think about the future.)

Anyway, I’ve spent dream times all over that place. Sometimes it’s part of a road trip and I’m just traveling through, sometimes I’m visiting people who live there, sometimes there are events going on, or I need to navigate a busy, multi-story shopping mall.

It’s a pretty pleasant place, honestly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It isn’t common in the US, but I was lucky enough to grow up with it as a staple in my dad’s garden. Funny thing, our family referred to it by its Polish name, so I didn’t know the English word for it until I was a teenager.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates that don't tell me what is being updated⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
She needs to be defrosted from her summer stasis in time to sing about Christmas.

Though in all seriousness, it’s sad to think that enough people saw that AI slop of an update summary and thought, “Yep, that sounds better than anything I could’ve come up with.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just reach out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Reach out and spend wads of money on someone.

I’ve got a season pass to Six Flags, and part of the deal is getting a certain number of free “bring a friend” tickets.

Unless the guy’s treating his taxi driver to meals in the park, this outing could possibly have been free.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was just telling my boyfriend, “It’s not like I can go anywhere on vacation, and it’s such a bummer to have to come back to work after extended time off. However, having a random day or two off per month always makes me happier. It’s like a little (paid) holiday and I can celebrate it how I want, and that may mean sleeping.”

Perhaps the habit of “pre-planning mental health days” just makes too much sense to deny. Work can plan around my absence, and I get the day off I need. Everybody wins!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There needs to be something about so-called “junk DNA” added to this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This one little paragraph just explained my mom, myself, and the reason the relationship between us is so contentious.

She grows ever more closed-minded every year, while I attempt to learn a new skill every year. We never saw exactly eye-to-eye, but we’re now at a point where we might as well live in different universes. :(
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?

They’ve got my vote.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I trust you, because if anybody knows a thing or two about people who like to sniff assholes, it’d be someone named Fartographer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It also would’ve been cool if there had been the slightest concern for ethics prior to its rollout. It’s potentially a powerful tool for disinformation, without any ability to verify whether or not the information it takes in or puts out is factual.

The fact modern LLMs weren’t given any sort of fact-checking abilities is one of the things that scares me the most about their popularity. Then they were dropped on us amidst an election where a perpetually-lying fascist was on the ballot? It may sound all “conspiracy theorist,” but I don’t believe that timing was coincidental.

We could’ve had something great if we had a society that valued planning for the future and doing the right thing. Such values could have been incorporated into the design of this technology from the get-go. But when business-people run the show, ethics are among the first things thrown out the window.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naked Hiking Day!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s nightmare fuel right there. I don’t even have a dick, and I still cringed in horror.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I live with, work with, and am myself part of, the autistic population. So I gotta agree - sometimes, higher sensitivity is a real detriment.

It’s not fun being light-sensitive. I’ve had days where I’ve worn sunglasses indoors, with the lights off and curtains closed. The vast majority of my days aren’t that bad, thankfully, but it truly sucks when light causes physical eye pain and headaches. I’ve got a great eye for detail (and have been called “eagle eye” throughout my life), which benefits me in a number of ways, but unfortunately it also means I get distracted by things others don’t notice. I can’t just “ignore” a lot of things, and when those distractions impact me disproportionately, I’m left in the frustrating situation of guiding others to see (or hear, or feel) the things that are super obvious to me - it feels like leading a child by the hand.

I’m also sensitive to touch (I can’t stand light touch, but I can detect ticks on my skin before they bite) and have the ability to hear novel speech sounds that modern science claims I should’ve lost the ability to detect decades ago (which, okay, is a cool feature to have. But it contributes to being easily-distracted.) All in all, I’ve never known any other way of experiencing the world, but I do know that most people have difficulty understanding my atypical point of view. Which leads to me preferring the company of fellow spectrumites, and others who understand and accept my sensory differences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not OP and I’m not an expert, but I know that the production of rhodopsin requires retinal. Rhodopsin is a light-sensitive protein our eyes use to see in low-light conditions, and is essential for our night vision. Retinal and retinol are not the same thing, but they both come from Vitamin A, and convert into each other during the visual cycle. Which means that a deficiency in Vitamin A = a deficiency in retinol, retinal, and rhodopsin, which in effect leads to night blindness.

But I’d like to know more/get a source for OP’s liver connection. I know most of our retinol is stored in the liver. However, I’m having difficulty verifying their claim that the delay in night vision onset is due to it traveling from the liver to the eyes. From what I can find, the retinol ligand that produces rhodopsin already exists in mammalian eyes (and persists there as part of the aforementioned visual cycle.) So the argument that night vision takes so long because retinol needs to transfer from the liver to the eyes is suspect.

Unfortunately, search engines absolutely suck these days, and almost every article I can find is behind a fucking paywall. So I’m struggling to find information that can either confirm or deny OP’s claim.

OP, please provide a source! Inquiring minds want to know more!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve considered working in marketing, but I refuse to use my powers for evil.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s what I’ve been saying since I was in high school. Going into college, the first year felt like High School 2.0. My English professor outright asked, “Why are you in this class? I have nothing I can teach you.” Funny how we can take a test after admission to show us which subjects we need remedial classes for, but no test for us to opt-out of subjects that we’ve already mastered. Still gotta take our money and waste our time because, you know, “requirements.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds normal to me, but it’s worth noting that when we were under Covid lockdown, I didn’t understand how so many people freaked out about it. I’ve always been sucky at social interactions and pretty much always felt lonely as a baseline. It’s like I’d been training for lockdown my entire life. Seeing others lose their minds trying to live the way I’ve always lived was quite awkward.

Which means for many people, your/my standards for social contact are way too infrequent. I don’t know what an average measurement would be, but it’s clear that our “normal” can’t be most people’s “normal.”