Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is head hair different from other hairy parts? 5 days ago:
Fact 1 - sexually active people subconsciously look at peoples’ crotches when meeting them.
Fact 2 - evolution doesn’t fine tune things if they’re good enough to get the job done well.
So the fact that pubic hairs are unsightly crazy-looking things might not be because they are fine tuned to be like that - it might just be because they do their job well enough and they just ended up looking like that.
What job could that be?
To confirm visually that you are sexually mature.
That may literally be it - a localised fuzzy indicator of whether or not you’re able to make babies.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trying to downplay the reality of serious health concerns sometimes being behind food habits, but I think I need to say…
Picky eating is an absolutely normal part of child development. Anecdotally, both of my kids went through two distinct phases of picky eating, at around 3-5 and 8-11.
They gradually grow out of it. All you can do is try to make sure what they are eating is nutritious enough while they are going through it.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
Dry cereal always worked (still does!) as a nutritious snack. Granted, the nutrition has all been sprayed on, but it’s still there.
A little mixed tub of Cornflakes/Branflakes/Rice Crispies/Coco Pops always goes down well.
- Comment on How many songs are about Courtney Love? 2 weeks ago:
Nerf Herder have a song called Courtney about Courtney Love.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I always wanted a Nokia - I know it was a cliche, but I was amazed at how indestructible they were. Even when they did actually break apart, you could just pick up the bits, clip them back together, and it would just work again - with no visible damage.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I started university in 1999. Pretty much everyone had a mobile phone there. They were fairly new, granted, but they were pretty ubiquitous.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I know it doesn’t help, but Europeans have always been amazed how much you guys were charged for SMS. Even in 1999, over here messages cost a fraction of what you were charged - that you pay for them at all these days is just mind-boggling.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
I think it depends on the convention used in each country, so there isn’t one global correct answer.
In Britain the convention is Ground, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 5 weeks ago:
I guess the USA famously uses rendition flights and offshore detention centres, so maybe the plot twist is the other ‘US’ is actually the USA?
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 1 month ago:
Just wanted to add another agreement here. It’s like milk at the bottom of a bowl of children’s cereal (er, obviously not Coco Pops).
I’m surprised that there’s a few people saying it tastes salty. I wonder how much it depends on diet - I guess human diets vary more than cow diets do.
- Comment on A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral? 2 months ago:
Maybe I am being obtuse - but I really don’t see what it is you think you’ve had taken from you.
The conversation, the exchange of information, is intangible and transient by its very nature. You don’t own the conversation. There’s nothing about it to own.
If you think there’s some obligation on the part of the moderator to preserve the transcripts of conversations that you’ve taken part in, even against their own better judgement, then I’m sorry but I don’t see it.
But anyway, like I said - if you set up your own instance, you can keep those threads open for as long as you like.
- Comment on A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral? 2 months ago:
But they’re not taken from you - they still happened.
No actual harm has happened. Nothing changes the fact that you had a conversation. You are no poorer for it being hidden.
I know it’s said a lot, but if you don’t want to play by someone else’s rules, you can set up your own instance. Every single thing on here is the result of someone just setting up their own instance. Honestly, it’s never been easier than it is now.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 3 months ago:
You’ve have some examples, but in case they are not clear enough:
If [you have AIDS] then [you are unwell]
[You are unwell] if and only if [you have AIDS]
The first one is not the same as the second. Why? There are plenty of ways to be unwell, without necessary developing AIDS.
The first statement only defines one possible path to B, not all of them.
- Comment on what has worked for you to stop getting angry thinking about people who hurt you? 4 months ago:
I’m really lucky in that I learned “what goes around comes around” at a relatively early age.
When I was 16/17, the main bully from my secondary school died. He’d taken a car to go joyriding and lost control when being chased by the police.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learnt that, while it can sometimes take a long time, people who treat other people badly get what’s coming to them more often than not.
- Comment on How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello? 5 months ago:
Yikes - and I thought I overanalyzed my text messages
- Comment on How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello? 5 months ago:
This is what I do too. For double letters draw a tidgy little circle on the key - that should be enough to let the text recognition know what you want. It’s a useful movement just to have as part of your swipe-typing technique.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This. It’s less to do with religion, and everything to do with human nature.
From Ancient Egyptian Priests and Medieval Christianity, to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson - when in times of uncertainty, people will turn to anyone claiming to have all the answers.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 5 months ago:
That isn’t how free speech works.
All it means is that the government can’t stop you from saying what you want. It doesn’t mean that you can say whatever you want with no repercussions.
YouTube is not the government. It has terms and conditions that you agree to when you sign up. They have a right to delete your comments. You do not have the right to post whatever you want.
Sorry, but that’s the truth of it. If you circumvent the built in filters, then users can still downvote / report you and creators can still delete your messages.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 5 months ago:
As @princessleiascat said, I think you’re assuming that most people can relate to this, but the truth is that they can’t. I’ve never had a comment deleted from YouTube - ever.
As a creator, I’ve deleted the occasional comment someone else has made on my content, though.
This is why most people are defaulting to the position that maybe it’s more about what you are writing, rather than a broken system.
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 6 months ago:
I’ve always viewed the decline in incidences of Morris Dancing within my lifetime as a reassuring sign of progress.
- Comment on Which is the final digit? 7 months ago:
If you’re talking about the final digit of a number, it’s the last character.
For example, In the number 8765, ‘5’ is the final digit.
- Comment on What is the Israel thing going on? 7 months ago:
The romans called the area Judaea…land of the Jews.
Just a quick correction here. Judaea is actually named after Judah, son of Jacob.
The word ‘Jew’ comes from the place name Judaea, not the other way around.
- Comment on What's it called when pronunciations are sounded out with normal letters? 7 months ago:
I kind of agree, but there is an issue with this.
Even within England, the difference in pronunciation from region to region means that there can be no ‘true’ pronunciation. Add to that the weird a/o vowel, the t/d thing and odd emphasis on 'r’s at the ends of words that many Americans use, or the wholesale reassignment of vowel sounds that New Zealand uses, and you’ll find that any ‘proper’ way to spell things is not how the majority of the world says it.
The biggest issue is that English is an exceptionally fluid spoken language, but began solidifying as a written language hundreds of years ago.
Even if we did a do-over of the spellings in written English, it would fall out of sync with the spoken language very quickly.
- Comment on What is the attraction to kids? 7 months ago:
I’m only going to tackle the tech side of this…
How difficult would it be for AI photo apps to filter out words, so someone cannot make anyone naked?
Easy. The most popular apps all filter for keywords, and I know that at least some check then output against certain blacklisted criteria to make sure it hasn’t let something slip through.
But…
Anyone can host their own version and disable these features, allowing them to generate whatever they want, in the exactly same way that anyone can write their own story containing whatever they want. All you need is the determination to do it, and some modicum of ability.
People have been been creating dodgy doctored photos long before computers. When Photoshop came out, it became easier, and with AI it’s easier still. The current laws about creating and distributing indecent images still apply to these new images though.
- Comment on What video games are these book titles referencing? I can’t figure out the last three for the life of me 7 months ago:
‘Enterstela’ is an anagram of ‘Arse Nettle’, if that helps.
- Comment on Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it? 8 months ago:
Authenticity.
Totalitarianism is usually easy to identify. A corrupt democracy still has a veneer of legitimacy in a way that an out-and-out totalitarian regime does not.
- Comment on is the ability to raise one eyebrow a thing to born with? 8 months ago:
Seems that a lot of people have said something similar, but FWIW…
I’ve been able to move my left eyebrow by itself for as long as I can remember.
I taught myself to move the right eyebrow in 15 minutes standing in front of a mirror. This was about 20 years ago and I can still do it.
For anyone interested, as people have said, it’s about isolating and learning the ‘instruction’ that does it. In this case, seeing as I could raise both eyebrows together, I just did that repeatedly whilst holding the left one in place with my fingers. Fifteen minutes later, and I could do it without needing the fingers.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 8 months ago:
I feel like the analogy of the camera would be more valid if Nikon designed a camera that was specifically designed to cater to the needs of child molesters.
Almost all guns are designed as weapons first and foremost. That’s it.
Fencing is a sport that allows people to duel each other. The foils are items of sports equipment - they have specifically been designed to not be lethal.
Guns, on the other hand, are not items of sports equipment. They are weapons that some people use for sport.
In the US, gun companies are quite happy to produce these for supply to the untrained, unregulated masses. And actively promote this as totally normal. I’d say they hold some of the blame.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 8 months ago:
There’s a couple of things to consider when thinking about this.
Firstly, dividing the total by the number of tax payers and concluding that everyone should pay £569 is misleading. Wealthy people pay far more tax than most people (still not enough IMHO!) and as such the per-person cost is wildly different for everyone too.
Secondly, consider your position - your chances of success, and the possible range of success, depends hugely on your parents’ circumstances and those of other close people in your life.
So we have this clear chain of success breeding success - wealthy people can afford to give their children the kind of start in life that us poor spuds can only dream of.
A huge number of wealthy families used slavery to amass and increase their wealth massively. These families are still wealthy, still benefitting from the leg-up they were given on the backs of slaves.
These families are the ones who, ultimately through tax, would end up contributing the most. Us plebs would be paying relatively little.
Even if your family didn’t own slaves, or exploit them directly, they’ll almost certainly have benefited from their existence. I live in a mill town north of Manchester - the very reason for this town’s existence is cotton, ultimately picked by slaves abroad. The money came from businesses and trade that relied on slavery.
- Comment on Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them? 8 months ago:
*M Night Shyamalan taking notes