AnarchistArtificer
@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Uncultured 1 day ago:
"Always forget the name when I want to remember it. "
Is that a problem you run into regularly?
- Comment on Uncultured 1 day ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE
🎵I want it awl, I want it awl, I want it awl, and I want it now🎵
(The song that gets stuck in my head whenever I use an awl)
- Comment on The Definitive Guide to Steam Play Tools 1 week ago:
Neat info. Positive comments in this thread prompted me to go read the thing, and I appreciated how it is a ground-up explanation, but still quite accessible. Now I understand why WINE is not an Emulator (I had been wondering, tbh)
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 1 week ago:
Trophic Cascade would be a cool band namr
- Comment on Tender moments 1 week ago:
“looking for a woman to play out the guy’s MFF fantasy”
Sometimes the driving force is a bi-curious woman. What usually happens is that the boyfriend agrees to it because he sees a MDF threesome as being hot, and sapphic love as being less real or serious. Then he freaks out during/after the hookup because of insecurity he feels when seeing his girlfriend enthusiastically making out with a woman. I’ve learned the unpleasant way that it’s no fun to be unicorn hunted.
The worst part is when they try to hide what they’re doing. I once only found out a woman had a boyfriend and that they were looking for a MFF threesome on the third date. Trying to hide their intentions is gross because it shows they have some awareness of how people don’t like being instrumentalised in this way.
- Comment on I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life. 1 week ago:
This isn’t really relevant to your question at all, but you reminded me of a (male) friend who is a gynecologist and married to a woman. I expected that the professional context would nullify any potential arousal towards his patients, but what I was curious about was whether this might bleed over into his personal life — i.e. did he still find his partner’s vulva arousing, or does it put him into doctor-headspace. Apparently his profession causes no problems whatsoever in his sex life, because the compartmentalisation is so strong.
He said that it feels almost like conceptual homonyms. For example, in the sentence “up past the river bank is the bank where I deposited my money”, the word “bank” appears twice but means two very different things. Similarly, a vulva is a vulva no matter the context, but the meaning of it differs so much depending on the context that his brain literally doesn’t parse them as being the same.
Like I say, it’s not related to your question, but I thought you might find it cool nonetheless. I would expect that firefighters would show a similar ability to compartmentalise, but perhaps the high-stress context of smelling human flesh may cause it to work differently.
- Comment on Banker At US Firm Hospitalised With Pancreatic Failure After 110-Hour Workweek 1 week ago:
My first gut response to this headline was basically just straight-up victim blaming, because it’s easy to see bankers (who are typically well paid) as being immune from the capitalist bullshit that the majority of us face.
That was a silly instinct though, because whilst bankers may benefit from some privilege within the system, headlines like this highlight the need for broad solidarity. Hell, reminding these bankers how “fortunate” they are is probably one of the key driving forces of keeping people in line — convince people that they’re lucky, and that the oppression they face at this rung of the ladder is far better than what those on lower rungs face. “Precariat” is a broad category.
- Comment on The moment I was radicalized 2 weeks ago:
I have a good friend who is Czech and I spent a couple weeks there with her family. One of my takeaways from this trip was that Czechs like mushroom picking, and are proud of how many castles there are (Czechia doesn’t have the absolute highest number of castles, but apparently it does have the highest castle density)
- Comment on Is water an acid or a base? 2 weeks ago:
Water is so cool. I like how the hydrophobic effects drives protein folding
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but “slight” is the operative word here. I’m autistic and there are some cutlery that feel so unpleasant in my hand that I can barely force myself to use them. In the past, it has even resulted in me hardly eating (when the lack of good cutlery was due to the nice ones being missing rather than just dirty). I felt very silly that I was letting myself go hungry over an irrational preference, but I find that some battles aren’t worth fighting.
I have also found that other neurodivergent people often have strong opinions on cutlery, which has been a wee source of solidarity. I think that, in addition to the concrete reality of people’s preferences, there’s a reinforcing cycle where once a cultural thing becomes associated with a particular group, there will be in-group jokes made about that association, which reinforces the link. That is to say that the relevance of this meme somewhat transcends the reality of the relative frequency of neurodivergent people having strong opinions on cutlery
- Comment on This is how we do it 2 weeks ago:
I like to think that data doesn’t hate theory, it just has highly particular tastes. Like this lil octopus guy in a plastic cup, who spends a while rejecting shells before finding one it’s happy to abandon its cup for. youtu.be/DTJbdy097m0
Imagining the data as a cute octopus helps with the rage when nothing goes right 🙃
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
Not sure where this obsession with air fryers has come from.
It is March…
- Comment on Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles 2 weeks ago:
In that case, there should be a version that’s mixed differently for home viewers. Being able to hear the dialogue is pretty important, and if they’re not willing to make that work, then why do a non-theatrical release at all?
- Comment on True story!! 2 weeks ago:
Bitterns are so silly
- Comment on thicc boie 3 weeks ago:
This is one of my favourite Lemmy communities. I always smile at posts like these (and I often have at least one friend who would enjoy such posts)
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 3 weeks ago:
Neat!
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 3 weeks ago:
Where do you live that you get garage lizards like this?!
- Comment on At last we know all his answers 3 weeks ago:
I respect these choices. Peak chaos shitposting energy
- Comment on How to turn on a light. 3 weeks ago:
One of my favourite silly jokes when I was a teenage emo was “how many emos does it take to change a lightbulb? None, they all sit in the dark crying”. I’ve outgrown much of the crying, but admittedly, I do still spend a lot of time sitting in the dark. I blame the autism.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 3 weeks ago:
I had a girlfriend who had the inverse of your problem — her feet were far too large for shoes aimed at women. She ended up becoming friends with a bunch of drag queens, and finding that the specialist store they got their shoes from was the best place for her
- Comment on "Autism is a modern epidemic" 3 weeks ago:
I find it weird to think about this sometimes, especially the fact that in a different time, I’d have probably been institutionalised, despite modern standards considering me “high functioning” that I got to go to university (where I met many other autistic nerds).
- Comment on How to turn on a light. 3 weeks ago:
I was confused as well at first, but then I realised I need to think real literally: The one on the left is lit up and colourful, because he knows how to turn on a light; the one on the right looks as if he is in the dark (due to not knowing how to turn on the light)
Though you saying you’re “in the dark on this one” does make me wonder whether you did get the joke, and in fact I am missing a joke that you are making.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 weeks ago:
Next they’re going to tell me that bees don’t have hearts
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 4 weeks ago:
Most people I’ve heard from said that it wasn’t nearly as bad as they were expecting, but that this made the overall experience worse, because it wasn’t bad enough to be entertainingly bad. A friend described it as being so mediocre and bland that their head was constantly filled with the question “why was this even made?”. All of the live action adaptations have felt pretty pointless, but this one seems to be steeped in “inexplicable disdain towards the original work”, whilst having nothing new and interesting to say to warrant said disdain.
All this to say that it’s probably not worth your time
- Comment on Anon needs to spend less time on 4chan 4 weeks ago:
“I point out this shameful bit of our town history often…”
People who are “anti-woke” often say stuff like “they’re teaching kids to be ashamed of themselves for what their ancestors did”, and I think they don’t understand how healing and healthy it is to call out shameful parts of history. For me, acknowledging shameful parts of history is how I distance myself from those things, by subtextually saying “this is no longer the case, AND ALSO we intend to keep pushing forward”.
- Comment on i feel called out 5 weeks ago:
Le gasp! Perhaps that is why I have been feeling unresolved all day.
- Comment on i feel called out 5 weeks ago:
A friend calls this “para-productive” work, when it’s in moderation; it’s not directly helpful towards her task, but it’s useful for gearing up and building momentum. If it gets too far into the procrastination side of things, she calls it “psuedo-productive”.
(I asked her whether making up these silly phrases is psuedo-productive, or para-productive. She replied that it was “meta-productive”. 🙄
- Comment on Today's lesson on threading a needle 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 5 weeks ago:
A friend who is (was?) a writer told me that it’s tremendously difficult to find work nowadays as a writer, and so much of what is available is just proof reading and copy editing AI slop. Apparently it’s pretty soul sucking, especially when they’re basically forbidden from doing any significant rewrites or error checking, and they’re expecting to be grateful for the opportunity
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 5 weeks ago:
I have to keep reminding myself of this. I’m in my late 20s and I still slip up when referring to myself sometimes.
