adam_y
@adam_y@lemmy.world
- Comment on Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed this 2 days ago:
Just like Marvin, my mind is blown.
- Comment on terminally-sick beatbox 5 days ago:
This meme is older than the cast of stranger things. Here, have an archeology point.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
I see you getting downvoted for a correct answer.
IP addresses are like street addresses. I can live at 10 High Street in London, you can live at 10 High Street in Ohio. Those are not the same address right? Folk confusing public and private ip addresses.
- Comment on Fact checked 1 week ago:
We will return the bicycle when you hand over the fekkin potatoes.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve got wood, you’ve got something to drink.
- Comment on Indiana Jones Whips Up $130 Million Loss For Disney 5 weeks ago:
Still think they should have gone with a story where indy has to steal back all of the artifacts he’s “acquired” and put in museums, returning them using time travel and having to outfox himself.
Last shot should be of a glass case in a museum with just his hat and the whip.
- Comment on I feel old 1 month ago:
Radical.
- Comment on An invitation to agree 1 month ago:
Yeah, I meant in the way in which you posited agreement, contract and conflict resolution rather than the deity stuff. I should have made that more clear.
Any, sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it.
- Comment on An invitation to agree 1 month ago:
It’s a lovely idea. Fundamentally sound. Feels very Quaker in outlook. That’s not a criticism.
I’m not sure it is hardened against bad actors though. I’m sure you’ve thought of this. Ultimately it needs centralised adjudication. Who is to say if someone did or did not break an agreement, or whether that breakage was deliberate or accidental and whether being shut out for breaking said agreement has implications of a social and financial nature?
Mob rule, designation of “outsiders” and sin eaters feature in almost every social construct at some stage in development. I’m not sure you can avoid that through good intentions.
Perhaps that sort of thing needs to develop naturally, or organically.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I feel like that is neither universal or basic.
- Comment on Why there are no "secondary" sports league that allow performance enhancement drugs? 3 months ago:
Maybe because we don’t want to actively encourage a dystopian hellscape where people deliberately destroy themselves for entertainment.
I know it already happens, but the increased financial incentive will just mean the poor are even more likely to sell their health.
Pretty sure there was a short side mission about that in Phantom Liberty.
- Comment on Stop pussyfooting that gaspedal! 4 months ago:
50% of all shitposts come from Viz.
It’s like the ancestral Eve.
- Comment on When you let boomers run social media accounts 4 months ago:
Good but fake, right?
https://dataconomy.com/2023/12/29/microsoft-edge-deleted-tweet-real-fake/
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
Absolutely fascinating.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
Pedantry, not conversation.
Still, you are correct.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
And there’s something else I’m interested in. When you think, do you think in a mixture of those languages? Or do you actively translate? Is it a conscious thing?
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
We’re very similar, I think. That externalisation as a way of understanding in particular.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
Absolutely. My day job is as a conceptual artist (seriously, the hours are good and I get to travel). Visualising objects is a large part of that. I’ve also worked in video game level design and found thinking in terms of 3D space pretty easy too. Just no words in there, or specifically, no voice.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
Interesting you brought up Service… Grew up reading him as he’s from my home town.
I do like poetry, but I’m much more inclined to concrete work, or something closer to what William Burroughs was after.
The shape rather than the rhythm.
Never thought of it that way. Though I still adore Service for the narrative.
I like that your internal monologue is an idealised voice.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
Absolutely. I’m no expert, and since there weren’t any studies performed on people from that era, I’d expect it to be taken as a theory rather than a fact.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
I won’t pretend in not a little jealous of that. I can only imagine the texture that adds to a novel. Plus, it’s like a form of creative collaboration… You are present in the text… How cool is that?
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
I worked as a typesetter for years. I have a rather speedy reading pace (it isn’t inate, rather through practice)… but I do wonder if not having to ‘hear’ words changes the rhythm of reading.
I’m also fascinated if other folk perform accents in their head whilst reading? Do different characters sound different or is there one ‘voice’ that acts as a narrator?
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
I don’t have one at all. Spent ages thinking that it was just a figure of speech, but when I found out I became fascinated by it.
The current theory is that at some early point in our evolution we literally had a voice in our head, not unlike how some forms of schizophrenia present.
It’s called the bicameral mind.
https://gizmodo.com/did-everyone-3-000-years-ago-have-a-voice-in-their-head-510063135
In my day to day life it makes little difference however, despite being an avid reader and writer I struggle tremendously to read aloud.
I don’t know for sure but I suspect it is connected.
- Comment on A long and distinguished family 4 months ago:
You’ve missed off the sausage roll, you absolute savage.
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ after cursing out Disney CEO: why automakers removing carplay matters 4 months ago:
Imagine a world where billionaires having petty arguments result in…
Yeah, we don’t have to imagine. It’s happening all the time. Shit service from streaming platforms, awful social media services. The very politics of our democracy. The media.
It’s all dick measuring, all the time.
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 4 months ago:
You’re more than welcome. It’s a fascinating subject area. Especially given the history of street photography and its roots in France.
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 4 months ago:
Legally, the default is that you need to ask permission of all subjects to shoot the photo. And again for each publication of that image.
In practice this is relaxed for public shots and street photography where the intent is not to make someone the subject of the photograph (people walking by in the background of a shot) or when “treating people with respect” (so yeah, no predatory homeless shots, or getting up in people’s faces). That said, this is for personal use and publishing them means you still might need to seek permission or risk being prosecuted later.
Finally there is a caveat that is “the right for information” which is how the paparazzi are able to photograph celebrities and the like. Under the heading of journalism.
Even so, you can only use those photographs in context. So, say you catch a shot Madonna flouting the law, you can’t later use that same photograph to illustrate an article of her being nice to cats. Furthermore they can also claim you are intruding on their private life. Which might still get you into trouble.
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 4 months ago:
In France the subject of the photograph owns the copyright of the picture.
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 4 months ago:
Spot on answer and really well articulated.
I think a lot of folk assume privacy, similar to the French model, but in the UK that really doesn’t exist.
One of the clearest examples is how the press operates. Doorstepping politicians and celebrities. They wouldn’t be able to do that if they required permission from the individual.
- Comment on Where do guns go when people are done using them? 4 months ago:
Gun heaven, where they can run around and frolic in the fields and enjoy the rest of their well deserved life.
