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  • The inconsistency is the worst but, at least outside America, most customs teams are polite and informative about what is required.

    When I travelled to the US, they were constantly annoyed that you didn’t have their exact workflow memorized. That still happened when 2 machines, side by side, had different rules!

    Oh, and FYI, some places, like Amsterdam, have it FAR more efficient. No emptying bags, no 100ml limits. Bag and jackets go through the x-ray scanner, you go through the nudity scanner. You’re done in less than 30 seconds.


  • I don’t get them either.

    What I do know, however, is that most of the ones I’ve met seen like great people. The community seems extremely friendly and welcoming. They also seem to be intelligent and willing to step up to help.

    Ultimately, if it makes them happy, and doesn’t hurt anyone, have fun! I’m sure others look at me similarly, for my weird hobbies.



  • A hypothetical “toxic empathy” could be our evolved hunting technique. We would run down prey with endurance hunting. If we lost them, we could use empathy to put ourselves in their mindset, and so predict their movements.

    Even this would be “venomous empathy”. Toxic masculinity is partially defined by the way it hurts the man doing it. It’s toxic to the host. It’s misused enough however to muddy that, considerably.






  • Officially no. It’s actually something Ozzy was involved in the campaign for. There’s a religious crowd who freak out at the very idea. No government has yet had the will to push updates past them.

    There are however doctors who will happily make a pain med prescription that is “incompatible with life”. If the patient happens to die, while dealing with the pain, well at least they weren’t in pain.

    I believe the police also have a similar mindset. They won’t look too deeply, if they suspect it happened that way, with the patient’s consent. They do have the shadow of Harold Shipman hanging over them however. They missed a serial killer for years, since he was targeting OAPs.


  • There are already plans for metadata signing. I think some high end Canon cameras might do it already. It basically allows proof (via public private key of the hash) that a particular camera took that photo.

    The idea is that you can create a chain of custody with an image. Each edit requires a new signature, with each party responsible for verifying the previous chain, to protect their own reputation.

    It’s far from perfect, but will help a lot with things like legal cases.



  • cynar@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    7 days ago

    One of the more depressing bits or research related to this. When estimating, “normal” people are excessively optimistic (aka rose tinted glasses). Depressed people were a lot more accurate in their estimates.

    It turns out we need those blinkers to not tear ourselves to pieces over the state of things.



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    9 days ago

    Lack of time sense is a common symptom of ADHD. It literally breaks your internal metronome. Judging time becomes a lot more difficult.

    While it can be overcome, it requires good awareness of the underlying effect, and continuous effort to counter it. It’s basically the equivalent of asking a paraplegic to just pop upstairs.

    Yes some people are just inconsiderate, but some people just honestly can’t do it very well.


  • Conspiracies need to be small and self contained. The more people involved, and the longer it needs to hold, the less likely it is.

    E.g. 9-11 being a government conspiracy with 1000s involved in the cover up? Likely false. George Bush getting info about an imminent attack, then having the info buried, since it would be useful? Far more plausible.

    In this case, the elite standing in lockstep to cover their own arses is quite plausible. It also fits that the group is already too large to keep the conspiracy contained, and so information is leaking like a sieve.



  • I have both forms. The inner monologue voice is a common learned way of thinking. For me it’s a way of testing how things sound, before using it in public. It also formalises ideas for memory.

    Below that, I have my mindstream. It’s the active amalgamation of ideas, images and concepts that forms my intellect. It’s difficult to map to language, since it’s not bound by language.

    The inner monologue is useful, but not required for intellectual thought. In fact, it can be a detriment. It’s hard to process things, when you don’t have the language for it. It is, however quite useful for presenting ideas. An inner monologue lets you practice what you will say, and how you will explain things to someone else. I’m autistic, so I often need to preprocess what I am about to say. My inner monologue lets me test if it’s “socially inappropriate” (aka batshit insane) before it comes out my mouth.


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    15 days ago

    I disagree. I told my wife to “calm down” once, and it worked perfectly. She went from emotional to very calm and focused.

    It might have been at the incongruity that I would actually dare say that, or just the time for her incandescent rage to move to fully focusing on me, but she DID calm down (for 2-3 seconds).