IonAddis
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- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 weeks ago:
I write sff for fun, and I hate running into neat science named something stupid.
You have to keep a balance between reality and the fantastic in scifi, and if I have to use a real but stupid name it doesn’t really give me truth points to spend, and it still uses up my “fantasy” budget even if it’s technically true , because I have to do extra work to make whatever I’m writing attractive to read and believable. Just because something is true doesn’t make it believable. And I’d rather use my fantastic budget on something actually fanciful, not fritter it away on true but poorly named things.
Basically, scientists lose out on a tiny bit of free marketing when they name their thing something stupid.
I wish astronomers in particular would name a star with earth like planets something neat. I would like to use Trappist as a setting…but that name. Bleh.
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- Comment on What's in your pocket? 4 months ago:
That’s how you end up washing your earphones
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- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 7 months ago:
Because it’s very difficult to get things you need to live solely through barter. Many trades are very niche, and an economy that uses money allows those trades to continue being viable parts of society.
Like, think of plumbing. If everything goes well, you don’t need a plumber. But when you do…you really need it. Now imagine being the plumber who wants some bread and eggs but the farmer has no problems currently that needs the plumber’s skills. Plumber can’t eat, leaves profession, there’s now no plumber when the pipes do break.
Obviously, the next thought here might be, “Well, why doesn’t the plumber say if they get eggs and bread now, they’ll come and fix your toilet later if needed?” But that sort of re-invents credit, right? “I’ll trade 3 future plumbing problems for 3 boxes of eggs now.” If you have that, why not money?
So basically, money is very useful. It can be traded for many things you otherwise wouldn’t be able to get if you were only able to offer as barter a specific item that might be rejected by the other person you want to barter with. Money is a “universal” trade good, and it’s also easy to store (you don’t have to have lots of physical room to store your Universal Trade Good).
The BEHAVIOR of people surrounding this very useful thing can absolutely be suspect, depending on the person (greedy sociopaths hoarding wealth)–but that’s a human thing, not because money is innately a bad thing. It’s a social problem, not a technology problem. You could totally have a greedy hoarder storing up a non-money trade item too…see people and toilet paper/sanitizer during Covid.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 8 months ago:
Fred’s absolutely a setup to have Brent Spiner appear as SOMEONE in some episode.
And given Season 3 of Picard, it might even be Data, with his new hybrid with-bits-of-Lore personality.
But it could be a human Soong too, or another Soong-type android (I absolutely hate they call them “synths”, all I hear is Fallout references.)
- Comment on meow_irl 8 months ago:
It’s wondering why you are doing that somewhat odd thing you’re doing. It doesn’t matter what exactly you’re doing, it’s mildly curious and concerned about it whatever it is.
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- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Voice Work Resumes; Tawny Newsome Tells Us About Recording Return 1 year ago:
I’ve never been a huge fan of “adult animation”, or really animation in general. So I had to get over that hill of bias. But once I did, I found I enjoyed this show. Those Old Scientists on Strange New Worlds is actually what made me go back and give Lower Decks a second try.
Anyway, I’m excited to see where season 5 goes. I also kinda want another live-action crossover.
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- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
I’ve seen mindsets like yours coming into book fandom more and more as the years have gone on.
I’m going to say some things from a meta perspective that you might not like. And while I’m making assumptions, and they might even be wrong about you in particular, I think there’s still worth at trying to see my perspective, and trying to understand WHY I am saying what I am saying, and why I’m saying it in response to your post at this particular point in time, even if I’m wildly off base with you as an individual. You’ll probably learn more from doing that than by trying to get into a one-on-one argument with me over details. Like, even if I’m wrong with you–WHY did I choose to say this right now in response to your post? What details in your post made me react in this way?
So, as far as I can tell, looking in from the outside, it looks like takes like yours arise when someone is raised in a religious context, following a holy book of some sort (Bible, Book of Mormon, the Koran–any writing really that is supposed to be your highest moral guide), and then either has not left that religion, but is trying to understand other people’s moralities through the same lens because everyone they personally know forms their morality from the bible or another holy book (so surely everyone else must too? And maybe other people use Star Trek?), or comes from someone who HAS left but hasn’t yet examined old habits left over from that upbringing, and and thus brings them into new spaces, as you seem to be doing here with Star Trek.
Like, I see religious folks, or recently ex-religious folks who have not yet examined their inner drives to get over-involved with the media they consume. They interact with their show the same way they would interact with their church, or with the Bible or another holy book. Even if they claim they are no longer religious, they were still raised in a religious environment which has an effect on habits and thinking esp. re: the topic of morality, and emotionally fandom spaces and fandom drama can feel a lot like church from a socializing and discussion standpoint, so old habits of churchy stuff sometimes seep into fandom.
But not all people interact with stories in this way. In fact, when you look at how people actually interact with media, people often take bits and pieces here and there. They agree with some stuff, disagree or just ignore others, and transform things too. You can truth-check this by looking at your peers in school. How many times did a teacher say something, and someone next to you said it was bullshit? People take in, reject, and transform information all the time. Words are not a total telepathic mind-control, people have agency.
I’m a writer, and it’s fairly common to see a reader interact with what I said and take a totally different insight from what I said, because all of their life experiences are getting tangled up with whatever story I was trying to tell, and that MIXTURE is showing them something new that I might never have realized or thought of. And this is normal–this is how humans interact with fiction.
The idea that a work of fiction has to demonstrate moral things perfectly or else be doomed as irredeemably flawed is really in my opinion more of a religious-brain thing. And no, maybe you didn’t say that directly, but I question the drive behind why you posted this post, listing the things you did. I question your motivations and assumptions. Approaching Trek asking the questions you do doesn’t align with how people actually interact with media in my experience, but it does align with how I’ve seen people utilize religion, and holy books in particular.
I’d encourage you to look up a community college and see if there’s any ethics classes you can take. I had to take an ethics class for the degree I was working on. I didn’t actually want to, as I’m in my 40s and comfortable with my sense of morality–but it ended up being shockingly useful, because it laid out different frameworks in which people can evaluate the morality of something, and the pros and cons of each. It kind of started with the “gut feeling” a lot of people use when they feel more than think, then progressed through religious frameworks, then a few philosophers, and then storytelling frameworks, and basically gave me a lot of different and new tools to evaluate things I hadn’t explicitly had before. It was very useful, much to my own surprise, and I’d recommend the experience to everyone if they go to college.
- Comment on Old pinball machines are amazingly complex 1 year ago:
Ah-ha! Knew there was a reason I was scratching my head over it. Thank you!
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 1 year ago:
For a new watcher, especially a young one, Strange New Worlds is probably the best start. It has a lot of the classic “Trek” philosophy going on, but paired with modern production and special effects, and also paired with more modern treatment of female characters.
I love The Next Generation, that’s “my Trek”, but certain things haven’t aged well.
I’ve been watching Babylon 5 for the first time (didn’t see it when it was actively airing), and while it’s not Trek, it was produced in the same era as TNG, Voyager, etc. and I find myself jarred by certain ways they portray characters, esp. female ones, and that same sort of stuff is present in older Trek too. Like, Crusher and Troi got absolutely cheated when it came to great arcs and such. Strange New Worlds handles its female characters much, much, MUCH better.
- Comment on NYCC: Alex Kurtzman Gives ‘Section 31’ And ‘Academy’ Updates, Teases “Exciting” New Star Trek Projects 1 year ago:
- Section 31 seems to be moving forward - Michelle Yeoh had the chance to move on but I guess she’s putting herself behind the project instead of ditching it, as she conceivably could given how her career is going. It’s called a “movie event” in the article.
- Starfleet Academy is going forward - Tawny Newsome (Mariner from Lower Decks) is on the writing team for that.
- The final season of Discovery is coming out next year, and they were allowed to do some reshoots as it’s the final season.
Personally, I really hope that Saru makes the transition to Starfleet Academy. I love him to bits and Doug Jones could do a ton more with his character if given the chance. I also suspect, due to the way Picard ended, that Brent Spiner’s Data in some form or another might show up as an instructor, maybe as a guest star. I’d actually really like to see a Lore-influenced-Data bringing the snark in a classroom. Data’s earnestness and Lore’s sense of humor especially charming, and we only saw a bit of it at the end of Picard. And I’d love to see Saru and Data interacting.
Pelia is also long-lived enough to show up, and she was an instructor prior to becoming the Enterprise’s Engineer. They’ve already set her up to be replaced by Scotty, so I could see the actress moving to Starfleet Academy, since we already know her time on the Enterprise is limited.
Unrelated to Starfleet Academy, I do notice there’s no word on a post-Picard series starring Seven of Nine–I hope that’s mostly because the strikes disrupted early planning or something.
But they set Picard up perfectly to spawn a new series from that and I’d absolutely LOVE to see Seven of Nine as Captain of her own Starfleet ship, and Jack would make an interesting foil to Wesley as the cocky ensign. I think with the topic of AI being a thing now, and all the loose ends with the Borg and with Data’s offspring (and Data himself), we could actually really use right now a series that talks a lot about AI. I imagine interaction with Jurati-Borg could be an ongoing arc. And Soji could appear and we could get some interaction with Data to tie off that storyline.
- Comment on Old pinball machines are amazingly complex 1 year ago:
Hey, since you’re familiar with pinball machines, I have a question…in his video above, some of the solenoids seemed to have a motorola logo on them.
But I don’t know enough about electronic parts (or replacement parts–or hell, blue tape with a motorola-like logo on them) to know how to interpret it. I was mostly like, “Wait, motorola did solenoids in the 70s? Or are those replacements? Or just branded electrical tape?”
What are your thoughts?
- Comment on Old pinball machines are amazingly complex 1 year ago:
I like all his videos, but I particularly like this one because it kind of feels like the “missing link” between clockwork machines and electronic machines that I didn’t realize I was missing a ton of stuff about.
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- Comment on 1 year ago:
It worked. I’m seeing it on lemmy.world using Firefox. I’m not using any of the special front-ends.
- Comment on Odd crystals appear after Perseverance blows away dust 1 year ago:
Yeah, seems a great channel. Solid info presented in clear words by a guy who is a research scientist on this exact topic.
Mars Guy is Arizona State University associate research professor Dr. Steve Ruff, a Mars geologist with decades of experience exploring the red planet. This channel follows the exploration of Jezero crater by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, presenting science, engineering, and the search for life on Mars using a novel in-person experience.
This project was initiated in part with collaboration from the NASA Infiniscope project.
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- Comment on The $50 Water Turbine -Build Tutorial v1.0 1 year ago:
The guy’s channel revolves around solutions that are super-cheap so that someone handy in a poor country can easily source the materials to build the thing. So I imagine some of his design decisions are based on his knowledge of what materials are locally available to relatively poor people in various places in Africa, or Panema, or Tibet, or wherever.
I was watching another one of his videos, and he was trying to get a bike chain to act as a belt for his wind turbine, and his rationale was that bike chains are easily accessible in poor countries, but he had to fall back on a car drive belt that was cut down and modified because he couldn’t get his first option to work.
- Comment on The $50 Water Turbine -Build Tutorial v1.0 1 year ago:
I would say of all of that, solar is probably the easiest to do for a suburban household. For hydro you’d need land with access to a stream or something, and for wind you might run into local ordinances about noise or the height of the structure or the like, in a suburban area at least.
Speaking of ordinances, given that solar has taken off so much, depending on where you live I have heard you might have to obey local laws about installation of that too?
I am in NO WAY an expert, but as I understand it (assuming I wasn’t misled by my reading), when households are feeding into the electrical grid (instead of just the utility company), an electrical utility worker who is working on something and has turned off power from the power plant coming down their particular line can be surprised/hurt by electricity coming from the residential side of things if it’s feeding into the grid and isn’t supposed to be.
So that’s why areas where solar power on residential homes are regulating solar installs if the electricity from the solar power feeds into the larger grid, so folks working on the lines have a clear idea of what’s being fed into them.
- Comment on The $50 Water Turbine -Build Tutorial v1.0 1 year ago:
I can’t speak for the one in the video–although that inventor is a Scottish guy who seems to work in impoverished areas in Africa, Panema, Tibet, etc. so I presume his design works as he keeps using it–but Kris Harbour (www.youtube.com/@KrisHarbour) is a homesteading guy in the UK who is running his homestead on a combo of solar, water generation, and wind power.
Kris Harbour’s latest video is him installing a waterwheel for a client, although he himself uses a little water turbine on his own property. He has videos of both up.
- Comment on The $50 Water Turbine -Build Tutorial v1.0 1 year ago:
I thought this was super-cool–full build video to make a little water turbine to generate electricity.
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- Comment on How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents? 1 year ago:
So, I’m uncertain if the parent’s behavior (screaming and throwing things w/ the mom) has been like this all the time and OP is finally getting fed up with it, or if it’s really a sudden change.
I’d definitely first consider the advice from others in this thread to check environmental toxins or health stuff with the parents, esp. if the behavior of mom is a sudden change–but if that checks out ok, or if the mom screaming and throwing things has been present OP’s life, it’s not a bad thing to consider this advice above.
How you handle parents who were good (or decent enough) parents when they decline is different from how you handle abusive parents. And this advice here is solid for if OP’s parents are abusive.
I imagine the people downvoting it are people who grew up with stable parents who maybe did descend into (normal) decline and thus are thinking of their own experiences and can’t imagine what it’s like to have genuinely bad parents one’s entire life, or the harsh boundaries one has to set to win yourself free of them.
But OP does need to take context into account (including stuff they might not have put in their story) and evaluate if the screaming/throwing things is actually new, or if it’s always been that way and they’re finally getting fed up enough to want to break free.
- Comment on Can someone explain the boundaries around 'people pleasing'? 1 year ago:
I stepped away and thought of more things–so a response to my own reply, heh.
As for learning where to draw the line…you need to take a pragmatic approach to your own past responses to things. Stop and look at them with clear eyes, pretend you are a scientist analyzing data both good and bad, and don’t cherry-pick your data, look at both sides of what happened…how many of your recent responses go overboard with “fight” in a way that doesn’t give a clear benefit or align with your ethics? (And how many likewise do “fawn”?)
Like, fighting just to fight drives people away so that’s not a benefit as you lose community and support, and fighting with (say) a customer service person you’ll never see again for $2.00 turns you into a Karen and wastes time so that’s not a benefit.
But haggling on the purchase of a house or a car might actually be a financial benefit (so long as you don’t turn it on the underlings and place it where it belongs and don’t go overboard with being mean just to be mean).
So look at your recent responses. How many fight for “bad” reasons that are small or petty or waste your own time, how many fight for “good” reasons?
Likewise, how many of your reactions people-please in ways that help you keep friends you actually want to keep, and how many start to be detrimental to you because people are starting to abuse your new habit of people-pleasing?
To learn where the line in your life is for either response, you need to look at what YOU’VE recently done, and figure out if that’s the person you want to be, if the benefits/detriments make sense.
For example (example pulled out of my ass), if you go out with friends and pay for stuff for everyone SOMETIMES, that is one thing. If you NEVER do it because you’re angry they’re taking advantage of you…well, if you never do it, how could you be paying for everything “all the time”? How could that even be possible? Sure, the anger is there, but is it based in reality? Might be you’re just angry to be angry–and it’s good to look at that. Fact-check emotions against reality to re-calibrate and see what’s going on.
But by the same measure, if you over-correct because you feel bad about being an asshole in the past and you desperately don’t want to be that person…you might be paying for everything all the time…which actually IS unfair to you, and if you examine a situation and find you’ve over-corrected and this is happening, an appropriate balance might be to scale it back. But you want to CHECK and look at your pattern across time to see if that’s going on.
(Patterns across time tell you more than isolating one event out of context.)
You’ll probably find instances where you FEEL one way and want to fight/fawn/(freeze/flee), but to continue to grow you probably need to stop and look at your recent patterns and fact-check your emotions against what really happened.
For me, since learning to “fight” was a part of my journey away from “flee/freeze”, I tend to reserve “fighting” for situations where either A) I’ll get genuinely financially fucked if I don’t (not just a dollar here or there, but something that’ll affect food/rent/real-life survival stuff), or B) I’m interacting with a community and there’s toxic folks coming in. Sometimes a community with toxic people simply need someone to stand up and call it out to counter the bystander effect, then people will rally behind you.
Also, a note: When you draw a boundary, even if it’s a very rational and reasonable one, it is not uncommon for SOMEONE to get upset by it. This is not the same as everyone getting mad at you because you’re constantly an asshole. Again, the proof is in the pattern…if no matter what you do people seem constantly angry at you, that’s probably you. But if that reaction to you has stopped, but a few people get upset if you actively set a boundary on something–that’s human nature. There are OTHER people out there who definitely want to take advantage of everyone around them, and that’s sometimes you, so if you set any sort of boundary at all no matter how rational that’ll still be “too much” for them.
That’s not necessarily a sign that you’ve “back slid”, it’s just that 20-30% of people are shitty people no matter what.