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  • YOINK!

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  • Me when I fucking GET you

  • Why don't we voice the first R in "surprise"?

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  • I’m from the western hemisphere too and I’ve probably said it both ways. I feel like when it is said sarcastically like “what a surprise” the cadence feels better without the /r/ but when saying it without sarcasm the sound is there like “that’s surprising” definitely has the /r/ sound.

    A similar letter that gets dropped in rural western America is the /t/ sound when it is preceded by another consonant. Like “mountain” is often said “moun’in” but it’ll still be there if the emphasized syllable is after it like “maintain” is pronounced correctly.

  • Do you fulfill a lot of stereotypes?

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  • Skinny polymath nerd who is antisocial, often bored with life or the people around him, has a major sweet tooth, and near permanent dark circles under his eyes because his thoughts and projects keep him from sleeping.

    Off the top of my head, characters sharing this stereotype are: L from Deathnote, Saiki K, and (if you swap tobacco and opium for adderall and chocolate) Sherlock Holmes

    (Not that I’d say I’m as intelligent as any of them; also my life is definitely more boring than all of theirs)

  • This is what they took from us.

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  • I recently did some digging on the fruit of the loom logo because I remember learning the word cornucopia and connecting it with the logo on my T-shirts and underwear.

    Yeah, I was mistaken. The dye on some of the clothes just made the logo look like there was a cornucopia. Like the leaves on the side being brown and a tiny bit of those leaves at the top right with the small white grapes at the bottom right also looking the same brown color? It definitely looks like a cornucopia until you look very closely.

    (The logo shown in the image above is a more modern one, look at the earlier ones from around the turn of this century and you’ll see it better)

  • Lindsey Graham needs to do something about the Hagia Sophia

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  • What’s impressive is that it’s survived centuries of earthquakes without seriously falling apart

  • Epiphanies

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  • Are you Canadian?

  • How disabling is mild dyslexia?

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  • I would imagine it depends on what kind of dyslexia.

    If someone can’t process similar looking letters well, I’d imagine most reading of even small sentences is likely painful.

    I get some of that and I suck at spelling words with repeated letters because I can’t remember which ones are repeated. But, for me, the hardest part is that my brain doesn’t let me look at all the words. My eyes jump multiple words/lines at a time and hey some of the time, skimming paragraphs is fine. But when I’m trying to actually read something or learn something from the book… it feels like an impossible task.

    Some of the problem is also related to ADHD where I can’t seem to actually focus on reading even if I can go through the words one by one. I have to reread sentences dozens of times before my brain finally realizes “oh there’s actually information here?”

    That being said, I can and do still read. When I’m down a rabbit hole in Wikipedia articles my brain is locked in and I have the motivation to keep trying when I keep missing information.

    I also think maybe I’m just really out of practice. I used to read books back in elementary school. I definitely still had trouble getting all the information out of them but when you’re reading fantasy it’s kinda fun to let your imagination fill in the gaps. Maybe I just need to start doing that again, reading for pleasure instead of purpose. I bet that would make the idea of having to read a research paper less daunting.

    Oh also if anyone else is like me, I recommend highlighting like literally every sentence and trying to “translate it” especially for dense or jargon filled sentences. Like try to explain what the sentence is saying in your own words. It is tedious but it helps stop the “I’ve literally read this paragraph 8 times and not actually read any of it” phenomenon

  • s p h e r e

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  • Also isn’t an infinite dimensional sphere practically hollow?

    (If you were to integrate the sphere to calculate volume like you do for lower dimensional ones, you would sum the volume of shells—which is just their surface area times a thickness—making it up. With infinite dimensions, each shell becomes infinitely larger than the preceding shell no matter how fine you make the slices. This means the largest shell contains basically all the volume.)

  • Chicken gene-editing advance opens path to HRT-producing eggs

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  • Get ready for an estradiol egg contract to show up on Egg Inc. lol

  • Lab grown meat isn't going to save us...

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  • Some people literally just don’t have that connection automatically brought up in their brains. Speaking of, why is that the case? Why is it some people don’t have those kind of responses?

    Like, unrelated to the original topic, I recently realized many people I know are able to be rude/hurtful towards others despite the fact that if they witnessed that same interaction as an outside observer it would have made them feel angry or feel empathy for the victim.

    I’ve realized it’s not really a choice. Like I bet you didn’t have to purposefully decide “Everytime I think about meat I want to think about the slaughter that made it” your brain just started doing that automatically.

    But its not the same as empathy (or at least it’s a different kind of empathy).

    You feel bad via empathy for the animal cruelty that likely went into the meal, but that’s only because seeing the meat brought back memories of those movies or other knowledge about meat production. The feeling bad is empathy, but the automatic connection between meat and the slaughter is just a memory association. It’s the automatic memory association that kicks off the empathy, without it, even if one can feel empathy for others, the reaction wouldn’t happen.

    I feel like that negative association is the part that’s more lacking in society than empathy itself. I feel like if you took a random person and made them watch someone kill a cow, chances are high they would feel bad for the cow. But if the association between murder and meat doesn’t form in their heads they’ll probably not feel bad eating beef because their brain didn’t bring up the connection.

    Do you know if there is a word for that sort of automatic memory recall or a way to try and create those in people? Because I feel like discovering how to make those associations stick would be extremely useful in many circumstances.

  • our natural body temperature being too hot for us is bullshit

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  • Hate the laws of thermodynamics? Put that hatred to good use and become a mechanical engineer! Doesn’t matter if it’s aerospace or manufacturing! We all hate that doing fun stuff generates heat, so we design complicated systems to make things like 1% more thermodynamically efficient 👍

    (This sounded funnier in my head)

  • Lab grown meat isn't going to save us...

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  • I get cravings for various foods/meals I’ve had before that have nothing to do with being deficient in vitamins or amino acids.

    For example, I’m quite certain the cornmeal pancakes my dad would make don’t contain any vital nutrients not satisfied by my current diet. But I occasionally get cravings for them anyway.

    Furthermore, when someone gets hungry it’s normal for their minds to start thinking of foods they liked, and lots of people were probably raised on meat heavy diets. So when they get hungry or nostalgic for food their mind will likely think about non-vegetarian food.

    Maybe that will go away if they find a wide selection of vegetarian foods they like, but again I doubt that’s the case for everyone, and it definitely won’t overwrite any childhood memories of favorite foods/meals.

  • Lab grown meat isn't going to save us...

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  • Once you stop eating meat, you stop missing it within a few weeks.

    This may have been the case for you, but it is not the case for everyone.

    Iirc Taiwanese Buddhist vegetarian cooking often uses gluten and mushrooms and other ingredients to mimic the taste and texture of meats as exactly as possible. It came about because many of those who converted to Buddhism didn’t stop craving meat even after becoming vegetarian.

  • Your parents in 640x480 glory.

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  • I did it myself on a relative’s very old laptop a few years ago. I think it was specifically the 32bit Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) upgrade for Windows 95 (maybe 98?)

    I just searched it up and was able to find an iso with only 129MB which is still impressive. But that’s a clean install and I think it’s for both x64 or 32. If I get more time to look into this later, (or if I can find the floppy disks themselves) I’ll try to find the original and send it to you if you want

    Also you’re right, the fact it got images is pretty insane. Then again the only real “graphics” would be default icons, and possibly the green landscape but I wanna say that it didn’t even have that background image when I finished the upgrade; I think it was just a solid color. (The real crazy thing I remember was that the laptop had a color capable screen but had a purely black and white OS on it originally lol)

    I think much of the kernel carried over. Also I can’t recall if I updated it to 98 before xp or not. That might’ve cut down on the needed install space.

    Anyway you’ve gotten me curious, I kinda want to find that laptop now. Maybe I’ll use it to make authentic “Analog nowhere” style art with paint lol

    Edit: This site seems to have the boot images for windows xp floppies and exe’s to create them. Looks like only 6 floppies are needed in total for all of Windows XP SP1

  • Your parents in 640x480 glory.

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  • Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy.

    That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.

    Edit: It seems I might be mistaken and the two-disk upgrade was more likely from 98 or 98SE not directly from 95.

  • ADHD memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I'll just try this again... and again... and again...

  • At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours

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  • It always makes me irrationally mad to see the hedron in the logo of “Global Tetrahedron” is not a tetrahedron but a dodecahedron. Especially when the onion logo is, in fact, an onion.

  • Average American:

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  • The white dot between France and Spain is Andorra and the one nearest France and Italy is Monaco. I feel like both of them should be filled in, especially Monaco.

  • A game changer is in the works 🚨

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  • Having seen many things on the internet I wish I hadn’t, I think there are actually 12 holes. Roughly working top down:

    • 2x: gore
    • 2x: slightly more socially acceptable gore (especially on non-humans)
    • 2x: that’s just weird but not gore I guess
    • 1x: mainstream porn
    • 2x: I don’t think these work like fetishists think they work
    • 1x: this definitely doesn’t work the way fetishists think it works
    • 1x: probably uncomfortable, also why?
    • (1x: not guaranteed to exist on everyone but the most “vanilla” of all the holes)
    • 1x: probably ouch but some people are into that ig

  • Accurate

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  • Fine, replace the word “sex” with “reproduction” and it still works

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Powerful Rule

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    We already passed 1984's prediction of the future: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"

  • Surreal Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Understanding

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins.

  • Surreal Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    You've been warned

  • agitprop memes for anarchist dreams @anarchist.nexus
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    Do not recommend.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Adult on the internet rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Color-blindness rule

  • Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    The Three Stooges of Abraham