Lumidaub
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- Comment on Are You Using AI for Content Creation Yet? It Changed Everything for Me 1 day ago:
I’d be VERY interested in seeing that ominous “content”. You’re very humble, not even providing links to whatever “content” you’re producing. You must be serious about wanting to discuss this instead of promoting your “content”.
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 day ago:
Yeah, I’m fine with being reminded of our country’s past again and again if it means others don’t do the same bullshit.
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 1 day ago:
complete waste of a life not to act your age
How does that connect in any way?
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 day ago:
Believe it or not, we’d prefer no fascists anywhere.
- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 3 days ago:
They can have rational reasons for their anger but be aware of the fact that they needn’t be quite as angry as they are, that the extent of their anger is irrational. The two things are unrelated.
- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 3 days ago:
Don’t ask me, I just try my very best not to be annoyed at this stuff :)
- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 3 days ago:
inb4 words change meaning over time
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Do you not hear the words in your head while reading?
- Comment on EXO-6 Brings the Gorn to Life With New Star Trek: The Original Series 1:6-Scale Action Figure 6 days ago:
I do NOT understand how they seem unable to capitalise on the ENDLESS opportunities for official merch. The money I’d spent if show accurate replicas were more easily available. I just wanted a TOS/SNW era tricorder (would’ve accepted cheap plastic and no electronics in it whatsoever) and also be able to eat that month. Even just the various uniforms, my god, they can’t be that expensive if you’re mass producing them? Instead I have to go to some Chinese ebay sellers and HOPE I get the correct sizes.
- Comment on literature 6 days ago:
Their phones contain AO3.
- Comment on literature 6 days ago:
If I had kids, I’d rather they stay on their phone.
- Comment on EXO-6 Brings the Gorn to Life With New Star Trek: The Original Series 1:6-Scale Action Figure 6 days ago:
Very. And also goofy.
- Comment on EXO-6 Brings the Gorn to Life With New Star Trek: The Original Series 1:6-Scale Action Figure 6 days ago:
Good idea to remind people how goofy Gorn look like when they’re set to return starting next week as budget xenomorphs. ;)
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 6 days ago:
ㅋㅋ which is “lol”
Gamers may be familiar with “kkkkkk” because that’s what you’d type on a keyboard to get ㅋ :D
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 6 days ago:
First things that comes to mind: Japanese for “to laugh” is 笑う “warau”. The equivalent of “lol” then started as 笑. Over time it evolved into just the first Latin letter “wwwww”. Which kind of looks like grass. And because Japanese people love word play, logically the next step was 草 “kusa” - which means “grass” and now also “lol”.
Anyway, sentences in languages that use logograms, such as Japanese, are generally shorter since they just use one character where languages that use Latin letters need several (“Want to hang out tonight after school?” - 授業後今晩遊ぼう？). So standard text message character limits are plenty to convey A LOT of stuff in Japanese.
You can make sentences more compact if you want to: 今晩 遊？ is not a complete sentence but the essential parts that carry the meaning, “this evening” and “hang out”, are there so if you’re in a hurry that’ll do.
Going further back in time might be more interesting, the Japanese did some crazy shit with pagers: japanesewithanime.com/…/spelling-words-using-numb…
- Comment on I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter. 1 week ago:
By driving my car thoughtfully, the fuel lasts longer. It follow that more thoughtfulness will enlarge my car’s fuel tank.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 week ago:
And here I was thinking I was showing you some life-altering possibilities you hadn’t considered lol
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 week ago:
Don’t ask me, there is effectively one (1) brand of methylphenidate available for adults where I am and it’s not Ritalin.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 week ago:
Don’t ask if you might not like the answer :/
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 week ago:
Congratulations, you may have ADHD (one of us one of us <cheer>). The applicable drugs are dopamine reuptake inhibitors (such as Ritalin).
- Comment on [2025] Canvas in ONE WEEK 1 week ago:
oh boy oh boy <3
- Comment on Why do so many people believe that Tycho Brahe died from a burst bladder, when it's impossible to voluntarily hold it in until your bladder ruptures? 1 week ago:
Bodily functions that should be automatic fail all the time, for bullshit reasons, why not that one? Not that I have any strong feelings about that story but I don’t think it’s entirely outrageous to imagine. I’m aware that I may lack vital information about human anatomy - but so do the people you’re talking about.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
I have given an alternative explanation for the existence of morality which is in line with current science, such as our understanding of evolution. This, at the very least, disproves your notion that there is no other explanation for morality than religion and spirituality. It may not prove that religion and spirituality ISN’T the explanation, if that makes you happy. I refuse to go into broader topics such as the entirety of human behaviour.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
I have made my point, you just don’t want to accept it.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
You may want to answer my question “When did you learn that hurting was wrong and who taught you?” again considering you were a baby without definable consciousness.
People rarely learn stuff all at once but gradually and in stages.
You are free to provide examples if you want me to agree with you.
I guess I won’t provide any examples then.
Which means that spiritual and religious belief structures would have been required for us to advance to where we are today, which was my entire point, based on your idea of “inherent”. Even though again, nothing is “inherent” regarding moral belief.
That does not follow from what I said.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
Yes I am sure the first time you were hurt as a baby, before conscious thought even kicked in, you suddenly knew what was “morally correct”.
I dud not say that.
There is no such thing as “inherent” traits. If that were true no human would hurt another human because we all would be coded not to do that and wouldn’t need someone to tell you what is wrong and right.
There are, believe it or not, more things besides empathy that determine human behaviour. Weird, complicated creatures.
If all evidence suggests that groups of humans have all had a spiritual belief structure I think it is safe to assume that as a requirement for a consistent, and easy to communicate “moral code”.
That just means humans akso have an inherent wish to understand and explain things, even when they don’t have the necessary means yet.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
When did you learn that hurting was wrong and who taught you?
The first time something hurt me and I didn’t like it.
My human, inherent empathy then led me to the conclusion that I don’t want other people to be hurt needlessly. Yes, empathy is indeed inherent and has evolutionary roots. I absolutely can’t explain that entire framework here, you could read The Selfish Gene for example.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
And to determine that, “I won’t hurt you if you don’t hurt me” and “does this hurt someone?” isn’t enough as a starting point?
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
Define “morality”.
- Comment on GMO new fruit trees 1 week ago:
That’s already happening and people are very mad about it because they think the plants are going to eat them.