Signtist

@Signtist@bookwyr.me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok .... so I never stared at his hands. Sorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m missing several fingers on one hand, and there have been a decent amount of people who didn’t notice for weeks or even a few months, even when interacting with me multiple days a week. It certainly never took 9 months, though; the max was about half of a semester in college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is suicide considered selfish? If your like 80 or something and rely on your family for care. Would it not be a burden off of them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be a burden off of them, but would being relieved of that burden outweigh the added burden of being without you? The reason suicide is selfish isn’t because there aren’t reasons you being gone might benefit someone, it’s because you’re making the assumption on their behalf that your absence would be better for them than your presence.

  Your life is part of other people’s lives, just like their lives are a part of yours. Any unilateral decision to suddenly end those relationships is selfish. Imagine if someone you loved just stopped talking to you out of the blue. Even if the relationship had been strained, they’re still someone you love and now they’re just… gone. It sucks, and knowing it was a conscious choice they made makes it suck even more.

  That’s not to say there aren’t reasons to be selfish sometimes (though such reasons are few and far between in a situation as absolute as suicide), but being selfish for a good reason is still being selfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can people just stop being weird online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When you give people the ability to say and do whatever they want online, knowing that it will almost certainly never get traced back to them, you’ll find that a startling number of them are mean and selfish.

  For society to work, we require the social agreement of what’s acceptable, and the social rejection of people who don’t follow it - that’s the only thing keeping people like this guy in line. When we lose the ability to determine who is breaking the agreement, it begins to fall apart, and our connection with one another follows suit.

  While I believe there are more good people than bad ones in society, I also believe that a bad person can easily do enough harm to undo the actions of a dozen good people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wind speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trailer parks are stereotypical places to get hit by tornadoes. Tornadoes don’t hit trailer parks more often than anywhere else, but since trailer parks are often wide open spaces with few trees to break up the wind, and a lot of loosely-secured objects to become projectiles, they’re often hit hard enough for the news to do a story on it, thus perpetuating the stereotype.

  The joke is that since we’ve just determined that dinosaurs die from tornadoes, we should look for fossils in the stereotypical tornado place. For comedic effect it overlooks the fact that trailer parks are cleared of trees and filled with clutter by humans, so the locations wouldn’t be any more likely to have dead dinosaurs - even those killed by tornado - than anywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meme7-5d25b6acf0103__700.jpg (700×643)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that it’s just waking up from being under anesthesia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, I appreciate the candidness. It’s true, I simply don’t fully understand everything you’re trying to convey at the moment, but I don’t doubt the validity of your argument.

  I can at least say that I recognize that my current lack of understanding doesn’t mean I’m incapable of understanding; I’ll work on being more mindful about the questions I don’t immediately think to ask about things like this, and I’ll keep in mind that my interpretation of my own actions has some holes that I’ll need to fill before I can fully trust it.

  Thanks again for taking the time to educate me - I know the internet has all the information in the world, but I still think the best way to learn about interpersonal stuff is to ask a real person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the rundown! I think I understand a little, at least about the lack of general cultural consideration of consent, but I’m not certain about what specifically pushes this meme over the line into problematic territory.

  Would be be fair to say that the issue with this particular meme is that we shouldn’t assume they are in a relationship? I certainly believe it was implied, but it’s true that there’s nothing outright stating that he’s not looking at some unknown woman as she sleeps, which would certainly be rapey. Or is okay that we assume that they’re in a relationship, and the issue is that being aroused while looking at someone, even someone who accepts your attraction to them, is inherently objectifying, and while that can be acceptable, it should never be assumed to be acceptable without express consent being given in the presence of the observer?

  Or is the issue here not with the meme itself, but the simple fact that not enough people outwardly asked the question of whether consent was present, even if after more consideration it likely would be? Like, I want to assume the best in people, and I know that even just questioning if someone might be evil can drastically impact the personal and public perception of them, so I don’t want to walk around assuming the worst of any given scenario, but I also don’t want to overstep into territory that’s going to make someone uncomfortable past the normal amount of discomfort everyone has to put up with that’s just inherent to interpersonal communication.

  The more I think about it the more I think it’s just about keeping consent in mind, even if there’s no clear “right” answer, even for a specific given scenario, but it’s hard to make that into an actionable plan for change that isn’t just always being pessimistic about human nature. Like, even though I know it’s not meant to be, the act of asking for consent is essentially the act of asking if someone is doing something wrong. It’s fine when it’s between you and another person, but when it’s someone on the outside looking in, it’s hard to know when to ask, and when doing so is being too suspicious of someone who doesn’t deserve that. Maybe that’s wrong, though, and I’m hitting a wall of my own internalized misogyny… it’s tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m not trying to argue, but I want to better understand what it means to objectify someone. Is this rapey because the SO isn’t consciously choosing to appear attractive? Is attraction to someone only acceptable if they are actively aware and desiring for such reception, even if you’re not otherwise interacting with them, and are in a relationship with them? It’s honestly not something I’ve thought about much when it comes to people in an existing comfortable relationship where consent is generally always present for normal interactions unless expressly revoked.

  Like, when I look at my wife I think she’s attractive, often even moreseo when she’s not doing anything special to appear attractive. She seems to appreciate this, so I don’t believe it would be something bad, but I don’t really know. I know I would want her to feel the same way about me, but again, I suppose that very desire might be a form of consent that isn’t necessarily established in the meme. Is it rapey because we don’t specifically know that she wants to appear attractive to her SO? Is that not something we can at least assume in a relationship between 2 people we otherwise know nothing about?

  Again, I’m just trying to better understand because it’s not something I’d considered before your comment. I can definitely understand someone wanting to be sure that consent is established, but I also know that when you’re in a relationship with someone for months/years, those conversations about consent fall away after you both know in and out what the other is okay with. Or are you saying that even that is too far, and it should always be discussed every time, even when full trust is established?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He Has Arrived⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, he had such a bad experience with it that he doesn’t want to talk about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that definitely became the creator’s favorite way to stretch things out. The Wano arc had one big fight toward the end that went on for around 80 episodes… There were several different people fighting in different locations, but it was still way too long. I haven’t seen the “One Pace” edit that someone else brought up in this thread, but it sounds like it cut out a lot of that unnecessary filler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was near the start of Dressrosa, which was a pretty long arc with a lot of fight episodes that seemed to just be the same back and forth stalemate over and over again. It’s unfortunately just a few arcs before the Wano arc that does the same thing to an even greater extent, unfortunately. The filler was already starting to wear on me by that point, but those 2 arcs took it to an extreme. Luckily, it seems that the creator has realized this as well, and the arc after Wano is a nice quick pace with plenty of stuff going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t watch no scrubs. Scrubs is a show you won’t find on my TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it, but the length is certainly a hurdle. It took me years to get through the anime, and there were several points where it felt like it took multiple episodes to make even the most minor progress in the story. Still, though, the story itself is great, and it seems that recently things are back to the snappy pace that the beginning of the show used to have, at least where the dub leaves off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth about schizophrenia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …what? It’s not hard to get your hands on a copy of the DSM-5…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t, but my boss doesn’t have to know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d highly recommend the picoloader if you ever want to mod it. It was surprisingly easy to install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found it just a few days before they posted their last comic. I was very sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have all experienced this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me on my lunch break at the job I’ve been at for 7 years, surrounded by people I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, human memory sucks. If someone tells me that something I remember clearly was totally wrong, it’s likely enough that they’re right that I have to look into it every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 25th Birthday to the Nintendo GameCube!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamecube was the first time I had a console that was still relevant! For the first time I could talk with my friends about games they were actually currently playing, instead of constantly bringing up games they hadn’t touched in years. I just dug my gamecube back out and hacked it a couple months ago, and have been having a blast replaying Phantasy Star Online again! PS2 will always be my favorite console, but gamecube was definitely a good one too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut Up Boomer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The pre-boomer generations didn’t just complain, they physically fought for and defended their rights, and the elite feared them for it.

  Then the elite changed tactics - either out of fear or strategy, they gave the boomers everything they wanted, and raised a generation of people who didn’t have to fight, but felt entitled to what their forefathers had fought for anyway.

  In turn, the boomers gave rise to generations of people who thought fighting was unnecessary and harmful. Now the elite are back to tearing down rights again, and not only do we not fight, but we can’t even agree that it’s necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9/11⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still get the theme song stuck in my head every so often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government doesn’t care what you want. Politicians only care about themselves, which is why we need to make sure that they’re only safe and happy when we’re safe and happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We being set up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically I was simplifying it a bit. What it actually does is add 1x normal damage, so one use gives x2 your normal attack, 2 uses gives x3, and 3 uses gives x4. After that it does nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We being set up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Swords dance is a move in Pokemon where your opponent does no damage, but doubles their attack power, allowing them to deal twice as much damage every subsequent turn so long as that Pokemon stays in the battle. A small decrease in damage dealt now in exchange for more damage dealt later.

  Most children play Pokemon with a simple goal to attack every turn, and don’t pay attention to what non-attacking moves do, and they view all such moves as a waste of a turn, represented by the bored spongebob. Adults playing Pokemon better understand strategy, and realize that the opponent becomes much more threatening after using swords dance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not saying you should...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a normal ice cream scoop, but square. The connotation is that you can use it to make building-shaped scoops of ice cream to put on the twin-scoop cone to make twin towers. Not sure how a square scoop would actually work, though. The round ones work by having a thin metal strip scrape the inside of the spoon to dislodge the ice cream when you squeeze the lever on the handle, but I can’t imagine a shape with corners would be able to use such a mechanism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What, do you think the crew is just going to sit there when this guy is the only thing keeping them from leaving? As soon as everything else keeping them from taking off is resolved they’ll politely tap him on the shoulder to let him know to put the guitar away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a job tier list:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience it’s a high B.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most get filtered automatically by my phone, but even the ones that get through never happen in the middle of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I have heard that before. I interpreted it more as advocating getting up with your alarm instead of hitting snooze a million times, but this makes more sense.