ethaver

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there'll be one sinorussolatinglish trade language and 5k highly localized dialects of our current languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Refreshments and Narcotics

  (an old joke about registered nurses)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHAT IF WHAT IF⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  which is such a shame because there really should be more evidence for what is and isn't placebos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the equivalent of somatic exercises for the mind?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  psych nurse here: somatic exercises are also for your mind. your mind is part of your body. the idea that they're separate things or that the brain is "in charge of" the body as opposed to a neat accessory that can do helpful things for it is silly. That concept in and of itself causes a lot of psychological dysfunction that somatic therapies exist to rectify by reunifying the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean we've already accepted that we don't know how big the universe is. The way physics has been going lately the universe might actually be bigger than reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if there's higher dimensions they're still part of the universe as I know it, they're just not in the parts I can perceive. There's very little useful speculation I can do in relation to the parts I can't perceive. Apparently this is called "existence monism," so this would be one of the other things in the Wikipedia theology tree. personally I would classify it as a type of Monolatry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New small business owner had a great idea to have word of mouth build his business.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fun fact! the complimentary term to "phallic" is "yonic" !

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it would actually impact my ability to hydrate certain patients under certain circumstances if there really ever 0 plastic straws anywhere ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  chatgpt aside this is a much more realistic way to look at it than left / right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get off the computer and go to sleep⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it when patients come in having had that be their attempt. Like no you only thought you didn't want to be alive before, but now you've unlocked a whole new level of living hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy using drugs and that will never change⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well honestly it's the creation of high attention / judgment tasks with high risk to human health and safety then making many of them either a part of daily life or making them jobs you have to do 8-12h straight 3-5 days a week. if we really valued human health and safety we'd keep those tasks much more specialized and make sure the people who do them have way more downtime to decompress but alas the capitalist wheel must keep turning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  beat me to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PSSSST

  ...ezekiel 23

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and I actually like that one particular use-case of llms and image analyzing ai because less required human interaction gives the blind user more independence. The remaining issue of corporatization and private ownership of something that should be a publicly owned resource (as with many other assistive technologies) is a society-wide issue and framing it as a futurist vs Luddite discussion is a powerful misdirection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ...and that's how I converted to Gnosticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a fucking banger you tasteless, joyless, spork sharpener.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨utter failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, there's somebody for everybody if you're willing to look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can't look away and b) think it's important to understand what's going on over there.

  I usually see stuff said like "they're not actually antifascists that's just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies." Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.

  Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don't know what political label people would put me under.
  A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn't have a right to use a woman's body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I'm thinking that next time there's political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."

  Dunno what any of that makes me but I'd like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don't. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What flavor are marshmallows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That's not what freeze drying is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What flavor are marshmallows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  idk but I love freeze dried marshmallows and can never find them anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is why I converted to Gnosticism. Mainstream Christianity never sat well with me, atheists are pretentiously #intellectual, and agnosticism just wasn't loud enough. Now I'm following in the footsteps of Jesus by vibing with the homeless dudes at the bus stop, whipping out a tarot deck when I need to be alone with my feelings, and drawing weird sacred geometry shit that makes people uncomfortable. 10/10 highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Larry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hubs recently put the box next to the toilet and our cat has since taken every chance she can to co-poop with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone fact check this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah 16 pounds is a large cat like a Maine Coon cat or a small corgi / beagle. There are flighted birds that big but they're not common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about time we showed concern for the men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  interestingly there is a (rare) phenomenon where the male partner gets some or all of the menstrual or pregnancy symptoms. Apparently my grandmother could tell she was pregnant (she had 10 total not including miscarriages) because my grand_father_ would get morning sickness! Partially explains how she managed to have 10 if she wasn't having to deal with all the symptoms herself. As an aside, apparently the local doctor told her it was a shame she'd already had her appendix out because otherwise he could do a prophylactic appendectomy and "accidentally" cut her tubes while he was in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if my mother hadn't forced me out early to intentionally lower my birth weight (I'm the last child and size tends to increase with subsequent births, my next oldest sibling complicated delivery by size alone) I might've succeeded too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah my husband brought this up a few days ago actually and was talking about the movie and I was like do you remember me mentioning that I literally actually did that? 4 times around apparently!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  apparently I literally tried to strangle myself on my umbilical cord in the womb but my take on that was that I knew what was coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been getting back into Christianity lately for a variety of reasons but I've also been doing a lot of research into the history and philosophy and whatnot and reconciling:

  that outer sphere of what all these different people over the centuries have written and decided to include or exclude from their various compilations and what motivated them morally or especially politically to do so

  vs

  the inner sphere of my own lived experience with what does and does not make the world a better place and what motivations exist in the modern day to practice or interpret those centuries of texts in one way or another

  and honestly it's actually been really interesting from an academic perspective as well. It's a fascinating combination of history, language, culture, and even what influences it's had on the sciences over time like I recently wound up learning some stuff about early geometry and the ways it's affected the architecture of churches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the only "um akshually" I would even bother adding to this is that the Torah / Pentateuch is just the first five books of the Tanakh, which is the best / closest approximation of books that later became the Christian old testament. The Tanakh also includes the Prophets (Nevi'im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). There's also a few books in there that the council of Nicaea chose not to include. Also relevant is the Septuagint which was the first translation from Hebrew into a mainstream language (which at that was Koine Greek) which is relevant because that specific translation has had a profound effect on translations since, which really hammers in that concept of "a translation of a translation of a translation of-"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And trinitarianism specifically is basically just a reason to wage wars. I was raised in a trinitarian denomination and I still mostly consider myself Christian but I can't reconcile my morals with waging literal wars over fucking metaphysics.