chownie

6 ms·

1.
by chownie 9d ago
The slugs in your soil carry a parasite which can cause lifelong paralysis if it enters your body, a lot of the worms do too. Those decomposing leaves carry tetanus. Your perspective is not aligned with reality.
2.
by chownie 9d ago
What do you think soil is made of? Where do you think it comes from?
3.
by chownie 10d ago
The keybindings (and lack of documentation for them) in Finder sucks, having to google how to show hidden files in a save dialogue every time I have to do it sucks, having to search through the UI every time for the non-obvious way to get t
4.
by chownie 10d ago
> See I just don't think they're even similar. How is being sometimes (and sometimes is the operative word in ADHD) unable to follow instructions, forgetting things, having social anxiety, putting things off etc anything like t
5.
by chownie 19d ago
> One should question the rate of which it is diagnosed, and who is getting diagnosed. The medical consensus after multiple enquiries in the UK has come to: 1. The rate of diagnosis is far too low (the evidence of this being we're c
6.
by chownie 19d ago
> I have always suspected that people with “aphantasia” simply misunderstand the idea of a “mind’s eye,” believing that others can somehow superimpose something onto their actual field of vision at will. Of course, this is not possible.
7.
by chownie 19d ago
This same behaviour does actually persist in other areas. I'm colourblind, even as an adult I have other people argue that perhaps I just don't know which colours are which rather than have a problem with the mechanism within the
8.
by chownie 28d ago
Do children make their own medical decisions? Does society have no responsibility for historically relentlessly discouraging medication? In my post history on this site I recall interacting with a user who had debilitating ADHD and was desp
9.
by chownie 28d ago
> If you are out walking your cat, and the cat bites someone, you should be responsible for that... I suspect the ruling distinguishes between pets that are out in public, vs generally private. The distinction is in the responsibility it
10.
by chownie 28d ago
In the UK if your dog bites someone you are responsible, if your cat bites someone no one is responsible. Which settled case law do we follow?
11.
by chownie 29d ago
If it's only occasional use then you're actually using the button sometimes and having it cover a chunk of every single picture you look at, all the time. It can go in a sub-menu.
12.
by chownie 1mo ago
I've seen the Claude writing style described as "every sentence intended to read as a reddit mic drop moment" and it really does feel like that.
13.
by chownie 2mo ago
There is vastly more toxic behaviour on Facebook, it's not even close. If there's a severity to toxicity then perhaps 4chan can peak at a 9/10 whereas Facebook posts peak at a 7/10, but there's orders of magnitude
14.
by chownie 3mo ago
As kindly as I can, your comment is 100% the irrational behaviour. Everyone who's replied thus far has fallen into the same trap, you saw money and you forgot the value of the actual thing he wanted. Now he has the thing, you're s
15.
by chownie 3mo ago
He wants the thing. He does not value the thing at 1300 dollars so he would not buy it for 1300 dollars. He found it for a lower value, he kept it because the point at the start was he wanted the thing. On the topic of HN users, is it our c
16.
by chownie 3mo ago
Isn't the point that we don't grow the good varieties any longer because they don't survive freight? It doesn't matter if you bought the tomato seeds from Harrods and grew them in your lush orchard if they're the sa
17.
by chownie 3mo ago
You're equating subreddits to forums but on forums people recognised other posters and the average subreddit poster will never read the same username twice, if they even notice they're there. I see the argument you're making,
18.
by chownie 3mo ago
This is a phenomenal example I hadn't even considered, because I have been affected by this kind of "invisible hand of the market" negative quality spiral. The older generation here remember good tomatoes, so they continue
19.
by chownie 3mo ago
Not that user but I don't think this is as difficult as you're making it out to be? On Reddit, Instagram, Tiktok et al I can create a community on that platform. I can get find other people into Booktok, I can join the Rowing subr
20.
by chownie 3mo ago
Is it not clear at this point that the real issue is how lacking the term "social media" even is? We have people here arguing that BBSs were social media, it will not be long until email is considered social media. At this point i
21.
by chownie 3mo ago
Other possibilities: * The people are not fine with bad strawberries but have no other choices available * The people are not fine with bad strawberries but can't afford better choices * The people are not fine with bad strawberries bu
22.
by chownie 3mo ago
There's an NPC who walks you to the pokemart and gives you a potion. For me that dialogue was something like "You receive a !" and it then said "You place it in the 23 pocket" -- seems related?
23.
by chownie 4mo ago
Tons? Hyperbole? Are they teachers or something? That amount of leave in one go is basically unheard of, with the exception of maternity leave I don't know anyone who's been on leave for more than 3 weeks as a single block. This i
24.
by chownie 5mo ago
You have confused 5 weeks (across a year) for 5 weeks (contiguous), this isn't speciality european confusion it's the regular garden variety.
25.
by chownie 5mo ago
This article goes ham on the rule of threes, it does the "not just x, but y" cliche, em-dash with spaces on either side, bold heading-sentence paragraphs, it visibly has hallmarks of AI driven writing. If you personally can't
26.
by chownie 5mo ago
I have noticed the same uptick in bot-like behaviour there. The part I struggle to square is, why so much of it is so useless? It's maybe account laundering, but on any popular post you'll see at least half of the comments are tan
27.
by chownie 5mo ago
> No, it's the ultra authoritarian government stopping you from viewing it. Wish people wouldn't keep repeating this, imgur block the UK because they were caught with GDPR violations. The fact their UK wide IP block came in aro
28.
by chownie 5mo ago
> meanwhile the actual postings for RLHF work keep increasing, and the rates contractors accept keep going up If you knew this for fact you'd have something to corroborate, is this just vibes? Job loss numbers are published, at the
29.
by chownie 5mo ago
Those who cannot convince, coerce. I don't trust your instinct and it doesn't seem like you can provide any evidence. Shame.
30.
by chownie 5mo ago
This system totally works so long as you can take time off work to form a lobbying group -- this does not pass the sniff test to me. Reminder that even in the scenario that constituents 100% support or 100% reject a policy, their opinions h

More ›