livus

livus, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

@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, 5 days ago

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

livus, 5 days ago

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

livus, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

@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, 5 days ago

@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, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

Bit of a weird take. The ship had faulty equipment and the crew did what it could to try to avert the disaster.

The ship's owners are who you should blame.

livus, 5 days ago

I think you might have replied to my comment by accident.

livus, 5 days ago

Definitely. Global shipping is riddled with moral hazard and artificial externalities.

livus, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

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

livus, 5 days ago

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.

livus, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

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, 5 days ago

Mmhm. Not gonna work on me.

I've realised it's all very well for me to tell you to create more positive online experiences, but it might be harder for you to do in an open online forum like the fediverse. It might be better to get involved in something a bit more structured.

I found this page of online volunteeting opportunities. Some of them look really cool!

livus, 5 days ago

New Zealand.

livus, 5 days ago

The guiding idea behind "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" is that it's better to let a guilty person go free than it is to unjustly punish an innocent person.

It's depressing how quickly some of you have abandoned that basic principle.

Instead you are happy to punish the innocent civilians of Gaza, half of whom are children, even to the point of literally starving them to death.

livus, 5 days ago

What would make me happy would be for the hostilities to cease, the civilians to all be safe and properly fed and housed (no matter what their race or religion), and for the belligerants to find themselves looking down the barrel of a war crimes tribunal.

So I think there's stuff you and I do have in common, we just have very different expectations around international law and the rules of war. I find your opinions on war crimes quite horrible but I appreciate our underlying common humanity.

livus, 5 days ago

Thanks! That does look interesting.

livus, 5 days ago

Cool!