FishFace

@FishFace@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. But it’s not actually terrorism, is it? In fact, as worded, completely inoccuous activity seems to fall under the act - the definition of “UK-related activities” in the section includes literally any activity taking place in the UK. So intentionally helping set up a foreign embassy seems like it falls under the act.

  Regardless, national security it may be, but terrorism it ain’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. UK universities absolutely should not be shutting down research at the behest of China, but how is this terrorism? Seems like terrorism is back to being the bogey-man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But Yiddish is itself a Germanic language, and modern German dialects like Bavarian do have “Schof” = “Schaf” = “sheep”. Is there a better etymology for Schof here? And Seckl < Säckle < Sack would be perfect for scrotum too, and in high German you can call someone “du Sack” to mean they’re an idiot also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the cuties⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All the time? Or only some of the time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you prove it in court? If not, he shouldn’t go to prison. It’s an easy formula.

  I’m perfectly happy calling him a nonce, but I’m also one of those old-fashioned types who values the rule of law and all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By all accounts Andrew will be fuming because he’s up himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like a level of detail it is not necessarily useful to go into with most people. I never experienced anyone non-technical complaining about cloud products, so it would just be proselytising about what to me is a hobby/passion project.

  (Not that I’m big into self hosting, but to the extent I am)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Her mango⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The sequel, salt lassie, left a bad taste in my mouth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:

  1. Denying the antecedent: “showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don’t shower every day, you will smell bad”
  2. Confirmation & Selection bias: “that person smells bad, therefore they can’t shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad”
  3. Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I’m assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone’s condition.

  It’s quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it’s the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can’t form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not “nice and clean” but “disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease”.

  I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's the lower jaw doing the biting, are we using underbite and overbite, backwards?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your jaw muscles force your jaws together. It’s both jaws doing the biting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨citacion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now this is the silliness I live for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed that you didn’t reply to the following pretty important things:

  How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of?

  and

  people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour.

  So I’m not going to get into further personal details until you show some good faith there.

  For that matter, you never said how you were able to know how you yourself start to smell so badly after merely 24 hours out of the shower if this information is so unavailable.

  And just remember that it was you who used the word “delusional”, not me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What parts of your body do you wash regularly outside the shower? Is it a non-zero amount? Then you understand what I mean, right?

  How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of, because I’m guessing it’s “none” and you’re simply assuming that everyone who showers every other day is detectable by your nose - rather than those being people who haven’t washed for a month.

  My partner tells me on the rare occasion when I smell bad, so there’s no reason to think they’re saving my feelings. I can also smell the change.

  You’re so keen to assume all these details about my life instead of believing what seems to me to be extremely unsurprising - that it takes at least one person a few days to start smelling bad.

  people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour. This shouldn’t be hard to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the skin friendliest soap I know of, and can smell when I need a shower, and have trusted other people who validate my own sense. Olfactory fatigue makes no sense unless you shower really infrequently.

  Thanks for your fake, ill-informed concern though. Sucks that on Lemmy people are so closed minded they can’t understand that people sweat less than they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t wash in the shower what I wash out of the shower.

  I am an adult and it’s weird you and others assume that I haven’t consulted a doctor about this in my entire life.

  Not all health problems are curable, so actually doctors’ advice includes (or can include) “don’t shower every day if that exacerbates your condition”.

  My partner wouldn’t lie to me about this, which I know because sometimes they do tell me I need a shower. Not often though. It’s weird that you think it’s so hard to tell, yet also are so adamant that it must be done every day - yet that’s my experience with most people online.

  It seems pretty clear it just grosses people out who never questioned the habit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to go into too much detail about medical stuff in public but I don’t believe it is about soap alone because it also affects skin that i don’t soap up in the shower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can then run around the village and have people try and catch me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my partner can be trusted to advise me of the situation lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck, moisturiser!! Thank god someone has finally suggested MOISTURISER to me! And here I’d been covering my body in salt and ash. Truly I am saved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry about how rapidly you stink, have you experimented with different deodorants or consulted a doctor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t drag myself out of bed to the shower until I’m awake enough to do non-shower things anyway…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure plenty of people do, maybe you’re even one of them, but turning this into blanket statements is weird and annoying. How many people think, because of the culture embodied in this sign, that they must shower every day, and never even check?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m certainly not taking a cold shower in winter! I don’t have a thermostatic shower tap so don’t know what temperature it is, but I guess I have it at about body temperature… Not sure if that is as hot as you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of people don’t start to smell bad 24h after a shower, with or without deodorant. In winter, I’d guess it’s actually most people.

  I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well people say it does. Of course it’s trivial to adapt such algorithms to include misspellings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a part of my soul that needs 'cat lady' culture to be adopted by the mainstream like 'gamer' culture was.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “gamer culture” was not adopted by the mainstream; video games were. The culture of mainstream gamers remains distinct from the old culture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe.

  All of this means that your proposed method requires toilets every couple of hundred metres between city centres and suburbs. That sounds like a ridiculous waste of resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, so the idea that you can have enough toilets to prevent this involves having toilets every few minutes, or every few hundred metres. That’s kind of insane. We should try the paint, or deal with the mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the details, but as soon as you break up the stream it will not reflect cleanly.

  Peeing in a city is always going to affect others - there will be people nearby who don’t want to see and hear it, and unless it is raining at that moment, it will leave a mess that affects people. I believe even peeing in the countryside can cause some negative effects due to nitrogen run off.