[–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Humans have evolved for ages to be socially dependent creatures. Humans are also highly intelligent, and can tool their way through a situation for which they aren't technically "fit."

So, is social interaction really all that? Yes. Will you be fine without it? Being charitable and assuming you're excluding basic needs which have been socialized like shelter and food—maybe.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    TIL that dumb is defined as having scored less than 100 IQ.

    Anyway, I've worked enough customer service to say with some confidence that I've met at least a few people who truly just exist and let the world happen to them with zero curiosity.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    It's not a show, and typically one would play that game of "never read this" fairly unironically. But the webcomic Homestuck starts off REALLY slow and takes a few hundred pages to really even become interesting. It was so long ago, but I'm guessing page 246 was when I started to legitimately be interested in it. And I would say it finally gets good at page 1149.

    So why did I read 245 pages of a story I wasn't very much interested in? The music, pretty much. I had already known Toby Fox had worked on something called Homestuck because of the history behind Another Medium (YouTube), and then I encountered this track (YouTube) in the wild and decided to read it at least until I reached the page this music is from.

    Also, if you look at it purely for the ratio, getting good 1/8 of the way through is a little better than standard.

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    If you include non-humans, then Stan from Dog with a Blog is the second adult protagonist, albeit a dog.

    *Raven's Home stars Raven-Symoné as an adult in-canon, but I'm reluctant to include it since it is a spin-off of Raven's teenage character in That's So Raven.

    If you accept movies and works where there is a shared protagonist role, then you could count Freaky Friday and I assume its spin-offs.

     

    I was eating some chocolate when I imagined a world where Hershey's was widely accepted, even by elitists, as the best chocolate.

    Is consumer elitism just a facade for pretentious contrarians? Or are there things where even most snobs agree with the masses?

    Also, I mean that the product is intrinsically considered to be the best option. I'm not considering social products where the user network makes the experience.

    Edit: I was not eating Hershey's. Hershey's being the best chocolate is a bizarro universe in this hypothetical.

     

    Hi! Unfortunately I got sick for Christmas and had to stay home; but as I was trying to rest, it almost felt like I physically could not keep up with my mind. It felt uncomfortable to think idly, and of course there wasn't much I could do to help that. Not sure if I tried meditating, and if I did, I didn't say "I'm gonna meditate now," if you know what I mean.

    I've tried looking it up and the results mostly talk about "brain fog," and while that may have been a small part of it, I wouldn't describe this experience as such.

    Has anyone else had this experience? Like normal ADHD brain is exhausting and hurts while sick?

     

    I'm mainly curious about software developers here, or anyone else whose computer is somewhat central to their life, be it professional or hobbyist.

    I only have two monitors—one directly in front of me, and another to the right of it, angled toward me. For web development, I keep my editor on the main screen, and anything auxiliary (be that a dev build, a video, StackOverflow, etc.) on the side screen.

    I wouldn't mind a third monitor, and if I had one, I'd definitely use it for log/output, since currently it's a floating window that I shuffle around however necessary. It could be smaller than the other two, and I might even turn it vertical so I could split the screen between output and a terminal, configuring a AutoHotKey script to focus the terminal.

    What about y'all?

    [ cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13864053 ]

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