AnarchistArtificer
@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Why is head hair different from other hairy parts? 6 days ago:
Also, fun fact, public lice and head lice are separate species. Head lice can’t survive on pubic hair and vice versa.
- Comment on Why is head hair different from other hairy parts? 6 days ago:
I think there’s even more questions that spring forth from this also. Like, it’s not just head hair Vs pubes, but also the soft downy hair on arms or women’s faces. Moles that have hair coming out of them, they’re weird too. And I’d love to know why my toe knuckles have been getting hairier with age.
- Comment on Anon seeks enlightenment 1 week ago:
The monk pulls out a gun and points it at the hot dog vendor.
The hot dog vendor exclaims “Whoa, whoa, whoa, I thought you guys were all about inner peace and stuff?”
The monk replies “this is my inner piece”
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 1 week ago:
Those are some great stories, thanks for sharing. Imagining him coming out and saying hi made me smile
- Comment on Wave Particle Duality 2 weeks ago:
I have a friend whose research requires a thorough understanding of quantum mechanics. She told me that she feels like she understands quantum mechanics, until she stops and thinks about it in a way that isn’t limited to the equations and data that she’s used to manipulating. Then, it blows her mind so much that she feels like she has to sort of “reboot” her brain and tell herself “it’s okay, just don’t think about it too much bro”. I find this hilarious, and quite relatable (even though I know relatively little of quantum mechanics)
- Comment on Our bffs 2 weeks ago:
As a biochemist who is better at stats than the average biochemist (which is concerning, because I’m not that great), I greatly appreciate statisticians telling us off when we’re fools.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
I’m annoyed that smartphones are so much more powerful nowadays but they don’t especially feel like it. It’s like the average bloat level of websites and software increased alongside processor speed, so actual improvements are barely noticeable.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
I’d like for there to be phones with keyboards available for the people who want them though, even if I personally share your opinion. I feel like the overall array of smartphones are all very bland and samey, and I wish that the people with weird, idiosyncratic preferences could live their best life.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
I miss my notification LED. My first android phone was a Nexus 6, and I loved that big old thing. I rooted it and made it link up to my medication tracker so it would be a different colour when I had taken medication Vs when I was due (alarms work for medication you take on a schedule, but less so for PRN meds like painkillers)
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 2 weeks ago:
That’s great, I love it.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s more about what we mean by “failure”. That probably sounds silly so I’ll lean into the coffee shop example. Imagine if a coffee shop was successful, but then something beyond the control of the owner happened to make it no longer profitable. In this world, the business may have failed, but it may not be accurate to say the business owner has failed. Or maybe the business becoming less profitable is directly because of the owner, who may be taking less time being active in managing things, perhaps because of other things in their life taking their attention. Again, there’s a sense in which they’re a failure here, but in practice, it may just be that their life circumstances and priorities have changed. It might be failure with respect to the coffee shop, but I don’t think that’s failure with respect to their life. Even if the reason the coffee shop shut was because they didn’t anticipate how stressful it would be and they regret ever attempting this endeavour, I think that considering this a failure risks not acknowledging the growth and learning involved.
I liked the marriage example because I used to be engaged to someone who I spent the first chunk of my adult life with. We broke up because we had grown into people who were no longer compatible, and it was a moderately messy breakup because we didn’t want to acknowledge that fact. I think that in this, and many other relationships I’ve seen, people’s aversion to “failure” causes them to stick it out for far too long in bad relationships, which ironically leads to messier breakups and a situation which is much more clearly a failure.
I think the big problem that OP attempts to highlight is an overly binary view of success. Like with the coffee shop thing, I posed personal and commercial as two different axes of success, and I think there could be more. It encourages us to attempt to gauge the “objective” value of things that are incompatible with that kind of quantification — the bit of your comment about longer lasting friendships is something I actively disagree with you on. Some of my most cherished friendships are ones that belong to the past and it wasn’t because of lack of importance why they stopped because active: most of the time, it was just that we had become different people, in different circumstances, such that our lives were no longer compatible. There is still great love and care that exists between us, but as active friends, things have changed. In a way, these friendships feel like they were actively successful, because of how instrumental they were in helping me grow to the person I am now. I don’t think failure is a useful lens to view outgrowing something
- Comment on Beansitive 3 weeks ago:
I used to do tutoring when I was in school and this pun was actually great for helping students remember. They all hated it, and that’s why they remembered it.
(Cat-ions are paw-sitive)
- Comment on Academic job talks 3 weeks ago:
I guess that’s what the people who are suing are alleging. Like if we imagine they did severely fuck up, and it led to a defendant losing the case, then suing is probably the only way you’d be able to get formal acknowledgement of that fuck up.
I think it sucks from that angle too, because as someone who has had to litigate against an organisation, it really sucks to have to do, especially when you know you’re in the right.
- Comment on what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ? 3 weeks ago:
Something I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is that a good chunk of the beef isn’t necessarily caused by old age pensioners themselves, but the perception that they are the demographic who the Conservative government (and by extension, Labour, who seem to have lost all originality and soul of their own) are attempting to court.
Others have highlighted part of why this perception exists, such as the triple lock pensions, or the fact that older people are more likely to own property, but also there’s a heck ton of Tory policies that are harmful to many older people too. I think that most of the Tory pals are probably older, but also that they’re a small fraction of the whole demographic.
My opinion is that this perception that the Tories favour pensioners is greater than the degree to which they actually do. I don’t have any sources for that though, this part is vibes based speculation from a UK leftist.
- Comment on Blanket physics is harder to understand than Calabi-Yau Manifolds 4 weeks ago:
My brother once got so tangled in a duvet cover, we had to cut him free.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 4 weeks ago:
My friend died before he was able to get a vaccine dose. He was young and fit and healthy, enough so that his death was covered in a local newspaper. He’d have probably have gotten his first vaccine dose if we’d caught COVID a couple weeks later, and that might have been enough to save him. I’ll never know, and maybe he’d have still died, but I’ll always resent people who have/had the choice to be vaccinated but choose not to.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
Your point about matching enthusiasm resonates with me. I am fortunate nowadays that many of my friends are neurodivergent, and we seem to enjoy each others’ enthusiasm. We have some shared interests, but I think in a context where I can just listen and learn and not necessarily be expected to be a part of a “regular conversation” (i.e. when the primary mode of conversation is neurodivergent), I really enjoy listening to my friends nerd out about things outside of my own interest, as well as sometimes explaining my things to other people.
Outside of that framework though, before I had my current friends, I often felt like it was a smarter social strategy to just not talk about my interests at all because tempering my enthusiasm was difficult and seemed to never been enough.
- Comment on Uncle brian... I get you now 5 weeks ago:
Auntie Dawn, I realise you’re probably more like me than I realised. Especially because my family probably call me a bitch who’s ashamed of her working class background now too.
- Comment on E A Rth! E A Rth! 5 weeks ago:
Man, now I want to play Kerbal Space Program again!
- Comment on Games for Windows Live 1 month ago:
I think people who are bored with the game are just playing it wrong. Imo, if we take into account the potential for user created cosmetic skins, it’s better viewed as a kind of creative sandbox. I’m running a stars and squares theme at the moment that looks so good, but I’ve rarely seen anyone else use them.
I feel like comments like this are completely missing the point of the game — the metagame is what turned so many players away, and that’s probably for the best, because we want people who are in it for the love of the game, not just winning. It’s why reskins are great, because it forces me to view the game in a whole new light without having to sacrifice any of the core gameplay that I love.
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- Comment on The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards 1 month ago:
Yeah, it took me a moment to get it, but then I was like “oh, neat! That’s very clever”
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
What’s one of the small pleasures that brighten your world?
- Comment on Due to Falling Enrollments, We Will No Longer Offer Courses in Romulan at Starfleet Academy 1 month ago:
Oh man, as someone who’s been interfacing with a lot of university bureaucracy lately, this is so on point it hurts. I feel like you could get a press release from my university and swap in some Star Trek words and it’d be a similar vibe.
- Comment on Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state, ministers will say 1 month ago:
My impression is that the UK has very little “in house” IT skill. A lot of UK digital infrastructure is pretty shoddy because of a longstanding over reliance on external contracting combined with a lack of a decent technical core within the civil service. It feeds into a cycle where fixing things would be too expensive, even though maintaining broken and old stuff is expensive and difficult even without crises like these. It’s a mess.
- Comment on Imagine this in your mouth. 1 month ago:
Internet history journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/13548565231208569#bibr…
- Comment on Lay them on me 1 month ago:
One that I like that is also a curse rather than an insult is “I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are”
- Comment on legs to die for 1 month ago:
That’s a great joke. The millipede’s enthusiasm is oddly endearing
- Comment on legs to die for 1 month ago:
This sentence took me multiple attempts to parse.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
I think you’re right that only a tiny minority are directly responsible for the negative interactions, but as someone within academic science, there’s also a much larger chunk of people who don’t challenge the assholes or the systemic fuckery when they see it.
Minorities who face oppression are much more likely to be ignored if they report inappropriate or offensive behaviour; I directly know people who have been made to feel like they are the problem for highlighting a problem. This is especially common if it’s an established and respected academic who makes the iffy comments, because there’s a tendency to them like a senile grandparent at Christmas. If they’re a professor emeritus, there’s a sense of them not really being relevant anymore, even if they’re still respected, but it can feel tremendously isolating to see no-one step in to challenge the comments, either at an individual or institutional level.
It’s understandable to not want to rock the boat, but abstaining is easier for some than others.
- Comment on When a cave has better wifi than I do 1 month ago:
This is a useful perspective. I think things like sluggish internet can happen gradually and lead many people to become increasingly frustrated with their speeds, but also treating it like it’s normal. But as you say, it need not be this rubbish