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livus

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If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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livus ,

Sure. But votes aren't private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it's easy to spot.

It's only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

Russia begins tactical nuclear weapon drills near Ukraine border ( www.theguardian.com )

Russian forces have started military drills near Ukraine simulating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in response to what Moscow deems threats from western officials about increased involvement in the conflict. Vladimir Putin ordered the drills earlier this month in a move Russian officials said was a warning to the west not...

US sea route for Gaza aid isn't working, say Pentagon and UN ( ca.news.yahoo.com )

Only five of 16 aid trucks leaving the Gaza pier on Saturday had arrived at the warehouse with their cargo, said a UN World Food Program spokesman. The deliveries had to be suspended for two days after the trucks were intercepted by a crowd. The entire project is estimated to cost $320 million, and the pier was only installed...

Gaza famine 'repellent' to Irish psyche - Taoiseach ( www.rte.ie )

The Taoiseach has said the Great Famine is a tragedy that "will never be forgotten" and the unfolding famine in Gaza "is repellent" to the Irish psyche. Speaking at the National Famine Commemoration in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, Simon Harris described the famine in Gaza as a "tool of war" and called on Israel to "step back and...

WATCH: IDF Bulldozers “Shave” Asphalt Off Jenin Roads To Reveal IEDS ( www.theyeshivaworld.com )

As the IDF launched a widespread counterterrorism operation in Jenin in the early hours of Monday morning, armored bulldozers were deployed to the area to clear the roads and locate IEDS. The bulldozers scraped the asphalt off the road in order to reveal any hidden IEDS. During a raid in Jenin last month, three powerful […]

livus ,

Horrible. Some of the comments on this article are using openly genocidal language.

livus ,

Yes those children and premature babies really bit off more than "they" could chew

/s

livus ,

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

livus ,

Fantastic painting!

livus ,

I had a 3-month ban from a community once and had no idea until I did a mod log search on my own username about 6 months later.

Thinking back to how I could possibly have failed to even notice, I think it's just that kbin still displays the comments of banned kbin users so I was probably still getting interactions through that.

livus ,

@007KeyLimePie welcome!

Discoverability takes a bit longer here. If you're looking to add content, then alongside the usual directories it's worth checking out the lists at https://kbin.social/magazines/collections

Moderation is transparent here.

Also, protip: if you're in a thread where everyone is raging about "libs" or "the liberals," on reddit that would indicate a conservative sub, but here there's a 99% chance they are communists or anarchists.

livus ,

Ikr, it's wild. I don't think I could cope with something like that.

livus ,

For the longest time I assumed it was just a literary device, not an actual thing anyone really does.

livus ,

I don't think cognitive processing without words is necessarily more abstract.

Arguably if you're processing concepts such as relative geographical location or how to cook a steak, spatial processing is at far less of a remove than converting it all over to words/symbols.

livus ,

@laughterlaughter

Don’t hear anything like “shit, that’s a lot of money?! Where to start, where to start…”

No and it's amazing to me that you'd even be able to think of it in 20 seconds with all that chatter in your brain.

As I was reading your comment I could sort of hear parts of that, because it's you "speaking" to me, but as soon as I saw it the $10,000 imediately became a sort of conceptual bundle located in front of me, the 24h was like a moving spatial cycle thing and my brain was plotting possibilities based on how far I would have to travel (the ones falling inside the cycle are the do-able ones) and locating a whole lot of stuff branching out from my computer with short action times.

Also my brain had immediately reached to the right hand middle distance which is where it "keeps" investment advice. It had a quick dart to the far away centre-left and I had a flash/photorealistic image of home furnishings out there but rejected instantly as the tangled sense of moving parts between me and it meant the process toward them is complex and would take up too much of the 20 second processing time to even see if they would fit in the 24h cycle.

livus ,

@southsamurai did the above comment make sense?

It's hard because we have to translate it to get it across -for me it feels a bit like being asked how do you know where your arms are relative to your body.

livus ,

Me too. People like you are fascinating to me. When I first found out that everyone thinks differently I went around interrogating everyone I knew about how they think.

I don't have an interior monologue unless Im typing, but I sometimes use my internal "sound system" to play music.

livus ,

How do you read silently to yourself? Seems like it would be harder and more noisy if you have to hear the whole thing.

livus ,

Have to admit the number of people in here with full internal voices has made me realize why podcasts and long videos of youtubers talking are so popular.

I hate them because it's like spending 10 minutes to be drip fed 1 minute's worth of information.

livus ,

I can taste in my head but there's a limited range of what I can smell in my head.

Like, the smell of chocolate or wet dog or chanel no 5, no problem. The smell of my mother's house or a meadow on a sunny day, very vague and uncertain.

livus ,

What I'm getting from this thread is that almost everyone thinks their own cognitive process is easier and less annoying.

Which makes sense, because thinking is one of those things where people naturally just do it the most efficient way for their own neural structures.

livus ,

I didn't express it very well - I meant basic proprioception, which most people have. We need it for things like walking or lifting a cup to our mouths.

livus ,

I can see that could have that effect! I pretty much need it for typing, it's like an act of translation. I have to write a lot for work or I probably wouldn't have started doing it that way.

If someone is talking or the radio is on when I type I will accidentally include some of the words from those sources.

livus ,

Exactly, it's like not being able to fast travel in a game.

I like tiktok for non talky stuff like those 10 second videos of a fox walking along or something.

livus ,

It sort of sounds like yoi do it as a way of externalizing the questions, like it's a different part of your brain or your brain wants to make it clear to you that the question process is different from the answer process.

To me a question feels like knowing there's something behind my occipital bone and sensing it moving forward towards my eyes. So it's not verbalised but it's definitely a separate feeling.

livus ,

Thanks, that makes sense! But I don't understand how that could fit in temporally? Like, wouldn't you have already got halfway through the possible investment overview while you were still talking? Or is it more that you're doing both at once?

livus ,

Seems to me @gregorum is talking about Demoiselles d'Avignon's impact on art a a whole. It was a very influential painting.

Bush on the other hand is only notable because of who painted it. It's a common naive realism style.

livus ,

Ben-Gvir also spoke at the march, saying that what the protesters are calling for was the "true solution."

livus ,

The ADL are about as credible as Gwynneth Paltrow at this point but you're right, we don't need to play into his strategy and go there, because genocidal settler colonialism is a much closer analogy.

There's an interesting book by Sven Lindqvist that convincingly argues that the blueprint for the Holocaust was basically there in previous colonial practices, eg the death camps for the Herero and Namaqua people in the Namibian Genocide.

I Am Able To Change My Race, Right?

This is from my last post, many people disagreed with my belief. Since people are able to identify and claim whatever they want to be. I am now a trans white. I do not consider nor identify myself as an African-American woman anymore. I don’t feel comfortable in my skin. I don’t believe this was my right race at birth. So I...

livus ,

Might be the same person. It's an obvious troll account that was only created yesterday.

This is probably copying the latest JK Rowling trolling story which is about the same subject.

livus ,

The JK Rowling "race change" comments were in my feed yesterday, as were you, and you pretty obviously saw them.

Look you've made at least three accounts to troll with. I don't know if you're bored or if you're hurting, but here are some ideas (all free) for a better use of your time:

  • Get a duolingo account and learn a new language
  • Download Insight Timer and try guided meditation
  • Sign up to EdX and enrol in a course
  • Join Lichess and follow some of the tutorials
  • Make an account at Neopets and play some casual games

I'm serious about this. Trolling can feel satisfying at first because you get attention but it's empty attention, a bit like empty calories. To get the kind of attention that actually soothes your soul you will need to offer something of positive value to an online community instead.

livus ,

The two articles you posted appear next to each other in my feed and because of the thumbnails, at first glance it looks like they are from each side of the portal.

Why Are Rap*** & Ped** Protected In Jail?

It’s actually sick, they already get a light sentence and also getting protected by the justice system while the victim they violated is heavily traumatized, probably for life. And what’s crazier is it’s happening more, I’m seeing it daily now every time I scroll, there’s another case. Just a few days ago a middle aged...

livus ,

So, you're basically asking why we have a judicial system.

If you look at world history pretty much every human society comes up with a code of what is okay and what isn't, and once they get to a certain size they start standardizing punishments as well.

The reason for this is because it works a lot better than ad hoc justice which is too reliant on variables like who was there that day.

livus ,

...implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC... she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

livus ,

Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of "Indian blood" they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like "octaroon" are another example.

I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)

Germany's Scholz and Nordic leaders urge more Ukraine aid ( www.dw.com )

The leaders of Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland met to discuss their common security threats and how to further support Ukraine in the face of Russia's full-scale invasion.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz underscored his support for Ukraine at a meeting with the prime ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Norway,...

American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life ( theintercept.com )

Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza, some at the European Hospital, due to Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing.Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of...

livus OP ,

This is really scary. The normal rules around aid workers and medics are being completely ignored.

livus OP ,

Yes, it's rogue state territory. It has been ignoring the Geneva Conventions for a long time now, but this conflict is a massive escalation of that.

Although this is a whole new level, I do think the erosion of respect for international law amongst its traditional allies is contributary. I noticed they're now using the same language US did in its invasion of Afghanistan around "unlawful combatants" in connection with Sde Teiman.

[request] Help finding a space movie

An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...

livus ,

Is it Ellipse, 2019?

I used Duckduckgo and my search string was: scifi "gravity" dog stranded movie -bullock

livus ,

If it's the film I think it is then you won't like it, according to Doesthedogdie.com's entry.

livus ,

Is it any good? The premise sounds cool.

livus ,

Thanks! That does look interesting.

livus ,

Cool!

livus ,

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you're in kbin.social, which doesn't federate downvotes.

That said it's still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it's been reported already.

livus OP ,

Well, I'm from New Zealand. The majority of US Democrats are somewhat to the right of our main right-wing party, since it supports universal healthcare (most of the right wing also supports gun control legal prostitution and marriage equality).

Reddit is left wing by American standards but not nearly as much by my standards. Lemmy is more normal to me (apart from hexbear).

It's an Overton Window thing.

livus OP ,

Hundreds of things. Why, are you wondering about anything in particular?

livus OP ,

I have a weakness for farce but I like a fairly wide range of stuff, e.g. Stewart Lee, Key and Peele, Wellington Paranormal, Search Party, Toast of London, Afterparty, Tuca and Bertie, Silicon Valley, Minx, Creamerie, What We Do In The Shadows, Everyone Else Burns, Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, Bottoms, Detectorists, AP Bio.

I will belly laugh at, say, an Oscar Wilde play or a 1940s screwball comedy but also stuff like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and It's Always Sunny.

I think Seinfield is raging against being out of the zeitgeist. But very few comedians get to ride that wave forever.

livus OP ,

@eyy er, what do I think is "laughable"? Have you replied to the wrong comment?

I'm not at all disputing that reddit was to the left of the bulk of the US. That's common knowledge.

Whoever you're talking to, the Overton Window is an essential concept in this conversation.

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