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- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 1 day ago:
That’s impressive as hell, tbh. I’m glad rehab centers focus on such useful, otherwise seemingly inaccessible skills
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 2 days ago:
Imo definitely common sense, which might not be a formal category of intelligence, but it follows from empathy, risk assessment, and understanding of consequences. Sociologists could probably do research to nail down an exact definition through and psychologists could probably measure it, though I suspect it would only really work intrademographically. What’s common sense for a rich, well spoken, fourteen year old white girl is different from common sense for a poor, uneducated sounding, twenty five year old black man, because they unfortunately face very different potential consequences for the same actions.
As an example
When I was the former in the US, I used to seek out and make conversation with cops if I was planning to buy or carrying (well sealed and odorless) weed at an event, because I figured they’d think I was less likely to do that if I was committing a crime, so they’d be less suspicious of me/give me more leniency if they caught me (because police corruption is a fractal: any amount of positive or negative interaction with them confers exactly that amount of forbearance or spite in future interactions). That’s terrible common sense for the latter demographic, but it worked very well for me and most of the white stoner girls I knew. Even the same demographic but older has different ideas of sensibleness. I would never seek out a cop like that today, because: A) I know that the real reason it used to work probably has more to do with us having been young teenage girls recognizing their authority than with us seeming more innocent (though the corruption bit was right), and wouldn’t apply to a woman as old as I am anymore*; and B) what works best for my current demographic is just blending in (or I guess getting way closer to a cop, but that’s both skin crawling and a much longer game than I am willing to play).
/* I’d argue it’s partial credit for common sense there and partially luck that my theory had positive consequences in common with reality, but this exemplifies the problem of letting each demographic decide for themselves what constitutes “common sense,” and use it as a metric for correct behavior /** (I’m sorry about the footnote within a footnote, my ADHD meds just kicked in on a day when I have nothing to do for the first time in over two months, after just finishing teaching a six week long German intensive course, teaching the same group for four hours every weekday, and the fediverse is the victim of my hyperfocus today). Common sense might convince an adult not to trust the extremely rare sketchy-seeming but totally genuine opportunity, but it might also convince a teenager to trust the teacher or other adult entrusted with their safety who’s willing to buy them alcohol and nicotine products. However, if we allow people to weigh in for all of their younger demographic counterparts, we would risk making common sense impossible for all but the most mature people, thus making it no longer the metric we’re looking for. /** it’s not really an issue for our definition or measurement of it though, it doesn’t really change things if common sense is sometimes wrong - Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 2 days ago:
Solo esos gatos gordos pueden pagar una leche cuarta.
Fuck do I need to practice my Spanish.
- Comment on A/B: Part Duex 2 days ago:
He does look strikingly similar to Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, like this looks like the real guy Voldemort might have been based on, but I can’t tell if that’s really what his head looks like or if it’s just from photoshopping the hair out and accidentally shortening the forehead.
- Comment on How do I even orient this? 4 days ago:
For a allein bottle, it’s pretty fucking groß
- Comment on Birthing pains 4 days ago:
I was aware of much of that, but somehow never considered that other cats have multiple births, so hyenas probably do too…
- Comment on Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15? 6 days ago:
Fun fact: no!
I mean, I’d argue the emoluments clause should apply here, because poly market isn’t limited to Americans, but given that the sources of counter bets are not really public, I can see why it might not. Damn, I guess the ToS of polymarket?
- Comment on In reference to kitchen wrap (aluminum, paper or plastic), do you prefer to tear up against the lid, or down against the box? 1 week ago:
Plastic up, the others down
- Comment on not the ichor of long forgotten gods I promise 1 week ago:
This guy would like Octavia Butler
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 1 week ago:
Imagine paying for gas or electricity.
This meme brought to you by the pedestrian/bicycle gang.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 week ago:
Unternehmer/undertaker is also fun
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 week ago:
How would I feel? Uncomfortable. What would I do with that feeling if it’s based on exclusively my knowledge of their ages? Nothing.
When I was 28, I dated a 43 year old and it was a fine relationship. He agreed to stay in shitty hotels when we traveled because it was all I could afford and I didn’t want to take his money. He was definitely more emotionally mature and experienced than I was though and that’s what made us ultimately incompatible.
- Comment on Love at first sight! 1 week ago:
When it works, I bet it works well.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 weeks ago:
I can’t digest pork well (it runs right through me and frequently causes vomiting), so I don’t l eat it, but if I were to follow a diet with 500 calories of pork in it, I might get 100 from it. On the other hand, I digest beans and lentils incredibly well, with no noticeable gas. I can imagine that I might actually get 110 calories from a “100 calorie serving.” It is possible to determine your caloric intake despite this variation, but because people aren’t well educated about it, they see a mismatch in the math and reality and think it’s pointless to calculate it at all instead of realizing they need to adjust it for their specific digestive system.
- Comment on New klee err 2 weeks ago:
That’s probably survivorship bias
/s everyone knows the real preparation is community building
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 weeks ago:
Linen and simple cuts
- Comment on New kink unlocked 2 weeks ago:
It was a religion teacher. They’re not known for their taste.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Many of them were probably wearing half or three quarter socks. Hopefully most, but even so, they’re almost never made of cotton or a material that actually handles sweat well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m of two minds here: it’s just a body, everyone’s got one, no need to be ashamed of it or hide it; but people can also be reasonably distracted by seeing someone’s body at most workplaces (strip club bartenders excluded, for example) when they’re not expecting to, because they aren’t commonly displayed.
There’s also the factor of necessity: in extremely hot environments, people need to cover less of their body (unless they want to fully cover themselves with materials designed for it, like Bedouins, but a lot of people don’t want to do that and that’s a reasonable choice). In that situation, or in places like the beach, people should expect to see more of others’ bodies, and they are “at fault” for getting distracted.
To be clear, I think you behaved perfectly normally and well in that story. I was just thinking about the concept of nudity or near nudity at work in general.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
How did they manage to make such an inherently attractive person so consistently frumpy?
- Comment on New kink unlocked 3 weeks ago:
There was a misunderstanding at my school where the world religions teacher recommended the Sandra Bullock Crash to an entire class and the first student to find it and send the class a link found this one (could have been an honest mistake or intentional) and someone reported the teacher. It was pretty easily cleared up, but the teacher was definitely shaken that the other movie existed.
- Comment on betrayal 3 weeks ago:
Is this the first native and self referential copypasta on the fediverse?
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve gotta assume that they’re related, but I’m always happy for a new variant.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
Oh, what a good rabbit hole!
I use fiend in exactly the same way: “I’m fiending for a cigarette,” etc.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
I think you mean “fiend.”
- Comment on Flex 3 weeks ago:
I can’t unsee how small those gloves are. I thought they were just short, but his knuckles are well outside of where they’re supposed to be.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 3 weeks ago:
Careful, Zangendeutsch is a trap for English speakers. Like, not an intentional one, but you have to check the vocab you pick up there.
- Comment on How many people would it take to overwhelm a fully functioning military in a nuclear state? 3 weeks ago:
Certainly as you approach 8 billion, they’re more disorganized, but they’re not ever an actual militia, more just a horde of people all trying to help each other dismantle any relevant infrastructure and kill any soldiers sent to suppress them. No training, but absolute solidarity.
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- Comment on Why don't they just take the alt route? 3 weeks ago:
Straight men have prostates too
