palordrolap

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the Bechdel test equivalent for images?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not sure that counts, considering which subset of the population is the largest consumer of it. That in and of itself doesn't make it fail*, but the fact that the makers of it know this and thus might be tailoring it for that audience does kind of make the the whole thing about men.

  Basically, we're just swapping one meaning of intercourse for another.

  * in the same way a group of men watching a regular movie that passes the test wouldn't change that fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they're going for "What does 'being nice to your coworkers' mean to you?"

  As someone who is also neurodivergent, to me this meant leaving them the heck alone unless they were only person who could help me with something, which is also how I expected to be treated in return.

  Neurotypicals might ask others about their day, make hot drinks for others, or even do out-of-work favours, but I never had the urge to do that, even if it might have been be appreciated. There are probably other things that they do that I was and might still be oblivious to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dennis is one of those (fictional) people who I clearly remember being much younger than, briefly being the same age as, and now being much older than. The two main others are Gordon Freeman (27) and Homer Simpson (under 40).

  Now if only my mental age had kept up...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the thing video players do after lag where they speed up the footage to catch up to the current frame before playing as normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Rubber-banding" maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The adjectival form is "felicitous". (fe-LI-si-tus)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the word and concept of "derpy" come from and where is it going?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's the onomatopoeia associated with a stupid person trying to think with an emphasis generating -p suffix, in the manner of well → welp and no → nope, then modified further into an adjective with a further -y suffix. Der + -p + -y.

  Wiktionary doesn't currently talk about the -p snap suffix at derp, but it does at welp. While I don't quite have the gall to edit it into derp myself, I'm convinced it's the same thing.

  (One definition of "herp" is, of course, derived in the same way, doubly emphatic due to the unnecessary aspiration on a hesitation noise. h- + er + -p. Thus was born phrases like "herp-a-derp" for someone acting with a ridiculous lack of care.)

  Also: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=derp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In before OP finds a similarly curious lesbian and the next thing you know they're married with three kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was able to work, I liked to pretend that Reddit - which was still reasonable back then - wasn't social media to get around the rule that social media wasn't allowed. I had intended to explain that I thought Facebook, LinkedIn and possibly Twitter were social. Since I didn't have friends or follows on Reddit, and since I was anonymous, clearly it didn't count.

  I was never called out on it.

  But I definitely thought, and still think, that there's definitely a social element to it. I mean, what's happening right now?

  This isn't Reddit, of course, but it amounts to the same thing. I'm responding to something written by a human who might actually read it. Conversations happen in the comments. As far as Internet goes, that's social.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eventually you learn to recognise the hand positions almost like they're symbols in their own right. You can tell the difference between an apostrophe and a comma, right? And in certain typefaces they're identical symbols other than their position.

  For the same reason, you can tell the difference between an hour hand just past the 12 and an hour hand just past the 6. Then you learn what the other positions look like.

  Then you can read the minute hand to whatever precision you need.

  After that it's just practise, practise, practise. Your read times will tumble and before long you'll be completely used to it and be just as fast as with digital.