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- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 33 minutes ago:
Pistachio ice cream was never red afaik, just the plain/salted nuts in shell. They also used to be way more expensive, so I only remember seeing them a couple times. I mostly just remember the color of my fingers after eating them.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 12 hours ago:
Every generation worries about the new one, but they haven’t actually had cause in the past.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 12 hours ago:
In the US at least, you might not convince people. I think every parent thinking about it imagines their child calling them during a school shooting to say I love you one last time.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 day ago:
It’s also about ten years out of date, 25 year olds today probably wouldn’t recognize this
- Comment on yes 1 day ago:
I always just assumed it was hard for the rest of your penis’ life, and after a certain point without adequate blood flow…
- Comment on Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today 2 days ago:
Hmm. Fiddleheads maybe? Ferns are some of the oldest plants and you can eat the fiddleheads of any fern that’s not poisonous (but be careful, a bunch of types are poisonous).
- Comment on The witch from Hansel and Gretel is the only person that's allowed to say "Home, sweet home." 2 days ago:
What if I have lead pipes?
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 3 days ago:
It later transpired that Langan, among others, had taken the Mega Test more than once by using a pseudonym. His first test score, under the name of Langan, was 42 out of 48 and his second attempt, as Hart, was 47.[12] The Mega Test was designed only to be taken once.[14][15] Membership of the Mega Society was meant to be for those with scores of 43 and upwards.
He’s a con, in more ways than one
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 4 days ago:
I can’t imagine that working out great for Gazans. Maybe Russia?
- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 5 days ago:
That or I’m cherry picking :P
The most important things about the fae for me are in order: likely to try and blend in poorly as a person; but also untrustworthy in a demon/fine print way; entrancing; subject to their own (unknown) rules; dangerous to give your true name to; and dangerous to accept gifts from. The rest of them aren’t inapplicable to modern ai, but they’re not as easy to explain, I guess.
Do you have different associations with the fae when I list them all out?
- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 5 days ago:
That’s an interesting theory, though I think the fae fits better with neurodivergence than other hominids. (Incomprehensible, different, follows strict rules, changelings, unpredictable, etc. I’m autistic and have been called all of the above multiple times)
But again, this is just a shower thought- I’m enjoying finding more overlaps, not actually convinced that we somehow had a computing society that disappeared and left no trace except for fairytales.
- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 5 days ago:
Oh yeah, that’s why I put “AI” in scare quotes and mentioned our current AI. This is just about the technology assisted masturbation that uses astonishing resources
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- Comment on Why you should always have an assistant 5 days ago:
I’d probably choose the cane over the shoes, too
- Comment on 6 days ago:
That’s some Žižek shit right there
- Comment on Saying "Be careful" when someone stumbles is more an admonishment than a warning. 1 week ago:
Every single time, my brain goes “no! Now I’m going to maim myself out of spite,” and then I feel like an asshole for (internally) responding like that to someone trying to help
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 2 weeks ago:
They’re easier than zucchini? Does that make keeping radishes from taking over their entire plots actually kind of difficult or do they just grow perfectly only where you plant them?
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 2 weeks ago:
I recognize that that type of comment is supposed to be a joke (and I’ll react accordingly, because I’m not a buzzkill), but it absolutely isn’t actually funny (ha-ha) for me.
- Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t wait until ICE goes to Nuremberg
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 2 weeks ago:
I like to think that historical humans prefer it that way, if it helps.
I want my name known to people who loved me and whose life I directly impacted. I like the concept of getting to know the larger human community, but I don’t think I’ll have failed if nobody remembers my name a hundred years after my death. If the choice is between my diary being found and read by people or my name forgotten, I’d prefer the latter.
- Comment on There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, is that a variation on an existing icon or did you just spitball a neat visual metaphor from scratch on the spot?
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 weeks ago:
Sure it is. We used to have crimped laundromat coins and if you put it in backwards, it wouldn’t work. This was baffling to people.
You’ve already made a significantly healthier assumption than that strangers seeing you in need want to lie to you
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been accused by multiple customers of lying to them about how to access our bathrooms. I have no idea what their lives are like that they assume strangers would just do that to them for no reason.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve bombed Americans in the US.
- Comment on PSA 3 weeks ago:
I’m probably an egg (by which I mean I’m pretty sure I’m trans and would love to take a pill right now to make it so that I had always been a dude, but I don’t know that I’d take one that turned me into a man now, because I don’t know if it’s worth it to explain it to everyone. I also don’t think I’m actually experiencing dysphoria, just aware that I’m probably a man. I think that counts as an egg for some people, trans and closeted for others, and probably cis [lol] for transmedicalists).
If I ever do come out, it’s probably going to seem sudden as fuck to a bunch of people, because I’ve already thought about it for years, so I’ll have everything planned out as efficiently as possible and ready to go the second I decide to transition. I’ll come out to people after I’ve started hormones and right before it becomes noticeable, which I’ll time to coincide with a top surgery (my mother died young of breast cancer that was diagnosed when she was within a few years of my age, and I’m medically eligible for a full mastectomy). That might be wishful thinking, but at least from here, I think I can be patient about it.
- Comment on Cronch 3 weeks ago:
Well…….not safely and legally, at least.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
Required to be published as a memoir.
Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.
No, you have to bring receipts.
Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
My sister wrote one and had a publishing deal for one (as a prize for winning an essay contest), but she couldn’t prove everything. The memoir was about her dealing with some deaths and getting sober, so the unverifiable bits were most of the story. This was right after the James Frey scandal, so the publishing company bought her out instead of trying to pare it down or chase down a bunch of non-recovering addicts to confirm years old details.
- Comment on science rules! 5 weeks ago:
I would have taken it like that from anyone else, but it’s so OOC that I checked the spelling to see if it was a novelty account