ApathyTree
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- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 1 day ago:
Thanks :) I see other countries and how they accommodate people who can’t or won’t or don’t want to drive, and I seriously die a bit inside because solarpunk could be everywhere, it could have, and should have, been here! And instead it’s only places I can never live (too disabled and/or unskilled to emigrate) with the places I can live being wildly opposed to making life even the slightest bit better.
At the same time, I’m genuinely thrilled that that’s a thing at least somewhere. Jealousy notwithstanding, I’m intensely happy for areas that aren’t actively hostile to non-car transit. It all has to start somewhere to prove it works. Trickle-down solarpunk :p
- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 1 day ago:
My local thrift shops are packed with books for stupid cheap. A wide variety, too.
Maybe try that and have a happy medium? Not buying something new, but saving something from a landfill.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 1 day ago:
Oh yeah no I’ve been in that camp for a long while. I’m actively furious that my state had an approved plan for high speed rail like 15 years ago connecting all the major cities in the area, and connecting to the national line. And then some asshole republican came in and scrapped it even though it was already fully funded and ready to go.
It would be active right now if that hadn’t happened. Instead I have to drive 2.5 hrs to see my friend, 2 hours to go to my specialist doctor, and the same 2 hours in the opposite direction to get to the national line. All of those trips were supposed to be under 45 min on the train.
So so fucking salty about it. I fucking hate driving. I hate having to pay to maintain a vehicle. I hate that car infrastructure means walking is almost impossible. I’d love to ride a bike or bus locally, but the infrastructure doesn’t sufficiently exist for either to be practical in my area (I’m not riding my bike on the road. People here would actively try to kill me.)
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 2 days ago:
There are probably more people moving unhindered through this short video than you see in an average traffic jam photo.
- Comment on Heavy is the head that wears the frown 3 days ago:
So you’re saying I’m the snail…
- Comment on True 3 days ago:
Try using a middleman, like Rumpelstiltskin.
Your debtors don’t want first born, because that just increases their obligations, but someone will give you a fair market trade for them that you can use as payment, or service in lieu of payment!
- Comment on I was gonna stop cornposting but then I saw this 3 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Corn
I’m very very amused that this is called “field of corn”. I mean of course it is, but that’s just very dryly funny to me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 days ago:
I have aphantasia as well but I do actually have something sort of like a memory palace… kinda. It should be completely useless when I’m awake, but isn’t. I have a dream town, and every place I’ve dreamed about more than three times in the last ~20 years is there in a surprisingly consistent and exceptionally vivid way, like logging into a mmorpg, but spawning in random places. If not for it being easily recognizable as “my town”, I’d struggle to tell it from waking reality because that’s the only other time I experience “sight”. It’s genuinely unsettling sometimes, when my brain makes a new place, to not know if I was dreaming. Maybe that’s why I revisit places until they feel comfortable and familiar and get incorporated into the town.
I say it isn’t completely useless because I use spacial memory to “go places” when awake. I can’t see it, but I know what’s there if I go there, the same way I can mentally count the windows, and know what’s around them, in my house without visually touring the house; I think about where I go to open windows on a nice day, and count the stops.
I can’t put things into the town purposely. Locations or objects, unfortunately. Everything has to already be there if I want to make use of it. But if I can find a useful thing on my spacial tour, I can make note of where I found it, or move it to somewhere more useful. Like the finding the windows exercise, but, to continue your example, I happen to recall that next to window 3 is a Christmas cactus with pink heart-shaped flower buds, and I choose to ”move it” it to the 7th window of my tour. (And yes, if I make note that I’ve moved something, it does stay there when I dream, so that’s really neat)
Genuinely not that useful for things people probably normally use a memory palace sort of thing for, like short-term memories, (finding useful objects is difficult, and sometimes requires a lot of in-dream exploring, which takes actual time) but somewhat useful for certain long-term things, like numbers or recipes. And as a bonus, when I forget something, I’ll often stumble across it in my town and be reminded. Like the recipe for my mom’s cheesecake is the literal ingredients just sitting on the counter in the pocket floor she lives in (she’s a nightmare I had often enough to join the town’s residents, but I shoved her in an impossible floor so I can avoid her). I put that recipe there because I like to modify it, and I often forget what the base recipe is. It’s not written down in the normal sense because I’ll lose it, but it’s simple enough for a representation like that to be easy to hold onto.
But I’ve had similar frustrating experiences with people telling me to visualize things for whatever reason. Like nope, my internal computer is GUI-free. Text output only, with a screen reader. Not even multiple voices, which I hear is a thing most people can do, just the one default reader voice.
On the subject of not being able to visualize people, if there’s someone you haven’t seen in a long time, do you falsely match other people up with the description? For example, my mom died when I was 23, and I’m almost 40 now. It’s been so long that I genuinely don’t remember what she looks like unless I’m looking at a photo. But I know her general description, and when I see other women who fit the description I -feel- that they look just like her even though they usually don’t, actually.
- Comment on At this point it might be the wisest decision 5 days ago:
Brian?
- Comment on Snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 1 week ago:
Took a really long time after “nevermore” to learn more words, but I’m pumped it happened anyway!
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 1 week ago:
Is it weird that I have no memory of what tableware we used? Most of my childhood is missing from my memory actually.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great idea! There’s actually a couple places I can think of that might be interested.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely regret all my cacti. I have like 8 Peruvian torches about a decade old from seed, and I like to put them outside in spring, so they don’t get all spindly and pathetic, and dear god are they heavy and dangerous to move now. They are like 4 foot tall or so, but can get up to 16 foot… whoops.
But I don’t want to kill them because, like… I’m proud of them for thriving with me.
- Comment on Bacon 2 weeks ago:
Just put a wick in the jar you pour strained bacon grease into. I’m sure that would work.
Probably.
Hmm… now I’m wondering if it would…
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 3 weeks ago:
It’s called jetpacking
What I do it put my knees fully into their knees and wrap my torso around their butt, arms around their waist/low chest. I only reach half way up their back (I’m smol) but they love having my head rest against the middle of their back.
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 3 weeks ago:
Too much life in the eyes, too much color in the skin.
- Comment on Thanks, brain 5 weeks ago:
Test taking is a skill all its own. It shouldn’t be, but man I have slacked so many classes because I have that skill.
The best class I ever had, a course on the physics behind the functionality of renewable energy systems, the professor would give you the equation if you couldn’t remember it. You’d have to go up and talk to him, if you were really struggling, and you needed to know what you were trying to do, but he’d try to hint you through it first, then provide what you were missing. Ultimately he didn’t see students failing on dumb memory stuff as any sort of win for anyone.
As he said, despite being physics, memorizing math, and especially formulae, isn’t the point of the class.
He was my favorite. He wore white socks with soccer ball-patterned sandals every day, with dress pants and a blazer/tie combo, even winter, and rode his bike to campus. Dude was an absolute gem.
- Comment on life purpose 5 weeks ago:
That looks just like the call center I used to work in.
So dumb that it’s ai when places like these are everywhere…
- Comment on You never missed anything important 5 weeks ago:
Being productive all the time is for suckers with no actual lives.
Unless you count forming and maintaining social bonds as productive, which it absolutely is, in which case your point is just straight moot.
- Comment on Don't see the problem! 5 weeks ago:
Oh man my chickens get aggressively excited when I find worms and throw them in the run for them. Especially those whopping night crawler bois. They do the keep-away prance with them held aloft and peck at each other about it.
I’ve decided to start vermicompost specifically to raise worms for them to nom, in addition to the cricket and mealworm tanks I’ve got going :)
- Comment on Public service announcement 5 weeks ago:
Ok well that’s definitely not a “usually” situation then.
- Comment on Public service announcement 5 weeks ago:
Excuse me, what?
I’ve never been anally penetrated during a gyno visit, not a single time in many many years. If you have, that’s fucking weird, not at all normal.
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 months ago:
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 months ago:
See I mean that’s what I assume, too, but whomever starts their post with metric is clearly not used to the conversions into freedom units and so one must verify they did they math correctly. In case they are egregiously off the mark.
- Comment on Fuckin please 2 months ago:
The irony is, it probably would make line go up because people who care would flock to that business, assuming they actually did the thing and weren’t just greenwashing. And assuming they weren’t trying to bend us all over and give it hard without consent over stuff like data mining.
Like, make me a cheap ev, something better for the environment and without all the spyware, and I’ll buy one.
I’d obviously prefer rail, but if I can’t have that at least I want something better… but no I can’t justify it because I have to give up way too much privacy to use the tech, and it’s wildly expensive considering the privacy invasion.
So I just try not to drive now. I leave home, by car, maybe three times a month now. And it kinda sucks but it’s the best I can do.
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 months ago:
Nope, nothing standard about feet, lots of genetic variation! ;)
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 months ago:
Is that 7 toes lengthwise or side-by-side? And which American toes? Lady liberty, or a normal human adult, or a child? Perhaps a newborn?
Man I hate our measuring system, it’s so complicated.
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 months ago:
I’m chronically online most days and I haven’t seen this on Lemmy yet, nor at all for that matter.
I hate when people whine about seeing stuff multiple times; at least this isn’t a depressing news article being shared in 63 different communities so you have to see the same thing dozens and dozens of times and be reminded how shit everything is…
It’s just a fun little picture with no bad vibes at all. I’m ok with seeing that sort of thing repeatedly.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 3 months ago:
That assumes black holes aren’t the Big Bang white hole events of new pocket universes of the fizzy foam multiverse.
You could be part of a whole new universe! You wouldn’t know it, but how fun!
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 3 months ago:
Who wishes sweet dreams instead of seeding their friends and loved ones with dreams?
Whenever I say goodnight to someone I tell them something like “I hope you sleep well and have wonderful dreams of bioluminescent mountain rivers with auroras on the star-lit sky”
And it works about 30% of the time from reports.
