chocobean's recent activity
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Comment on Mastermind speedrunner bakes twelve actual cookies in under four minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category in ~food
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentOh that's a good point -- if given the opportunity before expiring at a ripe old age maybe more of us would give it a go.... I wonder if that would be a more compassionate alternative to those...Oh that's a good point -- if given the opportunity before expiring at a ripe old age maybe more of us would give it a go.... I wonder if that would be a more compassionate alternative to those seeking medically assisted suicide .... Roll the dice one more time so to speak....
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Comment on Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters in ~movies
chocobean Link ParentTwo more currently airing anime characters come to mind whose social anxiety has nothing to do with generic shyness: Dot, from Pokemon Horizons, and Kiwi from Jellyfish Cannot Swim In The Night...Two more currently airing anime characters come to mind whose social anxiety has nothing to do with generic shyness:
Dot, from Pokemon Horizons, and Kiwi from Jellyfish Cannot Swim In The Night (夜のクラゲは泳げない) . Both do live streaming with a very different and outgoing, energetic persona.
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Comment on French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp in ~design
chocobean Link ParentOh! Thank you~ That's not as many as I thought there might be. Great link, I'll have to read up on inclusion criteria next :)Oh! Thank you~
That's not as many as I thought there might be. Great link, I'll have to read up on inclusion criteria next :)
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentThat's a very interesting take! Pessimistically, what if the future has more of the current bad? As a risk adverse person, what of the current good that might be lost? Is it the excitement of...That's a very interesting take! Pessimistically, what if the future has more of the current bad? As a risk adverse person, what of the current good that might be lost? Is it the excitement of seeing more, and the confidence that whatever's present and lost will be preserved via history so you won't be missing much?
I wonder if it's because I'm primarily risk adverse? I would not take the deal myself and cannot imagine what could possibly entice me to do it at all :D how fascinating
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentOoooh ~ kind of like, if we have teleporters, is the person coming through the other side really you? (Long ramble follows) Obviously I don't have any proof, but I wonder if we actually exist on a...Ooooh ~ kind of like, if we have teleporters, is the person coming through the other side really you?
(Long ramble follows)
Obviously I don't have any proof, but I wonder if we actually exist on a different kind of dimension, that our physical bodies + current consciousness are just the shadow, or a projection from the other side. When we sleep, the projection appears static to other people awake, meanwhile we're experiencing something else "in reality" or sort of a mix, which get remembered all weird when we the projection wake up. Sort of like watching a live stream and the audio/video pauses a bit while the streamer deals with their mom bursting into the room.
Near death experiences might be flickering a bit or has a dimmer on or the aperture closes slightly, and the image is interrupted briefly.
And then when we really die, the projection is no longer displayed in our dimensions, and other projected alive people lose the ability to reach us temporarily. And maybe we awaken to our true lives, in a sort of "well that was a good game, time to get up, stretch and eat dinner" type way.
Currently, you and I are just a projection. Just like how a 2d person cannot understand a 3d person, all of our dimensions are just a Flatland projection of reality. We can't fully understand who we truly are on the real side: we've just been told to be kind because some of us say there's a bit more after the end, or else be kind precisely because there's no more.
It might explain near death visions, how rarely we can speak with the dead, how they're (probably) aware of what's going on here, and how we can be resurrected etc.
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Comment on Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters in ~movies
chocobean Link ParentAhh.....maybe that's why I couldn't relate to Turning Red at all either, despite being female and East Asian Canadian. It's the asexuality and lack of social awareness + subsequent lack of...Ahh.....maybe that's why I couldn't relate to Turning Red at all either, despite being female and East Asian Canadian. It's the asexuality and lack of social awareness + subsequent lack of shame/embarrassment over how awkward I actually was/am.
I always had a hard time understanding why gender matters when making friends
as a childto this day, and then by the time other kids hit puberty, I was among the band/honour roll geeks. The cluster of us boys and girls just continued to be friends (with a ton of them cross dating among the group).I'm curious: thinking back as an adult, did you go through "blunder years" that are hard to emotionally look back upon, or even now you just take it all in stride without stress or embarrassment? Were the other kids charmed by your confidence and charisma?
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Comment on French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp in ~design
chocobean Link ParentLol that's exactly what I was thinking of as well. As least the baguette probably smells better than day old cabbage sitting in the sun, and not actually derived from stale baguette, and not prone...Lol that's exactly what I was thinking of as well. As least the baguette probably smells better than day old cabbage sitting in the sun, and not actually derived from stale baguette, and not prone to spontaneous combustion nor likely to attract slugs ---> frogs ---> snakes ---> mongooses at the post office.
The French baguette was given Unesco heritage status in 2022.
Huh..... What other foods have also been given the status and which ones not yet given but are totally deserving?
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentI think this is the same news, or at least the same team? On a more philosophical front, would you undergo a freezing medical treatment? Even assuming you're 99.9% certain you'll be brought back...The researchers also applied their technique to three-millimeter cubes of brain tissue from a 9-month-old girl with epilepsy
I think this is the same news, or at least the same team?
On a more philosophical front, would you undergo a freezing medical treatment? Even assuming you're 99.9% certain you'll be brought back without side effects, and assuming your assets will grow with compound interest during that time, would you choose to "pause" your life and come back to a whole new world, one without your loved ones, where you will know exactly zero people and have zero friends and family, and one where your skills and knowledge are likely entirely obsoleted? What if your partner goes with you -- what would be the risks and are they justifiable to risk someone else's (quality of) life?
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
chocobean Link ParentOh I see, thank you for the added info. What a curious pre existing cultureOh I see, thank you for the added info. What a curious pre existing culture
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
chocobean LinkI wish these gents nothing but peace and kindness and good things to come. Moderation is a thankless and soul crushing job when the community doesn't agree with the necessity or the importance of...The important question is, what’s the best way to handle it if we want to have an internet forum that doesn’t suck? Experience teaches that the answer is: the patient supply of correct information by people who do know about a topic.
I wish these gents nothing but peace and kindness and good things to come. Moderation is a thankless and soul crushing job when the community doesn't agree with the necessity or the importance of its moderation. On the other site I've seen sub-communities that clearly crowd around their mods and cherish them and help them with their jobs: for better and for worse actually, since they could be crowding around terrible people moderating to maintain terrible ideologies. But it seems to make the mods happier. I've also seen places where they resent and resist moderators with a constant flurry of "well I didn't vote for you".
As for the quote from Gackle at the end of the article, I want to applaud his patience, and wish him and Bell every happiness at their job. Personally I think it takes more than patience and correct information: a cold bureaucracy where things are always meticulously correct, with threads tirelessly pointing out every informational flaw can still be a kind of hell. Their jobs are nearly impossible if people primarily go to HN to brag, to be right, to one up, to out shine, to "um ackshually" one another.
It's sadly ironic that the pair failed out of the boisterous, brag hard startup culture only to end up caring for that very kind of crowd.
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
chocobean Link ParentHuman buying, or even human labour buying comments can pop up in web sub cultures where wealth and privilege are flaunted or just taken for granted.....I remember being part of a baby/parenting...Human buying, or even human labour buying comments can pop up in web sub cultures where wealth and privilege are flaunted or just taken for granted.....I remember being part of a baby/parenting forum that regularly featured wealth flaunting threads talking about purchasing human labour in uncomfortable ways....
From this article, a comment by the proprietor of NGate about HN culture:
"Almost every post deals with the same topics: these are people who spend their lives trying to identify all the ways they can extract money from others without quite going to jail,”
Would you say that having the compensation be part of every post make TeamBlind even more focused on the American Psycho-ness of its money crazed users? What was the origin nap justification for even having that number instead of say, job title?
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Comment on ‘Mitzvah night is cancelled’ Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world in ~life.women
chocobean LinkYikes on a bike...... This woman isn't the person asking for a divorce but if my husband tried a stunt like that he'd better believe the next person at risk is him. Holy moly the absolute...After Gittel, a 40-year-old Orthodox woman from Flatbush, began refusing sex to her husband of 20 years, he bought a sex doll and parked it in his bed. “He buys her/it lingerie and says he’ll buy her/it jewelry if I don’t start opening it up,” she told me. But she wasn’t deterred. “If I can deprive him of using me, for a good cause, I’m in. And I’m a Bais Yaakov girl and I encouraged my friends to withhold sex too.”
Yikes on a bike...... This woman isn't the person asking for a divorce but if my husband tried a stunt like that he'd better believe the next person at risk is him. Holy moly the absolute entitlement and dehumanization happening here....
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Comment on I am a witch. Well, a well witcher... in ~talk
chocobean Link ParentI saw Goody @GoWestYoungMan talking with the witcher! Does that make his wife the warlock is that not how it works?I saw Goody @GoWestYoungMan talking with the witcher!
Does that make his wife the warlock is that not how it works?
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Comment on I am a witch. Well, a well witcher... in ~talk
chocobean Link Parent(Not serious) It's magnets. Magnets explaine probably most of our how does it work questions like how do birds migrate or how do rats know to abandon ship and how do ladies get pregnant and where...(Not serious)
It's magnets. Magnets explaine probably most of our how does it work questions like how do birds migrate or how do rats know to abandon ship and how do ladies get pregnant and where my chips go at night.
But seriously I don't understand how electric fields and magnets work so maybe the rods respond subtly to that....
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Comment on Solar storm knocks out farmers' tractor GPS systems during peak planting season in ~tech
chocobean Link ParentThat'll be hilarious if only their brand was affected. They're the people who made it so their hardware cannot be repaired by farmers who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on them right? The...That'll be hilarious if only their brand was affected. They're the people who made it so their hardware cannot be repaired by farmers who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on them right? The ones that Cory Doctorow wrote about where you can remotely lock out?
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Comment on Solar storm knocks out farmers' tractor GPS systems during peak planting season in ~tech
chocobean Link ParentThere's a part of me that feel like real life cyberpunk is just shitty capitalism without the cool esthetics and the freedom of the masses. All high tech and boring monotonous lowlife. More...There's a part of me that feel like real life cyberpunk is just shitty capitalism without the cool esthetics and the freedom of the masses. All high tech and boring monotonous lowlife.
More depressed kids crammed into one apartment working desk jobs in
a cubicle farman open office than Kowloon Walled City.But then I remember how bad Kowloon Walled City actually was and it's maybe not too bad.
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Comment on Solar storm knocks out farmers' tractor GPS systems during peak planting season in ~tech
chocobean (edited )Link ParentYup, also not a farmer I only play one on my TV, but in Clarkson's Farm, they talked about it a fair bit. When you're first putting seeds down, you're in a giant truck and it's just brown soil as...Yup, also not a farmer I only play one on my TV, but in Clarkson's Farm, they talked about it a fair bit.
When you're first putting seeds down, you're in a giant truck and it's just brown soil as far as the eye can see with no frame of reference and no lines on the ground. Jeremy has been a car host for a very long time but he still ended up planting squiggly lines. They sometimes use another vehicle to draw intentional squiggles to help visually align the actually planting truck. And then there's an art to how to space seeds out so that the harvester, with a different size equipment can efficiently pick up crops without crushing any.
And all that on Jeremy's 1000 ac farm that he grows multiple kinds of things on. For other even bigger monocrop farms I can see how crucial GPs would be.
oops I meant to reply to @Melvincible
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Comment on Please recommend me an anime to watch? in ~anime
chocobean Link ParentThe first couple episodes were the best....I think they suffered quite a steep drop in strategem into regular idol show territory quite quickly :( Knowing that though, yes definitely recommend the...The first couple episodes were the best....I think they suffered quite a steep drop in strategem into regular idol show territory quite quickly :(
Knowing that though, yes definitely recommend the first few episodes for the unique concept and fun execution
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Comment on A big new facility built to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened up in Iceland. It's a stepping stone to bigger plans in the US. in ~enviro
chocobean Link ParentThat doesn't necessarily mean any human will be hurt. I don't see it as a violence so much as life saving. But otherwise I grudgingly agree.... we will only be able to agree on spending and...We get out the dynamite and start blowing up pipelines and oil refineries?
That doesn't necessarily mean any human will be hurt. I don't see it as a violence so much as life saving.
But otherwise I grudgingly agree.... we will only be able to agree on spending and building and capitalising our way out of this
Right? I was thinking four minutes sounds like plenty of time for 12 cookies even with clickless....maybe it's 12 trillion cookies in four minutes?
The reality is far more bizarre than I had even imagined :) I'm sure this record will be broken again quite soon