Mesophar

@Mesophar@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to ask genuinely, how is the bookmark different than a tab with tab grouping in this instance? I have the bookmarks bar always visible, and have folders organized on the main bar (rather than the drop down extended bar). Wouldn’t tab grouping do the same thing, just slightly higher?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They mean the game is streamed from a server to the player, rather than running on the player’s hardware. This might not be feasible for every game studio to do, but would actually open up the game for more players to be able to play (since local hardware requirements would be lower).

  I think this is a terrible idea for other reasons, but accessibility and anti-cheat aspects of it are not some of those reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a teach in high school so the same thing. He’s also note the sides of the road on the way to school so he could find fresh roadkill on the way home.

  Made some great venison jerky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Whatever You Get Your Podcasts"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to Antennapod a couple of months ago and it has been amazing. It offers per-podcast audio boosting, great for those quiet podcasters that expect their listeners to use headphones in a sensory deprivation tank as they whisper from the room across the building from their microphone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who think an attack on another user is approproate for this sub, and the mods that enable them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A user “Luffy” created a post that was specifically complaining about thorn guy. OP isn’t complaining about mods not acting on thorn guy, they are complaining about mods not acting on the guy that made a post complaining about thorn guy.

  Screenshot could be a lot better, I agree, but it’s all there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s more Avatar is Dances With Wolves, or Fern Gully. The story is backwards to be Pocahontas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the tags with the plastic “string” that attaches then to the clothes? You’re not supposed to just rip that out, you’re supposed to cut the “string”. If that’s not what you’re referencing, then I have no idea the tags you are talking about, but I’m curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but think of it in terms of normal start times vs needing to go in early, instead of the actual hour. If you usually start at 6:30 but had to go in for 6:00 for no reason other than a meeting that could have been an email, it sucks.

  I used to have a 6:30 start time when I was younger, had an hour commute, and still had time for breakfast at home in the morning. It absolutely sucked and I hated it. Getting up for 8:30 start times still sucks if you’re used to 9:00 start times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frankenbeans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This 1000 times. It wasn’t even ambiguous in the novel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it’s a horrible idea whether or not it’s possible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decent deal....if it was DDR5 LMAO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are describing symptoms, though, and could be any number of things. No, there are not other terms currently. That’s why I’m asking you, what do you propose? You are the one that sees there being an issue with this that you want to resolve, what terms do you propose that will describe these conditions, distinguish them from other similar but unrelated conditions (a form of dementia vs stroke vs concussion, etc), isn’t insulting, and is easy to remember?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying to completely replace it either, but what are examples of words or phrases you think would be a good “shorthand” for dementia? Anything I can think of is either infantilizing or not actually simpler, just different. And needing to learn a new word might be just as difficult, or might be difficult for other people for different reasons.

  I can empathize with patients being embarrassed because they can’t pronounce or remember the name of their own condition, but I feel that the condition itself would pose the same issue with other, substitute words as well. It’s sad and tragic, but I don’t think it can be fixed by a change of language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decent deal....if it was DDR5 LMAO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, you can get brand new DDR4 32gb at 3200MHz for like $50 when it’s on sale, $60 for DDR3 is insane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way?

  And my point is that being exposed to the word dementia, and taught what it means and how to say it, is no different than being taught how to say Teflon. When you first learn it, it will be a bit awkward. The more you and people around you use it, the more familiar it will become. That just how language works.

  What do you propose we use instead of dementia? How would that be a better solution? I’m not against helping people with better accessibility, I just don’t see where this is a problem that can be solved by changing the words used. Especially since to me it seems like we already do what is being suggested in the title post. We already usually have a general term in common conversation in place of the full medical term used by medical professionals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is “dementia” harder than any other word? If they are suffering from brain/memory disorders, wouldn’t any new or novel word have the same issue? I think the opposite would be better, and normalizing simplified forms of the medical terminology (dementia instead of frontotemporal dementia) in every day language allows those words to have deeper roots in someone’s memory, making it less novel and more resilient to certain memory issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only missing putting it back on heat after drying with a paper towel to boil off any residual water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon looks into cults⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And for the majority of Americans cults just get laughed at as well. At least until it started leaking into politics, but that is being seen in many other countries now, too.

  A lot of Americans are doing horrible things, and there definitely is something about the culture here that affects that, as you don’t see the mass shooting and school shooting issues in other parts of the world as strongly. But coming at this saying that it doesn’t really happen outside of the USA and that it doesn’t happen in the UK is just ridiculous. If you make a statement that infers you don’t understand per capital, then you’ll get a reply making that rebuttal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon looks into cults⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t/wasn’t the Jesus Army cult UK based? Like, the USA just has a LOT more people than the UK does, it makes sense for there to be more people that fall into fringe groups. But the UK certainly isn’t immune to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just dont seem to ever learn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When this happens to me, I sip it right then and there, burning my lips as punishment for letting it get to that point. I no longer have lips, but now it rarely gets to that point for me anymore.

  Mostly /s but coffee is usually not so hot that I can’t take a few sips of shame to get it to a more manageable level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨... You're mocking me, aren't you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to scroll back up because I wasn’t paying attention and my brain initially just saw two dogs… I need more coffee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when is "cool" fine and when is it rude?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also a millennial, and I think it depends a lot on rapport as well. If you regularly talk with someone in text form, and consistently use punctuation, it probably doesn’t come off as passive aggressive than if you suddenly respond with the trailing period. It also probably makes one-word responses a lot more abrupt.

  I agree with above, replying “Cool!”, or “That’s cool!” would likely go over much better in that context

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many non-working holidays in America.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are these “real jobs” you speak of? At the absolutely very least, teachers typically also have off for many federal holidays, are you saying that isn’t a “real job”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably too much for a Raspberry Pi, but it runs perfectly fine on Linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mammal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if you’re trying to make it sound bad, but calling milk “titty juice” makes it sound better. I don’t like milk, but titty juice makes it sound refreshing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, hope you graduate to Third Grade by 40!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the numbers are sequential there, though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's always been there for me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t know that the kid hasn’t already told the mom about the accident. It’s not like she can come pick the kid up, it was her car that was crashed. Relying on a parent and asking them for help in a time of need doesn’t mean the kid isn’t also going to take responsibility. But the parent saying that fishing is more important is absolutely ludicrous. Sure, maybe the dad is too far away to be able to help at the moment, but he said he’s too busy to even talk (yet not busy enough to prevent sending those texts).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 fundamental forces⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps the gravity head should be a snail then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely hate this, but can’t deny that it’s accurate