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• crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  dafuq is bouba and wiki

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  • konalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bouba/kiki effect!

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    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      thanks mate, didn’t think to actually Google it (I thought it was gonna be some made up rizz rizz fr fr skibiti toilet shit)

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    • pemptago@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Side note: the game “Baba is you” was named after this effect, and features a character named kiki.

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember learning about bouba/kiki in grade 1… until today, I assumed all kids did!

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• lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a simple person. I see a linguistic meme, I upvote

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well said. More attention should be given to the subconscious perception of important concepts. (Ok now I think about it this sounds quite 1984)

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1984 was partly about how consent is manufactured using language. It’s a reality that the powerful systems exploit every single day with powerful effectiveness to drive us towards extinction so the lines keep going up.

    There’s nothing wrong with using those tools for good. Too many leftists are so concerned with the substance that they forget how important the presentation is. It shouldn’t be important, but because we’re social animals and not analytical engines of pure reason, it does matter.

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    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Too many leftists are so concerned with the substance of the message that they forget how important the presentation is.

      I find that to be an issue with many well-meaning people.

      For example, I see it occasionally in the FOSS-bubble: It’s great if a given software is ideologically “pure”, independent from capitalist incentives, open source and freely available. It’s great that there are volunteers doing work for the benefit of others.

      Occasionally, when someone lists specific tools running on Windows only as reason for not switching to Linux, they get told to use FOSS alternatives instead that just can’t match the proprietary in terms of features or usability. When you point that out, there will often be the customary vocal minority of twats chastising you “It’s volunteer work, you don’t get to demand anything, go implement it yourself” etc.

      I hate to admit it, but I’m generally more comfortable around MS Excel than LO Calc. I’ve used LO Writer and Impress for personal and university stuff, because I rarely need more advanced features (and if I do, I’ll probably use TeX anyway), but when it comes to more complex work with spreadsheets, I just find Excel to be smoother in usage. I don’t have enough experience in the field of UX to put a finger on why, nor would I likely have the skills or time to contribute fixes to LO Calc. I can settle for less out of ideology, but is that what you expect from people at large?

      The same applies with the transition to Linux in general: I’m technically versed enough that I’m confident I can probably fix any error I encounter. But until the public perception and tooling of Linux gets to the point that even non-techies can easily do the switch, it’s not going to see widespread adoption.

      I love FOSS. I love Linux. I want to see them replace proprietary monopolies as much as possible.

      But the presentation matters.

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But we’ll be using it for the good of humanity here… oh

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    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No no it’s fine it’s just that if we want people to behave and think in certain ways, we can shape that by controlling what language they have available to express certain fuck I’m doing it too, aren’t I?

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• pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wet bulb is terrifying because it reminds me of my thermodynamics class

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most people never have a thermodynamics class though. To them “wet bulb” sounds like a piece of medical equipment.

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  • brophy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No offense, but to the uninformed, wet bulb could as easily recover images of spring flowers in cool spring morning dew.

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• CummandoX@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s what the media does to make you feel like it’s not that big of a deal.

  Do you remember when it used to be called global warming instead of climate change…

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  • Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we mostly stopped using that term because conservative idiots keep saying “it got cold outside once so global warming isn’t real”

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    Interesting

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