TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on Duckeo, Duckeo, wherefor art thou? 19 hours ago:
My pool is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- Comment on congrats to Egypt 1 day ago:
Once Egypt’s wives stole chancla techniques from Latin America and repurposed them for use with thick, leather sandals, they became unstoppable.
- Comment on Form over function 2 days ago:
laugh track
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 4 days ago:
Well when you put it that convincingly, assuming women’s vaginal odor is supernaturally pronounced and something everyone you meet is unrealistically preoccupied with and disgusted by – a belief plausibly tied into childhood trauma – doesn’t sound like body dysmorphia at all.
I’ll put up the DSM-V’s criteria here which are similar to the ICD-11’s.
I don’t see anything else better describing this ©*, and it evidently causes significant distress (B), because a) they’re saying it does, and b) this mindset sounds highly distressing.
(A) is slightly complicated by the fact that, in this paranoia, she thinks she’s the exception among women. It’s still a deeply negative, unhealthy preoccupation with a body part that she thinks she’s constantly judged by others for but in reality probably never has been; I think any psychologist would recognize this as a minor variation on typical BDD.
* There might be comorbid gender dysmorphia, but that doesn’t fully explain this specific paranoia.
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 4 days ago:
This sounds like body dysmorphia.
- Comment on YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more 5 days ago:
I know you mean it and aren’t coming at this from the usual angle of clickbait, but
spoiler
doesn’t saying that when Alec deliberately added a fakeout ending spoil the original intent of the art? Aren’t you tainting arguably the best moment of the video for the person who watches it? The fakeout only lasts a few seconds while Alec stares ominously into the camera, so there’s very minimal chance after an hour watching a thoughtful, argumentative video that somebody’s going to immediately click on the next thing.
- Comment on YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more 5 days ago:
I can confirm that Alec does not disappoint in this video.
- Comment on As Lemmy's Ice beans the only ICE we need, right? 5 days ago:
Light brown legumes suspended in a crystaline structure? Basically the same thing.
- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 1 week ago:
You’re getting downvoted for pointing out that this technology, at optimal efficiency on Earth, generates about 1/100,000 that of a solar panel. “Not very useful” is an understatement (it’s currently fucking useless). Even worse: the title saying “at night” implies a terrestrial usage and misdirects from this technology’s only potential useful application in the future once and if it becomes much better – namely on deep-space missions.
- Comment on They'll tell you 1 week ago:
The crossfit where I live shut down a few years ago because the whole crew were sleeping with each other’s spouses and everyone figured it out and had a huge fight and everyone quit the gym. Whackos.
Okay, to be fair, at a kind of crummy regular gym I went to, all the staff were fucking all the other staff. I’m not sure I blame this on CrossFit.
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
Petition to make the names less confusing by naming the northern one to “Bear” and the southern one to “Twink”.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 week ago:
I apparently smell like checks notes forest. That actually made me look at the fragrant ingredients: aloe vera juice, rosemary, parsley, sage, and “fragrance”. I mean sure: put those together in one place, and bam! Forest.
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 1 week ago:
Did a recent poll come out? The last poll I saw in August 2025 (The Economist/YouGov) saw him at 31% total (page 29). A reduction to essentially 1/3 of that seems pretty farfetched.
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 1 week ago:
Jaguars are the leading cause of male-pattern baldness.
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 1 week ago:
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 1 week ago:
It’s a trick. The jaguars killed Sebastián and used his phone to lure in more prey.
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 1 week ago:
If you really want “beast of Satan” territory (imo, Poltys are just very cryptic):
- For behavior, I’m going to appeal to the Brazilian wandering spider which is extremely aggressive, likes to hide in human living spaces, is mobile, and is severely venomous (including causing a painful priapism).
- For prey, going with the Goliath birdeater. I think tarantulas are cute, but this one has the legspan of a fucking dinner plate, weighs up to like a 1/5 of a kilo, has a massive body, has 5 cm fangs, and is large enough to prey on small terrestrial vertebrates.
- For sheer vibes, going with the giant huntsman spider. It lives in caves in Laos, has a legspan of up to 30 cm like the Goliath birdeater (but proportionally smaller body, amplifying the creepiness), was only discovered in 2001 despite being so huge, and as a huntsman is probably fast as fuck. Unsure about the venom; I’ve never researched it.
Not putting any of these images here in case anyone’s arachnophobic. Exposure therapy only works if you build yourself up to it, and I don’t want anybody to miss out on a chance to come to appreciate spiders.
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 1 week ago:
Looks like a species from the genus Poltys.
- Comment on Bugger! 2 weeks ago:
two men
lacks ambition
- Comment on low beans 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy users in crisis
- Comment on Mandola effect 2 weeks ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
ICE agents getting an interesting mix of Vietnam and Iraq.
- Comment on Mandola effect 2 weeks ago:
“What is this, some kind of fight club?”
- Comment on Hey there 4 eyes 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the relevant Nature article about specimens from the early vertebrate genus Haikouichthys.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
The post is just an ad disguised as a guide
That said:
its obvious they want to be like google but with “privacy” as a gimmic because its only private until they get a government order telling them to do something to unmask a user or monitor an email.
Besides the fact that Proton is based in Switzerland where government warrants aren’t issued willy-nilly, please learn how the mathematics behind encryption works – or, if not, at least trust that it does. For emails that are sent E2EE, Proton can only have garbled data that requires a key they don’t have.
You’re just constantly talking out your ass, and I have no idea why; it’s so unearned. Like I’m not going to debate you on whether ads or corporations are good because a) I broadly agree and b) that’s just, like, our opinions, man, but then you just say shit that’s so demonstrably untrue that all I can think is: “I fucking hate what this decade has done to people.”
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Before I address the substance: that’s not what an ad hominem is in the context of an argument. I’d already 100% finished attacking the substance of their argument. An ad hominem would be if I fallaciously appealed to a personal characteristic (real or otherwise) to attack an argument of theirs. “You’re wrong because you’re a dipshit”.
Anyway: man, I dunno. It’s 2026, and I’ve gotten really fucking sick of being asymmetrically bound by etiquette when Brandolini’s law and the Dunning–Kruger effect are being stretched to their limits by insufferable, insolent shitheads who’ve unburdened thenselves of critical thinking and assume having a platform to the entire world makes them qualified to say anything about everything (I can fall into this trap too, but holy shit sometimes).
I was still more polite than they were, still exercised more critical thought than they did, and still addressed the substance, and that’s fine enough by me not to tone police myself.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
but i guess thats why I don’t work in marketing
Yeah, I guess it is, because this article works in Proton’s favor on multiple levels:
- Plenty of Proton users have switched over from Gmail and still have their old account and still, even with forwarding, occasionally need to use those old addresses.
- People who search for a guide who’ve never or rarely heard of Proton might end up on their site and read a guide that lambasts Google’s usage of AI.
- Meanwhile, Proton’s alternative product is being advertised everywhere on the page outside the guide and even is advertised within it.
- These guides are going to exist anyway (many, in fact). You’re acting like this is some extremely niche thing users might want to do. Having your own guide but poisoned with your marketing when you’re the underdog is a sound idea.
- This gives a benevolent image of “Good Guy Proton” who just wants to keep people’s data private regardless of business – and a “Bad Guy Google” image because it’s apparently so dire that their competition has to do this.
You’re so smarmy about this but just come off as a complete dipshit who gave this two seconds of thought.
- Comment on Found the perfect dish for Valentine's day 2 weeks ago:
Thick noodles served with broth from a certain point of view.
- Comment on can you? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bet the babies who eat around the box are the same ones who’d throw a fit if their parents didn’t cut the crust off their sandwiches.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.
Okay, Sabine, whatever you say.
