@LemmyKnowsBest not sure what you are picking up on, but I think our #mastodon server runs well partly because our admin works for Google and can bring his expertise over here. I have mixed feelings about that. He is very obviously a fan of the big tech companies and seemed a bit miffed that we all got so upset about #Threads trying to #federate
@sbv they tend to see clips on either YouTube shorts, TikTok, or incorporated into other things. They don't need to watch the actual show to think Homander is cool
@pteryx@196 fun fact about child development: Kids don't develop proper Theory of Mind until they are about 7 years old. Before the age of 7 every child is a little sociopath that is barely capable of comprehending that other people also have feelings.
Its not impossible for them to develop empathy, though it's hard. You can get those Empathy neurons firing by forcing the kid to think about other people's feelings at least once a day. So, any kid with good Empathy just has good parents.
@shekinahcancook@grammargirl@GrahamDowns I don't think most people automatically get that Mastodon is significantsly different from Facebook, in that there is one one Facebook run by Zuckerbot and it doesn't talk to Instagram or Whatsapp, while there are bazillions of Mastodons tooting all over the place (including places that are clearly not a Mastodon)
Back in 2011, I was dating an attractive young woman who told me she didn't play #DnD, but wanted to show me her D&D set. Weirdly, it was the 1977 "Holmes Edition" #BasicDnD set.
"What's weird about that," you ask? Reader, my girlfriend was born in 1981. How does a non-gaming Millennial start her #ttrpg collection with a box four years older than herself?
Essentially, their tiny bug brains think the light is the sunset, so they keep turning to keep the "sun" at the same angle so they can go "straight." No matter how far they fly, they don't make any progress. They are trapped in this little hell we made just for them, not understanding why they can't get to where they are going.
@alvvayson Existing research was about "how do we stop the bugs from circling our lights?". This is about why the bugs circle the lights. It artificially triggers the dorsal reflex, which disorients the bugs.
@pastwarranty I will die on the hill of Infinite Worlds featured in #GURPS 4e being the best setting. You get a cold war plotline, genre-hopping technofantasy, and the most open world possible. Stick anything in there, and it fits.