livus

livus, 10 days ago

Sapere Aude, OP. You don't need to outsource your opinions.

livus, 10 days ago

Cool, hope you make it here one day! Which country do you live in?

livus, 10 days ago

I was taught inside of my elbows but yep, will never cough into my hand again. It's so gross, why was it ever a thing?

livus, 10 days ago

Washing my hands using the WHO method instead of randomly.

Avoiding catching viruses.

Meditation.

livus, 10 days ago

Oh yeah and iota carageenan nasal spray. My sinuses love it.

livus, 10 days ago

None of the answers in here are about hobbies tho.

livus, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 days ago

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, 10 days ago

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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 days ago

Then if he stops funding genocide and takes real measures to try to halt the Gaza genocide, he would then earn your vote?

livus, 10 days ago

Yeah I guess it would!

I really feel for Americans with this one. There's just no good option.

livus, 10 days ago

You should probably also ask this in politics@lemmy.world.

It's an interesting case because studies have found that there are certain core issues where if a candidate doesn't match their stance on it, voters are unwilling to engage with that candidate's other policies.

Stuff like abortion, gun control. Genocide looks like one of those issues.

livus, 10 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, 10 days ago

No, the West are way more understanding of this genocide than most non-Western countries.

The two biggest legal challenges have come from South Africa and Nicaragua.

The African Union as a whole is pretty opposed to it and thus the African continent could be a source of peacekeepers if the US ever stops blocking the UN.

Meanwhile the US role has been such that there's talk of this eroding US soft power outside the West, particularly in ASEAN countries.

livus, 10 days ago

The US supporting a Netanyahu-led genocide for the world to see isn't actually doing Israel any favours.

livus, 10 days ago

Thank you. That's one of those quotes that opens a huge vista, almost like seeing a movie. Albeit a sad movie omg.

I'm glad they were not too cowed to become turbulent. The possibility of finding one's mother when wounded in battle is heartbreaking but they at least sometimes had each other.

livus, 10 days ago

Definitely. What would be really good would be if they were both captured and retired from the army.

livus, 10 days ago

I'm glad that you don't agree with the treatment of the crew by the American government.

livus, 10 days ago

Genius.

Right, I need a cow bone.