sincle354

@sincle354@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden, Trump Die 2 Minutes Apart Holding Hands⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Putin shared a tearful memory of the times they shared on the website formerly know as Twitter, just minutes before he was found dead after exiting a window fifteen stories high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a physicist⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heavy objects, on average, are denser at human scales. Dense objects tend to have an aerodynamic profile compared to sheets of leaves or cloth or sand. They tend to get blown away in the wind. Anything that would bind or compact those lightweight things together like resin or water tends to weigh a sizable percentage of the compound. There is a correlation between heavy and fall speed. It took accurate scales and ~0 bar vacuums to prove it was the air doing it.

  Try explaining how a helium balloon works without sounding like a wizard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are you sure?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His forehead constitutes 50% of his face but is relatively clean. We need more scabbed over zits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hormones are powerful drugs. Taken by everybody. Creating massive aggresstion, obsession and mental disturbance. What would freedom from its influences look like for a society? An individual?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Intro thoughts, feel free to skip to next paragraph: What you're basically suggesting (based off edit) is the massive and unrelenting attack on our more base urges. My boyfriend says this is "peripheral route persuasion", and it includes sex appeal and also things like happy people drinking Coke. Indeed advertising almost exclusively uses these tactics to get you to buy something (or at least remember) within 30 seconds or less.

  But I think you're getting at the main core of human interaction, where the natural order of people is to act based off of emotion and not really think about it. Alternately, you can put your mind into big-brain thinking mode and make a salient choice to not drink brown spiced lemon fizzy sugar water.

  The Elaboration Likelihood Model essentially assumes that "As motivation and/or ability to process arguments is decreased, peripheral cues become relatively more important determinants of persuasion. Conversely, as argument scrutiny is increased, peripheral cues become relatively less important determinants of persuasion." These peripheral cues can be hormone based, for example. Therefore, it suggests a central route of information processing (think hard about it), and a peripheral route of information processing (gut feeling).

  This is any information, not just persuasion. You see hot girl on street, you consider your car looks cool, you try to pick her up by using her car as evidence to hop in.

  Btw, in the Wikipedia article they literally spell out the consequences of this theory in Politics, Advertising and Media (all of it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoutouts for my favorite Chinese developed game Gunfire Reborn. Borderlands-style Roguelike that you could almost SWEAR was going to have microtransactions. But no, it's one full price + character DLCs that is just start run, shoot dudes, complete runs. It got 99% good translations and a 100% mobile port! It's completely bewildering why this game didn't get treatment on par with Hades and Dead Cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in highschool suffering from multiple mental health disorders and social isolation. I was smart sure, but as I later learned you can't outsmart your own brain. What it took was finding a girl, as studious and hard working as me, but even more stressed and destroyed by home life and a destructive boyfriend that preyed on their undiagnosed autism and major depression. It started when I simply told them that their emotions mattered, that they mattered as a person. Suddenly I was confronted with a person in their most stressful senior year, previously a danger to their own self, offloading their sorrows to me in need of anything resembling emotional support.

  I had to learn (the hard way sometimes) how to listen, and listen with intent. I felt this urge, this duty to help, no matter how little I could do with how I was faring. I felt like if I didn't do this, I would regret it for the rest of my life. It eventually lead to friendship into a relationship on fundamental compatibility, but I didn't have any of those feelings at the beginning. I just accepted their texts, their calls, the first ones I had ever made to someone outside of school. It was the first time I ever felt I had a purpose. It was the first time I felt like I could do what was right, rather than what was expected.

  Our relationship is rekindling as we both near college graduation. We're far more stable now, but we crave our scant few hours shared on weekends. I can feel my life trajectory flying wildly out of prediction as the day they move in with me nears. However, I know that if it was anything like the last time, I can afford to be bold and to be true to myself. It's one thing for your life trajectory to change, but it's another to be committed to making it as good as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨art⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The layers on this one is astounding. Someone with legitimate artistic talent had to make 6-layered fandom/furry content. Then someone (named yuri, no less) used it as a nuclear level reply to a PragerU bait tweet. I want to deconstruct it, to fully describe why it works so well, but I won't out of pure respect.