AbnormalHumanBeing
@AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
Some weird, German communist, hello. He/him pronouns and all that. Obsessed with philosophy and history, secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program.
- Comment on Sabine Hossenfelder Has Started Openly Defending Proven Grifters 2 days ago:
I don’t believe that people should be forced to “stay in their lane”, but if you’re going to go wading into waters that are not your own, you gotta stay humble.
Yes. And I can even sympathise with that being hard. It’s genuinely hard to do so and takes work and emotional stress, people potentially dogpiling on you from both sides doesn’t help either. But it sadly is the only way to arrive at something approximating truth. Influencer culture, atomised society and increasing isolation and social media in the context of a “presenting the most interesting you” culture sadly make this even harder. And even without that, there is always, and will always be, the danger of getting caught up in defending a point that is just wrong, because our psyche as humans latched onto it for reasons of identity/ego preservation or otherwise emotional wellbeing. Discourse culture ideally has to account for that with respectful arguing in good faith, even when the other side is wrong. Of course, that is an ideal that cannot always be reached, especially with more fuzzy, non-empirically provable points, or discourse that has very direct and tangible effects on our lives (politics, mainly, which is one reason it can be so draining).
Your perspective is valid as your perspective in the discourse, as long as it can be viewed as authoritative where you can rightfully claim you have knowledge and expertise (and even then, of course, it can be contradicted with proper arguments or newly emerging facts), as well as an outsider estimate where you just have an educated guess. And the latter isn’t worthless, but should be distinguished from more confident takes for the sake of discourse. Even just vibes-based perspectives are valid as a part of a discourse, but they have to clearly be able to be put into context and qualified, and have to stomach being superseded.
- Comment on Its like losing your identity 3 days ago:
I was about to make a joke about “amateur file picture”, but while typing it I realised that sounds like porn images.
- Comment on Its like losing your identity 3 days ago:
Zoomer Twitterbrain word for Avatar.
Well, I am surprised they are that into retro gaming! But who can blame them, that is one handsome fella to play as
ImageAnd the games were early trans representation!
Image(Just to ruin the joke: That is short for transportation, I know. But Ultima actually was pretty “woke” for its time, I guess.)
- Comment on Sabine Hossenfelder Has Started Openly Defending Proven Grifters 3 days ago:
I had appreciated her having a different perspective than my own, still rooted in scientific thinking. Then I started noticing her commenting on things authoritatively, where she had no expertise here and there (especially outside of STEM, where my special interests lie).
And then I stopped watching her after I had noticed more and more hints of that, where she seemingly acted like a high IQ and knowledge in her own field means she is qualified to disregard other perspectives outside her field. I am sad it got that bad, but I am not too surprised.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
Yupp, I never got the hang of cross-eyed viewing, even with the tips that are around, whereas the “looking through the image” technique is super easy for me, basically just relaxing my eyes. I assume there’s people where it is the other way around, and the cross-eyed method works better for them.
Basically it’s about which image is transferred as information from which of your eyes, and the two different techniques swap the eyes, which also swaps the 3D depth information.
I love the Wellington here viewed the “wrong” way - like the ocean is a massive plateau surrounding the coast, with that strip of developed area rising like another giant wall.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
I can only do parallel-view, not crosseyed, those look so surreal that way (inverted height/depth basically)
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
Dude… you are literally claiming A) that I am vegan when I explicitly wrote that I am not, and B) that I am “not open to alternatives”, when I myself mentioned two aspects concerning how animal raising can be done sustainably, only that that is not what our current system favours due to reasons of maximising profitability.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
So, I do get where you are coming from - but there are some things to consider. Firstly: while domestication and animal husbandry are pretty old, factory farming and such is very recent and has given everything a pretty new touch. While I think it’s still valid to bring up as an argument, “X has existed as a pillar of our life for thousands of years” is usually not a great argument in and of itself, the same could easily be used to argue for slavery and a lot of other fucked up shit in history.
Besides that, there is sustainability. Yes grass-fed cattle can actually be sustainable, and allow for utilising land that is otherwise not usable to produce food. Also there is plant matter and “waste” from farming and food production more broadly, that can be utilised in feeding livestock sustainably, which would otherwise be composted anyway (and in some cases, gets pre-composted pretty well by said animals). So, yes, there are ways to produce meat and other animal-derived products sustainably … but that is usually a bit of a cop-out, trying to divert attention from how the vast, vast majority of meat production is not sustainable in mostly water and CO2 numbers.
- Comment on Neat tech, isn't it? 1 week ago:
OI! DAT PYUNEE HUMEE’Z NO PROPAH KRORK IT IZN’T!
- Comment on Morning break out of my pond for a butt and a coffee 2 weeks ago:
Luckily for us, that seems to be some piss-weak nearly-water coffee.
- Comment on Sometimes it be like that 2 weeks ago:
My brain is telling me, the bottom right picture has to be the fluffiest thing to possible exist fluffily in the universe
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- Comment on Feels like something this community would like to know 3 weeks ago:
Oh, woah, that link got mangled somehow - should be fixed now
- Comment on Feels like something this community would like to know 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 3 weeks ago:
Also, one can lead to the other. If you catch the right fish with a scam, they may just unwittingly give you a way in to an institution. Only the latter would make the news, though.
- Comment on An ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod's first build is up and running, and its devs are teasing demo news soon 3 weeks ago:
I had been wondering when the first big campaign-style mod for the game would hit, stoked to hear more! As a side note: I get why, but I’m still kind of sad that projects like this seem to use Discord as their main space.
- Comment on An ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod's first build is up and running, and its devs are teasing demo news soon 3 weeks ago:
Oh, just a casual stroll of the “show only adult” section on Nexus Mods for BG3 can show you what people will come up with, if “normal nudity” is already in the game.
- Comment on Hottie without a body 4 weeks ago:
I was today years old when I learned they aren’t jellyfish… Well, guess I am one of the lucky 10k
To anyone else that only now learned that: they are actually quite interesting, and colonial organisms of a group called Siphonophorae.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 4 weeks ago:
Also Boomers: Not actually doing anything for veterans suffering from PTSD, mental illness more broadly, poverty and homelessness.
- Proton 10.0-2 gets a Release Candidate for gaming on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deckwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Anon ups his fibre intake 4 weeks ago:
Fiber is great, but in general, going from low to high fiber too quickly can do all kinds of gastrointestinal trouble, your microbiome has to adjust - and fiber supplements especially, if taken not as instructed, can indeed cause more severe complications like blockage.
If you don’t poop for several days even though you are eating, that needs to be looked at. Anon got lucky it resolved on its own with a nice story to tell.
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 5 weeks ago:
I might be misremembering, but AFAIK, dopamine can’t cross the blood-brain-barrier, so even where you want to regulate dopamine (and not, e.g. serotonin like more commonly for depression) in the brain, you have to do so via different medication (e.g. amphetamine derivatives for ADHD or dopamine agonists for Parkinson’s).
- Comment on If only my parents knew 5 weeks ago:
Oooh, thanks, now I finally understand what this is about. Maybe it is a language/cultural difference or something, but the whole “sperm = child” thing never clicked for me. Isn’t, if anything, the egg more properly a stand-in for a future child? And even then, only if fertilised, of course.
I dead-ass looked at this for almost a minute wondering if it’s maybe a pop culture reference to a TV show or movie I don’t know, where the pictured character actually eats children.
- Comment on Not sure exactly what they are selling 1 month ago:
!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org would like this, too, I’m sure
- Comment on Winging it 1 month ago:
Fun fact: Those weird paintings of Jesus as an “adult baby” are actually intentional. This was an attempt at representing that in the interpretation of the time, Jesus entered this world already fully perfected/divine, without having to have gone through an “imperfect” phase.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As literally an abnormie, I am appalled by that thought!
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 1 month ago:
Good that they provided both the Emperor penguin and human penguin for scale.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 1 month ago:
Probably, but I know that at least in the past, their philosophy was to uphold Windows as the one gold standard at all costs, and I doubt that has changed.
It might be one of those non-authentic quotes, but I heard that Steve Ballmer supposedly once said, that they’d rather have people pirate Windows instead of using another OS. No matter if that is an authentic statement - there is a real synergetic effect: If everyone is used to how Windows works at home (even if pirated there), then any potential employer will want to have Windows licenses for their IT and office stuff, which is where the main money lies. That’s one of the reasons Microsoft has been so furiously anti-competition, because their main advantage is being the de-facto standard, and being the only proper gaming system became a part of that strategy, with attempts to further lock-in any gamers into their ecosystem if at all possible (some of which thankfully failed).
So I think making an app for Game Pass for Linux won’t be in their interest any time soon, unfortunately.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 1 month ago:
Like many things, it’s an irrational decision to start at some point, and then addiction keeps you doing it. I have tried out a few drugs in my teenage/young adult years, including some “hard” ones, which ended up genuinely being one-off curiosity things for me. But the one that I simply wasn’t able to kick until last year was nicotine. It really is scarily addictive for something so widespread and legal. (Alcohol was also hard, but easier for me).
That, and the part about “no high” is just not really true, even after you develop a dependency/addiction (with rapidly diminishing returns, of course). But especially when first starting to vape/smoke, there are very much effects beyond placebo. It hooks into a lot of your neurochemistry, and like most things that do, you feel that. To the point that, e.g., many people that consume weed with tobacco, will think the initial wooziness they feel is already due to the weed, when really, it is a tobacco hit. The weed effects generally come afterwards.
Of course, the effect is not at all as intense as alcohol or other drugs, but there are effects. There are also, to my knowledge, some indications, that a lot of people with ADHD use it to self-medicate, since it seems to affect them differently, like other drugs do, too.
