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- Comment on My favorite board game! 2 days ago:
Gonna play tonight 😊
- Comment on Make it make sense 4 days ago:
Yeah I drive around 3 hours on the highway every several weeks. Sometimes on my drive, there’s obviously traffic. A lot of times it will be something like rush hour traffic, a crash, construction, etc.
But then like…a good portion of the time when I come to the very front of the “clog”, I find that it is just a blockade of multiple people going incredibly slowly and taking up all lanes of traffic, refusing to move over despite the fact that they are going under the speed limit.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 week ago:
My brother sleeps with his eyes party open. He must be eye oxygenmaxxing. Superior eyeballs.
- Comment on Has a woman ever orgasmed by subwoofer? 1 week ago:
I’ve always been broken in that regard I guess. How do I make vibrations feel good?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh…oh no
- Comment on Bruh 1 week ago:
Funny, I must have been asleep in school the day they taught us about the iollotte sserotgomar cell.
What a horrifying existence.
- Comment on Bruh 1 week ago:
I’ve always wondered if men delivered the baby out of their peehole or butthole.
I guess it’s the peehole. Good luck, guys.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Lmaoo
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Maybe my vision just isn’t good enough, but the individual ticks for the minute hand are so small that I have difficulty without holding the watch closer to my face and studying it for a moment if it’s close to the next minute but not there yet. I don’t have old eyes either lol. It’s just small. Maybe a wall clock would be easier to see quickly.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Yeah it seems like most of the comments here that actually understood my question (many of them seem to think I’m asking for instructions on how to read the hours and minutes) seem to have this kind of attitude. The attitude that analog clocks aren’t necessarily for precision, but for a general “vibe” for lack of a better term at what time it is. I guess having constant connection to Internet clocks with precise minutes and seconds has made me pretty anal about time for whatever reason. I guess maybe I need to learn to chill out more?? Lol
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Yeah it syncs to my phone which is also always constantly connected to the internet.
I have a non internet connected cheapo digital clock in my room and it goes off by a minute or so now and then and it bothers me enough to have to change it lol.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
I get what you mean. I think it might vary by which watch face I am using on my particular watch. I notice that in general the minute hand for the face I am using is very granular…it definitely doesn’t just stop at the minute marks or even just halfway in between the minute marks. The one I am using seems to be more fluid than that. I was watching it closely just now and I see the minute hand ticking away ever so slightly as the second hand moves.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
This isn’t a problem with “the school system”. I know how to read an analog clock. But it’s not something I have ever done daily and so I have never been in practice with it.
Many of the comments here seem to be confused, instead simply instructing me how to read an analog clock in general.
That wasn’t the question or my issue. On a wristwatch, the space between the numbers of the minute hand is pretty small. I am not elderly, but it is difficult for me to see quickly precisely at what tick mark the minute hand is at… especially if it is getting to be toward the next minute and I don’t realize.
One user suggested to briefly also glance at the second hand when I need more precision, which seems to help alleviate part of the problem that I describe.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
That’s a super interesting concept! Neat idea, but I don’t think I’d be able to handle that for when I’m getting ready for work in the morning and the minutes count lol.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
I guess there really isn’t a ton of value tbh! I guess it’s just that I’ve basically always had access to the exact time and anything else feels a bit less than. Things like getting ready in the morning and keeping track of the exact minute I know I have to leave by to get to work comfortably, people asking me for the time and giving them a time off by a minute is socially awkward if they double check, or something like knowing that I want to bake something in the oven for exactly 12 minutes without having to set a timer.
“Vibes” is honestly a good way to put it lol
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Today in the digital age, the bus schedule says “15:17”
Yeah essentially lol. That’s one of the reasons I had never been super into analog clocks beforehand.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
It does have a second hand, but I don’t really look at it much to tell the time.
It’s not that I can’t tell the minutes when it is between numbers, it’s that it will already look like it’s 9:23 because the minute hand has effectively nearly covered the 9:23 minute mark despite it being 9:22. Seems to be a limitation of analog clocks unless I am just not great at discerning these things.
Tbh it’s actually a smartwatch and not technically an actual analog watch, so I’m assuming the exact time is pretty accurate. I just want to start using analog watch faces more on it to make it look nicer haha.
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- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry if I wasn’t clear…they are swim goggles! My whole life I have always been frustrated that I can’t see shit when wearing swim goggles because obviously I can’t wear the goggles and my glasses at the same time. But I’ve been swimming in these goggles and holy shit! It’s obviously not a perfect match, but I can see so well with them as opposed to not being able to see jack shit! I love it! I can finally see what is going on when swimming in the pool!
They didn’t have my exact prescription, so I went with a slightly less powerful prescription so it wouldn’t feel too strong. So like my prescription is -7.5 and I went with -7 because they didn’t have the exact number. Obviously they aren’t going to have any sort of astigmatism correction either if you need that. But I mean since they are basically almost the same price as regular swim goggles, I don’t see a downside to trying them out. I wish I knew about these decades ago lol.
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 2 weeks ago:
I agree it’s a bit silly. One thing I was pleasantly surprised about is that you can get off the shelf prescription goggles for myopia, even for quite strong presriptions! I bought some -7 diopter correction goggles on Amazon for about $17. They work great!
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 3 weeks ago:
You sound very sweet, OP. Never change. A lot of people are just miserable themselves and want company being miserable.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 4 weeks ago:
This instead reminds me of this classic YouTube video:
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
Well I mean I guess I get what you’re saying, but I don’t necessarily agree. I don’t really ever see it being pushed as a mental health tool. Rather I think the sycophantic nature of it (which does seem to be programmed) is the reason for said issues. If it simply gave the most “common” answers instead of the most sycophantic answers, I don’t know that we’d have such a large issue of this nature.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah there was an article I saw on Lemmy not too long ago about how ChatGPT can induce manic episodes in people susceptible to them. It’s because of what you describe…you claim you’re God and ChatGPT agrees with you even though this does not at all reflect reality.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, ChatGPT is incredibly sycophantic. It’s like it’s basically just programmed to try to make you feel good and affirm you, even if these things are actually counterproductive and damaging. If you talk to it enough, you end up seeing how much of a brown-nosing kiss-ass they’ve made it.
My friend with a mental illness wants to stop taking her medication? She explains this to ChatGPT. ChatGPT “sees” that she dislikes having to take meds, so it encourages her to stop to make her “feel better”.
A meth user is struggling to quit? It tells this to ChatGPT. ChatGPT “sees” how the user is suffering and encourages it to take meth to help ease the user’s suffering.
Thing is they have actually programmed some responses into it that will vehemently be against self harm. Suicide is one that thankfully even if you use flowery language to describe it, ChatGPT will vehemently oppose you.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
My friend with schizoaffective disorder decided to stop taking her meds after a long chat with ChatGPT as it convinced her she was fine to stop taking them. It went… incredibly poorly as you’d expect. Thankfully she’s been back on her meds for some time.
I think the people programming these really need to be careful of mental health issues. I noticed that it seems to be hard coded into ChatGPT to convince you NOT to kill yourself, for example. It gives you numbers for hotlines and stuff instead. But they should probably hard code some other things into it that are potentially dangerous when you ask it things. Like telling psych patients to go off their meds or telling meth addicts to have just a little bit of meth.
- Comment on Ice cream 4 weeks ago:
I feel this
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 4 weeks ago:
I have always been able to slav squat with ease, but never really been flexible enough to touch my toes. At one point in my life, I was able to do the splits but still not able to touch my toes.
Our bodies are all just different and flexible or not in different ways.
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 5 weeks ago:
I know, right? Fuck, that’s all I know how to do lmao!
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