AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the wide variety of ace experiences super interesting. For my part, I’m bi and also demisexual (and I have been working hard at practicing not ace-erasing myself).

  An example of the interesting variety I mean is how libido and attraction aren’t necessarily coupled, and also that even besides those factors, there’s a spectrum of ace attitudes towards sex. I had a friend who had a high libido, but was also quite sex-repulsed. That is to say that she masturbated plenty, but had no inclination towards sex. This caused some tension when she entered into a romantic relationship with an allosexual woman who had some difficulty understanding an ace person being both sex repulsed and high libido (though tbf, my friend was learning how to navigate the line between enjoyable cuddles and unpleasantly sexual stuff. She also tried to fit into the model of aceness similar to what you describe, but she found that her discomfort with sex was such that it made her feel less close to her partner (in contrast to how our sex-ambivalent ace friends had described their experiences).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica Is Coming To Android/iOS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The early-mid game is one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time. It’s usually the most part of a survival/crafting game, but I was surprised by how well Subnautica was peppered intrigue.

  As you and many others on this thread have said though, a mobile port seems odd. Even if the UI were reworked, I can’t imagine that players would be able to feel the same sense of awe that I associate with the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal battle was a civil suit, based more on the violations of Kate Wilson’s human rights, than on the legality of actions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Markov Babble” would make a great band name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the little guys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I didn’t expect to get a soundtrack accompaniment to my science meme. I really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing it with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This image saved my life once: [image] (slrpnk.net/…/89e6fccc-0aea-4791-8f53-27a24ef51fe5…)

  Image description: Roughly written graffiti on a wall that says “I’m fucking fed up and tired and I want to die but living is the most punk shit I’ve ever fucking done”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with the “complaining about young people” line having coolness increase proportionally with age: when I was a young adult, I often joked about kids these days in a way that seemed to get a lot of laughs. The humour was in the fact that I was a young person talking about young people as if I wasn’t one of them (and beneath that was me making light of the text that, likely due to being autistic, I have always felt isolated from my peer group).

  Anyway, I got good at leveraging this for humour, but as I aged, the joke potential expired: I was too old for there to be any irony in saying “kids these days”, but not old enough for it to be cool to complain about young people.

  On the bright side, I am sufficiently old to be able to torment young people by misusing their slang. It’s most likely effective if you use the slang in a mostly right way, so I enjoy the challenge of needing to actually understand correct usage of new slang. Amusingly, studying current slang as an outsider is a skill I’m well versed in, given that I had to do this even when I was young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing about labels is that their usage depends on the particular context at time of use. I have a friend who is non binary, for example, but finds herself weary of explaining how someone can be femme presenting, use she/her pronouns, and be non binary. This means that when talking to people who aren’t LGBTQ, she finds “lesbian” is the most effective label to communicate, even though it’s a label she has largely outgrown the truth of. For some people, how they engage with identity labels is quite straightforward, and they present the same labels out to the entire world. For other people, more nuance is needed, and that’s okay too.

  That is to say that if you read the above comment and thought “bi but with a type sounds like me, but I don’t want to call myself bi”, that’s fine. Labels like “bi” can help make oneself be more legible to the world at large, but you do not owe the world that. You are allowed to have complexity that doesn’t neatly fit into simple labels, and even if you did strongly identify with a label, you’re not obligated to divulge this freely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Always forget the name when I want to remember it. "

  Is that a problem you run into regularly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trophic Cascade would be a cool band namr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tender moments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water is so cool. I like how the hydrophobic effects drives protein folding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure where this obsession with air fryers has come from.

  It is March…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitterns are so silly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thicc boie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you live that you get garage lizards like this?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At last we know all his answers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I respect these choices. Peak chaos shitposting energy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn on a light.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.