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ada, 1 year ago

🦆u

Are you sure that isn’t “duck you” ;)

ada, 1 year ago

I’ve had nearly a dozen surgeries, and none of them have gone like that.

Sometimes I have a mask over my face, but mostly I don’t, then they give me a little prick in my arm. I feel cold travel up my arm, whilst the person counts down from 10. When the cold gets to my shoulder, which is usually when the countdown is at about 7 or so, I go under, like someone turned off a light, but just slow enough that I can just remember an awareness of being about to go under. There’s no weakness, no feeling of being unable to move, just cold travelling up my arm, and then lights out.

Then, I wake up, with an awareness that time has passed, though not an awareness of how long it has been.

ada, 1 year ago

Last time I had surgery, I think I made a comment about the surgeon’s good taste in music. I was in Argentina, but the surgeon was listening to US 80s music :)

ada, 1 year ago

Some of mine were like that

ada, 1 year ago

The double slit experiment is about observation.

When you fire photons through the double slits, one photon at a time, they cause wave interference patterns with themselves as if each photon travelled through both slits.

Yet if you set something up to measure which slit each photon passed through, they no longer interfere with themselves, and give you the two straight lines pattern, rather than the interference pattern.

ada, 1 year ago

Users have legislative protection of their right to be forgotten in many jurisdictions, so, yes, they should be able to. The question is more should they have the ability to take other people’s content out at the same time

ada, 1 year ago

Well, for me, it’s because the only meme group I’m even semi active in is explicitly for old memes :)

ada, 1 year ago

I use mine for internet in my pocket, not for calling people

ada, 1 year ago

I’m in a big capital city in Australia

ada, 1 year ago

This was the storyline for the old Jessica Alba show, a Dark Angel.

ada, 1 year ago

I don’t know about rule 1, but it’s off topic for this community, which could explain it

ada, 2 years ago

Not needing to sleep.

ada, 2 years ago

Yeah, I remember toxic masculinity well.

ada, 2 years ago

Downvotes = disabled on my instance

ada, 2 years ago

I can’t stand layers of clothing or stuffy indoor air, so both of those are worse than being hot for me

ada, 2 years ago

I mean, I prefer dry heat over humid, but I’ll take either over the cold

ada, 2 years ago

The good old you can always add more layers

This is the main reason I don’t like cold weather. I hate layers! :)

ada, 2 years ago

Honestly, I just love the heat. I strip down to as few layers as possible, put a fan on, and that’s pretty much it. Even when it gets really hot, I still find that easier than the cold. The question I really want to know is how do people deal with the cold!

ada, 2 years ago

My pattern with linux is that I tinker with it until I eventually break it in a way I don’t have the knowledge or skill to repair, and then I balk at the thought of starting from scratch again, so I just put windows back on the machine…

ada, 2 years ago

My mum wasn’t racist. She’s the one who helped me see that racism isn’t just the way things are. But everyone else in my family, in my town, in the media… It was everywhere…

ada, 2 years ago

“It’s not the first thought that comes to mind that matters, what’s important is what you after that”

This was in the context of racism. I was raised in an racist environment, and I was struggling with the awful thoughts that had been indoctrinated in to me bubbling up when I encountered folk that were the target of that racism.

That quote helped me not be hung up on guilt and self flagellation, and instead to focus on being the person I want to be, rather than the person I was taught to be.

ada, 2 years ago

So honest question.

Lets say someone comes along and says “Woman are adult human females”. A trans person reports this and tells you that it’s a dog whistle, and the person saying that is a TERF.

What would you do?

ada, 2 years ago

And that’s kind of what I mean.

To any trans person, that phrase is a klaxon. It’s an alarm bell that tells us the person we’re talking to is actively transphobic.

So we report it, the mod or admin who isn’t trans feels out of their depth, the trans person doesn’t have the spoons to explain it, and the transphobe stays in place, now empowered to keep their transphobia going, as long as they keep it at the level where most admins and mods don’t recognise it.

And that’s what the threadiverse feels like now.

But on microfedi, there is a much greater awareness of these things, and someone saying that would be dropped or defederated from most instances very quickly

ada, 2 years ago

I’m an admin for a relatively busy instance, so I see all of the bigotry, and there is more of it than I’m comfortable with :\

There’s a lot of bigots out there that have moved over from reddit.