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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Alas, people’s tongues don’t have the exact same spread of taste receptors, and our brains can interpret signals in different ways even when the origin simulation is identical. It’s part of what makes food recommendations so difficult. Even something as broadly enjoyable as chocolate still isn’t so universal that every single person likes it.

    When it’s something as single note as umami can be, there’s going to be a lot of misses to go with the hits :(



  • I technically do, but only because the communities rarely to never need moderation.

    I’m just too damn old to moderate much of anything that’s active enough to need moderation lol. If any of move ever do get busy, I’ll be looking for someone to take over.

    Part of that is lemmy moderation low key sucking. Cross instance moderation is broken as fuck, but even on your own instance, it’s a pain in the ass. As much as people hated automod on reddit, if you got used to the way it worked, you could trivialize things in terms of stress vs reward without just stomping on users.

    Since I also tend to hate trying to mod on a personal account, that’s another layer of hassles I just don’t have the energy for at this point













  • I dunno.

    On one hand, fuck reddit.

    On another, if a given poster is also mildly annoyed at the subject matter enough to repost, then isn’t it still their post here?

    Or, on the third hand, if scrollers are popping in to talk, doesn’t it serve the same purpose as a legit original post?

    I would, however, on the fourth hand like to see it explicitly stated that just linking to reddit ain’t cool. Because it ain’t. Copy paste the post so nobody has to go there to enjoy it here.

    On the fifth hand, I suggest speaking to a geneticist because having five hands for a human is plain strange.


  • Is it safe to assume that fission in a complex organism would actually transfer learning?

    I’m not confident enough in my grasp of it to say either way. That being said, the geek in me that writes fiction can see the brain duplication ending up with two newborns, or two individuals with bits and pieces of the established pathways of the parent.




  • Stay chill and friendly when doing it all, no matter how hard that is.

    No bullshit, you can present almost anything with a smile and a casual shrug and get away with it as long you stay polite in your wording. Very often, throwing in a “you know how it is” and giving it that tone of commiseration keeps things smooth even if you’re essentially telling the person to fuck off.

    Since you’re in hospital setting, you can sometimes throw in “that’s out of scope” and at least befuddle whoever it is.

    And, smile a lot. But not one of those rictus smiles, or smug ones. Think inwardly of your coming escape and hold tight to the relief, and just radiate that glow. Takes serious prep mentally to stay in he right frame of mind for it, but that jolly bastard will make it so much harder for people to ramp up their aggression.

    It always helped me to remember that anyone getting all bothered and upset in that situation has a much sadder life than me. It let me reframe a given interaction to a different dynamic.