saltesc @ saltesc @lemmy.world

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lol looks like someone doing the universal sign for "I'm drowning."

I know, right?! Glad you agree.

"affirmed of the position that the term is used"

Yrp, you're underscoring one of my tangent points. I couldn't be bothered making more text in the one comment, but also figured if the comment was too long, it'd get a bunch of people jumping on me before they could manage to finish it. Alas, never avoidable. So, thanks 😁

Oh, but also just keep in mind, those misconceptions are in quotes for a reason.

And I see it kind of the same way as we saw OCD being diluted, just the 2020s version of that. Only the ignorant claimed to be or claimed to say one is OCD for normal behaviours to average people leaning more towward a perceived unusual particularity, such as ironing and folding clothes, for example

But again, I'm drunk.

Well, that'd be all of the tiles—at least in this context. OP, sorry you had to find out this way.

They did want to separate.

Let them do it and the US tax payer can take "pandemic problems" off the "Things that eat all my paycheck up a week before next payday" list.

As the years go on, I'm more affirmed of the position that the term 'autism' is used to explain every day behaviours, but by below average IQ people. They're both cognitive spectrums, after all. But even experts of the former struggle to define it, just like the shortcomings of IQ and it's...whatever it is.

It's why more and more we hear, "Well I guess everyone's a little on the spectrum." So if it's normal, not being so is not normal.

I think, "The average person isn't below average" is synonymously more true—obviously—in context of cognitive application.

At this rate the modern, "Haha! NERD!!!" aka. "autistic" will be someone that folds washing or can't socially explain the Dunning-Kruger effect to a person that thinks it's European Ben & Jerry's, entirely missing the critique on their education in politics being from X.

My drunken point is, who the fuck doesn't like sorting wires? You ever dealt with those messy things?! Only an idiot wouldn't.

I hit Win+R and use the run dialogue text bar.

Grok? All I see is it an AI chatbot. Contextually, I doubt that's what you're referring to lol. Is it a diving form?

Haha, I just responded to another comment of having to pull myself up from shallow drowning. It's for real, but I think it's specific to people with good long capacities—doing a lot longer than the average. I can easily hold my breath for 60s, but 90% of people can't. Shallow drowning is not a situation 90% of people could find themselves facing.

I always remember brain damage can start occuring after 180s, so start questioning at 120. Nothing wrong with coming up for a couple mins of good fresh air before going down again.

It's not really about what you can see and clarity, but it's true that clearer water is much more psychologically inviting.

We'll bring a smooth granite pebble out with us, while waiting for the swell, drop it down and take turns bringing it back up. We've had dolphins join us in the game once before.

But definitely I don't feel the appeal of diving down and doing that when the sky or water is dark and unclear. It's less inviting.

I've never SCUBAd haha. I don't know why, it makes sense, but I've never been drawn to it and I can't really explain why. I love the freedom of movement and not having to think about other things.

Feediving I can't get enough of. But my record swimming underwater is around 2:10 and I enjoyed every second of it—relaxed, efficient, flowing—but I had to stop because it felt like I could do it forever. And that's the paradox of shallow drowning. When the euphoria of the ocean gets inexplicably more euphoric, the Sirens calling, it's time to surface. I guess like a diver checking their gauges.

I should try SCUBA, though. I'd love to go deeper. I'd love to find a spot and just hang there for a long time and take it all in.

Yeah, that probably it. I got that "This is it?" feeling, while it seemed many others were hailing it as a masterpiece.

I grew up on the ocean and one of the most comforting "at home" feelings is being out past the breakers, disconnect my board leash, and just dive deep down, exhale enough air out my lungs to stop floating, and just sit on the ocean floor for a few seconds in beautiful silence.

And then stupid lungs run out of air and I have to resurface.

Edit: And I'm sure that sounds scary to some, but trust me, the water, ocean, and surf are like a best friend that's not scary at all once you get to know it. Quite the opposite.

St Germaine

Unpopular opinion, but I actually didn't like Bioshock. Loading it up first time it was initially cool and all, but after a while of playing, I realised it lacked or fell short in a lot of areas. Lots of things were "almost there" so overall it was quite annoying to experience. I only completed it because I'd gotten far enough in, may as well.

I still get stuff with micro USB in it. That would be way worse if USB-C didn't come out 11 years ago.

This should be good for games being finished on launch.

Congrats!

Omg. You're like a unicorn.

Stay there, I need to screenshot this.

Academics "highly intellectual"?

Haha. No-no. They've just garnered knowledge on a topic. The highly intellectual people are paid much more outside of an institution because they can do stuff with that knowledge.