Something that is able to potentially be explained by following the scientific method.
I see no necessary connection between ideas and phenomena
That's fair enough. You're welcome to live however you want to. I'm just explaining the difference between science and mysticism. It's not going to affect the average person's life in any fashion whether they believe in ghosts or not; they'll still go to work, buy groceries, get old and die.
But the rejection of science leads inexorably down to a path where a cult of ignorance starts to form; where those who aren't intellectually curious but still want to have an opinion on stuff start to think that their opinion is just as valid as actual facts. And we see what happens when that kind of willful ignorance works its way into the public discourse.
In short, you're welcome to not differentiate between ideas and actual scientific phenomena. But someone has to, because society only functions when decisions are made by people who share the same basic knowledge of reality.
There's a whole crap tonne about the universe we really don't understand yet; especially when you get down to the quantum level, spooky action at a distance, wave functions, etc...
In a very real way, we're still just cavemen banging on rocks as far as the sum total knowledge of how things work out there in what we call "reality". So within that vast gap of what we know, and what we don't know, there's could be a lot of things going on.
Is that a ghost? or is that a momentary glitch in the fabric of space-time? Or is it just someone mistaking a cars headlight bouncing of a chandelier and into a door that is ajar at just the right angle. One of those theories is provable using the scientific method and the knowledge that we currently have. One of those theories might eventually be able to be proven with knowledge that we don't yet possess. And one of those theories is so-called "supernatural".
As a reasonable human with critical thinking skills, I'll put my money on either of the last ones before I'll put my money on the first.
There also hasn’t been any proof that supernatural phenomena doesn’t exist
You can't prove a negative. Which is why in the scientific method, the onus is on the person making the claim to provide the proof, not the other way around. That's why we rarely engage in debates with people who don't grasp that concept, because for the most part they're argument comes down to "You can't prove it doesn't exist, so therefore I'm right."
Completely agree.
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60% the person experiencing it misunderstood or misinterpreted what they were looking at because they were stupid and gullible, but not maliciously making things up.
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35% completely fabricated and never happened and created to legitimately defraud or troll others.
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5% something scientific that we simply don't understand yet.
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0% actual supernatural occurrences.
Why does my country have to come out and be the fucking bootlicker?
Nice try, Hippie.
/s
Based on the noises she was making, yo' mama last night.
Historically:
- XCom - Enemy within (with Long War mod)
- Kerbal Space Program
- Crusader Kings 2
- Rimworld
Some people do enjoy an “English muffin” but they’re not very popular, much less loved than crumpets
Wait wait wait...hold on. Canadian here. I thought English Muffins and Crumpets were the same thing with different names...
People tend to look at me funny when I tell them that I don't remember my childhood all the way up through highschool.
Certain big events in highschool I can remember of course. But for most of it is just vague impressions of "Yeah...I must have done that at some point, but can't recall specifics".
For Childhood it gets even more nebulous; again, a few things I clearly remember, and much of the rest of it I can't decide if I actually remember it, or if I'm "filling in the blanks" from old photographs (the brain is funny that way...implanting a fake memory is pretty easy it turns out)
People have told me that that's a reaction to childhood trauma, but since I'm kind of stupidly good at holding useless trivia in my brain, I just think I pushed it all out to make room for random facts about ancient history and star trek lore.
It's already been mentioned, but I'll throw in for Jitsi. I believe it can also be self-hosted.
As a shut in with social anxiety and very introverted
As someone who is similar, my advice is this. Get yourself one friend who is the exact opposite. If they care about you, they'll basically force you to attend social functions and stuff with them, and that will put you into a situation to get more comfortable with more people. Their friends become your friends.
You are going to get a whole lot of different answers. Simply because there is no one answer.
There is also no separation between the physical and the mental. They're one and the same. If you don't feel physical pleasure during sex, you're not going to feel emotional pleasure, and vice versa. There is nothing wrong with not feeling sexual pleasure. Sexual interest is not a binary all or nothing. It's a scale from Asexual (not interested at all) to sex-addict, with most people falling somewhere in between. So any answer you get is going to be from different points on the scale, not necessarily close to where you are on it (very close if not completely asexual)
I fall somewhere close to asexual, but not all the way. I'm much more interested in the lead-up to it, first second and third base, so-to-speak, and rounding for home is just kind of a let-down after all of it. A part of that (not to get too into the weeds) is that I love performing cunnilingus, but hate receiving blowjobs, because I can't fathom that a woman actually enjoys giving head, and therefore I can't take any pleasure from it. But 80% of my sexual pleasure comes from knowing that I'm giving HER pleasure. There is no greater rush of endorphins than using fingers and tongue and then seeing your partner not able to walk afterwards because their legs are shaking too much.
THAT is far more of a sense to me; the mental. The actual act of intercourse is no different than masturbation; it's what you do to empty your balls once the fun part has been completed.
Would be nice, but I'm a little too low on the totem pole to be dictating such things to 20 other people...
Google Message Alternative Options & Group Texts
My work uses a whole lot of group texts. I don't know why they don't use something like Signal or whatever...it is what it is.
But every Google Message alternative I've tried sends my replies to every member of the group individually rather than replying IN the group chat itself. Is that an issue with the app itself, or in the settings, or something else entirely.
I want to move away from anything that is linked in any way to stupid Gemini. But this is the last thing keeping me using Google's built-in Messages app.
Ah yes. I misunderstood. I agree with your explanation.
Not sure where she is. She was smarter than me and never really got into the social media thing when it was starting and so nearly twenty years later, I've not been able to find a trace of her in terms of social media presence.
She was very much a hippie. But not in a run around barefoot with flowers in her hair doing LSD hippie. Just more in a sense of really down to earth and loved doing things like making soap, or being out in nature. Just really not materialistic at all. Which I appreciated at the time, but something happened, she misunderstood my reaction to it and left me with the belief that she was crazy. And maybe she was, but I should have handled it better and explained things to her in a way that could have kept us together. But that's life I guess.
I've gone all in on Raccoons. They're my bet for next on the evolutionary trial once we're out of the way.
My biggest gripe with the Cybertruck is that it's not technically a truck at all...
There are many reasons to hate the Cybertruck. Looks, shoddy workmanship, flat out performance lies, Man-child business owner, etc...
But my biggest gripe, and this is the unpopular bit, is that in my opinion, it's not actually a truck at all.
The Cybertruck is a uni-body construction, often called a "car chassis". It shares that with the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and a few others. Trucks that are meant to do actual work use a body-on-frame construction because it has more ability to flex and twist when you put a heavy load in the bed or towing something heavy.
To put it simply, if you put a heavy enough load in the back of a uni-body truck, you're going to lose some traction on the front wheels as the weight will tilt the entire body backwards, whereas real trucks made for work are developed with the bed mounted separately to avoid that issue.
I know that yes, Santa Cruz, Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are still technically classified as a truck. But in my (unpopular) opinion, anything uni-body shouldn't be classified as one.
Disk and Device Manager Popup appearing twice
This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.
When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)
The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.
Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.
StreetComplete vs Organic Maps
Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.
Between StreetComplete and Organic Maps, which is faster for submitting recommended changes to the OSM team in regards to things like business hours, etc...
Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/tablet with a touch keyboard.
I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.
edited: Missed a "T" in the title.
A passenger was kicked off the flight after asking for a blanket and every other passenger got off with her
Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU
Manjaro on Chromebook
I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.
For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.
Well it turns out that:
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A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and
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B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.
Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."
Minimal Menu?
So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?
I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.
Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.
I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....
Say what you will about the Will Smith iRobot movie....
The researchers said their new robot can synch its facial expression with yours. You know, to make it friendlier.
...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.
Open Creative
Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...
https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative
I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).
I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.
So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.
I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.
GIMP Segmentation Fault - FYI
Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.
More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785
Video Editing Practice Footage
Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.
When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.
Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.
https://cinestudy.org/
Welcome to Open Creative
One of the main things that I have been missing in Lemmy since moving over from the other site has been the myriad communities for the various bits of FOSS software I use on a regular basis.
Any any given day, I'll use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, Blender, Gimp and Scribus in the course of getting work done both personally and professionally, and I kept waiting for the day when I wouldn't have to go back to the other site to keep up to date with them.
While some (Blender) eventually got communities in the fediverse of their own, few are very active. So I felt that I should at least try to create my own in the hopes that it draws some activity.
So if you're joining because of a shared love of FOSS creative software, welcome. I'm hoping to post news and other articles from around the web, as well as being a place for questions and advice from user to user.
Maybe it'll be just as dead as all the others. But I hope not.
As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead.
The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.
The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.
We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.
Can't Connect Android Phone to ChromeOS - Wrong Password (Even though I KNOW it's correct)
Like the title says. Just upgraded my Android phone, got it set up and working like a charm. Went to connect it to my chromebook in the chromebook settings and it won't let me get past the "sign in with your google account" screen.
Keeps saying "wrong password". But not only have I been already using that account/password not only on the new Android Phone, but on my Chromebook for the last year...but I also LITERALLY copied and pasted it from my bitwarden account after it failed to take the typed password three times.
I'm stumped. Help please. Thanks in advance.
Three Months of Blender Practice.
I feel like I've come a long way, but still feel like I have a long way to go before I feel truly good.
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Stumbling a bit on how to get some animations to work correctly, (gauges and gear doors where the local axis doesn't line up with the global axis). But making some good progress on getting the details modelled in.