Sludgeyy
@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
I’ll never forget trying to read Redwall as a child and trying to remember what character was what animal. I had to write down a cheat sheet.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
How do you read?
I have aphantasia and I have to subvocalize each word that I want to read.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Memory or recall of facts. No.
Memory or recall of life experiences. Yes.
From my understanding people can play a “movie” of something like their last birthday party. See who was there, what they were wearing, etc.
Unless I make note of something I’m not going to remember it. I can “subconsciously” make a note of something and recall it but I cannot re
But other than a list of facts I have about my last birthday party, I cannot recall or experience it again.
As for reading. There’s no difference between me reading a biology textbook or a romance novel. I read, soak up knowledge, critically think, and remember.
I have to subvocalize to read. I’m curious on why you assumed we had to read outloud. I don’t know how other aphants read.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.
I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Yeah took me 36 years.
It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.
Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?
Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.
- Comment on Language barrier 1 week ago:
Tonal languages are probably harder to make sense.
When you say “Ma” in Mandarin you could mean 4 different things.
So if I was trying to say “I like my horse” or “I like my mother” you’d say “I like my ma”. Unless you had context you wouldn’t know what I was trying to say if I didn’t use the correct tone.
English tones give extra information.
“I LIKE my horse” or “I like MY horse”.
One you could like your horse, other you might really LIKE your horse.
“I go store” vs “I am going to go to the store now”. The meaning isn’t really lost.
English is hard because speaking it well is complex. There are dozens of way to say “walked”
Did the man stroll down the street? Strut, marched, trudged, shuffled, stumbled, hobbled, or etc.
Someone that doesn’t know English well would understand that the man hobbling down the street means that the man went down the street. But hobbling has the idea that the man is injured. If they were trying to describe the man limping down the road they would be thrown off thinking about how they could describe it as hobbled. “The man walked with a limp down the street” or “The man limped as he walked down the street”
Then there’s things like “The man hobbled down Bourbon Street” now you get the idea that he is hobbling because of being intoxicated rather than injured.
But getting the general idea is pretty simple. “Man go road”
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
You have things like grapheme-color synesthesia where people really do experience things different. They might see 2s as blue and 5s as green. So if they ever saw a 2 it would be blue. Like 5 5 5 5 2 5 5. Even though the numbers are all the same color to us someone with the synesthesia would see those numbers there in the color their mind associates them with automatically.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
Here’s the standard color wheel set to Red, Blue, Yellow as primary colors.
You’ll notice that magenta is represented as almost a whole different color. It’s pink in the CMYK, light purple in RGB.
And
Cyan, baby blue, sky blue, etc. isn’t represented. Instead you get a blue-purple they call violet.
Light Red - Magenta Light Blue - Cyan Blue-Purple - Indigo Light Purple - Red-Purple - Fushsia
We as a whole can’t decide what constitutes purple/violet in RGB model
Even if someone doesn’t know what a true “Indigo” looks like they are still experiencing that color for what it is. They will just call it Bluish-Purple or Purplish-Blue. And unless it really was the exact mix of 50/50 blue and purple it wouldn’t be indigo. It would be a equivalent to a Redish-Orange. A Bluish-Indigo or Purplish-Indigo.
Sorry for the walls of text I was learning and thought I might as well share.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
Your language doesn’t change your perception of color.
The primary colors being Red, Yellow, Blue. Is made up. There’s no reason those should be the three primary colors.
Magenta, Yellow, and Cyan could be the primary colors if you were taught that.
In that color wheel orange is an intermediate color. The intermediate color between green and yellow can be called chartreuse.
Did you know chartreuse as a color or did you just know it as yellow-green?
Do you not preceve the color chartreuse the same as someone that just knows that name?
You can perceve all the difference colors on this wheel without needing an official word.
As you can see “Brown” is just a darker orange.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
Your phone screen only uses three colors to represent all colors.
If you printed out the photo of the dress the “illusion” wouldn’t work.
The 3 colors used to make the blue dress in warm “gold” light is what allows your brain to interpret it as yellow.
If anything it helps prove that people basically see in the same way. Just if your brain adjusts for the backlight tone. You either saw blue or yellow. No one was saying purple or orange.
If you took mushrooms and saw purple you’d be hallucinating. Your brain is giving you false information.
Seeing it as yellow isn’t false information but a different interpretation of the given material
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 2 months ago:
Same for me!
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 months ago:
That’s some sound logic right there
You convinced me Breaking Bad is perfect
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 months ago:
Of course the story didn’t have to happen in any specific way. It’s a fictional story. It can be written in anyway. Doesn’t even have to be realistic
Walt could have had to make a rocket so he could transport meth to the moon because Tuco is on a moon base and really wants some.
From my 2.5ish season watching experience, Pinkmen was the only character I enjoyed from the show. I’m not saying that I hated his character or acting. But the premise that Walt was with Pinkman to begin with. The whole show hinges on that idea and Pinkman becomes more and more important to the show.
Breaking Bad doesn’t have many “likable” characters but it is a basic story about the characters.
A story with an amazing plot would still be good with subpar actors. Breaking Bad with worse actors would be totally insufferable.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 months ago:
You want a more plausible storyline than anything else? You like Breaking Bad because the storyline is realistic?
A smart guy infiltrating the DEA and using their information in a cat and mouse game sounds interesting to me
It’s a fictional story
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 months ago:
“The story happened that way so that’s the only way it could have happened”
Walter was a high school science teacher with no friends, how would he have gone about looking for someone to sell meth for him?
Once again everything is stacked against Walt. Always another road block. Episode after episode.
They had to give him a complete dipshit to work with because a semi-competent person he knew would have been a “boring” story.
Maybe show interest in the DEA and ride around with his brother-in-law to secretly collect intel. Ends up getting a job for the DEA but basically an inside guy.
Let me go find the drop out high school student I knew and cook meth in an RV. Is definitely not a thing an intelligent person would choose to do. Sure if they are forced to like in the story, but that doesn’t make it right or enjoyable.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 months ago:
You’re telling me that it is a requirement to be a Complete Dipshit to have underground connections?
I get that is how the show sold it and I guess you believed it
There’s just no way for Walt to become Heizenberg without Complete Dipshit
Let’s just ignore the fact that the writer planned the Complete Dipshit to die a handful of episodes into the series
Again, EVERYTHING in the show is designed to make cooking/distributing meth challenging. They had to make Complete Dipshit useful because he “had” to be in the story.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 months ago:
That was my problem with the show too.
Smart person decides to cook meth…
Step 1: Partner with complete dipshit
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit
It’s not hard to cook meth especially if you have a science background.
EVERYTHING in the show is there to make cooking meth harder because if it wasn’t hard it would be a completely boring story.
- Comment on It's pizza time 2 months ago:
- Comment on No u 🫵 2 months ago:
The sun is round, the moon is round, the stars are round
Biconvex vs Globe should be the original argument. Disc vs Ball.
Do flat earthers think of sharp edged biconvex earth? Like that would have had to be the case if you could sail off it.
Do they think that it’s like a Minecraft world where they could see the dirt under the grass at the edge?
Humans had to explore the globe W-E or E-W. No practical way early to cross a frozen tundra and then sail going N-S or S-N.
We would have found out a lot quicker in human history if the polar caps didn’t exist.
“Go around” round. It is almost like it is intuitive that the earth is round.
What’s happening at the edge is what is the argument. Everyone knows where they are standing is flat. (Which I think is your point)
You’d have to come up with a plausible explanation of what could happen. Like “You’d sail off into a void”
Yet a globe has no edges and doesn’t need a plausible explanation about a weird edge of the earth.
It should have aways rested that you had to prove the earth wasn’t a ball.
- Comment on Science knows no borders! 2 months ago:
My favorite thing is “We wouldn’t have had the technology to go to the moon in 1969”
So Apollo 12 (1969) 14 (1971) 15 (1971) 16 (1972) 17 (1972)
Were all fake too?
So we faked the first moon landing and then proceeded to fake 5 more moon landings in 3 years?
That sounds real smart
- Comment on Get on my level 3 months ago:
Do you know what relativity means? You keep saying it
A 6 or 7 year old child is ~120cm
Average person 160cm to 170cm
Relatively, a 3:4 ratio
For a tall person at 200cm (6’6") that would be the same as 150cm
Average woman is 160cm
Yes a 200cm person standing next to a 150cm person looks like an adult standing next to a child height wise. Yet to them a 150cm person is much taller than 120cm. 1 foot difference.
Why does your mind jump to “they look like they are with a child?”
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 months ago:
Grits
- Comment on Tune a fish 3 months ago:
I’ll take just that cookie (You want the whole cookie)
And
I’ll take just a bit of that cookie (You want a piece of the cookie)
I made it just barely to the concert (Implies you were almost late)
And
I made it just to the concert (Implies you had something else to go to but you just went to the concert)
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 months ago:
Perfection is the enemy of progress
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 months ago:
You remember that one time you walked your dog into that real nice gas station bathroom?
It’s not just about dirt
- Comment on Soda pop 3 months ago:
It’s the whole “Is Pepsi fine?” Thing.
You ask if they have coke and they will say “is Pepsi fine?” Then you can say “Yes I’ll take a Sprite” and get Starry.
Like you can’t order a sprite without saying sprite. You cannot be like “I’ll take a soda” and expect sprite. Same with saying coke. You have to elaborate.
You could ask for a “coke” and accept any soda. But you’re not really calling what they are giving you coke. You just wanted any soda.
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 4 months ago:
These are the EVA birkenstock sandals
They ended up ripping through and not really usable anymore because the whole front flops.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 4 months ago:
Saying nature intended anything is naive
Chimpanzees have gang wars and eat each other. Doesn’t make it right.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 4 months ago:
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
