“do you have bird videos on your phone?”

people generally watch more new films than old films, yes

learn to code and you’ll forever more be going “i could probably fix this if i could be fucked to get familiar with the codebase”

and image editing has been trivial for decades

It’s a shame the concept of an “ideas man” has been ridiculed for so long, because that’s precisely what it lets you be good at.
If you can put together a jack of all trades to spawn vaguely sensible ideas, and someone who hyperfocuses on a field of interest, you can just churn out good ideas that are well on the way to being implementable.

the best part of this is that you can just completely bullshit some people, confidently state something absurd and they just go “wow flying fishes evolved from birds? wild”

the “smart and gifted” to “burnout” to “neurodivergence diagnosis” pipeline

it frustrates me to no end that society still hasn’t realized we need to identify diagnoses earlier, it fucking SUCKS to figure it out after puberty and having to spend years internalizing that you’re not a failure, you just need to do things differently.

We have a light switch that we had no clue how to operate when we moved into our new house, and it was painful how utterly impossible it was for my mom to figure it out, she tried using it like a normal switch several times and simply gave up…
I then went “well it presumably works somehow, let’s just test all the possible ways there are to interact with a button”, and it turns out you hold the switch in to dim/brighten the lamp alternately. Took me like 2 minutes to figure out.

Which explains why people like her struggle so immensely with computers and technology, and man it’s exhausting to deal with.

maybe i’ve just instinctively avoided places like this but that isn’t my impression at all, i find that a lot of people agree even if they don’t call themselves leftist at all, in fact the whole problem is that basically everyone has nearly identical beliefs but can’t bear the thought of voting for leftists who want to actually treat people fairly.

frankly the sentiment of this post feels like astroturfing to sow discontent.

this is an alternate universe tom and jerry skit, with the shout being mel blanc screaming his lungs out

exactly, if devs ignore issues that is to me just them telling the world that they don’t care about the project and we should encourage people to fork it and take over the mantle of de-facto version, or just let it die if it’s not important.

this is the essence of good worldbuilding

i’d nominate Ramanujan as the geniuses’ genius: he had basically no formal education on mathematics, and yet he solved problems that the rest of the world collectively couldn’t crack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM5_2PQ1IqI&list=PL4BHynELnZmE1gqHUa2xuYy14xsyIzO9j

oh no, germans posting cat photos, the horrors

blender videos

I suspect you need quite narrow tastes for the algorithm to be able to figure it out, like if you watch sports videos it’s probably just gonna keep feeding your sports videos forever, because that’s trivially easy and works.

i know i’ve had times were i got a bit too lax with the kinds of minecraft videos i watched and i could feel the algorithm desperately wanting to feed me standard clickbaity shouty videos, and its disappointment when i recoiled from that.

not sure i want strains of com in my gender

except that genetics isn’t that simple, there’s many many things that go into structuring your body. Even biological sex isn’t binary, there’s plenty of overlap. People can literally be born with both sets of genitals afaik.

a tale as old as time, IRC has done this dance for ages now:

“it’s totally decentralized guys! why are you using other platforms??”
- “okay so i can just run my own server and chat with people on freenode?”
“well no, you’d need freenode’s permission to federate with them, obviously”
- “so it’s not decentralized then.”
“it is! it is! Freenode uses multiple servers!”
- “literally every large platform of any kind uses multiple servers, i’m going back to matrix where the only way i notice the large servers dying is because i stop seeing messages from their users…”