• @[email protected]
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    149 hours ago

    I don’t do great with “normal” conversations. I actually love it when someone brings up some random ass special interest. This allows me to have a clear decision tree A. I know nothing about this, but it sounds interesting, here is an opportunity to learn. B. I know a little bit or maybe even more about this than this person, let’s nerd out a bit C. This doesn’t sound remotely interesting to me - I don’t like talking all that much anyway, but this seals the deal, I’m Noping the hell out of this conversation asap.

    So thank you to all you autistic conversationalists for smashing your cymbals!

  • Pyflixia
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    1810 hours ago

    I’ve learned from Professor Oak about how there’s a time and place for everything but not now.

  • @[email protected]
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    4112 hours ago

    Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing and tighten the circle so that you could not join in even if you wanted to…

    You look around the room and everyone is in tight circles, making mostly small talk, with a few people in each circle dominating the conversations. At best, all you can do is stand outside a circle, essentially eavesdropping, but that’s creepy.

    So you just wander the room admiring the art and architecture, look out the windows, etc., before either finding a way to leave or finding a quiet corner and pulling out your phone.

    • @iknowitwheniseeit
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      It’s pretty unfriendly not to leave an opening for others to wander in and join the conversation at a party. I’ve been standing around wondering why I’m there for sure though. Something to keep in mind as you’re enthusiastically chatting yourself at some point in the future. 😆

      • Pyflixia
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        910 hours ago

        More like the one where there’s three panels, a group of people on the right side. Then the middle one, some guy just gives a big thumbs up before returning to their circle while the left person is talking about whatever.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 hours ago

      Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing

      The fact that you call their topic uninteresting means you don’t care about others but expect them to care about you. That is you being self centered. You expect others to listen to your interests without first listening to theirs.

      That means taking a real interest in their topic even if it’s something stupid like sports. If you don’t know enough to contribute the conversation that means you are learning something new- which is a good thing.

      And just because you listened to them doesn’t mean they immediately owe you to listen to you.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 hour ago

          I don’t care about what kids think about me. I’m trying to help.

          Being different is fine. The post above mine was embracing being a narcissist. It’s a variation of this attitude:

          https://xkcd.com/610/

          • @[email protected]
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            127 minutes ago

            I didn’t argue against what you said because technically you’re correct. Divorced of all context, I’d agree with you. However, in the context of the current conversation, I see why the majority of opinions are downvoting you (it’s actually closer now than it was when I previously commented, so let’s see where public opinion goes).

  • Nougat
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    4713 hours ago

    I am fully aware that I am about to clang some cymbals, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.

    • Miles O'Brien
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      69 hours ago

      I’m fully aware of what I can do to stop it.

      But then other people wouldn’t get to gear the wonderful clanging sound!

      And they need to know!

      So stop it I shan’t.

      • skulblaka
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        37 hours ago

        I do possess the ability to shut the fuck up, just usually not the willpower to follow through with it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          I posses the ability and the willpower to shut the fuck up, but I’ve had to deal with everyone else’s bullshit long enough, they can deal with mine for a change.

    • @[email protected]
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      1313 hours ago

      I’ve got a whole repitoire.

      Did you know that the Cubic represention of color that computers use is inherently flawed?

      Did you know that cucumbers are melons and that all fruits are vegetables, just like root, tubers, and leaves?

      Did you know that a lot of things we take advantage of in our conscious experience can vary wildly like a lack of different types of bonding modes, the ability to and qualia of distinguishing senses, and the little tools like facial recognition and speech synthesis can malfunction?

      • @[email protected]
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        22 hours ago

        Some of those things you just said made no sense to me and I want to know more about all of them.

      • Nougat
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        1213 hours ago

        Did you know that cucumbers are melons and that all fruits are vegetables, just like root, tubers, and leaves?

        Botanical vs culinary

      • Almrond
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        It may be inherently flawed, but we can’t just arbitrarily emit wavelengths of light with current technology. Realistically I doubt we ever could, we would need to alter the emission energies of materials on the fly, which would be akin to actual magic. It is frankly amazing it works as well as it does notwithstanding.

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          210 hours ago

          I don’t think that’s what they mean. Because our cones send a signal for only 3 colors of light with overlap. We detect 3 and our brain interpolates the rest.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 hours ago

        Cubic color? What do you mean? I’ve always seen color spaces represented as triangles filling the curve.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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          I don’t know if this is what the parent poster was talking about, but color pickers in many programs present you with a cubic representation of their available color space. The default Windows color picker does nowadays as does Corel. Maybe Adobe too, but I haven’t used any Adobe software in years so I don’t know how they do it now.

          Since computer monitors suck at truly displaying three dimensional information [citation needed], you’re presented with a rectangular slice of a cube. Here’s the Corel color picker, for instance:

          The X axis is saturation, the Y axis is intensity, and the “depth” or Z axis is hue, which is controlled with the little slider on the bottom. As you move the slider up and down your “viewpoint” of the slice moves up and down through the depth of the cube, essentially representing it in 256 little vertical slices (or however many based on your bits-per-pixel).

          Despite being the graphics nerd that I am, I can’t tell you off the top of my head how this cubic representation is flawed, although computer monitor color rendition itself is inherently flawed because most color spaces probably can’t actually fully represent all the colors that normal human vision is capable of differentiating, but what the hell do I know. Browns and oranges are famously difficult to reproduce with only red, green, and blue, the usual three additive colors available to you. The cube map itself, at least, gives you a spatial method by which to select any of the 16581375 possible RGB values actually possible an 8 bit per pixel format, even if the methodology for presenting them all to the user might not quite make intuitive sense.

          You can also do cubic map of only hues, with each axis in the cube corresponding to red, green, or blue, like this one courtesy of Wikipedia:

      • @[email protected]
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        119 hours ago

        2 hours later “… Which brings me to the importance of self-hosting, and that is…” and you go on for hours totally oblivious, the friend that usually gives you social cues is crying in the corner…

    • merde alors
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      810 hours ago

      “Do you guys know about Free and Open Source operative systems?”

      what are “operative systems”?

      😉

      • @[email protected]
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        910 hours ago

        systems which do not merely operate, but have active agents (“operatives” if you will) that act in murder/plot intrigues in the background to keep the systems running. The less you know the better.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      Fuckem.

      also, cool username.

      also also, I used to do that too. It would be rude to interrupt, and they’re probably not interested in what I have to say anyway, right? Fuckem. I’ve dealt with their bullshit for figuratively ever. Fuckem. They can deal with my bullshit for a change.

      I will to you the power to subject your bullshit onto those assholes.

    • @[email protected]
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      910 hours ago

      I used to do that too, but then I learned how to gently build enthusiasm and also when to know the signs of when they’re losing interest.