queerlilhayseed

@queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you respond to unwanted advice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on the advice, and my relationship with the advice giver. I generally give advice at least a thought, even if it was unwanted, unless I have a reason to mistrust the advisor. As for how I respond to the person, if it’s a friend I’ll usually have followup questions, for people I know less well it’s usually a cordial variant of “hmm, interesting perspective” and then I have to think on it for a while before I respond, if I respond at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I think the accepted English pronunciation of “Euler” is as a homophone of “oiler”, so the award would be “the oilies”. I never heard the name out loud as a kid so I pronounced it “you’-ler” until well into adulthood, until someone made a big deal about me not pronouncing it correctly. I remember the occasion very clearly 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can call it the Euler Award for Excessive Achievement in Science. Or the Eulies if you’re in the industry. And we make a big deal about it if anyone pronounces is " the yoolies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve released a new VR helmet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it happens. And by it I mean VR / AR equipment that I can comfortably use for a few hours at a time without getting sweaty, fatigued, or motion sick. When I’m using a computer I like to have a bunch of displays, and it would be really convenient to have a comfortable headset that I can wear instead and live my dream of coding in VR / AR and spin displays up or down on a whim, or better still use some as-yet-undreamed VR native UI that takes advantage of the platform. That dream is still a way off, it seems like, but I still want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X-Files '90s promo shoot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean look at them. To quote Raymond Gillette, nobody’s that gay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Efficacy unparalleled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m beginning to suspect Stamets isn’t even a real doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Efficacy unparalleled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Concerning that researchers are giving their subjects full-strength memes like this and telling them they’re placebos. Hard to believe an IRB cleared this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most popular conspiracy theories?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember “Covid was a Chinese bioweapon” being popular, alongside “Covid is fake and just an excuse for the government to inject us with 5G microchips”