SpaceCadet
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- Comment on Meatspin 3 months ago:
A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 3 months ago:
The past year or two I’ve found several stores where they are abandoning it. I presume because people carrying cash, especially coins, is becoming rarer and they don’t want to inconvenience their customers?
Strangely enough, carts still get returned even at these stores.
- Comment on Redirect to prevent back button 3 months ago:
Or ctrl+w to close the fucking site and never come back.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 3 months ago:
Depending upon their genre and your city’s size, they may never come nearby you
The joy of living in a central, densely populated area of Europe … I’ve been able to see almost all niche bands that I’m into live.
- Comment on What if? 4 months ago:
Female Dating Strategy
- Comment on What if? 4 months ago:
I think being interested in your own weird little niches is wonderful.
- Comment on What if? 4 months ago:
I think the question is rather forward for a girl you just met at a party, but at the same time I think someone’s youtube recommendations would be a good indicator of some obvious red flags that someone may want to consciously hide from a prospective partner. For example, if someone’s feed is full of alt right/joe rogan/incel crap, or for women, full of FDS crap, you’re damn right I’m gonna judge.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 4 months ago:
Surely you mean poop lights?
- Comment on Dutch toilets 4 months ago:
Still better than a light sensor in a communal bathroom… outside of the stalls. That’s how it is at my workplace. If I spend a bit too long pooping, and nobody else comes in to poop at the same time, I end up in the dark. Then when I have to wipe, I have to either risk opening the stall door and wave into the room, with my dirty ass hanging out, hoping nobody happens to enter the bathroom at that time, or wait patiently for someone to come in and reactivate the light. Makes me wonder how blind people check their wiping: do they go on flavor or smell?
- Comment on It's your amigo, Ralph! 4 months ago:
Ralph lives!
- Comment on Anon gets an ultimatum 5 months ago:
Well I’m sure it’s been in use for a while, but not in mainstream internet lingo is my point.
Speaking for myself, I only learned about this term a year or so ago, because I remember looking it up. Since then, I’ve seen it come up several times, almost always in greentext posts like this one.
- Comment on Anon gets an ultimatum 5 months ago:
In academic circles, sure, but it’s fairly recent that it has been seeping into internet language, mostly through 4channers who started using the term for themselves in a self-deprecating way.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 5 months ago:
There are basically four positions you can take about this:
- Jesus existed and was crucified
- We can’t know, because there is no conclusive evidence, but I think (1) is more likely
- We can’t know, because there is no conclusive evidence, but I think (2) is more likely
- Jesus is a myth
I am on (2), as are most historians, and you put yourself on (1).
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 5 months ago:
if it’s good enough for the majority of historians
It isn’t. Historians would love to have independent evidence of the existence and crucifixion of Jesus, but there isn’t… so most historians refrain from taking a position one way or the other. The ones that do have to make do with what little objective information they have, and the best they can come up with is: well because of this embarassing thing, it’s more likely that he did exist and was crucified than that he didn’t, because why would they make that up?
That’s rather weak evidence, and far from “proof”.
Not sure why you’d need more
Well for one because the more prominent people who have studied this have a vested interest in wanting it to be true. For example, John P. Meier, who posited this criterion of embarassment that I outlined in my previous comment, isn’t really a historian but a catholic priest, professor of theology (not history) and a writer of books on the subject.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 5 months ago:
There was a guy named Jesus that was crucified by the romans and all that. There is proof of that
There isn’t actually. The proof is basically: it’s embarassing that their cult reader got painfully crucified, so the writers of the new testament wouldn’t have made that shit up.
- Comment on This has been your weekend PSA 5 months ago:
Pro tip: set a 40 minute timer on your phone as soon as you put the beer in the freezer.
- Comment on This has been your weekend PSA 5 months ago:
How can air get heat saturated? i followed you thus far but its not like humidity, you can always add more heat
When the temperature of the air and temperature of the object you want to cool reach an equilibrium, no heat gets transfered anymore.
- Comment on Jenkins. 5 months ago:
only this time they’ve got a decade of research behind them and maybe they get the bomb first
Maybe that’s why we’re living in the universe where this didn’t happen, because in the universe where it did, we wouldn’t exist (many worlds/anthropic principle interpretation)
- Comment on Anon reflects on e-sports 6 months ago:
No idea why 60 Hz on an LCD works better, though.
Because LCD pixels are constantly lit up. They don’t start to dim in between refresh cycles. They may take some time to change from one state to another, but that is perceived as ghosting, not flickering.
On a CRT the phosporus dots are periodically lit up (or “refreshed”) by an electron beam, and then start to dim aftewards. So the lower the refresh rate, the more time they have to dim in between strobes. On low refresh rates this is perceived as flickering. On higher refresh rates, the dots don’t have enough time to noticably dim, so this is perceived as a more stable image. 60Hz happens to the refresh rate where this flicker effect becomes quite noticable to the human eye.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 6 months ago:
white-adjacent
You keep using that word as if it will somehow transform the color yellow into white and make your argument for you. It won’t happen. It’s yellow, and not just pale yellow but an extremely saturated and bright version of yellow. It is clearly not a natural skin tone of any race unless that person is very ill.
If you look at a white person’s skin tone, it’s not a saturated color and the hue is certainly not yellow. If anything, it’s pink. How you can arrive at “yellow = white-adjacent” just boggles my mind. There are literally billions of people on this planet who are not white and whose skin tone is closer to the yellow of a smiley face. You can call any color with sufficient luminosity white adjacent then. Bright blue: white-adjacent. Bright red: white-adjacent. Bright green: white-adjacent. Wee look at all those white-adjacent colors:
Anyway, I’m done with this discussion because I find you truly insufferable and I no longer want to spend my energy on it. If I can give you one piece of life advice: go find something worthwhile to get up in arms about.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 6 months ago:
yellow skin tone is clearly adjacent to whiteness and this was well established before aughts.
Not it was not and it still isn’t. The reason we think of the Simpsons as white is because the context makes it crystal clear that they’re a typical white suburban family, not because of their color. If Matt Groening had made Simpsons green, purple or blue we’d still think of them as white, and at the same time smileys and later emojis would still be yellow. At best there is some parallel evolution here in the sense that both Matt Groening and Harvey Ball both chose yellow for the same reason: because it is perceived as a bright happy color.
If you then associate yellowness exclusively with whiteness that’s purely a you thing, and honestly I find it pretty fucked up to see racial connotations like this in the most innocent things. Stop projecting your own prejudices.
emojis caught widespread support in the mid/late aughts
My argument is that bright yellow smileys have their own cultural lineage dating back to 1963, and it has nothing to do with skin color or race. Using these yellow smileys to express emotion in computer programs has been a thing since at least the mid nineties, not the mid/late aughts as you claim. The reason that it only appeared in the mid nineties and not earlier is technological and cultural. It has to do with the developing graphical and networking capabilities of computers around that time, and because smileys were popular in other aspects of culture around the same time. It has nothing to do with The Simpsons or other supposedly white cartoon characters.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 6 months ago:
The Simpsons came out in 88. You are saying most of the world got the Simpsons about half a decade later. I would say this proves the exact opposite of your point and that it is a huge world cultural phenomena. I’m shocked that I’m having the defend the Simpsons as one of the most important and impactful TV shows of all time.
My point is, I didn’t even hear about the Simpsons until I was in Uni, which puts it around 1995-ish, but I sure knew what a yellow smiley was.
Emoticon != emoji. Characters don’t have skin tone colors. The first emojis didn’t come out until 1999
I meant smileys really, because that’s what they were initially called. Emojis is a more recent retroactive rebranding/appropriation of smileys by Apple when they launched the iphone.
Anyway ICQ had yellow smiley faces 1996-ish. AIM had them 1997-ish. Yahoo!Pager, later Yahoo!Messenger, had yellow smileys in 1998. And MSN definitely had them in 1999.
And then there’s friggin minesweeper that had a yellow smiley face all the way back in 1992:
I guess they all watched too much Simpsons?
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 6 months ago:
My point is that everyone, who is being honest at least, interprets the Simpsons as being white. Do you think they’re white?
Yes, I think they’re white but I think it’s not relevant in a discussion about emojis.
As I said, it’s no surprise the default emoji is closest to white skin. Even if that association comes from the Simpsons, emojis didn’t come out until decades after the Simpsons became a cultural mainstay.
My point is that yellow smiley faces have been a cultural mainstay independent of the Simpsons, and that you grossly overestimate the worldwide cultural impact of the Simpsons. Most of the non-US world didn’t even get the Simpsons on TV until the mid 1990s while smiley face t-shirts and pins were all the rage in the late 1980s and 1990s.
And decades? The Simpsons started in 1989, while the first instant messengers already had smiley face emoticons in the mid 90s.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 6 months ago:
But emoji’s are not derived from the Simpsons. They’re derived from the yellow smiley face ideogram that originated in the 1960s.
It’s yellow, not because it’s supposed to represent whiteness, but because the company colors of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company it was designed for were yellow and black.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 6 months ago:
Wait until you hear about Sesame street!
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 6 months ago:
Hmm, on one of the KDE plasma updates, my wallpaper did change to their infamous teletubby wallpaper. Mind you, I was still using the default wallpaper at that time, and this was their new default wallpaper, so that’s probably why.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 6 months ago:
I told them something “The modlog of this community is ridiculous” and posted the same screenshot of the modlog that I posted here. Forgive me if I’m paraphrasing, because my exact comment is gone.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 6 months ago:
let’s pretend lemmy was heavily conservative instead of liberal making this exact post.
I think you misunderstand the issue, so as you mentioned conservative, let’s illustrate it with an analogy.
The situation with lemmy.ml right now, and apologies for the reddit analogy, is the equivalent if on reddit the batshit crazy mods of formerly /r/the_donald or /r/conservative could ban you from /r/linux because you said something bad about Trump on /r/memes. At that point it’s not about dissenting opinions, it’s about them wielding power they shouldn’t have over those dissenting people.
An instance that operates like that shouldn’t be part of mainstream lemmy and host general purpose communities. The only way to take that power from them is to shun them, i.e. defederate.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 6 months ago:
It’s not defederating on the basis of political opinion. It’s defederating on the basis of extreme intolerance towards and censorship of people who have different, non-fringe opinions that aren’t even controversial in most parts of the world.
Right now, the instance hosts a lot of let’s say mainstream, non-political communities, purely because lemmy.ml was the first instance and so “popular” by default. The way the mods over there behave, it’s clear that they’re not suited to be a mainstream instance for these communities. Unfortunately due to network effect, people won’t just move.
The only way to dislodge these communities and move them to more neutral instances is if larger instances like lemmy.world start defederating lemmy.ml.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 6 months ago:
You can still see that your comment had been removed, but you can’t see the biased mass removals of content, like mass purging all China critical comments from a post, unless you’re quick enough to screenshot the modlog.
