The Far Side
9 December 2023
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
There's no copyright date on this one. If it's the normal 80's/early 90's I wonder how many readers would have known what a futon was
Privacy
YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
If you use youtube on a mobile app rather than a browser, it doesn't have an address bar
Lemmy Shitpost
What the hell! Let's all just go crazy!
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Can anyone say the s and the th in Isthmus? It's making my tongue feel funny.
No Stupid Questions
Appliances with an off light.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
You joke, but one time I got woken up by what sounded like a Chinese lady complaining about batteries, and it turned out to be the low power alert on the cheapo import soundbar.
No Stupid Questions
Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings?
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
directus→derecho from "straight" to "right"
So that's why "straight on" and "on the right" are the maddeningly confusable "a derecha" and "en derecho". Such a pain when following directions.
Androidoctoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I'm using an LG K9 right now. Works ok, but I'd prefer a smaller screen
Lemmy Shitpost
Choose A or B
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Universe collapses into a black hole made of uncles
No Stupid Questions
What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I think they're regional. I don't remember seeing one either, but I don't know if that's because I haven't encountered it, or because I didn't notice.
HistoryPorn
British engineer J. A. Purves in his 'Dynasphere' vehicle, 1932
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Depends if you're testing a mad hypothesis
HistoryPorn
British engineer J. A. Purves in his 'Dynasphere' vehicle, 1932
octoperson 10 months ago • 66%
Your original intent was to not need to replace tyres. If you still need to replace other parts just as often, you haven't really improved on the problem.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
It's a mobile client for Lemmy
No Stupid Questions
what is the correct way to use the word "backorder" in English?
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I would say "it's on backorder". You could verb it as "it's been backordered", but that feels a bit clunky somehow.
Ask Lemmyoctoperson 10 months ago • 100%
If you put a ! In front of the link, like this;
It should show inline
No Stupid Questions
What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)
octoperson 10 months ago • 96%
Placebo buttons.
Some appliances like elevators or traffic crossings cycle automatically, but they still have (non-functional) buttons. If the buttons are removed, people complain that the wait is too long. Let them push a button while they wait, and they'll think it's much quicker.
Lemmy Shitpost
Wretched souls
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I meant accessibility in the sense of, how difficult/messy/undignified is it to eat. But yes that too. I thought coconuts were brittle, and grapefruit were inedibly sour until I tried some in their country of origin.
octoperson 10 months ago • 83%
Mangos are S tier on taste, but D at best on accessibility. Fruits that I rate highly for both taste and convenience are clementines, seedless green grapes, and those flying-saucer shaped peaches.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I just sent you a message, then deleted it. Check if you can see it in your mailbox.
Engineering
Engineering your microwave's Popcorn button
octoperson 10 months ago • 38%
The ideal microwave would have
- a dial to set the timer
- NO OTHER CONTROLS!
Start/stop? Use the door. Clear? Turn back the dial. Power settings? Full power, wait, repeat. Everything else? Nobody uses it, nobody knows what it does, nobody kept the instructions. Get rid of it.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
That is such bullshit, even aside the ableism angle. Whatever impairments you might have, you already had them when you passed the first time. How are they gonna test you differently? Write all the roadsigns as vague hints? Upholster the car with uncomfortable fabrics?
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
It also had by far the most responses total. Whether that's because it's the most relatable, because it was first, or because it's the one most directly rooted in the physical world, I don't know.
Lemmy Shitpost
Microplastic overdose
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I've never heard of Chester cheese. There's Cheshire cheese, but that's quite crumbly and wouldn't hold up to being packaged like this. You might also be thinking of cheddar. A genuine cheddar would be too brittle, but in modern marketing, cheddar is often shorthand for any homogenous, yellow cheese. So this stuff might be described as cheddar on the packet.
I think this stuff is more of a cheese-flavoured sauce, that they inject into the bags and leave to set. It's more an invention of the convenience food industry, than any culinary tradition.
Lemmy Shitpost
Microplastic overdose
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I've just realised why that stuff always tastes like plastic
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Here's the test I was thinking of https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0eFJV5wJzJAw2R9ii2ts_cfTZ8mGKcsdWnehz-XATOSFs3w/viewform
And turns out it's 50 questions, so I don't think it would be ideal for the question-a-day format. If you're interested in a similar sort of 'let's try to answer these questions together' exercise, youtuber I'm Autistic Now What does that in this video
Lemmy Shitpost
Bread
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Bunch of people ain't getting curly hair!
Stick Enthusiasts
Behold this mighty shillelagh, the Burl of walking Earth
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Is a shillelagh so precisely defined? I thought any good thwomping stick could be a shillelagh in the hands of a stout Irishman.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Yeah, I think doing the longer, standardized tests would mostly just be going over the same points again in slightly different wording. And the drop in responses over time suggests that one question per day might be a bit too much.
There's a couple of tests that cover slightly different ground. There's one about masking that I think is not too long. Also one about monotropic attention, and I think one about demand avoidance. I'm going to think about it and leave some breathing room before jumping in with another.
[(first post)](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136) Thanks to everybody who took part. Now it's time to see the results. I've counted up everyone's agreements and disagreements (using some amount of _reading between the lines_. I didn't count any that were unclear). The 'autistic' answer for each statement is indicated with **bold type**: statement | agree | disagree ---|---|--- I often notice small sounds when others do not. | **23** | 0 When I’m reading a story, I find it difficult to work out the characters’ intentions.|**5**|1 I find it easy to "read between the lines" when someone is talking to me.|0|**6** I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details.|0|**4** I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored.|2|**4** I find it easy to do more than one thing at once.|1|**4** I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face.|1|**5** If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly.|3|**4** I like to collect information about categories of things.|**5**|2 I find it difficult to work out people’s intentions.|**4**|0 So, lemmy.world/autism picked the autistic option every time and scored a perfect 10/10. Interestingly, if we weight it proportionately according to how many picked each option, we only get 6.2, barely over the threshold. Scores of 6 or over indicate possible autism spectrum disorder, so lemmy.world/autism should seriously consider the possibility that they may be autistic. (Personally, I got 8. Go me!) My intentions for running this test was it would be interesting and fun, and I think it was (One respondent was concerned I might have some undisclosed professional interest - I don't, but thanks for looking out for the community). I think the main takeaway is that interpreting self-report questions can be really hard. Should I do another? If so, should I do anything differently?
tumblroctoperson 10 months ago • 100%
In Mexico I found out that, when you're expected to be somewhere at the actual time written on the appointment, it's called English time. Was a surprise to me (am English) because I thought that was German time.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
One weird trick...
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
For those 'people often say...' questions, there's huge cultural variations in how acceptable it is to even talk about one's personal traits. 'people say I am very blunt' - sorry I don't know anyone blunt enough to say that.
In your case, I think you'd answer Agree for this question. It's not up to you to tease out if it's the result of condition X or condition Y. And your health provider shouldn't be making that determination based purely on which option you picked on a self-report questionnaire.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
We already had a question about reading subtext, so I guess this one is more about the underlying motivations.
Anyway in the for column, there's been times when I've been scammed or taken advantage of. And I've had some "[years later]... Ohhh! She was flirting with me" moments.
In against, I think I'm not bad at spotting when someone is masking distress or discomfort (tho I don't always know what to do with that information). And out of meatspace, with time to process, I'm much better at spotting bad actors.
Going for Slightly Agree
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 10. I find it difficult to work out people’s intentions. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136) [next post (conclusion and results)](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9658676)
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
Hello yes thank you. I got a mention notification.
Autism
I feel like my physiatrist infantilized me today by saying I needed to submit to regular drug tests to get Vyvanse...
octoperson 10 months ago • 87%
Or when. They said it was in their history - they could have been 30 years sober for all we know.
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
And a follow up question that's not really liftoff-specific - 2 times out of 3 I got the handle wrong on the first attempt and had to go back and edit. Does the tagged user still get the mention notification from the updated post?
I'm going tag myself in this comment to test it. First, do you get notified for self-mentions @octoperson@sh.itjust.works ?
E. Nope. I didn't get anything for mentioning myself. Testing ends here (unless I make an alt login)
There is (as far as I know) no easy way to copy a user handle to mention them in a post or comment. There isn't a UI element or menu option on a post to do this. I can go to their just page and use the share button, but then I get (for example): https://lemmy.guide/link?target=@zachatrocity@sh.itjust.works That's not Zach's instance, it's mine. To get the user handle I'd have to edit out the URL part, and change to the correct instance @zachatrocity@lemmy.world. Is that how it's supposed to work? Is the instance change thing a bug? Is there a better way I don't know about?
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
It's funny, both you and @PancakeLegend@mander.xyz were careful to avoid over-literal interpretations (unlike me haha), but still you came to quite different understandings. You - "yes, I have a broad interest in learning". Pancake - "yes, I am systematic with information"
No Stupid Questions
How Do I Get Back Into Facebook?
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I got the same trying to make an instagram login earlier this year, having never used insta before. I think Meta just has some overzealous automoderation of new accounts.
Tip Of My Tongue
A UK TV Show with a scene playing on Zhuang Zhou's Butterfly Dream...?
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I'm thinking of Spaced, maybe the episode when Simon Pegg's character takes his comic book manuscript to a publisher. But I haven't seen it in a while; I don't know if this happened, or my mind just plugged your description into that scene because it would fit with the tone of the show.
AnarchyChess
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
bxa3 on a pastry
Technology
How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer
octoperson 10 months ago • 100%
I'm often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like 'why are you worried about fuel, it's not that expensive, guys' because he didn't understand the questions. He didn't understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn't understand the rocket equation. He doesn't understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 9. I like to collect information about categories of things. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136) [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9591566)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 8. If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136). [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9533932)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 7. I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136) [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9465663)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 6. I find it easy to do more than one thing at once. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136) [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9401777)
In Fern Brady's song, she says John Kearns is obsequious and Dara is an imbecile. But, then when they talk about it in the studio she says John isn't obsequious but Dara is. So then why did she write the song that way? My thought was: if she calls Dara obsequious, then she has to call John an imbecile*. At the time she still didn't know that John had been purposefully trying to lose in the team task. Maybe she suspected he had genuine cognitive impairments, and it wouldn't be ok to joke about it? (*There were also 2 other teammates, and the 2 hosts that she could have substituted into that line. My thinking here is that, since she had already worked with 2 of the teammates, she felt it was right for the song that they were the ones to get dissed individually.)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 5. I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136) [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9338416)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 4. I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136). [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9276715)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 3. I find it easy to "read between the lines" when someone is talking to me. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136). [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9214844)
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test. ## 2. When I’m reading a story, I find it difficult to work out the characters’ intentions. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can take the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [First post in this series](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136). [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9148396)
I thought it could be fun/interesting to go through an autism test question by question, and see what resonates with people, and how we approach thinking about the questions. So to start, here's question 1 of the AQ-10. --- ## 1. I often notice small sounds when others do not. - _Definitely Agree_ - _Slightly Agree_ - _Slightly Disagree_ - _Definitely Disagree_ --- Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer? [You can find the full AQ-10 test here](https://embrace-autism.com/aq-10). Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own. --- [next post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9081072) [conclusion and results](https://sh.itjust.works/post/9658676)
You know The Culture novels by Iain M Banks, right? How it has sentient starships that choose ironic names for themselves like these; - Sanctioned Parts List - So Much For Subtlety - All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff - Attitude Adjuster - Of Course I Still Love You - Funny, It Worked Last Time... Well, if you pay attention, you can notice starships hiding in plain sight all around you. Here's a few from recent years; - Alternative Facts - Sigma Grindset - The Woke Mind Virus Is Either Defeated Or Nothing Else Matters - Girlboss - Basket Of Deplorables - Are We The Baddies? - I Am Not A Robot (Click To Confirm) In this thread I want to know; what starship names have you spotted in the wild?
My doctor ordered me a pack of forms and questionnaires to request an assessment for adult autism. In amongst the medical histories and self assessments, this question stuck out; >it is important to know that not everyone who is referred to our service will have a diagnosis of autism confirmed. In the space below, tell us how you think having an autism diagnosis confirmed, or not, might impact on you and your life What's going on here? Do you get asked this for other conditions? We're a community that typically struggles to read between the lines, so I could be way off, but this feels grudging to me. It's a question that says - what's the point of us even offering this service, and why are you so special that we should waste our time on you?
youtu.be
Of course you want Björk to talk to you about fungi. That's like, a basic human need. (Link is to a trailer for an IMAX movie - Fungi : The Web of Life)
Look at this post https://sh.itjust.works/post/5863836 It's just a regular image post, hosted on the instance server, but it displays as an external link, & you have to click through to view it. Earlier, similarly formatted posts to the same community display as normal image posts. The only difference is that the newer posts include an additional ?format=jpg parameter. I'm guessing this is throwing off the detection of an image post.
As title. There's an option in the settings menu to disable animations. However GIF image posts animate in thumbnail view regardless.
The user @Angled@lemmy.world has been banned, and their absurd list of communities are (I think?) removed, but you would not know that looking at their user page. This maybe because they were a lemmy.world user, and I'm viewing from a sh.itjust.works account. I'm not altogether clear to what extent this is a app issue/instance issue/this particular account issue. - on liftoff, I see a long list of modded communities with various names - on the lemmy.world web interface, I see a note that the user is banned, and most (but not all) of their communities are listed as 'serverhold' - on the sh.itjust.works web interface, there's no note that the user is banned, but also no modded communities