Wolf314159

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

There's a lot there in that video that I think will resonate with most people, myself included, but I nearly did not get past the philosophical problem of the speaker's claims that HSPs somehow feel things deeper than others. As if people that are better equipped or trained to manage their emotions are somehow experiencing emotions on a shallower level. That line of logic reminds me way too much of the way colonizers would dehumanize indigenous peoples by claiming that the culture and language of those indigenous peoples were somehow less developed because of a difference in technological development. I know that they are very different situations. I'm just trying to draw abstract parallels to show why I find the language they used offensive.

Either way, that video left me wondering. Which would be more emotionally exhausting, being an HSP or accommodating one on a regular basis?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was that supposed to be coherent or relevant? Are you lost?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If you're going to be snarky about units, at least get the significant digits correct. The infographic gives 100°F as the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say that wherever that number came from, it's precision is much less than a whole °F, but for simplicity let's just say that the precision is a whole number, no decimal places in the precision. At that precision 37.5°C and 38°C are both also 100°F. There are 9/5 °F for every °C after all. If you'd said 37.7°C I wouldn't have even commented. But that was one decimal place too far (and being too lazy to find the ° symbol or type out degrees).

You're all probably saying, "Who cares? Why do you care? Aren't you just being any even more annoying pedant?"

I do. I don't know. Probably.

But, if you're going to be a smartass, you better at least try to be smart about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Blue pizza just like aunt Beru used to make.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What are the odds that he lives in her house, maybe unemployed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What a convincing argument. I didn't realize you had the authority to just decide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's an optical illusion. By definition their isn't generally anything YOU would call erroneous about any optical illusion, I'd guess. The fact that the text is difficult bordering on impossible to read at some angles is the perceptual error. Stop ignoring obvious interpretations to support your pedantic trolling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's an unhelpfully restrictive definition of illusion that is itself illusory. An illusion is also:

A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

The text is hidden or revealed through a change in perspective. That is the illusion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kink shaming is the real mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

How many knife fights have you been in?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

How is a zig-zag numbering any less valid than any other method? Your mapping a two dimensional space with what is essentially a line. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for there to be discontinuities in the numbering, as one would have to do if the numbers always incremented in the same direction. Would you prefer that the numbers follow the path of a Hilbert Curve?

To answer your question though, surveyors have been using this method to number sections of land for much longer than you or I have been alive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Knives suck as a defensive weapon though. I'd rather be robbed than be involved in a knife fight, even if I was the only one with a knife when that fight started. Carrying around a knife for defense if fucking crazy!

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