ThePyroPython

@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U WOT M8??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The screen reads “Bluetooth Init…” which is short for “Bluetooth Initialising” i.e. starting up, turning on, setting up.

  “Innit” is a common UK slang term usually associated with chav/roadmen which means “isn’t it”. This is used at the end of a sentence or as an affirmation.

  Example A

  Brit 1: Lovely weather today, innit?

  Brit 2: Yeah mate!

  Example B

  Brit 1: Lovely weather today.

  Brit 2: Innit tho. (Meaning: “Yes, it is.”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I believe in ghosts in the literal sense of an actual spirit hanging around in the physical world haunting places and people? No.

  Do I think it’s fascinating to see how the idea of “ghosts” are used in a cultural sense usually representing an individual or group’s desires, thoughts, feelings, etc. after they’ve passed on and usually storytelling around respecting their wishes or finishing what they started so they can finally be “at peace”? Yes.

  I also find it fascinating in a tragic way how people who’ve gone through extreme grief and loss can cling to the idea of ghosts, particularly of loved ones. Perhaps the pyschie doesn’t want to let go of that person so much that it can manifest as audio-visual hallucinations that feel incredibly real to the individual.

  After all, we all perceive the world through our brain: it is the filter for everything.

  I’ve experienced some strange stuff personally, but I don’t think I’ve seen an actual ghost. I remember having a dream about a close relative the night they died suddenly and we all found out in the morning. But that could be my memory post-rationalising something.

  I’ve seen a milk bottle fly out from the back of the fridge but I swear I remember that the fridge wasn’t rocking unstably and that the milk was definitely at the back of the fridge. But I could have seen incorrectly because who pays attention to the precise location of a milk bottle when opening the fridge.

  And I’ve encountered machines that appeared to be haunted. An ex-gf’s iPod classic she kept because it is a time capsule of her music would randomly turn itself on, play 10 seconds of a random song, then turn itself off again.

  I can feel how a ghost story would fit all of these and feel like it would make emotional sense to me. Like there’s some deep part of our evolutionary psychology that supports feeling this way. Why?

  Now in that sense I believe people genuinely experienced “ghosts” that aren’t actually there but are a part of their perceived reality and I find that fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a terrible day to be able to read…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I searched that wiki page for “horse” and found nothing, please can someone explain what that reference is because from the sounds of it I really don’t want to search it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also useful to think of the “ground” plane as a sort of well of potential charger carriers that the conventional current model overlooks. Aside from simultaneously visualising what’s happening inside simple ICs like BJTs / MOSFETs and the circuit diagrams I’ve found it a useful way for checking for common mode noise in circuit and PCB design.

  I guess this makes me a lunatic? Don’t know until we test it;

  Someone give me an asylum makerspace to takeover!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab anxiety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cons: cause a global pandemic.

  Pros: free dinner.

  I see no problem with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those all sound delicious, I’ll have to give them a try 😋

  Yeah I do and they are sold under that name here in the UK because English will just adopt words from other language or slang terms if they’re used enough. Also in English words for farm animals are Germanic in origin and words for the meat of those same animals are Norman (northern France) in origin because after the Norman Conquest in 1066, the nobility were all Norman French and were the ones to refer to cuts of meat whereas the peasantry didn’t eat the meat of the farm animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So here in the UK they sell these fresh in Lidl: a cheap supermarket but it has an amazing bakery where they make these and other items.

  I often go to Lidl at lunchtime to buy two of these and something simple to fill them with into sandwiches, usually cheese and ham, (insert bland UK food joke here).

  My question for you, in the spirit of international culinary collaboration, what Brazilian fillings would you stuff one of these with to make a great sandwich?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe those are called Petit Pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stove seamine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (heavy westcountry breathing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best one is to respond to something they say with “Oh that’s quite interesting” in the flatest tone possible, then move the conversation on to a different topic or exit.

  Works particularly well on Americans because in American English “quite” is an amplifier modifier but their brain will be confused by the flat (not sarcastic) tone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wagon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you ok mate? Do you need a cup of tea and a lie down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wagon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only guys who’d get mad at this either have some unresolved homophobia or are generally avoidant of touch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben swag...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme is old enough to start puberty…

  Ow my bones!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet ancestry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah that’s a common question about ethnicity usually an optional question filled out in case there’s some legal process in the future trying to determine if there’s underlying discrimination from poor treatment/service to a specific group when a legal complaint has been lodged.

  I’m talking about the weird obsession some Americans have with determining what % of their genes originated from other countries.

  The closest it’s gotten for me is usually a conversation about family history which most of the time is usually “A country on my father’s side and B country on my mother’s side”. But they’ve never broken it down into percentages before like it’s some sort of eugenic recipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎵 It means something something... 🎵⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Timon and Pumba must volunteer for every UK mental health phoneline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet ancestry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know anyone but Americans who do this. Has anyone else encountered someone white who wasn’t American boast about their mixed “genealogy”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So temperatures will drop by an average of 6 degrees and sea levels will rise by 2 meters freezing and drowning all the reform voters that inhabit the dilapidated former tourist coastal towns?

  Excellent! I’ll keep my engine running then.

  Because an environmental collapse making these cunts suffer is apparently easier to implement than stopping a dozen rich fuckers from hoarding all the wealth, causing socioeconomic problems, which leads to people voting in these fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to be his “nughtmare” before Christmas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly all of Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this like the breans thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re implying but in the literal sense you’re wong.

  Both men and women have a single primary sex characteristic: the equipment between one’s legs.

  Just getting a close up picture of any set of equipment is ok but it doesn’t show the whole package.

  The rest are secondary and girls have been constantly listing things like really liking buttocks, arms, shoulders, chest, eyes, smile. If you want to take better spicy pictures, think about how to frame other physical attributes as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fawlty towers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Track 1: 'Tis a silly place

  Track 2: Fuck tha Rabbit!

  Track 3: 8 Fall (into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a simple trick:

  Apply misogyny and sexism /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating profile⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No it says he’s an artist, clearly this is high-quality artisanal cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always the cat!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s trying to be an elite HackerCat but right now he’s just a ScriptKitty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, whilst you can’t “swallow” it, the term is still used for teaching first aid courses, because it’s memorable and having people memorise proceedure correctly is more important than grammatical correctness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The tounge muscle is always tensed one way or another. Whilst it wouldn’t slip all the way down your gullet to be digested in your stomach it when fully relaxed, which only happens when unconscious (not asleep) there is a risk that it can slip back and block your throat passage. This phenomenon is known as “swallowing your tongue” on the multiple basic first aid courses I have attended as a thing you check for when rendering first aid to someone that’s unconscious: check for blocked air passages and remove visible blockages including the tongue if it has slipped back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you’re all now aware that your tongue is never fully relaxed in your mouth.

  If it was, you’d swallow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so conflicted about this meme; on the one hand I’m in awe at this bodge into the RCA port and on the other the caption made my eye twitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a good dozen of great suggestions in the comments here for tips to sort out various things like cooking, etc. (I have saved a few for myself later).

  So instead I’ll offer some meta advice for making these things feel effortless:

  1. Find the paths of least resistance and chain them together.

  Look at the additional activities you want to add on to your day before/after work and figure out what is the most effortless way to trigger starting one activity when the previous one ends.

  For example, back in April I wanted to start going to the gym regularly so I did three things: put together a gym bag with enough sets of gym clothes for the week’s exercise, keep that gym bag in my car, and joined a gym as close to my place of work as possible.

  By doing this I was able to build “going to the gym” into my commute home from work. I have managed to keep up the habit of three gym sessions a week since then (with the occasional miss due to illness or other life events getting in the way).

  2. Make the good habits obvious and the bad ones obscure.

  I struggled all my life with something so basic; remembering to brush my teeth both in the morning and at night. So what I did last year was use the IKEA peg board thing and found some holders for my toothbrush and toothpaste. That pegboard is right next to my bedroom door so I have to walk past my toothbrush whenever I leave the room as a visual trigger to go brush my teeth.

  Think about how you can position physical reminders in your space to do the activities you want to do.

  Or use your phone’s calendar/to do list app of your choice to book in reminders to nudge you into getting started.

  3. Just five minutes to get started and if necessary do the bare minimum badly.

  Whenever I’m feeling tired but there’s a task that needs doing I ask myself “will this take five minutes or less?”. If the answer is yes, then I just do it there and then.

  If it’s something that will take more than five minutes to complete to 100% then I say to myself “ok I’m tired but I’m just going to do five minutes of it and see how I’m feeling then”. This works out great for the gym example. Today on the way home from work I was knackered but I told myself to just do the five minutes as the bare minimum. Once I’d done a few minutes of exercise I felt like I was achieving and then pushed past the five minutes for a good 30 minutes before deciding that was enough for today.

  And yes, there have been days when I literally just did the five minutes and stopped. But that didn’t matter, because I still completed what I set as the bare minimum. Those minimums still get me closer to my goals and therefore they’re still a win. So long as I’m getting just one more of these little wins over losing (i.e. not going to the gym) then the progress keeps stacking and the good habit continues to form.