FishFace
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- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 11 hours ago:
Well if we have evidence of that sure, but in the case of PTFE for example (which is a PFAS) we don’t have that, so banning it seems just as nonsensical. Yos be banning it because it might be harmful.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 11 hours ago:
Cool, I’m not gonna tell you you must use teflon pans, but I think we were talking about bans…
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 14 hours ago:
That kind of thinking applies to any chemical though, surely
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 14 hours ago:
- there is nothing as non-stick as non-stick coatings; some alternatives come close, but you are still losing something
- what about other applications of PTFE? PTFE tape for sealing pipes, PTFE feet on computer mice, PTFE-based lubricant, electrical insulation, … the uses are many.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 17 hours ago:
Damn, you’re right, I was thinking of PFOA not PFAS.
However, I think blanket avoiding an entire class of chemicals without evidence is an overreaction.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 21 hours ago:
No, and nor is the teflon in the pans you’re thinking if. PFAS is a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon (or was, I thought they’d stopped now) not teflon itself.
The problem with PFAS is accidental release and dumping. - Comment on How far you've fallen 1 day ago:
I mean the reason python succeeded is because you don’t need to write more than one line to reverse a string (etc).
- Comment on Global Warming [Photographic Evidence] 2 days ago:
Fwd: fwd: fwd: Re: fwd: LOL
- Comment on Masters of silently stalking their prey 2 days ago:
Could this be a dog?
Likely dog
Dog ahead
- Comment on UK: China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police 3 days ago:
Sure. But it’s not actually terrorism, is it? In fact, as worded, completely inoccuous activity seems to fall under the act - the definition of “UK-related activities” in the section includes literally any activity taking place in the UK. So intentionally helping set up a foreign embassy seems like it falls under the act.
Regardless, national security it may be, but terrorism it ain’t.
- Comment on UK: China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police 3 days ago:
Ugh. UK universities absolutely should not be shutting down research at the behest of China, but how is this terrorism? Seems like terrorism is back to being the bogey-man.
- Comment on What 3 days ago:
But Yiddish is itself a Germanic language, and modern German dialects like Bavarian do have “Schof” = “Schaf” = “sheep”. Is there a better etymology for Schof here? And Seckl < Säckle < Sack would be perfect for scrotum too, and in high German you can call someone “du Sack” to mean they’re an idiot also.
- Comment on where the cuties 4 days ago:
All the time? Or only some of the time?
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 5 days ago:
Can you prove it in court? If not, he shouldn’t go to prison. It’s an easy formula.
I’m perfectly happy calling him a nonce, but I’m also one of those old-fashioned types who values the rule of law and all…
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 5 days ago:
By all accounts Andrew will be fuming because he’s up himself.
- Comment on Totally 6 days ago:
Yes, thanks
- Comment on Her mango 6 days ago:
The sequel, salt lassie, left a bad taste in my mouth
- Comment on Totally 6 days ago:
I have a chronic but minor health condition that doesn’t come up much and the other day was treated to something like this by none other than the threadiverse’s first. I expected better for some reason.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 week ago:
At best you can call people who do this as having a very mild form of unconscious bias; you can’t infer bigotry which I would say really ought to be either a consciously-held opinion, or if not then a set of behaviours that has a practical negative outcome.
I think the kind of person you’re thinking of is a stereotypical bigoted jock who hangs out with his jock-friends and makes homophobic jokes all the time. That person we’re maybe not surprised that they are motivated to avoid doing stuff associated with those outside their gender.
But I don’t think (and there’s nothing here to suggest) that it is only that kind of person who is so affected. Do you think that someone respectful of gay people, but who grew up in a conservative family and whose father makes comments like that, might not be motivated along the same lines out of a desire to their father? Or is it bigoted to seek the approval of your dad if your dad is a bigot? Even if it’s not done consciously?
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 week ago:
Inasmuch as these people have a “fragile ego”, you probably also have a fragile ego. Virtually everyone subconsciously adapts their behaviour to gain the approval of other people whom they value.
The difference between you and them is not that you have a strong ego and are confident in your masculinity, it’s that you don’t value the views of people who judge people on that basis. And that is certainly no bad thing, but it’s a fundamental difference, and making this error makes it very hard to understand people who are different from you.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 week ago:
I think you’re imagining this as a more conscious process than it actually is. The reason you need to go out and research this is because these men aren’t going around saying, “yeah, I was going to put my pepsi can in the metal recycling but I was worried my bro would call me gay so I just put it in the general waste.” Instead, sometimes men put pepsi cans in general waste, and sometimes men do things due to social perceptions, and sometimes those social perceptions are that certain things are “unmanly” and working out which things are related to each other is quite hard.
So there’s no paradox here. All people are subject to social pressures, and the vast majority of people make some effort to conform to those pressures in order to fit in and to receive approval from the people they value. Conforming to fit in isn’t “weak” or “insecure”, it’s the nature of being a social animal, and is done instinctively - if you think it’s done “obsessively” then you’re imposing the analytical mindset of someone studying the evidence on the subjects of the research, which is a fundamental error. It’d be like saying someone who subconsciously mirrors the mannerisms of someone they respect is “obsessed” with getting their approval, when they likely don’t realise they’re doing it.
Also, I feel like they’ve never considered that gay doesn’t necessarily mean effeminate. Or even that effeminate doesn’t necessarily mean weak/meek.
They almost certainly haven’t because, again, if you’re “considering” it, it’s not the right concept. The concept that people are trying to avoid is the one that’s labeled “gay” by their peers, which is really more of a gender thing than a sexuality thing; “what are you, gay?” isn’t a question about someone’s sexuality, it’s a suggestion that someone is not conforming to the gender role expected of them. You can’t successfully challenge that by saying “ackshually gay people can be v strong and they forget to put the pepsi can in the correct bin far more often than you might imagine.” They’ll just reply with, “OK bro sounds pretty gay,” because you didn’t challenge them on what they meant, only on what you thought they meant.
The challenge has to be more along the lines of creating a better awareness of societal expectations, tolerance of people who don’t conform to them, and building up positive associations between behaviours we want to promote and conforming things people already value, to help them see things in a new light.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:
- Denying the antecedent: “showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don’t shower every day, you will smell bad”
- Confirmation & Selection bias: “that person smells bad, therefore they can’t shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad”
- Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I’m assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone’s condition.
It’s quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it’s the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can’t form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not “nice and clean” but “disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease”.
I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.
- Comment on Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism 1 week ago:
Tylenol is paracetamol, aka acetaminophen, not aspirin.
- Comment on citacion 1 week ago:
Now this is the silliness I live for
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
I noticed that you didn’t reply to the following pretty important things:
How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of?
and
people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour.
So I’m not going to get into further personal details until you show some good faith there.
For that matter, you never said how you were able to know how you yourself start to smell so badly after merely 24 hours out of the shower if this information is so unavailable.
And just remember that it was you who used the word “delusional”, not me.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
What parts of your body do you wash regularly outside the shower? Is it a non-zero amount? Then you understand what I mean, right?
How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of, because I’m guessing it’s “none” and you’re simply assuming that everyone who showers every other day is detectable by your nose - rather than those being people who haven’t washed for a month.
My partner tells me on the rare occasion when I smell bad, so there’s no reason to think they’re saving my feelings. I can also smell the change.
You’re so keen to assume all these details about my life instead of believing what seems to me to be extremely unsurprising - that it takes at least one person a few days to start smelling bad.
people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour. This shouldn’t be hard to believe.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
I use the skin friendliest soap I know of, and can smell when I need a shower, and have trusted other people who validate my own sense. Olfactory fatigue makes no sense unless you shower really infrequently.
Thanks for your fake, ill-informed concern though. Sucks that on Lemmy people are so closed minded they can’t understand that people sweat less than they do.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
I don’t wash in the shower what I wash out of the shower.
I am an adult and it’s weird you and others assume that I haven’t consulted a doctor about this in my entire life.
Not all health problems are curable, so actually doctors’ advice includes (or can include) “don’t shower every day if that exacerbates your condition”.
My partner wouldn’t lie to me about this, which I know because sometimes they do tell me I need a shower. Not often though. It’s weird that you think it’s so hard to tell, yet also are so adamant that it must be done every day - yet that’s my experience with most people online.
It seems pretty clear it just grosses people out who never questioned the habit.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
I don’t want to go into too much detail about medical stuff in public but I don’t believe it is about soap alone because it also affects skin that i don’t soap up in the shower.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
I can then run around the village and have people try and catch me