

Kinda think they’re just a kid with intermediate english and too much time on their hands
Y’know, I hadn’t actually considered that possibility, but you might well be on the money there. Thanks for the charitable lens.


Kinda think they’re just a kid with intermediate english and too much time on their hands
Y’know, I hadn’t actually considered that possibility, but you might well be on the money there. Thanks for the charitable lens.


Reolink is easy to DIY, has sane privacy policies if you want to use their web services, and they support self-hosting your own streaming + recordings if you don’t.
They’re the usual rec in these threads, and with good reason.


They “moderate” AskScience and AskHistorians while having absolutely no interest, knowledge, talent or skill whatsoever on those fronts — which I see as pretty corrosive and counterproductive in terms of community building.
Fully agreed with you that I don’t think they’re malicious in intent, but Dinkleberry’s functional impact on this website is overwhelmingly negative in my book.


Yeah, that’s pretty textbook.
Outside of the usual semantic arguments about what constitutes a primary diagnosis, I can’t see a good reason why that would get so much pushback (sexism aside).


What is your particular understanding of “dissociation”, as in the specific signs and symptoms you see in your friend?
No one serious disagrees about the literal existence of dissociative behaviors (i.e. “checking out” for reasons both physiological and psychological), but plenty of people disagree about the phenomenology + clinical nature of DID and related DSM constructs.
I was active on there for a few years.
The mods are uber-censorious, in short. There were also a few power users who liked to brigade anything they disagree with.
Lemmy isn’t infallible or immune to such behavior by any means — but the public modlog, option to instance hop, and federated-community nature make it feel far more open and transparent. Tildes is much more of a walled garden, for better or (IMO) worse.
That’s okay, you’re not supposed to stand
(unless the woman is very very tall)
They used AI to make a special calculator to multiply four numbers together, so it absolutely tracks.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go full-circle and start a new business venture selling TI-83s to AI bros on ebay as “tensor processing units”.