Apepollo11

@Apepollo11@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Boost shows that it was edited :|

  In any case, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that I made a mistake in my original reply.

  Screenshot from the Boost app

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Racist "Stop The Boats" effigy lit in Northern Ireland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Burning effigies of migrants might be, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong.

  I wish I could see the edit timestamps on Lemmy, because I’m sure that comment was different.

  The stupid thing is, I’d originally written the comment with quotes to point it out, then chopped it back because I realised that I was massively overexplaining it. Those quotes would have been handy now!

  Then again, it’s not impossible that I made a mistake then too!

  I’ll leave my comment up, but strike it out so it’s not misleading, but this still makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone ever read the book series “Biff, Chip & Kipper” as a kid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here - my kids had these, but I’m of the generation raised on Roger Red Hat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ‘American Dream’ is slipping away in these U.S. cities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that - even though it was utterly depressing!

  I live in the North of England, near Manchester, so I know our house prices are more reasonable than some other places, but I wasn’t expecting that I’d need to earn the value of our house annually to get a Mortgage in San Jose. That’s crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people are downvoting you because there are two "effect"s in there.

  The first is right, the second is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. The baby doesn’t understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).

  2. The mother understands English

  3. The baby experiences the same emotions as the mother.

  In conclusion, read something that will make the mother relaxed and happy. If that happens to be The Cat In The Hat, then great. I read Don Quixote when my wife was pregnant with our first, our second got Moomin and Hairy Maclary (by virtue of being there when I read to the first).

  The most important thing is to keep reading to them, every day, after they’re born too. Buy tons of children’s books (for your own sanity), do the voices and have fun with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ‘American Dream’ is slipping away in these U.S. cities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It says “Access to this page has been denied” for me, so I’m just going to assume it’s a list of every US city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to know about websites ending with .onion Is there anybody who can tell me more about this ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try Gary Glitter.

  (Context)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see two possibilities:

  • You get paid for posting this kind of nonsense - in which case then I get it, everyone has to make a living.

  • Your brain is actually broken

  A quick run through your recent posts have shown that you’re actually the author of some of the worst posts I’ve come across on here, so kudos. But I’m afraid it’s now a “no” from me, and I’ll be blocking you from now on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love these kinds of stories, but I think that specific example is a misunderstanding of idioms, rather than an example of pretending something isn’t happening, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  20 - although that’s regardless of the season. I only ever wear pjs to bed if I’m ill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Engrish-like community in here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s that insane t-shirt in all its glory.

  T-shirt with stating “Nither down on some it own american films the innocent sucker dupe speak to me blow-in baited onself because this way. Chiken just pain sent I hope come together up on the naked out-colling Rizy up road a little fat-man. BEAT SOMEWHERE”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Engrish-like community in here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one I encountered on Reddit (way back when) was more focused on occasions where slightly wonky translations led to funny results, rather than just making fun of bad translations, or the people who wrote them.

  E.g.

  • The now-famous “Do Not Want” meme
  • The German translation section that included the Nazi flag instead of the current Germany one.
  • The utter nonsense written on a t-shirt I bought last time I was in Japan “Nither down on some it own american films the innocent sucker dupe speak to me blow-in baited onself because this way. Chiken just pain sent I hope come together up on the naked out-colling Rizy up road a little fat-man. BEAT SOMEWHERE”

  It’s like the posts showing unnecessary quotation marks on signs - it’s not about making fun of the people who wrote the sign, it’s funny because it now conveys something else.

  E.g., a sign outside a farm offering Fresh brown “eggs” for sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to suggest the same guy. His stuff is brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or something went wrong and they somehow seduced an entire nursery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% recommend these.

  You can get remastered versions on Steam (Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are both excellent).

  Simon the Sorcerer is also in this genre, very funny, and voiced by Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll roll out

  “What about the good things Hitler did?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨miniature figurines filament?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use ESUN PLA+ for printing minis and would recommend it to anyone.

  For reference, the only filament I’ve used that came out nicer was SUNLU high-speed PLA, but would NOT recommend for minis (it can’t cope with the constant retractions).

  Oh, and also prime your models before painting them. I just use ordinary spray primer that you can get for dirt cheap - Tetrosyl Trade Spray / Hycote / Motip are all good brands. Just make sure you don’t get gloss finish and you’ll be fine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you really don’t have a preference for one or the other, it might be worth keeping an eye on the future.

  People’s jobs, especially expensive jobs, are going to be replaced by software.

  So ask yourself:

  • What does an accountant do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?

  • What does a lawyer do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?

  • What does a doctor do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?

  From where I’m sitting, medicine seems the safest bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so you have BMWs in the States as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you charge an electric car without a credit card?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were doing so to find out which country you lived in, since you neglected to provide that information yourself.

  I’m British, I charge my car at home, and on the few occasions I use public chargers, I interface with and pay for them through apps.

  Knowing that you are from the US, though, means that YMMV. Your home electric supplies have significantly lower voltage than here in Europe, so home charging might be a less viable option.

  They weren’t being creepy, they were trying to give you a helpful answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is white light "white" because that's what our start emits?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Kind of. Probably.

  What we have is an issue with terminology. The thing is, “white” only makes sense when specifically referring to human vision.

  Our eyes have cells (cone cells) that are tuned to specific wavelengths in the EM spectrum. Three different wavelengths - one set of cone cells peak at 560nm that we see as Red, one at 530nm that we see as Green, and one at 420nm that we see as Blue.

  “White” is just our interpretation of a strong signal in these three frequencies.

  If, everything else being equal, our cones cells responded to higher wavelengths that our eyes can’t currently see, then our “white” might easily be what we see as “red” now, because we’d be also seeing the infra-red that we’re currently not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say that, that was the guy you replied to before. I replied to your response to him, so I can see how the mixup happened though.

  All I was saying is that there are no good guys here, and I’ve seen no evidence that anyone is implying anything other than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which people, though?

  Neither the article, nor the OP are saying anything that could remotely be construed as support for Hamas. As far as I can see, nobody in the comments is either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love your commitment to spelling “hampster” with a “p”. At first I thought it was a typo, but now I see it’s crucial to the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to be sympathetic but alarm bells are ringing with the immediate juxtaposition of “that’s all fine but I genuinely begin to develop feelings for her” and “I just don’t really care all that much for a friendship”.

  If the issue was that painful to be around her until you can work the feelings out, then that wouldn’t be half as bad as saying that she’s not worth keeping as a friend if you can’t date her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At the end of the day, isn’t that just how we work, though? We tokenise information, make connections between these tokens and regurgitate them in ways that we’ve been trained to do.

  Even our “novel” ideas are always derivative of something we’ve encountered. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t make any sense to us.

  Describing current AI models as “Fancy auto-complete” feels like describing electric cars as “fancy Scalextric”. Neither are completely wrong, but they’re both massively over-reductive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are their any romance movies where there is a male protagonist who is a part of the manosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So kind of like Taming of the Shrew but more so?

  Instead of it being a man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse, it’s a woman-hating man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse?

  Even if it did exist, I’m not sure it’d be that watchable. Taming of the Shrew is pretty dubious as it is, but it was written over 400 years ago, so it can be excused somewhat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Username checks out…