echodot
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- Comment on Slay Girl 1 day ago:
Mallard ducks in particular seem to take the view that as long as someone’s looking after the ducklings, it doesn’t really matter whose is whose.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 1 day ago:
It’s a big country, lots of cultural differences. Unfortunately the education system is pretty bad here.
The only country name we’ve learnt to spell is Portugal. We’re pretty bad at all the others.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 day ago:
Information on episodic memory are stored in different parts of the brain and recalling episodic memory also involves the emotion centres but I don’t think a happy memory and a traumatic memory are necessarily stored any differently.
How does PTSD fit into repressed memories?
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 day ago:
You also have to take into account that is a very high possibility that what this guy is doing is being creepy and a “nice guy”, and whether intentionally or not is pushing anybody who might be potentially interested in him away.
I’ve seen it with one of my idiot friends. He’s perfectly nice normal person and you can have sensible conversations with them but whenever it comes to hitting on girls he goes all pick up artist on them. Of course if there’s one group of people who can’t hit on girls it’s people who watch pickup videos on YouTube.
- Comment on Anon time travels 1 day ago:
I’m really quite annoyed because I had the opportunity to buy about a terabyte worth of RAM a couple of months back and I didn’t take it because I didn’t need a terabyte of RAM at that particular moment in time (or indeed ever). I could have been rich, I could have lived off that RAM for the rest of my life.
- Comment on You don't say. 2 days ago:
I feel like that would be a fairly normal response. Elevators are not typically found underwater so finding yourself in an underwater elevator is not going to be a particularly reassuring experience.
Apart from anything else a cube is not a particularly good shape for holding back water pressure
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 2 days ago:
Is it open source?
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 2 days ago:
We don’t know this for sure, maybe the dad just split in half.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 2 days ago:
In my industry the candy bowl is usually attractive women in very short shorts (unimaginative, but it works). Although to be honest, free candy may work just as well, and it’s probably cheaper.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 2 days ago:
How many dioramas do you create in an average year
- Comment on Driving test cheating soars with use of headsets and impersonators 2 days ago:
They definitely already check this. When I took my theory driving test they practically made me take my shirt off to prove that I didn’t have any cheating items.
I don’t know what the point is anyway since it’s super easy to pass.
- Comment on Driving test cheating soars with use of headsets and impersonators 2 days ago:
When I was a kid back in the 80s the shop owner never even bothered to check. He just sold us the alcohol.
It’s kind of bad really thinking about it, but no one used to check and no one used to care. I don’t even remember my parents being particularly bothered about it. I’m sure they would have been if we’d actually got in trouble for it but we used to just go home and drink quietly so no one official ever found out.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 days ago:
What do you even supposed to say to that.
I’m pretty sure it never happened but I guess I could have have forgotten, I guess, if you want.
- Comment on Brand new bag 5 days ago:
I got a detention for using my backpack full of books as a lethal weapon. I have the English anthology in there and that’s a big book, it does some serious blood force trauma damage. It’s an awful book though.
Apparently that started a trend so the school introduced a rule that said that all backpacks must be put in lockers at the start of each day. Which was stupid because the lockers weren’t big enough for that. So everyone was forced to carry their books to and from school by hand.
- Comment on QWOP 5 days ago:
I’m now older than both my parents were when I was born. The complaining about the lack of grandchildren has already started.
Is not in is it? Society won’t let me stay up and play Xbox until midnight anymore, I’m expected to go to work in the morning.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 5 days ago:
I would have a bit more respect for them if they actually went to the effort of tying them at the top of the lamp post. Rather than standing on their mate shoulders.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 5 days ago:
I’m guessing you’re not old enough to remember the white nationalists using it to threaten people. People are uncomfortable with the flag flying because it reminds them of those people, especially because the very same people are the ones putting them up now.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 1 week ago:
Do you even know what we’re talking about? Have you ever played any of those games, they are very much in the style of what meta where trying to do.
If you took Meta’s description of what the “Metaverse” is and then looked at chatVR it’s basically the same product.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 1 week ago:
ChatVR, RecRoom, Roblox, BattleBit, Project Loom (Which Google killed for no reason, but it wasn’t because of lack of success), and of course the OG, Second Life.
Hell you could even make the arguement for Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen if they ever finish it.
Some of those projects haven’t just been successful they’re so successful that they are starting to affect government policy.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 1 week ago:
My man what are you on they sold out to Meta, they 100% knew what they were getting into, and have been well compensated for it.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 1 week ago:
Clearly the idea isn’t done because there are other versions of the metaverse that work very well and are making money.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 1 week ago:
I mean there’s always be vrchat, Which is basically what meta was trained to do but actually works.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 1 week ago:
Well they gave it their best shot. It was literally impossible for them to have produced a more compelling product. That would have required skill and talent
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 1 week ago:
It hasn’t even been blocked yet and they’re already upset about it.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
It’s IKEA so like 90% of their product it’s probably a random small table for some reason everybody seems to need.
- Comment on she just doesn't understand me 1 week ago:
I have this issue with my soundbar on my TV. The volume has to be like 95% or it’s too quiet. But if you disconnect the soundbar and just use the TV speakers you get absolutely blasted out of the room by normal speech.
Measuring sound as percentages is meaningless.
- Comment on she just doesn't understand me 1 week ago:
In a house.
- Comment on she just doesn't understand me 1 week ago:
Nope. I’ve just turned my volume up to max settings and then kept my finger on the button nothing comes up it just stops increasing in volume.
I feel left out, like Android doesn’t care about me.
- Comment on dating 1 week ago:
Yeah and they all suck as a result.
I keep meaning to have a proper look into it and see if there are any actual dating site / apps that are independent. It’s a massive pain because usually you can’t really tell if an app is going to be any good or if it’s just another clone until after you’ve already signed up. It’s quite the time investment.
- Comment on dating 1 week ago:
There are of course things like hobby clubs you can join but you have to get lucky with those. There risk that you will just be distracted and end up with an expensive hobby.