netvor

@netvor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is this???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not the center, though. this is the center:

  Image

  (and it kind of looks like a newt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m no expert in global politics so take this with a grain of salt but i would not say trusting US was a “mistake”. there are tons(*) of trustworthy Americans out there. and every alliance always comes with some amount of risk but it’s just how we humans work.

  (* - yes I mean tons, plural, I’m pretty sure it’s at least few tons :D)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget that there are people who love simplifying regulations. (And they even have significant influence nowadays in the EU. 😞 )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but while we’re at it, I’d be interested in this related observation:

  in cases like when i reeeally need to go, my ability to guess when exactly i will be at the right spot seems to affect my ability to hold it in. as if my body is only going to do as much effort holding it in as necessary but not more, while the idea of “necessary” can be “negotiated” by lying to my body.

  imaginge this typical scenario: you sit in the tram, legs crossed, then you are running home, now you are opening front door, now you are quickly running to the bathroom and just about make it. doesn’t it always feel like you just about made it? like there’s never a reserve?

  now if one extra inconvenience stands in your way (eg. oh, turns out today for some reason you put your keys in your backpack instead of your front pocket!) then it becomes this critical moment of disagreement between your body and your brain: you can either just pee yourself or hit the emergency break to override and hold it in anyway which makes it almost painful and may even sort of “push it back”, which i reckon is not a healthy thing to do.

  at the same time, i’ve learned that I can actually prevent this from happening by “lying” to my brain early on and overestimating the exact time it will take before we are ready. like, i imagine my house is one block further. or I imagine that there’s construction and we need to take a slightly longer route. or that i have my keys in a wallet on the bottom of my backpack.

  this lie tends to work, surprisingly, calming the whole reaction down and (unless there actually happens to be construction or another inconvenience that negates it) make the whole thing much more manageable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m not an expert but I don’t think that the panic response invalidates it. it could still be advantageous to refrain from doing 1 or 2 all over the place just to not make it easier for predator to detect you, i guess. When in fight/flight mode it’s already too late so better get rid of the weight and also probably disgust or confuse the predator a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we’re talking about [Cortex][co] podcast

  [co] www.relay.fm/cortex

  I don’t know about Metafilter but on cursory search, it seems unrelated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (I’m in the middle of #22, “16-hour Search for Wallpaper” now.)

  I tried not to let he end of HI sour it for me and I think I’m still holding up. After all, it’s not unlike Grey to quit like this, in “rip the band-aid off” way, and as Tim although I don’t completely resonate with it, I do feel like Grey has been transparent about this aspect of his personality, it’s also common topic of discussion on HI. Also I vaguely recall Grey mentioning something about some sort of immunity problem with someone in his close vicinity (his wife, I assume) which made me realize that the COVID time was indeed very different for different people; we don’t know what he was going through. (I’m trying not to speculate here.)

  Also ironically, in a “selfish” sense, the end came in handy, because just before few of the last episodes, I gathered the confidence to file the whole podcast on MusicBrainz, thinking that adding new episodes is going to be a long-term commitment that I’m going to eventually fall back on. Little did I know that I only had to add one or two more episodes. Also my safety blanket has a finite size now there’s no question about waiting for the next episode, it’s just 136 -> 1 :D

  Anyway, I don’t mind in the end. Grey is just being Grey. It’s OK to fall in and out (and maybe back in again) of favor. After all it’s not a real relationship. Many of his ideas have influenced me greatly in my life philosophy (often on the basis that I had similar feelings about things, just never words to describe them), some of them I had to revise and abandon, but many still hold, and that’s good.

  Anyway, nice chat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a huge Tim (as in Hello Internet listener) and always thought I would want to listen to Cortex but never got around, there was always this little fear of what if I did not like it and it would spoil my perfect parasocial relationship with Grey :D So I ended up just re-listening Hello Internet over and over. (Re-listening HI is kind of my safety blanket now :D)

  Ironically, I was not aware about Grey leaving and I only noticed Cortex again because of Technology Connections and Simone Giertz interviews, which were obvious “must listen” for me (and they were great!), but it’s not enough for long term sub.

  I’ll check out Upgrade and Connected though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a podcast called Upgrade where

  OT, but is Myke just doing podcast 24/7/365?

  (I only knew about Cortex, now I clicked around the site and looks like he has … well, let’s just say he has a lot of podcast.)

  Great episode, thanks for the link… (Listening to it right now…)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Socrates is one of the most well know ln philosophers of all time and there isn’t any proof he ever lived.

  when is the fact about the level of certainty we have about Socrates’s existence relevant, though? it depends.

  • if someone just mentions some specific idea that is often attributed to Socrates, then it’s probably totally irrelevant and you would be just "well, actually"ing someone. (which will backfire esp. if they actually know that full well and can/will stand for themselves)

  • if someone is defending a specific idea using an argument from authority of Socrates himself, then it’s probably pretty relevant. at best it’s an invitation to skip a bad argument path and take the focus back to the potential merit of the idea itself. (ofc this is regardless of whether you like that idea or not, learning what the other person perceive as valuable about the idea is usually more interesting than who they think came up with it)

  • if someone does the same but based on moral authority, then it’s the same principle, but probably much more important

  • if someone creates religion based on teachings of Socrates, then it’s pretty much important (although often seemingly ineffective, and in some cases, risky)

  • If someone starts asking questions about Socrates as a historical person (and heck, even questions specifcally about history of Socrates’ state of mind–see title of this whole post), then it’s obviously the most important thing they need to learn before continuing their research or pondering.

  The last point bullet point describes what @Phoenixz did here, in the beginning of this sub-thread. (Just for Jesus Christ, not Socrates, of course.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, I didn’t read your post and made basically the exact same argument.

  at least I’m happy I’m not wasting my time on social media alone 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  plumbers exist, so do people named starting with M or J. so do people who walk around and yap about end of the world and/or resurrection. and even people who listen to them.

  however…

  plumbers that can jump 5 times their own height? people named with M that grow 2x when they eat a mushroom? people that turn water into wine? that’s a completely different story.

  sentence like “Jesus did not exist” always need to be interpreted in context. when someone says it in context of religion or adjacent, and you respond by “but people called Jesus existed” then you’re just being obtuse.

  or rather, playing Motte and Bailey: f…ing OF COURSE you can defend the that Bob—different one than in the story, in particular, a tigerless Bob—exists, but that’s not what is being disputed. what’s being disputed is the existence of Bob with the tiger, and the motivation is to challenge the whole story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is if Bob tells me (your name) has a flying tiger, and I later find out you don’t have a flying tiger… you no longer exists?

  They did not say someone named Jesus did not exist.

  There’s a difference between believing “Joe who had a tiger and a bear and an elephant”, and assuming that there might have been 3 different Joe’s, one with a tiger, one with a bear and one with an elephant, each of them in a different period. Saying “Joe with 3 animals did not exist” does not imply that those Joe’s did not exist.

  I’m not a historian but what I’ve heard (must have been on Alex O’Connor’s podcast) is that even some of the possible historical Jesuses (or “Jesusi” :D) had things going on that were not compatible with what the biblical Jesus was all about. (Such as being cult leader proclaiming that world will end in few years.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i … i don’t know how i left you with the impression that i can’t tell poo from pee. … i must have done something horribly wrong. 🤣

  Actually I think for pretty much all mammals it’s as easy as telling liquid the difference between liquid and solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I got that message. it really shows the hypocrisy, and it makes me wanna scream.

  I wonder if a far away vision of a world where the gender just slowly disappears from the language is really the best. (When i get asked about preferred pronoun, i feel i want to answer “i don’t care and no one should, let’s collectively try to really not give a f*k”.) I feel like in the ideal world all pronouns would just be gender-neutral.

  But language vs. gender is yet another fascinating rabbit hole. My first language is Czech, where basically every word – even unanimous and abstract concepts like “book” have gender, and the grammar is such that effect of word “gender” spreads to other words as inflections and such. Eg. “ona spala” ~ “she slept” vs. “on spal” ~ “he slept” but “ona spal” is an obvious grammar mistake. I wonder if this makes it worse or actually better: while it makes it harder to have a gender-neutral language (the plural trick does not work: “ony spaly” ~ “they (females) slept”, “oni spali” ~ “they (males) slept” … siiigh…), I also feel it could make it less problematic in the sense that the concept of gender in language is not actually tied to identity of a person–it’s just a weird thing present in the language.

  Of course, none of that applies to intentional misgendering, which is just being a huge asshole, with little to no excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  unless you see them pee

  You mean see/not see the “pebbles”?

  Or do they tend to pee differently? I know dogs typically pee by raising one leg, but sometimes they just crouch by both back legs and just release. Is this what you mean?

  I vaguely recall when I was a teen we had a dog (he/him, and a mutt) and he would usually do the “this lamp post is mine now” pee but when he really needed to go he would just crouch and leave a big puddle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s probably misgendering to assume its gender at all and that the concept of gender applies to dogs

  Is that true, though? How would we know? Just by Occam’s razor, I would find it safer assume it applies to all mammals, ie. why would humans specifically be different, or if there is a spectrum across species, where/how would we draw the line?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (As a trans person, I have more to say on how easily people pronoun switch for animals but that’s a different topic for another time)

  It is different topic, although I’d love to hear more about that as well. Eg. as a cis male with no transgender friends (well, not that I know of), I find myself thinking ruminating about how impolite/distracting it is to misgender a trans person, provided one can just switch after being corrected and move on… How bad it is to make the (honest) mistake repeatedly? How is it compared to other kinds of faux-pas, like, messing up someone’s name? (Eg. repeatedly calling someone John when they are Joe, or forgetting someone’s occupation. These things do happen to my distractable mind that seems to love lossy data compression.)

  But yeah, it’s a huge, fascinating topic, but a different one from my intention in the OP. :)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hop on a donkey, slap its ass, get lost in a forest, get eaten by a bear.

  eeeazeeeee…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc slack did it and I’m sure github issues and gitlab too. but usually you don’t have control of the order, IIRC with slack it was in the urder you added them but once more people added same reactions then it would sort them in order most to fewest.

  i was kinda thinking about one of those parts of unicode where characters can be combined … that’s common for some scripts but i vaguely recall that i saw a mention somewhere that something like that exists also for emojis (in the unicode) …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i admit I already kinda seen all of those as “evening plans”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  are these double-emojis a thing? or you mean those apps that let you add multiple reactions (sadly signal does not seem to allow that, neither telegram and those are the only 2 i really use i guess)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🙋‍♂️ too

  i mean, that’s a greeting, right? :D

  (or “i want ice-cream too, please”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean if it was something like flight reservation etc. then screenshot would be definitely in place.

  this is something we do literally 2 times a week (and plan to do so until we’re able to go to the gym :D) though, and it’s pretty low stakes.

  i’m not looking for something that just works in that kind of context. (and in general, actually it’s not like i’m on lemmy looking to resolve things with my pal :D)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i get to be confused by colors

  on second thought, i’m 45, old enough to be vaguely aware of ye olde internet culture (i was in uni back then so i saw them baby neckbeards but sadly did not have the good taste & judgment to hang out with them and decided to ruin my brain with beer and weed instead) … at this age we should start getting used to various vision issues :D 🧓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  should be white on blue, but it’s showing as white on orange

  my redshift kicks in at 7 pm and sometimes i don’t realize and i get to be confused by colors. (probably nothing to do with the orange thing though, although i do have experience that my brain can imagine colors)

  just sayin’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🤌well said, great post, stuff like that

  is that what the stereotypical Italian hand thing means? i thought it was something rather negative or neutral but never asked…