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Ookami38

@ Ookami38 @sh.itjust.works

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

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  • Mine is probably related to physical trauma. Well, not trauma, but more abnormalities. I have arteriovenous malformations in my brain, around my visual center, and very poor eyesight. The two likely combine in such a way that I don't get/rely on visual information as much.

    Conversely, I have very good audio processing. I love music, wordplay, anything with sounds and words.

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

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  • The current prevailing theory is that we (4 here) actually do create the images much the same as you 1s, we're just not consciously aware of it. Our brains are doing the same thing behind the scenes, and they just translate it differently. Some personal "evidence" of this that I have are that when I'm high, I have an easier time visualizing, and that I dream VERY vividly.

  • What's with those people?

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  • You know, I was tempted to note (US) after the lanes. I see now that people get angry if you don't. The logic still applies though. The first lane is for entering/exiting. The middle are for cruising, driving a steady pace near the speed limit. The inside is for passing.

    If there is an open lane to the inside, the person trying to pass someone already doing a reasonable pace should be the one making the change. If there's not, then yeah, the slower vehicle needs to go ahead and move over.

  • What's with those people?

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  • Those people are wrong. On a 3+ lane highway, the right lane is for entering or exiting, the left lane is for passing, and the middle lane(s) is for cruising. Unless you're like, only doing 55 or something, in which case just get off the interstate and take surface streets.

  • My bones...

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  • Men really will do anything to a avoid therapy.

  • Anyone else live somewhere that has had people joining in a WiFi naming joke?

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  • Mine is "network unavailable".

  • I work for a supermarket that's recently rolled out AI chatbots to "help" customers find items in store instead of asking staff.

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  • Being generous, I could see A use case for translating whatever the customer says (because how often have you known something exists, but not what it's called?) into an actual product and then looking it up in a proper database. This, though, is bound to fail.

  • Let me have a little schadenfreude, as a treat

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  • Between eulogy and vicarious, they've absolutely got some fitting songs for the time.

  • Let me have a little schadenfreude, as a treat

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  • He had a lot to say.

    He had a lot of nothing to say, we'll miss him.

  • Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S.

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  • Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S.

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  • If he's stable that explains the horse shit...

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    So like, the complete opposite of what we need?

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  • It's certainly trying.

  • Be brave and say it.

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  • We're still here. Through each of the roughest times in history, humans have pulled through. We'll keep pulling through, of that much I'm certain. Will it be in the same form? Eeeeeeeeeeh

  • Supreme fight

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  • Killing in the Name is the right answer, I feel.

  • Delicious

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  • .... . -.?

  • If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that?

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  • Anybody else struggle to not sit on your office chair like this?

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  • Okay that sounds a lot less insane than the mental picture I had. I was like, "mines? Some weird construction..? Snow piercer?" But it sounds like just regular level younger people doing obsessive things to the point of resembling self-harm.

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  • That's your only contribution? Cool. Objections duly noted.

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  • Proofreading your own work without a significant time gap is pretty useless. You'll catch a few obvious errors, but approaching the same problem in the same mental space tends to lead to the same thought patterns, tends to lead to making or overlooking the same mistakes.

    You'll do a bit better reapproaching the subject a few days later. It's almost, but not quite, like reading a new piece of writing. In my experience, comments are set and forget, unless you're obsessive like me and enjoy rereading your old shit.

    By far the most effective proofreading, though, is an Editor. There's a reason it's a paid position for anyone who makes a living writing. A completely different person will read the text more as-is, without accidentally interpreting it how they INTENDED it to be written. This will catch far more errors, but isn't really practical for shit posting in social media. The closest you'll get is someone calling out a typo or grammatical error.

    As long as the intent of the message is clear, it passes the bar for acceptable social media content. We're not writing PhD theses, we're just having fun discussions. We're not writing a paper meant to be readable to someone independently, we're engaging in dialogue and can easily ask the other person to clarify.

    TL;DR high-level proofreading and error correcting isn't really as viable on social media as it is formal writing, nor is it really necessary as long as the message received is the message intended.