Whats_your_reasoning
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- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 3 days ago:
I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop. On the plus side, the kids I work with are learning that ads are to be disliked. When an ad interrupts something we’re watching, I go “booo.” Now one of my students does it, too.
At least I can consider it a form of inoculation - gotta teach ‘em young to resist the ever-present
brainwashing attemptsadvertisements. - Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 3 days ago:
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- Comment on The amazing world of tomorrow 5 days ago:
I didn’t know what it was at all until I came to the comments. I just thought, “Why is there a random cooler rolling around? Did somebody lose it?”
Ah, can’t wait to look back on this comment a few years from now and slowly shake my head at how naive I was…
- Comment on Feynman rules 1 week ago:
I work with kids, including a bright little boy who told me that “Why?” is his favorite question. I explicitly tell him that I hope he never stops asking it. His questions challenge the depths of my knowledge and compel me to look up questions I never thought of before. I love it.
I call him my “little scientist.” He’s only 4 and he teaches my coworkers new things all the time. I feel so lucky to get to work with a little knowledge-sponge that’s as curious as I am!
- Comment on green salad fingers 1 week ago:
Minutes ago, I was hoping to get laid by the new person I’m texting. However, it’s past 9pm on a Friday and they went to sleep. Totally understandable, I think.
Now, I’m laughing at an obscure history reference that I just learned through a community called “Really Shitty Copper,” and my nerd-brain is telling me, “This is better anyway.”
Meanwhile, some distant voice in the back of my head is yelling, “Dooooork!”
… Being in your 30s is fucking weird.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear. Now stuck on a cosmic journey.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Well, they did show up at her door and asked to help her “come to Jesus.”
- Comment on Piping mouse 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Who knew that even birds could be fans of bondage
- Comment on mercy merci 3 weeks ago:
Funny, I expect all penguins to have that name.
- Comment on When the nice guy 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
There needs to be something about so-called “junk DNA” added to this.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 month 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 ? 2 months ago:
A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?
They’ve got my vote.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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.