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@ ApathyTree @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows, like a tree, and I aim to prune my own.

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  • Please please please...

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  • Genuinely good advice.

    I was on a trip with my partner (I am female, partner is male), and when we got off the train to go home, we had a flat tire.

    He is not handy at all, and got super flustered and frustrated and was going to call AAA, and I was like umm.. you have a spare in here, right? Time to learn how to change a tire! Pop that trunk!

    And so I made him do it, and walked him through how, and now he knows for next time, yay! I’ve also fixed his dishwasher, patched drywall, several other plumbing things, etc. only thing I wont touch for someone else is electric. I wont even do my own unless its a plug-in thing.

    He, in turn, helped me with building my computer and doing various software stuff I could probably do on my own but didn’t know how.

    So even if those skills aren’t super useful for you directly, you can and will use them with other people and you can pass on the knowledge. I mean I learned to change a tire as a very young adult, from an off-duty cop who stopped to help on the side of the highway. I knew the basics, but he showed me the full process. And since then I’ve taught two others, but haven’t needed it for myself.

  • Jeff does what he wants

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  • Wouldn’t put it past him tbh. Rich people are super weird.

  • The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.

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  • I have aphantasia as well but I do actually have something sort of like a memory palace.. kinda. It should be completely useless when I’m awake, but isn’t. I have a dream town, and every place I’ve dreamed about more than three times in the last ~20 years is there in a surprisingly consistent and exceptionally vivid way, like logging into a mmorpg, but spawning in random places. If not for it being easily recognizable as “my town”, I’d struggle to tell it from waking reality because that’s the only other time I experience “sight”. It’s genuinely unsettling sometimes, when my brain makes a new place, to not know if I was dreaming. Maybe that’s why I revisit places until they feel comfortable and familiar and get incorporated into the town.

    I say it isn’t completely useless because I use spacial memory to “go places” when awake. I can’t see it, but I know what’s there if I go there, the same way I can mentally count the windows, and know what’s around them, in my house without visually touring the house; I think about where I go to open windows on a nice day, and count the stops.

    I can’t put things into the town purposely. Locations or objects, unfortunately. Everything has to already be there if I want to make use of it. But if I can find a useful thing on my spacial tour, I can make note of where I found it, or move it to somewhere more useful. Like the finding the windows exercise, but, to continue your example, I happen to recall that next to window 3 is a Christmas cactus with pink heart-shaped flower buds, and I choose to ”move it” it to the 7th window of my tour. (And yes, if I make note that I’ve moved something, it does stay there when I dream, so that’s really neat)

    Genuinely not that useful for things people probably normally use a memory palace sort of thing for, like short-term memories, (finding useful objects is difficult, and sometimes requires a lot of in-dream exploring, which takes actual time) but somewhat useful for certain long-term things, like numbers or recipes. And as a bonus, when I forget something, I’ll often stumble across it in my town and be reminded. Like the recipe for my mom’s cheesecake is the literal ingredients just sitting on the counter in the pocket floor she lives in (she’s a nightmare I had often enough to join the town’s residents, but I shoved her in an impossible floor so I can avoid her). I put that recipe there because I like to modify it, and I often forget what the base recipe is. It’s not written down in the normal sense because I’ll lose it, but it’s simple enough for a representation like that to be easy to hold onto.

    But I’ve had similar frustrating experiences with people telling me to visualize things for whatever reason. Like nope, my internal computer is GUI-free. Text output only, with a screen reader. Not even multiple voices, which I hear is a thing most people can do, just the one default reader voice.

    On the subject of not being able to visualize people, if there’s someone you haven’t seen in a long time, do you falsely match other people up with the description? For example, my mom died when I was 23, and I’m almost 40 now. It’s been so long that I genuinely don’t remember what she looks like unless I’m looking at a photo. But I know her general description, and when I see other women who fit the description I -feel- that they look just like her even though they usually don’t, actually.

  • Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

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  • According to the article they changed the procedure to require 2/3 keys, so at least they learned that lesson.

  • At this point it might be the wisest decision

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  • Brian?

  • I wonder when the next one is, wait whats this notification... fuck

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  • My friend has done this, and says “not remotely worth the effort, unless you want survival skills”.

  • Tea Time

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  • I’m so so so glad I don’t have this problem.

    I definitely lose most stuff the second I set it down, but never things like drink or food.

  • I wonder when the next one is, wait whats this notification... fuck

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  • Car rides when I’m not driving are super hit or miss for me for this one.

    Mid-conversation I’ll start drifting off in random thoughts starting from who knows where, and by the time I snap out of it it’s been so long it’s awkward to resume a conversation.

    How do you explain that you spent the last 45 minutes planning out exactly how to repurpose parking garages across the country as hydroponics farms (because of the slope, strong building support that can handle a lot of water, and wiring for lights) when public transit or ride share takes over, when the prior conversation was about beer/breweries? While driving through the plains of Kansas.

    It’s barely in the realm of possible to explain, because you start to explain and then the other person goes “how on Earth did you get to that from there, while here” and then you stop and think about it and entirely forget why you were retracing your steps in the first place..

    Edit to add pic and re-word for clarity.

  • Snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on]

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  • Took a really long time after “nevermore” to learn more words, but I’m pumped it happened anyway!

  • Do you agree?

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  • I wonder if that holds for childbirth despite the chemical cocktail that floods the brain to cause exactly that memory lapse..

  • Cry cry cry

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  • That’s amazing to me. So far apart but so lame together 🫶🏻

    Bonza mate sounds pretty awesome by comparison, but maybe because I wasn’t bathed in it throughout my life…?

    Nah, it’s awesome anyway.

  • Cry cry cry

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  • Nope that was comment worthy without the other half.

    However the second part is super rad in a way only people who grew up with the word “rad” can really understand. Or whatever the Aussie equivalent of 90s slang for “cool” would be.

  • Button that dogs can push allows them control home appliances

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  • I can understand this from an accessibility standpoint, but not from a laziness standpoint.

    If your average schmuck gets one of these, their poorly-trained-at-best dog is going to either use it whenever it wants, or never use it at all, which just makes e-waste.

    It would only really work for service dogs because of how well trained and well selected they are.

    Growing up, our dogs were all fairly well trained, to the point that some of them formed a sled team, and not a single one of them would be a good fit for this lazybutton.

  • Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears

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  • I definitely can’t.

    I substantially reduced tp use, but female anatomy makes that level of frugality nearly impossible, at least without uncomfortably damp undies, in my experience. 😅

    Best I managed before the swap was one 24 pack for a year. Still very good, but room for improvement :)

  • TIL about abogen. A tool to generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions.

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  • I’d honestly probably be less annoyed by a machine mispronouncing words than I am when a human reader does it..

    I know I shouldn’t be annoyed because language is difficult and not everyone has heard every word.. but you’d think they would, like, check instead of saying something wrong 1,000 times (especially since the books I listen to are mostly science communication and science history)

  • The Wheel of Time's Rosamund Pike wishes the show could be saved, but believes "we have to accept that it's over”

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  • Haha I have the exact same opinion, right down to strongly preferring sword of truth.

    I got through like 4 books of wheel of time and was just straight bored and put the series down, something I rarely did back then. It felt like the author didn’t know where he was going any more than the characters did.. maybe I’d like it more now, but meh.

  • Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears

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  • I also got a bidet, but then I went one further and got small towels to wipe up the water.

    Pack of 50 cheap washcloths isn’t that much more than a pack of nice toilet paper, but they can go through the wash in a sanitary cycle with bleach and I can reuse them until they fall apart. Then I just need toilet paper for visitors.

    It sounds kinda ick, I know, but consider that we wash underpants, and what’s the difference?

  • How far back in time could you go with your skills?

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  • Considering the Aztecs developed hydroponic technology without other advanced technology, I could probably go back to the beginning of humanity with my knowledge, even if I only get to bring one skillset and not the whole of my knowledge. And boy would things change from there!

  • Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...

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  • Is it weird that I have no memory of what tableware we used? Most of my childhood is missing from my memory actually.