TeddE
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- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 1 day ago:
Conventions with tons of them!
- Comment on Head chog 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, while it’s pronounced Chog, it’s spelled Gehog - is was considered a shrewd choice by the Erinaceidae family what seems like millions of years ago, but now it’s just another spelling quirk.
Just promise me to not provide us the same insightful breakdown of their cousin, the moonrats.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 weeks ago:
Back at the beginning of the modern LGBT umbrella, gays were given the stereotype of all being hookup obsessed kinky motorcycle enthusiasts, the ‘leather daddy and boi’ look. It’s good to look tough when protesting for your right to exist.
Around the 90s the jazzercise fit athletic picky eater gay became a trope on television - your classic twink.
The problem with both those poster boy stereotypes is they’re both positioned as kinda in-your-face and combative, so gays that just wanted to live life emerged - fat, unthreatening, and likely to invite you to their BBQ - the modern bear.
Meanwhile, the internet is just becoming a thing and in the early days ‘nobody on the internet knows if you’re a dog’ as the expression goes. Without a corporal body as reference, people are reduced to their chosen name/handle, their profile pic and whatever thoughts they posted. Internet culture filled the gaps with anime girls and cats - creating the perfect culture for mascot suiting to evolve into a new niche.
Finally, pup play stems from the biker boi kink of gimp play (sensory deprivation), someone stitched leather ears onto a gimp hood to reduce a (consensual adult) person to ‘just an obedient animal’ with the original look meant to dehumanize and anonymize. Ironically this play has gone through radical transformations and softened as most modern pup hoods are colorful expressions of individuality. Today pup play is a great sampler platter of kinks and adult activities in general (including many that are family friendly). It’s a great way for stressed adults to step away from adulting for an evening and just play.
Also, don’t take my description as fully gospel, all of these movements are complicated with regional variations, and since these are generally voluntary labels and useful stereotypes, you’ll find plenty of people who see these differently or wish to gatekeep, etc. So take this all with grains of salt
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m being tongue in cheek pretending that pup, furry, and bear aren’t often just the same type of person in different moods.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 weeks ago:
They could be a furry. A wholly different thing. 😅
- Comment on I assume it's corn 2 weeks ago:
Bubba?
- Comment on Graffiti 3 weeks ago:
I can’t speak for Fediverse, but I recall that Reddit would add a randomly chosen modifier to the output, such that the total score is correct, but the specific upvote/downvote counts are off. My understanding is the bit of fuzz gives some anonymity by uncertainty against specific types of attacks.
I assume something similar here.
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 3 weeks ago:
Sata Clausen
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
Ain’t that the naked truth?
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
Hindsight is…
- Comment on Pika Pika 4 weeks ago:
Well, went and did research (gasp!) and found I had been lied to! Or at least to say it’s complicated. My statement does have merit in that yes! The most popular cameras from 2019 average 25 megapixels, and that puts it neck and neck to several uses of film (frequently animated uses).
I still think my primary argument is unchanged, but the precise details of my statement are somewhat hyperbolic. In my defence, “better than film” has been the marketing for at least a decade and there are things that digital photography shine at.
Still, thank you for keeping me in check.
- Comment on Pika Pika 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but there’s so much more to compositing a good shot than just focal length. I’m recommending to a new hobbyist to walk before they run. Framing, lighting, perspective - a cheap phone from 2019 off eBay is still better than what your grandparents had, and is better than cameras from 99% of human history.
- Comment on Pika Pika 4 weeks ago:
Dont spend money on fancy new cameras, chances are the camera in your phone is already better than 90% of all cameras in history. Don’t drop a dime on equipment until you’ve hit the limits of the hardware you already have.
The picture above isn’t a picture of what an expensive camera can do - it’s a picture of what a good photographer can do, enhanced by specialty equipment. In the hands of a novice the equipment cannot produce pictures like this.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 4 weeks ago:
Or because the idiom “the elephant in the room” is being depicted literally (insinuating their medicated autistic child is ‘an unfortunate unwanted fact’ - which I personally feel is derogatory to the child)
- Comment on I can't eat it all! Don't be shy! 5 weeks ago:
Why did they want to hurt you?
There is an art to preparing vegetables - a greenbean side could be done up in a fancy fat (butter at least), salt, and a good sauté, but if they dumped factory canned ‘beans in water’ into a saucer, heat, and serve as a dish? That’s basically a slap in the face.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 5 weeks ago:
What’s a ‘six, five thousand and forty’? I will never get meme culture. 😉! (=😉×(😉-1)×(😉-2)×[…]×3×2×1)
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 5 weeks ago:
I’d quibble that any organization that acts to spread knowledge qualifies as free in the sense of expanding freedom of choice, and argue thus that if their operational costs as a public nonprofit have to be expressed as an at-cost service (or reasonably priced and used to subside their other related operations) - that’s still a meaningful free in multiple ways.
But on a more basic level - yeah, it is shameful that libraries (broadly speaking) often have to operate like they’re badly managed businesses. But that arguably in most cases is not the fault of the library itself but on society (late stage capitalism, billionaires and the other usual suspects).
Tl;dr: You’re not wrong, but also is that really the hill you wanna plant your flag in?
- Comment on MAGA, splitting hairs. 1 month ago:
Laura Ingraham (of Fox News fame), put out an article that we should all relax, because Jeffrey Epstein’s victims were on average closer in age to 15 than 5, and spouted some technicalities about the definition of pedophile, as if that makes grooming children to sexually exploit and trade access to for favors any less repulsive.
The timing of the news release is right after a clever procedural move in the US House brought a vote to release the Epstein files and now all the conservative media is trying the “maybe we did, but it wasn’t really that bad” lines.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 month ago:
I’m normally happy to grant that - but not while they’re literally putting someone else down for doing effectively the same thing.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 month ago:
I’ve been randomly substituting the thorn ᚦ, the diphthong æ, the interobang ‽, and other such irregular typographical arcana into my casual writing for decades. Just took you-all an LLM to be mad at to pay attention.
Let’s not crucify people for being weird please. Nobody is average. We all have quirks.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 month ago:
Let’s stop ᚦis before the train gets going:
- The original post content’s auᚦor replaced the letters ‘th’ with ᚦe more archaic ᚦ
- the original author said ᚦat all 't’s were replaced in an oversimplification
- ᚦe parent author noted that oᚦer 't’s were used which were not replaced.
- I’ve replaced about half my ‘th’ with 'ᚦ’s
- Comment on One step closer to Night City 1 month ago:
This is the dream
- Comment on Be this guy. 1 month ago:
I contend a functional definition of privilege is the number of problems you can ignore. By this metric anon is likely privileged.
- Comment on Room for cream? 2 months ago:
Just label each with a cute yet distinct name. Then customers would associate each name with the blend they order, with bonus lore.
- Comment on another TUI 2 months ago:
What you’re advocating is called genocide. Genocide is bad.
We’ve tried this ‘separating mentally ill from society’ before - they were called asylums. We stopped doing that because they’re inhumane. (There is an academic debate on if they’re inherently such or simply attract/foster abuse, but were not having that debate today.)
What you’re suggesting is an international crime and violation of human rights. Please reconsider.
- Comment on Tell me something that I don't already know 2 months ago:
Left ear, right ear, left nostril, right nostril, pore, pore, pore, …, pore, iris (light only), Prince Albert piercing, earlobe …
I disagree with this joke’s premise
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 months ago:
Yes. If you’re not actively using the land you should sell it - if that were the general practice, many renters would be land owners themselves and an entire layer of middle management would evaporate.
- Comment on F dieting! 2 months ago:
I thought it was obvious from the blooming cloud of mutant white spores in the last few seconds 😜 nuclear mushroom!!
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 months ago:
… obviously /s
- Comment on English moment 2 months ago:
Hose is pronounced /hōz/ and dose is pronounced /dōs/ in “Standard English” (which is a specific and deliberately invented dialect taught to news anchors to try to smooth out all the regional differences), actual english varies so much over time and space that both words have numerous variations - www.howtopronounce.com/hose, plus we change our inflection on words depending on where they are in a sentence - and plenty of context can change if the emphasis is on the vowel or the ending consonant: All my hoes know a hose is a hose.
Simply put - as long as people understand the ideas you’re conveying, don’t worry too much about precise spelling and punctuation - it’s literally all made up.