Whats_your_reasoning

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates that don't tell me what is being updated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There needs to be something about so-called “junk DNA” added to this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?

They’ve got my vote.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s nightmare fuel right there. I don’t even have a dick, and I still cringed in horror.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It was weird sometimes. Say you uploaded an image as a visual aid to a point being made on Reddit. It would make no sense without context, but you put it on Imgur because that’s what Imgur was made for. Shared on Reddit, the image successfully aided whatever you were trying to communicate. Mission accomplished!

But later you’d look back at the Imgur link, and find a bunch of annoyed Imgur-users complaining that your post made no sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I left Imgur when I left Reddit, since the only thing I ever used it for was hosting things to post on Reddit. Funny, I must have gotten spoiled to Lemmy instances self-hosting images, because I forgot Imgur even existed until I saw this post today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Well duh. Why else would the magnetic record on the sea floor flip back and forth?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Do you also embed little easter eggs to reward those diligent code-reviewers?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

tons of purple around the world still eat it.

I wonder what the other colors eat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Wholesome ending.

Though, I am a bit confused by

I skipped a few years in highschool

Did your high school have more than 4 years? When I think of “a few,” I think “at least 3,” but skipping 3 out of 4 years doesn’t sound right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Lol, at first glance I thought this was a poster for some new movie. All we need to do is change the font of “Cephalopods” to something exciting, and arrange the listed species as if they were actors’ names.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I think about this at night when my eyes are forced to attempt to make sense of the low light levels in a dark room. I know my room isn’t grainy and grey-scale - that’s just the best my eyes and brain can do at night. It’s interesting to look around and try to imagine the proper colors and shapes of things, reckoning the difference between what I know and what I see in the moment.

With our brains constantly making things up to explain gaps in information, it’s no wonder kids think they see “monsters” in the dark. It’s also no wonder that nightlights work well to keep said “monsters” away.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon puts himself out there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a woman on Lemmy with a gender-neutral username, which means I don’t have to try to “pretend” anything - people assume I’m a guy by default. Hell, it also happened back when I was on Reddit and used a female-coded username, which is even more confusing.

I can only imagine the gender performances these guys are putting on if they’re able to easily convince others that they’re women. Some people apparently take “there are no women on the internet” literally and can’t seem to process when women appear online (in a non-porn context, at least. Which is really disheartening.) I’ve had people full-on argue with me that I couldn’t really be female, because I once posted a picture that included my hand and apparently it “wasn’t feminine enough.” That’s what I get for disliking nail polish, I guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Is there some kind of benefit to putting rose petals in water, or is it just supposed to look pretty?

I simply don’t get the appeal. Having to clean up/unclog petals from a draining bathtub sounds like it would negate the peaceful, relaxing energy that a bath provides, doesn’t it?

Same question for rose petals in a bed. Peeling squished petals off my skin sounds like an annoying interruption to a sexy/romantic night, not something that adds value. Do people actually do either of these things IRL? Or are they just used to symbolize “romance” in media?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Just looking at the wall behind the counter in 7-11 boggles my mind. Dozens of cigarette and dip brands (and now vape and nicotine pouches too), with most smokers having a preferred brand and style - they don’t buy anything except the one type they like. Which means the demand must be high enough for each of those products to justify keeping them fully stocked all the time. Then consider that every corner gas station and convenience store has the same set up, even if they’re all within walking distance from each other.

That’s a lot of tobacco/nicotine users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Upvoted for the Vexillology reference.

But yeah, OP, just enjoy the show. Most of the attendants are going to be way too focused on the show, their friends, and themselves to care that some rando isn’t bopping along with them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, I’m talking about websites I’ve personally attempted to use, which were whatever non-sketchy-looking options came up on DuckDuckGo. I have no idea what OP’s post is from.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you so much! Craigslist is something I had completely forgotten about. I dropped off Facebook years ago and unfortunately don’t live in Canada, but Craigslist is a great suggestion and I’m perusing it now. You may have just saved me from living in my car (again.)

Seriously, thank you!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Probably. Not much I can do. I’m not paying for a subscription. If anyone has any advice for finding roommates otherwise, I would very much appreciate it!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Rents are too high for a single income to cover anymore, so I’ve been looking for roommates. Even the websites about finding roommates expect you to pay.

To be clear, they have a free tier - but unless you pay, you can’t read the messages you receive. You can read the first line, but the rest is locked. I gave up with one place because the boomer trying to rent a room refused to send me an email. I told him three times to please just email me his message because I couldn’t read it on the site, but because he could read messages fine, he thought it was a setting he had to change. He kept responding with “Okay try now” and didn’t seem to understand that he can’t “settings” other people out from behind a paywall.

All he had to do was copy/paste his message and send it a different way, but he wouldn’t do it. I eventually gave up because the thought of living with someone that’s unable to follow such simple directions sounds more trouble than it’s worth.

Anyway, point is, even if you’re so poor that you need to seek out roommates, you’re still expected to pay a subscription. I don’t even know what to do anymore.