ArbitraryValue
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- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 6 days ago:
But both sides sound as if they have done real science, so a basic understanding of how science is done won’t be enough to tell them apart. The only difference between the two visible to an ordinary member of the public is that one side represents “the establishment” and the other side doesn’t.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 6 days ago:
I don’t agree with this. The stuff written by, for example, the “vaccines cause autism” people can sound as sophisticated and authoritative as any textbook. A high-school education isn’t going to help someone judge it according to its merits. The problem is a collapse of trust in authority rather than a lack of basic knowledge.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 weeks ago:
I’m really annoyed by this as well, but why do you jump from that to concluding that the government should ban it? I don’t see any reason why the stores should not in principle be allowed to do it.
- Comment on He was HUNGRY 😓 2 weeks ago:
Sexy legs dragon.
- Comment on Damn 2 weeks ago:
Clearly he’s out of practice.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 3 weeks ago:
Not really archaic - if this was valuable stuff washing up on shore, the law would still be relevant.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 3 weeks ago:
Members of the British government have been calling for strong efforts to ensure the shipping company and its insurers will pay the costs of the cleanup. Seatrade, which operates the vessel, said its insurers are fully engaged in the process…
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 4 weeks ago:
I do wonder about stores like that. According to a friend of mine who worked on the household staff of a very rich family, they did buy extremely expensive stuff in boutique stores even when much cheaper alternatives were almost as good (or even equally good, I suspect) but how many rich people like that are there?
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- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 5 weeks ago:
Speaking of mind blowing… I took ketamine for the first time a few months ago (by prescription from a psychiatrist, yada yada yada). I have just come back to normal from a ketamine trip during which I constantly kept thinking about what you’ve said. In fact, I was thinking about it so much that I couldn’t relax enough to get the full effect of the ketamine. For me, the first thing that lets me know that the ketamine is kicking in is that I gain the ability to “see” even though my eyes are closed. I remain aware that I’m sitting in my living room and wearing a blindfold, but in my mind there are patterns that I can look at and think “Ooh that’s pretty.” Not just the abstract sensation of seeing a pretty pattern, but actually an experience like vision, complete with the ability to look at a different part of the pattern and see something new. When I stop being able to do that, I know that the ketamine has worn off.
I thought that that’s what people called hallucinating, which seemed odd to me since I never felt like what I was seeing in my mind was real, whereas people say that hallucinations can seem real. Now I wonder - can some other people, like you, just see things in their mind that way all the time? Amazing!
I don’t mean to imply that I think your experience of the world is the same as mine is on ketamine, since ketamine does a lot more than let me look at pretty patterns. The first time I took it, I was sad since I realized that I was all that existed and the entire world was a figment of my imagination, a dream that I woke from. But being able to look at things in my mind has been beautiful and very dramatically different from the way my brain works without ketamine. So far I’ve only seen patterns like twinkling lights, clouds, or mazes. You’re saying that you can see anything you want… Excuse me because I’m going to say something immature: if I could see things in my mind like that, then it would take me a really long time (if ever) to get tired of just seeing naked ladies.
But if I really have aphantasia, how is it that I’ve always been good at “using my imagination”? I love reading fantasy novels and they’re not just words on a page for me. And how do I solve geometry problems in my mind? Strange.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 5 weeks ago:
Interesting… I can’t do what you describe with regard to the mouse. If I focus on actually picturing the mouse, the most I can do seems like a child’s crude sketch, and only the parts of the scene that I am particularly focused on are pictured at all. The rest is abstract. And yet I can entertain myself by daydreaming in visual impressions. For example, just now I thought about a cool car chase, and I was thinking visually rather than verbally, but then I noticed that I hadn’t bothered to imagine what color the cars were - I can assign them colors now that I think about it, but before there was just no impression of seeing any color.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 5 weeks ago:
I think that I have a good visual imagination but it works on a higher level of abstraction than simply imagining a picture of something. Let’s say that you see a mouse run by. You think “I have seen a mouse. It was small and gray.” My imagination seems to work on that level - it goes straight to the feeling of seeing something rather than generating pictures and then processing them to create that feeling.
This might not seem visual but I can rotate 3D objects in my mind to solve geometry problems, so I think that it is.
- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 5 weeks ago:
They grab the hook because they intend to pull you into the water.
- Comment on Anon is 5'1" 1 month ago:
Speaking of Nordic… When I was in college, the woman who organized the Medieval Enthusiasts club was over six feet tall, with golden hair to her hips. She would dress as a Scandinavian princess, when she wasn’t wearing armor. There were two categories of tourneys - foam weapons, or dull metal weapons and armor. She did the latter. (I wasn’t the combative sort - I was there for the costumes and the feasting.) Too bad she was already married…
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 1 month ago:
Our “What if?” timeline diverged from the main continuity in 2000 when Bush v. Gore was decided.
- Comment on Anon is looking for a girlfriend 1 month ago:
Welcome to 4chan.
- Comment on Anon is looking for a girlfriend 1 month ago:
No then she’ll be French.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 1 month ago:
My guess is that they’re not particularly outrageous but embarrassing to both parties. Maybe the unreleased information is about Epstein’s work with intelligence agencies, something that neither Democrats nor Republicans would want to release and individuals with access wouldn’t feel a moral obligation to leak.
But that still doesn’t explain why Trump doesn’t just say so without revealing any details - it seems less damaging than total stonewalling.
- Comment on Scientists of Lemmy, explain: 1 month ago:
Maybe they’re like starfish, which grow from bilaterally symmetrical larvae into many-limbed adults? Image Note how the adult starfish body starts out like an organ in the larva and then grows as the rest of the larva is absorbed.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 1 month ago:
Absolute zero is a useful reference point.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 1 month ago:
I’ve never understood how being a wanker to someone whose job it is to sort issues out somehow nets you a better end result.
I saw a guy yell at an airport employee who kept telling him that she couldn’t legally let him on the plane because the cabin door was already shut. He kept at it until a supervisor showed up, contacted the pilot, and let him in. I get where the guy was coming from (he loudly proclaimed that he was missing a connecting flight through no fault of his own) but it was still weird to see him get something by being angry which he probably couldn’t have gotten by being nice.
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 2 months ago:
You’ll soon be free!
- Comment on Just FYI 2 months ago:
I used to work for a guy who was never wrong. He didn’t talk much, but when he said something, it was always correct. He still hedged a lot, so he would say “I’m not sure you’re right; I think the answer might be X.” What that meant was “You are certainly wrong and the only reasonable answer is X.”
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 2 months ago:
Only the foreign objects need to be removed. British rectums are for British objects.
- Comment on fucking French 2 months ago:
Once you’ve pulled the trigger for a three-round burst, your hand becomes free and you can change the mag while the first round is still being fired. Duh.
- Comment on life purpose 2 months ago:
easy work in an air-conditioned office
despair
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s a filter but it’s not necessarily a “sanity” filter. People on here generally seem to put more effort into learning and understanding the causes that they support than the average person on Facebook does, but those causes themselves are often far out of the mainstream and people’s understanding of why someone might disagree with them in good faith is often rather poor.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think blaming billionaires for this is incorrect. Look at Lemmy: this place is very much a silo. I’ve been actively participating here for over two years and in that time I have encountered one or two people who supported Trump (the ones posting in /conservative/ before it apparently got taken over). I routinely get called a fascist for being a mainstream Democrat. I’m not complaining (after all, I choose to be here rather than in a more comfortable silo) but clearly being a federated open-source non-profit isn’t solving the problem.
Some billionaires got rich by enabling people to join online silos, but those billionaires were doing what the people wanted already.
- Comment on Close your fuckin eyes 2 months ago:
kills fish
Stop staring at me with your dead eyes!
