ApathyTree
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- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
Right, and you get why this is impossible for most people? That was my original point. Most people, even if they want to do this, can’t. It’s unaffordable.
The point is that your suggestion that someone is free to do this is just very much not the case.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
Ok, but if your plan is to live solo forever and not interact with society, you’d basically need to pay for it upfront. That means you need a lot of money all at once, otherwise you’ll still need income, which limits the ability you have to be separate from society.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
Yes I know, I’ve looked at them. That’s how I know they are expensive.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
Where?
This is what I want to do, but I can’t afford to buy land on which to do it (and not just any land is useful for this either, it needs to be capable of supporting people before you can count it). Land enough to support a small homestead isn’t cheap, and zoning/local laws often restricts what you can do on it. So for example you may buy land, but not be allowed to drill a well, even if you have the means and knowledge to do so. Or if you buy land you can afford, you may not be allowed to build a permanent structure on it at all.
You’ll get kicked out (and possibly fined) of both state and national parks in the US if they find you “permanently camping”, which they are likely to do since there are frequently people out there. The only other option is squatting on private property. If you get caught before whatever time passes for squatters laws to take effect, you lose everything you’ve built up.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind paying for things I’ll never use because it makes society as a whole better. All I’m saying is opting out of living in a society is nearly impossible for most people even if they are ok with not having all the stuff society funds like roads and fire control.
- Comment on Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private 2 weeks ago:
This one seems more fitting.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
I would consider dev mode in rimworld to be cheating in a “technically it is” sort of way… spawning infant thralls that are then adopted by my colony, or spawning whatever activity site I choose are definitely not how the game is supposed to work. The mods are sort of also cheating I guess, tho most of them are content heavy… there are definitely several hacky mods in my list, like minify everything.
But while it’s cheating in a technical sense, it doesn’t impact anyone and it’s teaching me a lot about how video games function, which I find more entertaining than completing hard-coded objectives. It’s the first game I ever put a lot of mods on, and between troubleshooting and testing stuff, it’s been nearly as illuminating as rendering lag that adds each texture layer individually starting from low poly (my ps4 is having some major lag issues I’m trying to sort out, and horizon zero dawn is fascinating for this rendering issue, so so many layers! And then to realize it usually gets processed in real time! 🤯)
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
So you’re saying I’m the snail…
- Comment on True 3 weeks 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 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Brian?
- Comment on Snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 4 weeks 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.. 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Too much life in the eyes, too much color in the skin.
- Comment on Thanks, brain 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Ok well that’s definitely not a “usually” situation then.
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month 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 3 months ago:
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 3 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.
