Whats_your_reasoning
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- Comment on Randezvous 📅 2 days ago:
I love the quote, but I think it’s important to credit its creator - James Nicoll
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 2 days ago:
One time in high school, I dissociated so hard that I temporarily couldn’t understand spoken English. Tbf, I did it intentionally just to see if I could (as nerds do when they’re bored in gym class.) It was very interesting. English sounded like a softer German with French pronunciations, which tracks. I thought it sounded pleasant. I still want to know what non-Native English speakers think, but it was fun to listen to English “from the outside” for a few minutes.
If you're curious,
I was on the loud, busy bleachers with many other people. I decided to concentrate on the sounds I heard, and only on the sounds, without attempting to understand anything that was said. At some point it’s like my comprehension disengaged and I was in a sea of meaningless chatter. It should be noted that I am neurodivergent, so perhaps it was easier for me to concentrate on pure sensory information? Who knows. I sure don’t.
If anybody else has had this experience, I’m curious what it was like for you, too.
- Comment on a case for public transit then...? 2 days ago:
Reading this as I pack a bowl and contemplate which version of society I want to build a simulation of today (medieval, modern, or futuristic?)
- Comment on Anon visits New York 4 days ago:
Eye contact is a great way to get assaulted by a homeless person who is possibly dealing with psychosis.
Hey now, that’s not fair. It’s also a great way to get scammed by fake monks.
- Comment on Anon is Dimitri 1 week ago:
-Cries in prosopagnosia-
- Comment on Evidence 2 weeks ago:
For being a science meme community, it’s a place people can vent about things that they can’t vent about elsewhere. We can understand psychological phenomena, but still be personally frustrated by it.
Though I do wish this post weren’t targeted toward Boomers. Younger people buy into it, too.
- Comment on People like this 2 weeks ago:
Ah, that makes more sense.
- Comment on People like this 2 weeks ago:
I generally avoid the downvote button, at least, I think so. I downvote AI slop (especially in communities that explicitly forbid it.) Though for comments I may put a train of downvotes for some troll that’s all over a thread.
I feel like there may be a misinterpretation here though. My ratio is more “upvote-oriented” than yours. Unless you mean aggressive with upvoting, which perhaps, I may be.
- Comment on People like this 2 weeks ago:
I curate my feed, blocking communities that don’t interest me. So yeah kinda.
- Comment on People like this 2 weeks ago:
Hm, I’ve got an upvote/downvote post ratio of 315:1, and a comment ratio of about 14:1.
I guess I’m an optimist.
- Comment on Off the Rails 2 weeks ago:
I will never not upvote Hitchhiker’s Guide quotes
- Comment on Anon finds his people 3 weeks ago:
That’s a really good point
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for clarifying. Women often get tasked with extra emotional labor, so I wasn’t sure which way your post was going at first. I withdraw my downvote and wish you a lovely day!
- Comment on That's ok, I don't want to see the shop anymore anyway. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had a great experience using Orion’s reader mode to use Wikipedia on my phone. Safari? Not so much. Safari’s reader mode breaks Wikipedia pages, whereas the only issue Orion has with them is not including the titles to subsections. Which I can hardly complain about when all I want is to read an article on a darkened screen before falling asleep.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s only the wife’s job if the husband makes calls for her, too.
At least, for me. I do and have made calls for partners, and they’ve made calls for me too. I gel best with other introverts, so we take turns when one of us doesn’t have the energy to make a phone call. No need to gender it, it’s what supportive partners do for each other.
- Comment on Anon finds his people 3 weeks ago:
realize i’ve never actually tried to seduce a girl
Satire maybe? Women may want to be charmed, but we don’t want to be seduced, so starting right there anon’s in for a bad time.
- Comment on Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got a friend who throws great parties. All around the house, she has dishes and cups filled with pre-rolled joints anyone could just pick and light up.
I’m excited to go to her birthday party coming up.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 3 weeks ago:
It’s such a strange thing to get hostile about. Ironically, it low-key bugs me that we put the dollar sign before the number it’s indicating. “$64” is read as “sixty-four dollars,” not “dollars sixty-four.” So why write it like that? (Not rhetorical, I really want to know. I tried looking up this question to find out the answer, but haven’t found anything conclusive.) Putting the currency symbol behind the number makes more sense, like how some countries write the Euro. (Which also explains why some people might not intuitively place the dollar sign before the number - it’s their native convention and it follows clear logic.)
So maybe the point was ignorance or fear of the foreign? Or a misguided attempt at English language purity? Or they’re a former Redditor who hasn’t quite shaken off the Reddit “pointless, hostile hot-take” mentality?
- Comment on I respect the environment. 3 weeks ago:
We’re Lemmy. The best we can give is the hug of coma.
- Comment on Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘ 3 weeks ago:
Nebulae: “In fact, forget the wire!”
Spins and condenses into a star
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
tradition
Where? 😍
Oh, it’s just Christmas again. Nvm
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 5 weeks ago:
To build on this, this usage is called a non-count noun. Less beer, less water, less air, less sand, etc. all refer to non-countable quantities of some substance. Beer could be counted, if referred to by some metric (“one glass of beer,” “24 ounces of beer”), same as “a bottle of water,” “one tank of air,” “a truckload of sand.”
Which is all to say that you’re right. “Less beer” makes far more sense than “fewer beer.”
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 5 weeks ago:
Also not a tech person, but I am an artist. I used to consider going into digital art, but now I’m grateful I didn’t and instead have honed … I guess you can call it “manual” art? As a way to say things I make with my hands? Maybe “analog” or “traditional” art?
Point is, I haven’t seen an AI create a pencil drawing or an acrylic painting. I get the feeling that as people tire of AI generated images, they may find renewed interest in these distinctly human-made art forms. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. For now, AI may try to steal forms and ideas, but picking up a pencil or a paintbrush and creating something on a canvas are still out of its reach (thank goodness.)
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- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 month ago:
Lmao, where I live that’s par for the course.
- Comment on Pioneer species 1 month ago:
There’s an apparently-eternal rose bush outside my childhood home. My parents wanted to change up the landscaping decades ago and have tried to remove it several times since. Each time, it sprouted back up.
My dad managed to dig it up from the root last time. Yet somehow, it still grew back!
I told them - clearly, this house does not and never has belonged to you. It belongs to this rose bush. It has decided that it lives here and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 1 month ago:
Its spirit is dead, but its corpse lingers on.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 2 months 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
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- Comment on The amazing world of tomorrow 2 months 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…
