sparkles

@sparkles@piefed.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I feel like I talk to much. So I do limit myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you decide?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I buy my acreage, I will have 2 weird donkeys and a cow. And plant some corn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. I deleted a 10 year old account. I used to love that little corner of the net, even when it was small.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imgur did this same thing before not too long ago. People posted the gif for several days. I think some accounts were lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not really.

  I mean.. I think there are variables that predict our life outcomes, at least the odds of them.

  Things like where we are born, who are parents are, our environment all have roles in the experiences we will have throughout our entire lives.

  Behavior is somewhat predictable once you study it as a science. So I guess it could seem rather scripted when you figure it like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update December 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your posts are always a joy to read. Thanks a ton for this space. Pigeons have two stomachs, you know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, that’s fair. How about when people ask you for food recipes after comment reply that’s in context? Are bots that good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like being called an NPC isn’t it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh well I’ve got a clam. But I think if I had bait and tackle?? I’d have many things to try. Including working on my flexibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…yes. This is one of the things I imagine I would try if I ever had the equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turing test has been inverted.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my first post here someone asked me to tell them about baking lasagnas, maybe because of the way I type. Is it also sort of an insult to imply someone is a bot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care if it is seamless…I want to play games and enjoy art made by human brains. Because to me it’s the closest we can get to being in someone else’s experience of a thing. And yeah we still go through our own filter but this game..or song or painting is someone else’s brain creating and I’m just walking through their vision of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not capable at all would be non-verbal. This includes vocal and non-vocal verbal communication such as PECs and sign. Non-vocal is not speaking out loud. Able to speak but not doing so may be called selectively verbal.

  Not trying at all could have several outcomes and reasons behavioral and medical and would not be any of these. They may not learn to read so lack literacy or may not learn properly how to speak and lack fluency in their first language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero tolerance policies in schools and mandatory minimum sentences have the same arguments and issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t have this kind of policy in my school—this is my job basically . I work with grade level resource and the students with behavior. I have successfully remediated a lot of repeat aggression. As a team we are able to put families into contact with behavioral resources that are school/tax funded. The worst part of the position is honestly just the adults who want them gone. That’s just kicking the can… It can take weeks to bring dysfunctional behavior into under complete control. Sometimes I feel like I’m saving my kids from these awful adults, and not the other way around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One time I had a dream about the ascii game I played. I dreamed it both IN TEXT, and my brain produced images of the people, places, and things at the same time as I usually imagined them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you engage even one out of ten times, you’re reinforcing it. You can redirect the conversation. Talk to another person, change the subject, completely disengage with them on that specific topic.

  You can set expectations privately going in. Set the boundaries. Reiterate them gently but firmly in a general manner. Polite and businesslike when the forbidden topic comes up, cheerful and interested when any other topic comes up. Again, never directly engaging with the forbidden topic.

  All this assumes you still want to get along with this person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a people scientist, it’s definitely hubris!