Uranium_Green
@Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 days ago:
How do you deal with any other languages aside from English? Even if a product is destined for an English only market (which let’s be honest are basically small toys with English on them and English language books), anyone manufacturing will likely be using components manufactured in multiple different countries, with different languages and different ways of structuring names etc.
This is basically how you used to get Chinglish names and instructions for stuff on cheap products from China
If you want to see the outcome of what your currently suggesting, lookup longest car names, there’s a lot more English in them, as well as abbreviations yet they’re still a mess to understand/interpret from a layman’s perspective
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 days ago:
To add to this, it’s a hell of a lot easier to cross language barriers with the the alphanumeric product name than it is with the English name, which only works for English and would need accurately translating for every language&product for every region you want to buy/sell in.
It would be an absolute nightmare to try for every product that’s sold in multiple regions, etc
- Comment on ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer. 1 week ago:
- Is this a quirk of the fediverse?
The community this has been posted in for me is Technology, not Privacy
2.And those people should also face scrutiny if they are making up potentially life ruining stuff such as accusing someone being a child murderer. The bit I’d want some context for, is whether this is a one off hallucination, or a consistent one that multiple seperate users could see if they asked about this person.
If it’s a one of hallucination, it’s not good, but nowhere near as bad as a consistent ‘hard baked’ hallucination.
- Comment on That explains a lot 4 weeks ago:
You got any links to explain this in some more detail?
Because this just causes my brain to jam when trying to comprehend…
Like what diameter of black hole are we talking?
And what is the critical mass of the black whole before it starts to cascade and grow?
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure people said similar to the French Resistance regarding the Nazis/Vichy government…
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 4 weeks ago:
Unironically they’re basically already doing that by having ads longer than the skip button, as you trade off ignoring the ad for the full duration and paying attention when you’re intended video starts for paying attention waiting for the “Skip Ad” button.
Even just that short 5 seconds is enough for an ad to get embedded in your brain with enough repeated exposure.
- Comment on Lately I feel like the second coming, yet I am afraid. Am I crazy? 5 weeks ago:
I’m gonna be frank with you friend, it sounds like you’re experiencing something close to a manic episode.
When was the last time you ate/drank water and slept?
Have you recently consumed any drugs/substances which may have brought on this feeling?
How long have you been feeling like this?
Do you have someone you can communicate the way you’re feeling to in person that can go with you to get checked out if needs be?
Changes in the psyche such as feeling oneself is God or Jesus is normally a sign that you want to get something checked out, you’re probably right that if there is a God they would be incomprehensible/ineffable, which also means that you’re probably not God.
Don’t worry this is almost certainly not your new permanent state; it’s likely that your neurochemistry has gone a little bit out of wack and you probably need some rest possibly to see a doctor as they can help work out what’s going on.
The most useful phrase I have found for coping with any difficulties with how I’m feeling, both in terms of mood and when having a difficult time after taking a psychedelic is:
“This too shall pass”, it’s a useful phrase for bringing you up when you feel down, and to keep your ego in check when you feel like your on top of the world.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you can pee on that without spilling then you have much greater control than I, haha
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This guy gets why I was initially misunderstanding
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lmao, the false outrage over me not knowing that they use the same form factor for more than one test…
I’d only ever come across it for COVID tests, the only pregnancy tests I’ve interacted with/seen advertised have been the stick versions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The UK COVID test were all using this plastic moulding (minus the embossed letters) and I’ve never seen a pregnancy test that wasn’t a stick that you pee on?
And if you’re aware that it says hCG (which I admittedly missed before commenting), then I think you answered your own question…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If this isn’t a joke; this looks like a COVID test to me…
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 2 months ago:
Not necessarily a stretch or workout that I’m going to suggest, but more if you’re exercising get help from someone who knows good form.
I got into doing sit-ups/core strength exercises as a teenager, alongside bad form and bad sleeping/living conditions + stretchy ligaments have completely ruined my back.
The first thing that’s actually started to help in a way that doesn’t cause other issue has been seeing a physiotherapist, who worked with me to identify exactly which muscles were stiff, which muscles were over stretched, range of movement, etc…
And then walked me through what exercises and and positions would actually help with my difficulties.
Otherwise a massage gun used properly can be a game changer, but same thing, if you have a partner, ask them to help you out; don’t over stretch trying to fix things.
- Comment on CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room 4 months ago:
Jesus H. Christ, I immediately thought oh it’s not going to be as bad as it sounds, the. The video does genuinely show it being as bad and worse than it sounds.
I’m autistic, when I get particularly distressed, I’ll end up impulsively hitting my head against walls or with my fist. Generally that behaviour is worse when left alone after getting into that state to begin with. By leaving these kids to actively self harm by isolating them, likely has worsened their situations, and probably has caused the epilepsy in the one child to become apparent.
My partner is a teaching assistant at a mainstream school which takes on a huge number of SEN children, mostly autistic, about 5 with down syndrome, and recently a lot who were fostered. They would never in a million years think that anything like what’s shown in the video is acceptable, it’s genuinely heartbreaking that this has occured, let alone that noone is being held accountable for this abuse.
There’s got to be so many better ways of helping these kids when they’re distressed instead of just throwing them into what is effectively a padded cell.
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 4 months ago:
I could be wrong, but I asked my chef friend why chicken would be stringy after I got a Chinese meal where it was like it, he suggested that it’s overcooking them that can cause it.
With KFC I could fully believe that you’ve been being served chicken that was cooked that morning and had been left under the heat lamps for hours.
- Comment on A common nasal decongestant lacks evidence but is still sold in the UK 4 months ago:
It’s for the silliest reason as well, we stopped including psuedoephedrine in OTC cold meds because Theresa May government were concerned about people using it to make meth, with no evidence that people in the UK were using it to make meth…
You can still get pseudoephedrine but you have to request it at the pharmacy, as it’s a pharmacy medication now.
So in reality no difference in terms of accessing it, if you really wanted to make meth, just means that most people can’t get an effective decongestant when they’re on their way to work…
- Comment on had my first bottle explode. have you? 5 months ago:
The ginger bug is probably what affected it here, my wonderful neighbour has given my a few homemade bottles of ginger beer before, and one’s exploded in the fridge, the other had enough pressure build to blow the lid off when opening from a remaining 2 inches of dregs.
Apparently, there’s just something about ginger fermentation that really builds pressure
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 5 months ago:
My brother in Christ, how much do you know about housing? Renovations? Insulation? Mycology?
The standard that likely had not been followed was ensuring that the property was watertight to begin with.
The dry rot that is spreading through their house is effectively going to condemn it.
Your take of “hurdur, how hard could it be to do some insulation? you glue on the boards, mesh and render” is asinine at best.
Lots of these companies didn’t do their due diligence to ensure the suitability of the properties before installing.
Which then disproportionately effects people who are less likely to be able to afford repairs due to them already being on very limited lower incomes, the exact reason why they are getting this work done via these schemes.
I took wouldn’t want to trust the same company that put me into that position to be the one to rectify it.
- Comment on So…. What’s the worst idea you went through with? 5 months ago:
Out of curiosity, have you come up with a reason why it tasted so tree like?
What colour did the mead end up being?