Mesophar
@Mesophar@pawb.social
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 6 days ago:
What about a sentient bowl of petunias that is falling to its “death”, again, and is the reincarnation of a rabbit, whale, fly, and cow? Or an android monk believing everything was the same shade of pink, making it too early to move from the spot it was on for fear of falling off a cliff, so it sat on the back of the (manufactured, organic) horse it was riding?
Yes, there can be multiple books that are weird or have weird stories. It doesn’t have the be the weirdest one to still be weird.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
This bit has nothing to do with America, we don’t have that kind of space between floors in residential buildings, either. You have plenty of real things to shit on us for, but this isn’t one of them.
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 1 week ago:
Good to know! I didn’t realize humans would radiate heat so much, I wrongly assumed it was more convective and relied on atmosphere
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 1 week ago:
Are you dissipating heat in a vacuum, though? Pressure shenanigans aside, would someone’s body heat slowly, continually build up, or would they freeze?
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
“Good luck! You’ll need it!”
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried wearing socks on, shoes off? I have never in my life been at a point where my feet were too cold for just socks indoors, have mostly lived with hardwood or tile flooring, and also live somewhere with fairly cold winters.
I just cannot fathom shoes-on arguments. Shoes can be so uncomfortable when lounging around the house.
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 3 weeks ago:
That is much more understandable xD also, a little jealous, that sounds nice
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 3 weeks ago:
Do you usually just walk back from the shower to your locker dripping water everywhere?
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 4 weeks ago:
I am in a position to see first hand people regularly dropping ~$4000USD on “mid-range” PCs. It hasn’t slowed down purchasing of PCs, if anything it is speeding up compared to this time last year.
- Comment on What a great idea 5 weeks ago:
No no, it’s not based on income, it’s based on social and spacial awareness. That’s just an example of one of the stores for the demographic left out of OPs idea!
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 month ago:
It is this, coupled with so many people not even knowing that they are using OneDrive (because it was automatically enabled if you have a Microsoft account linked to your Windows install, and Microsoft pushing to link your account).
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 month ago:
We had “reaction papers” when I went to college in the early 2000s, too. It’s usually a weekly or daily assignment in a semi-online course to write a summary and reaction (or, to use a different word, response) to an article or paper. You’d then be expected to comment (critique) on one or two other responses posted by other students in the course. It was a way to encourage critical discussion and thinking on topics.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 month ago:
So that they don’t get the spotlight on them and get shit down? Unless they have the money and legal representation behind them to fight it, like the AI companies do?
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 month ago:
It’s kind of ironic that a preservation focused organization didn’t have any sense of self-preservation. If they quietly scraped and archived songs over time and in the background, there never would have been any attention brought on them.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 months ago:
You can’t eat gold, and you can only trade gold for food if that person can trade the gold for something else. I’m not going to say there’s no chance of gold being valuable in a societal collapse scenario, but I’d rather wager with resources than a pretty, shiny metal. I don’t see how that’s a position that can’t be understood. Gold works as an intermediary exchange, but direct barter can always be counted on.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
I want to ask genuinely, how is the bookmark different than a tab with tab grouping in this instance? I have the bookmarks bar always visible, and have folders organized on the main bar (rather than the drop down extended bar). Wouldn’t tab grouping do the same thing, just slightly higher?
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 months ago:
They mean the game is streamed from a server to the player, rather than running on the player’s hardware. This might not be feasible for every game studio to do, but would actually open up the game for more players to be able to play (since local hardware requirements would be lower).
I think this is a terrible idea for other reasons, but accessibility and anti-cheat aspects of it are not some of those reasons.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
I had a teach in high school so the same thing. He’s also note the sides of the road on the way to school so he could find fresh roadkill on the way home.
Made some great venison jerky.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Damnit, you’re right!
But for real, I think you misunderstand the point of documentation. Even if something were truly, literally flawless, having documentation would still be a net gain. It isn’t only to fix something when it goes wrong, but explains how things are working. If the only way for something to be literally flawless in your world view is for it to be so self explanatory that an idiot seeing it for the first time still understands it perfectly, nothing in computing can be flawless in that way.
The pedantry on this point is so unhelpful as to be actively harmful to the rest of the discussion.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
They didn’t say it required documentation, they said it had plenty of documentation should you need it.
- Comment on Frankenbeans 5 months ago:
This 1000 times. It wasn’t even ambiguous in the novel.
- Comment on Climbers on Mount Fuji’s popular trail drops by 30% following new rules 5 months ago:
Maybe it is my Western, American perspective, and maybe I misinterpreted from the article, but it seems like the entrance fee was implemented mostly to cover upkeep costs of maintaining the trail and surrounding area. It also seems like the entrance fee is what is causing people to use the trail less, which makes sense if they didn’t have to pay for it previously. I don’t see any mention of any other rules that may have caused people to use it less.
Am I missing anything? From my perspective, which totally could be completely warped since I don’t live in a Freedom to Roam country (or at least it isn’t viewed that way), this seems perfectly reasonable. I’m open to hearing why it isn’t, or other ways it could have been implemented. Especially if there was mention of a rule I missed that had more impact than the entrance fee.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I believe it’s a horrible idea whether or not it’s possible!
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 months ago:
Those are describing symptoms, though, and could be any number of things. No, there are not other terms currently. That’s why I’m asking you, what do you propose? You are the one that sees there being an issue with this that you want to resolve, what terms do you propose that will describe these conditions, distinguish them from other similar but unrelated conditions (a form of dementia vs stroke vs concussion, etc), isn’t insulting, and is easy to remember?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 months ago:
I’m not saying to completely replace it either, but what are examples of words or phrases you think would be a good “shorthand” for dementia? Anything I can think of is either infantilizing or not actually simpler, just different. And needing to learn a new word might be just as difficult, or might be difficult for other people for different reasons.
I can empathize with patients being embarrassed because they can’t pronounce or remember the name of their own condition, but I feel that the condition itself would pose the same issue with other, substitute words as well. It’s sad and tragic, but I don’t think it can be fixed by a change of language.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 months ago:
I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way?
And my point is that being exposed to the word dementia, and taught what it means and how to say it, is no different than being taught how to say Teflon. When you first learn it, it will be a bit awkward. The more you and people around you use it, the more familiar it will become. That just how language works.
What do you propose we use instead of dementia? How would that be a better solution? I’m not against helping people with better accessibility, I just don’t see where this is a problem that can be solved by changing the words used. Especially since to me it seems like we already do what is being suggested in the title post. We already usually have a general term in common conversation in place of the full medical term used by medical professionals.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 months ago:
How is “dementia” harder than any other word? If they are suffering from brain/memory disorders, wouldn’t any new or novel word have the same issue? I think the opposite would be better, and normalizing simplified forms of the medical terminology (dementia instead of frontotemporal dementia) in every day language allows those words to have deeper roots in someone’s memory, making it less novel and more resilient to certain memory issues.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Only missing putting it back on heat after drying with a paper towel to boil off any residual water
- Comment on ... You're mocking me, aren't you? 6 months ago:
I had to scroll back up because I wasn’t paying attention and my brain initially just saw two dogs… I need more coffee
- Comment on Minecraft and Terraria each fit the other game's title better than their own. 7 months ago:
Maybe anymore Minecraft is different, but when it started it was about mining and crafting tools to mine more efficiently.
Terraria always evokes terrarium to me, which makes it feel like a whole little world, but also felt like it was more contained to me (from title alone).
