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agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

No you’re spot on. Sausage remains “not directly translatable” I guess.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

Oh good. I thought it was me.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to startrek in That time Neelix disabled the ship with cheese

And for me at least it is also usually self inflicted.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to technology in AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless

I suspect it is just a matter of time before someone makes the tech easy to use and affordable enough for the masses of bad actors.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

I only know about it because of my fountain pen hobby; back in the mid 20th C, Esterbrook made fountain pens with replaceable nibs and offered a wide variety including a Gregg shorthand nib. I guess the Gregg shorthand people licensed the name for marketing. It was basically a normal non, but branded.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

Well don’t leave us hanging! What happened, fellow coffee nerd??

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

I don’t usually mention embedded programming, electronics, vintage stereo hi-fi, home automation, and fountain pens, among a few others. Of course finding someone who is into any of that could lead to some fun conversation.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

Damn we could talk for hours. So hard to find people into cool shit in real life.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

Naw, left leaning gun owners exist…there are literally dozens of us!

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

I’m super envious. I would love to have one of those as my extreme trail rig.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

I also keep acquiring hobbies and also have ADHD but spend way too much on it all.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

I can relate to too many hobbies. I wished I could find more ADHD people with too many hobbies to talk about weird hobbies with lol

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

See I think this would be awesome. Finally an interesting conversation

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to confidently_incorrect in Top tier medical advice.

I don’t think the person you replied to was talking about social darwinism

From your article…

The core idea of Social Darwinism is that the wealthy and powerful enjoy the privileges they do because they are more fit in terms of the traits favored by natural selection. The poor and powerless have less fit traits and therefore it is best to let them perish …

This reprehensible (and bullshit) ideology is distinct from the idea of a person making an unsafe decision like golfing on a mountain in a thunderstorm that directly causes them to die.

agent_flounder, 10 months ago to confidently_incorrect in Top tier medical advice.

more* dumber