Acamon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What looks realistic on screen is carefully pieced together from countless shots. An erotic moment feels much less hot if it’s the 29th time you’ve performed the exact same moment, and there’s a dozen guys standing around holding microphone booms and complaining about the lighting not being right, and some dude keeps sending for more fake sweat to reapply to your forehead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marriage is FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know a single person who would marry for that sort of reason. But the people I know weren’t under any pressure to get married. Some of them are single, some are in long term committed relationships with kids, and some are married.

  Maybe if you live in a subculture that expects people to get married by a certain age this is an OK take. But it’s so far from what I see that it seems like a really niche perspective on a complex cultural institution.

• I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was today years old when I relaised that “gag” in that phrase presumably means “make me vomit” not “silence me”. I’ve spent many decades being confused about that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK 4get is a privacy respecting proxy search engine that can be self hosted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s a vibe…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK 4get is a privacy respecting proxy search engine that can be self hosted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Screenshot of the search engine with a comic saying “I was born for the sake of punching women!!!”

  Is this some reference I’m missing? Or just a weird misogynistic drawing? Ngl, kinda off putting…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I don’t think children should watch porn, and tbh, I’d personally be fine if all porn was magically banned for everyone. But short of magic, that isn’t possible. Allowing a government to decide what is and isn’t banned, and justify controlling access to information while inevitably failing to actually prevent children accessing porn… is a terrible idea.

  The negative costs don’t outweigh the plausible benefits. And if OP continues to claim that the debate is all porn addicts hoeny for filth then they are simply trolling and not genuinely interested in the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always heard the “half your age plus seven” rule (mostly somewhat jokingly) for the appropriate minimum age of your partner. But I read somewhere that it’s origin is from some 18th century manual for finding a wife, wherein it indicated the MAX age of an appropriate wife…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only on tape, but some radio shows would transmit computer programs that you could record and use. I know of the UK and Finland, but I think other European countries did it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For you, what’s the value in reading the exact minute? (genuine question, not snark!) In your example it looks like it’s 9:23 but it’s actually 9:22:45… Is that a problem? Probably by the time you do anything with that information fifteen seconds will have passed and it will be 9:23.

  For most people, I think analogue is more of vibes way of telling time. You don’t need to know that it’s 7:47 you just glance and see it’s almost ten to eight, and you have to leave soon. I find that I’m basically translating digital time into those approximation anyway. If you like that kinda vagueness and have an android watch then I’d recommend Twelveish as a watch face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "AI" the end of truth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some kids make fake ‘fairy’ photos in 1917 and lots of people believed them. As others have mentioned, the USSR removed people from photographs. A forged will in the middle ages let the papacy claim authority over Europe, and shaped the western world as we know it today.

  There have always been lies and fakes, and there’s always people who’ve ignored real evidence claiming it’s been fake. AI certainly makes things worse, and will be used to discredit legitimate evidence as much as it is used to fake shit. But humanity has lived most of its existence without a “pics or it didn’t happen” attitude, and will continue to figure stuff out (and make mistakes) through investigation, interpersonal trust and community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a paper that summarises the issue. Perhaps “animal products contain cholesterol” feels new to you but obvious to other people is a generational thing. From the 1960s onwards there was a big push to stop people eating butter, eggs and meat because they contained cholesterol, and high cholesterol in your blood was a bad thing in people.

  But by the 1990s the evidence was piling up that there wasn’t a direct link between cholesterol in food and harmful cholesterol in your blood. In fact there are important ‘good’ cholesterol that reduce heart disease risks. And the recommendations to avoid cholesterol and fats in general have been responsible for lots of poor advice and health outcomes, as people replaced natural animal based fats like butter, not with healthy olive oil, but problematic processed fats like margarine and vegetable oil. Or ate low fat food that was high in sugar, which can raise harmful blood cholesterol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that’s Scotland, not England (Glasgow to be specific). But yeah, the British government decided carrying a Palestine Action sign was basically terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do i make my own limitation free ai?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone with a home computer and very little knowledge of AI could setup an AI that could do admin jobs for software companies … Why wouldn’t the software companies do exactly that themselves rather than outsource work?

  I think you’re massively overestimating what a LLM is capable of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the political climate, non state organisations can help resolve community issues and provide protection, while the official government views them as gangs / terrorists. For example, in Northern Ireland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea would be that the existence of suffering gives life meaning. By knowing that the risk of suffering is always there, we strive to avoid it and value our pleasures more because we can compare them to an unpleasant alternative.

  How true “an existence without suffering would be meaningless” is open to debate, but there’s at least some day to day support. If you’ve ever been really hungry and demolished some fairly average meal while finding it delicious, or had the best glass of ice water after walking in the heat, you get that. And if we think of rich, entitled people, who appear to have no conception of how fortunate they are, instead getting upset about minor inconveniences, it gives you some indication of what life with less suffering might be like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Married and swear by seperate beds. It’s amazing if you’ve got the space. But it is good to make sure you get plenty of “lying about in bed together” time. But it’s great to be able to go off to your own bed after for a peaceful, undisturbed sleep. and5 being able to read a night or get dressed in the morning without worrying about disturbing your partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the basic Buddhist / stoic idea? Avoiding suffering entirely isn’t possible, and obsessing about evading it is itself a heavy burden, instead choose to accept and be at peace with the suffering that is beyond your control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient food are absurdly complicated.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that the the claim that medieval people needed to drink beer because water wasn’t safe to drink is a bit of a myth. They built aquaducts, dug wells, etc.

  As far as I understand it, it was more to do with preference (beer is great!) and calories. Beer was a good way to turn grains into easily quaffed liquid meals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love them! Generally find that once you get one it’s a lot easier. I find that if I’ve not looked at one for a while, and 8k kit getting it, and I go back to the first one I got (some boxing kangaroos) and normally it just clicks again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical frameworks are detrimental to Scientific Study because Science is by nature unethical.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a bunch of people posting civil and reasonable issues with the thinking behind your shower thought, and then you replying in an immature and disingenuous manner. I think the contrasting upvotes / downvotes in your comments vs everyone elses suggests that my interpretation is shared by the wider community.

  I almost didn’t comment because I thought from your behaviour it was obvious trolling, and there’s no point reasoning with trolls. But looking through your post history, you seem like you’re generally posting on good faith, so I thought I’d try and explain that you do not need to react so defensively to legitamate discussion and disagreement.

  A shower thought doesn’t need to be factually correct to be interesting, but when you post a pretty extreme take on a serious and sensitive subject, it isn’t surprising that people are going to clarify where you’ve gone wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical frameworks are detrimental to Scientific Study because Science is by nature unethical.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t debate club.

  If people aren’t suppose to discuss and possibly disagree, why post? What do you think is the purpose of the showerthoughts community?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you even find companies to work with ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try doing some searches for companies in your area that do the sort of work your interested. Most of them will have some public facing site for attracting customers or just for corporate image. Then you can normally find an email or social media details to get in touch and explain what you can offer.

  And if the way you have to contact them is LinkedIn you might have to just suck it up. Almost no one who uses LinkedIn likes it. Like most things about employment, people just figure out how to give the right image for the industry they want to work in, and put on that professional front whenever they have to deal with the constant stream of bullshit. So if that means writing an upbeat “I think I could offer a lot of skills and passion to contribute to your organisation inspiring mission” type message to a 50yo self-centered ceo then, well, that’s how you get jobs sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up to half of the earth's population doesn't have an inner monologue, up to half of the earth has never had a shower thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are completely misrepresenting the literature in the field. There has been decades of research on inner monologues, but whether anyone truly has no inner monologue is still a matter of debate, and suggesting that it could be as much as 50% is absolutely wild.

  One recent example is Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024), who used questionnaires on 1,037 participants and found no one who reported a complete lack of inner speech. They did show a link between lower frequency of internal speech and lower performance on sole verbal cognitive tasks.

  But this was frequently misreported in popular science news, which may be where you got the idea. For example, Science Daily’s headline “People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory” and subheading “Between 5-10 per cent of the population do not experience an inner voice” certainly make some bold claims (although still well below your “up to 50%” statistic). But just a few lines into the article it’s been rephrase as “between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of an inner voice”. This is more accurate, as all studies agree that there is a variety of experiences of inner voices / monologues, but a different experience is not the same as an absence.

  In another comment you make reference to the experience sampling study (where a buzzer would sound and participants would record whether they were experiencing an inner monologue) which I assume is the work of Heavey and Hurlburt. It’s true that they claim that 5 of their 30 participants recorded no instances of inner voice, but let’s be clear about what the experimental procedure was: the participant would turn on the buzzer, which would buzz at a random time (an average of every 30 minutes) and the study was based on two periods of five samples. So, ten data points collected over approx five hours.

  Even people with strong inner monologues report different frequencies of inner speech depending on their activities. Many people do not experience inner speech when actively engaging in other verbal activity - talking with friends, watching a video; while quiet focused activities such as golf show much higher reporting of inner speech. So the absence for five individuals of any inner speech during those ten particular samples is in no sense equievlant to “16% of peole have no inner monologue”. Indeed even the study’s authors acknowledge “it is possible that these participants may all have actually had quite similar inner experiences; it is merely the reports of those experiences that differed.”

  Tldr: I think you’re making some very wild claims about this subject, without posting sources. No significant study I know of claims that any sizable percentage of the population have no inner voice, (although there certainly is an interesting variety in how frequent and clearly it is experienced.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m older than you my friend, and it’s acurallt only something that I came to terms with in my 40s. When I was younger I did feel that pressure and expectation to complete stuff. Now I have no issue switching a movie off after an hour or stopping a book before the end. Life’s too short! And sure a story game I’m really enjoying, why wouldn’t i finish it? And play the sequel! But if I’ve played 100+ hours of skyrim without geting close to the end, and I don’t think it reduced my enjoyment. And if I’m getting bored of a metrovania I don’t see the point in grinding til it’s done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, finishing games is overrated. By the time you’re halfway through a game, you’ve seen a lot of what it’s going to offer in terms of style and gameplay. For sure, you’ll miss some amazing stuff if you don’t get to the end, but it’s hard to believe you miss as much as the new other game you could have half-completed in the same time.

  There are exceptions, and I defintely think completing at least a few games is important. But if I had the choice of only having fully played 20 games in my entire life, or 40 halfway, I’d defintely have learned more, experienced more and enjoyed myself more with the half-assed approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An Internet without privacy and encryption sounds awful. But one where it’s illegal to talk about politics and religion sounds pretty tempting at times…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no such thing as truly objective YouTube search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s been a very long time (if ever) that YouTube searches weren’t somewhat localised. If you live in an anglophone country you might not notice it, but YouTube wouldn’t have got very far if Germans got rodents instead of advice when searching “rat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most soups are just more watery hot bread dips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most salad dressings are just savoury cocktails

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids don't understand some times you just watch southpark to find out how kenny dies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those bastards!