AnarchistArtificer
@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
- Comment on True story!! 13 hours ago:
Bitterns are so silly
- Comment on thicc boie 23 hours 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. 23 hours ago:
Neat!
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 1 day ago:
Where do you live that you get garage lizards like this?!
- Comment on At last we know all his answers 1 day ago:
I respect these choices. Peak chaos shitposting energy
- Comment on How to turn on a light. 3 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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. 6 days ago:
Next they’re going to tell me that bees don’t have hearts
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 1 week 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Le gasp! Perhaps that is why I have been feeling unresolved all day.
- Comment on i feel called out 2 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 2 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. 2 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.
- Comment on Unstable 3 weeks ago:
Benzene is OP and I love that for it
- Comment on He's just eccentric 4 weeks ago:
There are quite a few misconceptions in this comment. For example, “Well I guess everyone’s a little on the spectrum.” is a comment that frustrates many autistic people because it misunderstands what the “spectrum” in ASD means, and is usually said in a way that diminishes the lived reality of autistic people. I realise that you weren’t making that statement, merely pointing to the existence of people who make this argument. Nonetheless, I want to emphasise that this sentiment is not representative of autism.
I do think that with the increasing awareness of autism in the popular consciousness, there is a risk that our understanding of autism may be hampered by stereotypes. I have seen diagnosed autistic people feeling like their struggles were invalid because they didn’t nearly fit into the popular conception of what an autistic person looks like. I believe that autism is probably still a useful category, in terms of helping people find the support they need to live fulfilling lives, but that we need to be mindful of how category labels can cause harm if misunderstood or misapplied.
- Comment on Quarter of Gen Zs consider quitting work as young Brits cite mental health as key reason to go unemployed 5 weeks ago:
I had a friend who spent a long while out of work in their 20’s because they had a mental breakdown and quit a well paying job. They later told me that it was less a choice to quit, and more the knowledge that if they continued there, they’d end up killing themselves. They knew that being unemployed would likely be just as torturous for their mental health, but it would at least be different.
This is all to say that I reckon that for many, choosing to be unemployed is probably an irrational choice, but when you’re not doing well mental health wise, you’re not necessarily going to be able to make rational choices.
I think you’re right that everything being fucked at the moment is probably a key driving force here, and it’s why I worry that even throwing a heckton of money at mental health services wouldn’t be enough. It’s also why Reform are doing so well in the polls — people are desperate for something other than the same old stuff that we have seen from both the Tories and Labour, and Reform are the only ones offering something different. It’s a shame that the “something different” that Reform is offering is nothing but a scapegoat painted to look like a real alternative
- Comment on Quarter of Gen Zs consider quitting work as young Brits cite mental health as key reason to go unemployed 5 weeks ago:
“think about making some of the standard drugs in this country to improve supply.”
A friend was telling me earlier about the various logistical tricks that Lidl and Aldi use to reduce prices. For example, because they primarily stock own-brand products, this reduces the number of different variants/brands per product they have to source, which means they buy larger amounts from fewer suppliers. This means they can negotiate with the supplier to get them to package the product so that packaging has super prominent barcodes for easy scanning, and the boxes can go straight from a pallet onto the shelf, reducing labour. In short, by doing stuff in bulk, they have more negotiating power.
i think your point about stabilising drug supply is an example of the kind of thing the NHS could do to leverage its enormous purchasing power. I know that one of my medications is quite expensive for the NHS, but also quite widely prescribed, for example.
- Comment on WWYD 5 weeks ago:
I agree, it’s one of my favourite internet things.
You may already be aware of this, but on the off chance that you’re not, here’s a cool thing: neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/
- Comment on got any others? 1 month ago:
France have made this law, I think. More countries should follow their example
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 1 month ago:
I’m unskilled at economics, so I may well be missing something, but this explanation doesn’t sit well with me. I think it’s because I’m not sure how well Marxian economics applies to the current conditions; As part of a university scholarship, I had to do an internship somewhere exceedingly corporate, and I was aghast at how there were entire divisions whose functions seemed to produce nothing of real value, just more metrics and dashboards and spreadsheets. I imagine people more learned than I have applied Marxian economics to problems like that, but trying to reconcile that situation with any notion of “value” makes my head hurt.
To be clear, I’m a big fan of Marx, even if I haven’t the patience for parsing economics definitions.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 1 month ago:
“Discord just last week shut down a server that was my main local friend group, and we had to scramble to reconstitute it.”
Damn, that sucks. How big was the server? Do you know why it was shut down?
- Comment on no ragrets 1 month ago:
Yeah, respect to the dude
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
I think it certainly helps with flavour if nothing else, but I don’t think the extra degree or so in temperature would make much difference.
Though saying that, I’m now wondering to what extent rice cooking would be affected by high altitudes — I had a friend who lived somewhere high altitude in South America for a while, and she said that the low atmospheric pressure meant cooking certain foods was difficult because the water boiled at a lower temperature (I wish I could remember more specifics)
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
That seems wrong to me. Adding salt doesn’t increase the boiling temperature much
- Comment on I don't have to worry about saying the wrong thing when I'm alone in the basement. 1 month ago:
I hope that some day, you’re able to be a part of a community where it feels safe to be maximally weird
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 1 month ago:
I am both of the people in this image.
