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- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 3 days ago:
Don’t fold them diagonally before wringing them out.
Who does that?
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 3 days ago:
Ah that’s why he’s small and bald: he cleans so hard he scrapes a layer of himself off every time.
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 1 week ago:
- Comment on If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race? 1 week ago:
r?
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Teach him kindly and lead him to be a better man. Only if he will not be led, cut him down with a regretful stroke and send him to Buddha.
Just for entertainment, I’m going to assume your post was a Markdown equivalent of “teaching kindly”
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 1 week ago:
Fun on paper, but… then imagine people generating their theories to justify why, eg. RFK Jr lost to Musk or vice versa.
We should not be talking about why “shithead x is actually not so bad as shithead y”, we should be isolating before NASA can actually send BOTH of them to Mars where they belong.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 1 week ago:
And you stare at it forever and wonder what you could have done better.
Or move on after realizing that there’s no way you’re going to learn stuff without doing a LOT of stuff, most of which won’t work out or even go anywhere, and it’s perfectly normal and fine to have lots of unfinished/dead/dormant/abandoned/(call-them-whatever-helps-you-move-on) projects.
- Comment on I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough 1 week ago:
Call me a grumpy stubborn old hacker if you want, but no thanks I prefer printf shower.
- Comment on I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient? 1 week ago:
I wonder if anything exists beyond the context of me writing this comment on Lemmy right now.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
It’s called “khlute”. (From now on–I made it up.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Man I’m 45 and I don’t blame the youth for any problems now. But maybe I’m just charging my blame lasers so that I can go even harder when I’m 65. Like, “when I was younger I never blamed the youths for problems but NOW, with YOU it’s justified!”.
- Comment on A hotdog should be the opposite of a cool cat, but it's not. 1 month ago:
Cats and dogs have more in common than you think.
For example, did you know that both cats and dogs have four legs? Yeah… There’s even more similarities, I hear…
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 month ago:
Not acting “for free” does not mean zero-sum game.
I am no expert but I don’t think nations need to (or do, in general) operate on a zero-sum game. Actions can benefit both sides.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
I call it a (wo…)manmade organised dogmatic religion. Sure, it might be just with a member of one (which is kinda cool and all and probably makes the organizing part a little bit easier) but it’s still kind of the same thing…
But seriously, it really depends on the details on such belief. It might be anything from harmless cope to superstition to delusion to paranoia. Or a first brave step in escaping a cult–which I would genuinely applaud.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
It loosely reminds everyone of everything because “other planes of existence” is an all-encompassing meaningless term.
Just about every religion or fiction fits this, because they can–and do-- say “oh but it’s in oThEr pLaNeS oF eXiStEnCe!”. Which is a silly excuse because just about only concrete property that “other plane of existence” implies is that things on beings on it can’t affect things or beings on this plane of existence, so any theory (as in “has to make useful, verifiable predictions”) involving interactions between planes of existence is kind of dead on arrival.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
Someone has to teach those little gangstas how extortion is done.
Well at least you tried…
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
I see, So that’s what the jack-o-lanterns are for?
So they are actually not lanterns but temporary toilets, but then someone got an idea to put candles in them so that it at least makes the “trick” part kind of uncomfortable. Right?
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 month ago:
OT, but the comment under the video is pure gold:
“Sharks have a similar metaphor, ‘swam under the Fonzie’.”
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
I usually dry inside and I make sure to turn stuff inside out before hanging it on the rack but I do it because I believe it dries better when things like pockets can be stretched out.
UV is a great point, I never realized that.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
So it looks like I’ve been doing it all wrong all the time. Especially with hoodies, there’s always a t-shirt under them, so the “dirtier” side of the hoodie is more likely to be the outside.
With jeans it’s kind of the same, assuming not too much sweating (and proper underwear turnaround).
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
Just about the only thing I remember was that my mom always said that one should zip them up and not leave the zipper open – specifically so that it does not clank around and perhaps scratch the washing machine drum or get its tiny teeth brush and the moving part tangled with other, softer garments.
Turning the hoodie inside out might mitigate that a little bit more, but not much…
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- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 1 month ago:
…or any inanimate objects, really.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 1 month ago:
LOL next time I wait for tram I’ll just imagine meaningless alien symbol arrive instead of it. :D
But really, I think the abstraction is kind of fascinating. The “closeness” of a route 34 to route 36 means nothing. Or the number of “34” in route 34 has nothing to do with gate 34 on an airport. So much is kind of obvious to most adult humans. (I think–and I suppose there might be interesting cases with neurodiversity.)
Now what if instead of numbers it was happy cartoon-like animal symbols like they use in day cares. Again, I can state the obvious: duck is a bird and hen is a bird, but the “duck route” and “hen route” don’t need to have anything to do with each other. And sure, duck route and duck airport terminal have nothing to do with each other as well. Again, sort of obvious, right?
Then if it’s alien symbols: sure, now I can’t do the connections like “32 vs 34” or “duck vs hen” anymore, can’t I? Well … no matter meaning in any other context, as long as I can recognize difference between two symbols I can also recognize similarity between other potential pair of symbols. Eg. if two alien symbols had a dominant vertical line then I could still have the same space for connections.
My point is that this need of separating the abstraction from concretion is inevitable, regardless of whether the symbol has a conflicting meaning used elsewhere. As long as we attach some understanding to the symbols, there are still some relations we might want to attach to them. That’s even if we did not use the same symbols elsewhere, which we do.
The next stage of the thought experiment: what if it’s not symbols but just the real things. Can I recognize a tram from another one? (Literally one physical vehicle from another?) Well it would be really hard but actually also counter-productive in the modern world, because the whole point of the abstraction in those arbitrary numbers is that they represent the route – which is also completely abstract concept. Ie. it does not have to be the same vehicle, and the same vehicle could be re-assigned to another route.
I don’t know where on this axis would the radio frequencies mentioned in OP be placed, though. Frequencies exist in range(s) so a certain frequency currently on your radio receiver being higher or lower than the target one does tell you how to twist the knob. (Yeah, I’m 45 years old so I have used analog radio, although it was like 30 years ago…) There must be at least one other axis to it.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
honestly with drawings like that I half expected at least one panel be involving bloodletting
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
wow, so Trump is doing “Liberatem resigno” (“I give up my freedom”) but with rubber shackles.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
Still, maybe if Zucc did it people would actually find him cool.
(“Cool” as in, like an average politician, which is still way cooler than he is now.)
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
LOL that’s why I will never be a politician. I would be so frustrated by not being allowed to touch my face! The irony of it would just overwhelm me.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 1 month ago:
We sort of do, sometimes, at some point, “stop” reading.
For example, I live in a city. My stop is served by about 5 different routes, but since I’m so close to center, the remaining part of the route is basically the same for 3 out of 5 of these. Most trips go to center though, the one that does not only goes once an hour, while the rest total up to maybe 25 per hour. (One of those takes significantly longer but would still get me there.)
Initially I would read the signage, but eventually I don’t think I really need to, since in 99.9% of cases I can just see a big thing arriving and hop on it. That’s because I already have the context of where I am, what is the time and what kinds of trips are likely. Also, the 3 optimal routes are served by tram and 2 trolley buses, while the one “bad” route is served by a regular-sized bus and the one “sub-optimal” route is served by a long bus. So just by looking at the shape of thing is arriving (or listening to the sound it’s making) I can already make a really good guess if it’s ok for me.
So my (kinda weak) point is in really common situations we kind of stop needing to look at (or even stop looking at) the numbers, although we would still remember them for other reasons.
- Comment on I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing. 2 months ago:
“job” … I mean, I barely did anything but I’m happy to take the paycheck for my grandgrandgrand…(cell, or a weird pool of mixing liquids or whatever…)
